KARL GUNNAR HOLMQVIST
Animation Artist
HOME WORK ARTIST STATEMENT TEACHING ODDS&ENDS
The film is in preproduction and not yet financed.
The running time will be about 75 min. And suitable for children from around six
Once upon a time, in the dark Middle Ages, the brown rats arrived. They came as free passengers with the barbarian people.
They grew fast and became a plague for the people of Europe.
At the same time, with the troops of William Conqueror, hordes of black rats from the Holy Land followed.
Animated wood carvings
They multiplied rapidly and spread many diseases. In particular, the Black Death that ravaged in the 1300s.
But according to the declaration that the family is the worst, brown rats and black rats hate each other so much that they do not hesitate to create big battles and bite each other to death.
But a sworn enemy of both black rats and brown rats that also immigrated in the Middle Ages was the domestic cat. For the benefits of people - because better ratcatchers can not be found...
MUMMY:
- .... (Sniff) ... It smells... RATS!
Now again!!
GIRL:
-Yes! Can we put a trap! I mean something like a cage ...
MUMMY:
-Yes, you're right. I'll go and buy one immediately!
Picture from inside the pantry. You can hear a girl and an adult woman approaching
Zoom in on the expectant girl
VOICE OVER:
On a bushed plot ....
... in an old house ....
... in the kitchen, in a corner there was an old pantry.
It was internally covered with paneling. But it was badly battered and would have had to be demolished and replaced with new one.
There were rats!
On one side, a black rat family lived and on the other side the brown rats ruled.
They HATED each other!
They had been doing it for generations and no longer knew why. The only thing they knew was that you had to bite the tail off of each other ... ..
That's the way it always had been and would always be!
But one day fate would take a different turn...
SONG:
Johnny was a nice boy
His dad was a real RAT!
And his mother could prepare dinner -
JUST LIKE THAT!
Together they were eight
In the family black rat
Mick and Max and Måns and Mia Mom Dad John and Lotta
They were not afraid of anything
Except possibly for the house's cat.
But in the same pantry
On the shelf right next
There was a handsome young lady, her name was Sofi
And just like Mum and Dad
And all siblings she had
The fur is pretty brown since way back when
They were not afraid of anything,
Except for the farm's cat
