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Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both live-action and animation. Bird was born in Montana and grew up in Oregon. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14. Bird sent the film to Walt Disney Productions, leading to an apprenticeship from the studio's Nine Old Men. He attended the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s, and worked for Disney shortly thereafter. In the 1980s, Bird worked in film development with various studios. He co-wrote Batteries Not Included (1987), and developed two episodes of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg, including its spin-off (based on a segment written by Bird for the show), the widely panned animated sitcom Family Dog. Afterwards, Bird joined the animated sitcom The Simpsons as creative consultant for eight seasons. He directed the animated film The Iron Giant (1999); though acclaimed, it was a box-office bomb. Bird moved to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films, The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). They earned Bird two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature wins and Best Original Screenplay nominations. He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with similarly successful Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), he then directed Disney's Tomorrowland (2015). He returned to Pixar to develop Incredibles 2 (2018), which became the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time during its theatrical run, and earned him another nomination for the Academy Award. Bird has a reputation for supervising his projects to a high degree of detail. He advocates for creative freedom and the possibilities of animation, and has criticized its stereotype as children's entertainment, or classification as a genre, rather than an art. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brad Bird, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Follows Clark Kent at an early stage in his Superman career. He's been using his powers to help and save people on a small scale for more than half a decade, but he only recently put on the red and blue suit, and was named "Superman" by Lois Lane at the Daily Planet, where Clark starts working as a reporter. Superman is a bright spot in a world of real problems, stopping tornadoes, putting out forest fires, and saving kittens from trees. We already knew Superman was powerful, that he could defeat powerful beings, but now we find out that, more than that, he is a friend. It's a love story. A story of the city and people of Metropolis, the people of tomorrow, a cynical people who don't know if they can trust someone as powerful as the Man of Steel, falling in love with the Superman and choosing to trust him, just as Superman is falling in love with them, and Lois, with all of the obstacles that usually get in the way, such as a radicals who believe superheroes are too powerful to be unsupervised, mass destruction caused by battles costing the city hundreds of thousands of dollars, other super-powered individuals some view as more effective, and the forces of people such as Lex Luthor.
