There’s no speculation in the book, no one wants to use the falling food like the mayor, there’s no greed … people just face the danger of the big food, bigger for no reason….Īs I said the book presents the Chewandswallow events as an inner story, a story in the story and there’s nothing else, I mean all the people are nameless and alike. In the movie it’s real, it happens in a real world, it’s science not a fairy tale, Flint invented it for real and destroyed… The book doesn’t present the food weather like real but it’s only a bed time story told by a grandpa to his grandkids. In the movie instead it’s Flint’s machine that makes it happen. There was action and dynamic characters and loads of fun food… but the illustration was so much different than how I knew the story to be, I felt a big disconnect.Īlthough the movie was vibrant with fantastic visuals, I found myself wishing I hadn’t remembered anything particular about the book ahead of time.The main difference is that in the book the food falls from the sky for no reason, the writer doesn’t inform us about why it happens. The original story itself didn’t have any kind of indepth plot or extraordinary action, so the movie had to compensate – and did a great job indeed. The movie, on the other hand was great on it’s own but didn’t meet the expectations I had built up in my head. I love the sketchy pencil lines and have enjoyed playing with line shape combined texture.
My own art style was inspired by this technique of illustration.
It left so much to the imagination yet filled with details. The line work creating fantastic depth and texture to every image. It’s kind of a line drawing woodcut feel with subtle color. Even more significant for me was, I also loved the style of illustration used in the book. I loved the concept of food falling from the sky and giant ice cream sundaes. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, illustrated by Ron Barrett, was one of my all time favorite books as a kid.
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