It was very similar. I brought a lot of that with me when we started doing those conversations between Margu and Jesper that are so central to the story. That was never the attempt. This would be better made in live action. Yes; Saint Nicholas, whose feast day is observed by the Church on December sixth, is the great and good Saint who first acted the part of Santa Claus. This, as Bell says, teaches people that “anyone can be a Santa Claus,” which she thinks makes her child less likely to spoil the myth for other kids. But certain topics are Santa minefields. Yes, it does matter, because pretending he is not white is a manifestation of racial hatred and a … I went up there to record her and my relationship with her was very similar to that with Jesper and Margu, because she doesn’t speak English, I don’t speak Sámi. But he’s not a polar bear, and besides … the North Pole is in the middle of an ocean! On Nov. 29, exactly 26 days before Christmas, a Chicago TV news anchor and a second-grade teacher in New York revealed the truth behind one of society’s most pervasive lies. Santa Claus is just one mythical figure many ... parents should make sure their kids know that other children believe in the story and tell them not to ruin it for others. Not distraught. My friends weren’t more special than me after all! At one point in the film, I realized they shouldn’t speak English. So whenever I have an idea, I would develop it into like at least a storyline. “Santa’s not real. Why was she wasting her time with correspondence for an imaginary man when she could be drawing something productive, like a half-person, half-dragon? I set out to demolish some of the technical limitations as much as we can. That’s what I mean when I say that. In fact, sharing the information might make me cooler—like the kids who learned the meanings of swear words before everyone else. I knew, of course, that most kids my age were not privy to this knowledge. Santa can sometimes be explained in the same way different religions are explained to kids. He is not, under any circumstances, to ruin the Santa story for anyone else. But even the occasional verbal slip-up does little to erode a kid’s ironclad belief. We did add a couple items on top of the traditional to the pipeline. So great was my shame that it’s blocked out any memory of how, exactly, Jacqueline reacted. And parents you all need to stop lying to your children and telling them that Santa Claus is real when in fact he’s not.” For the last one, I called my old elementary school teachers. So, how do you bring high end 2D back to the front lines essentially is my question. So we actually had to go and find a little Sámi girl who could perform. My parents finally cracked, and I was relieved. Maybe … I just didn’t believe you?”, She didn’t believe me? That has two things wrong: it's original title was A Visit from Saint Nicholas, and it's unlikely the Moore really wrote it.Moore claimed authorship in 1844, but it first appeared anonymously in 1823; explanations for how … To avoid the tension, she sidesteps the subject. We need those independent creator-driven products, but there hasn’t been a Western high-end broad appeal 2D feature in a long time. Because we’ve had new technology that we haven’t tried to use in 2D, so I was like let’s give it a try and see what happens. All rights reserved. Well that’s not really entirely true because 2D is alive and well in Europe and in Japan, I should say. This Santa who is probably whispering, "You better smile or else your dog is going to get it!" I think I just was looking for a chance to find the right film and the right support to make it. So it would feel old but new somehow. I really liked the idea of removing all magic from all these little snippets of origin stories of Santa Claus and saying, well how fun could it be if all the things you expect to just be there because of magic actually had a grounded, somewhat cynical origin story that actually led to some truth. Does it matter whether Santa Claus is white or black? We needed someone who was a bit more selfish, someone who needed to learn the lesson of altruism. In a phone interview, Pablos told Polygon about imagining a Santa origin story, picking up where traditional animation left off, and what the future of his medium holds. I understood the cruel, complicated world a little better than my third-grade buddies. Did production time on Klaus take longer than a typical animated movie? The 30-year teaching veteran has taught many classes split along Santa-belief party lines. They both denied the existence of Santa Claus. The secular Christmas is born. ; Find out where Santa Claus is on Christmas Eve He was kind enough to then humor Kevin and give him some Tic Tacs (since he had no candy canes). Santa doesn't get enough credit for the amount he does in just one night. But then sometimes the answer is actually no, you know what? I don’t think there’s any real harm in perpetuating the Santa myth. Jacqueline got over the loss of her fantasy gift-giver. The only difference between how you feel about the Minions and how I feel is that despite my 30 plus year career, the one sketch people ask me to do the most is a Minion. For the latest information about opening hours and dates for the companies in Santa Claus Village in spring and early summer 2021, please read HERE. In recent years, Santa Claus' daughter has notably featured in a number of television films where she is often trying to help or to escape her father. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and the Easter Bunny: Part of the Process In spite of this scientific evidence that kids aren’t sad or damaged by the truth, at least one expert disagrees, believing sadness and disappointment to be part of the process. So maybe there was hope that I hadn’t destroyed Jacqueline’s childhood. In an emerging parenting trend, some moms and dads are refusing to play society’s little reindeer games: They’re telling their kids from the get-go that Santa Claus isn’t real. How did you land on a mailman as your main character? But does he live in Lapland? “You know there is no Santa Claus, right?”. My parents had come clean about the Santa myth to me a year or two earlier because I was offended that the jolly geezer didn’t care about me, a Christmas carol-singing Jew from the northern Chicago suburbs. “But maybe it was me who you told and I just blocked it out? Maybe the person I should’ve apologized to was Jacqueline’s mom. Because films like Secret of Kells or Long Way North or The Red Turtle are incredible films and I love them. Spilling the secret would be a public service, I imagined. During the events of "Koopa Klaus", Koopa Klaus intends to ruin Christmas, and does so by freezing Santa's workshop, along with all the Elves and reindeer, under a thick layer of ice using Ice Bombs on Christmas Eve. So we said, okay, let’s see what is intrinsically to 2D animation and what elements of it are not really choices, but technical limitations. But we don’t have elves. It was up in Scandinavia, I think it was Norway. Suddenly, it seemed silly to conceal this bit of wisdom. It’s tougher than you’d think to shake the faith. The real story of Santa Claus begins with Saint Nicholas (270 – 343 AD), who was born in the village of Patara, an area which was once Greek but is now part of Turkey. “It was one of the last vestiges of your childhood,” she told me. Another student spat back, “There is no Santa!”, “I was like, ‘Well, that’s what some people think, but there could be a Santa! They’re the ones who wrote in to the Chicago news anchor, the ones who demanded the New York elementary school take action. You created the original Despicable Me, and that franchise now has three movies and a spinoff. But certain topics are Santa minefields. He's a good actor, don't get me wrong, and it's really the script's fault instead of his, but his take on Santa Claus is way over the top. What, exactly, was the appalling crime of these two women? The goal was to keep all that was great about 2D but replace what was not necessarily a choice but a limitation. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company. Do you think that streaming services will open up more reach for international animated movies? I do believe there are projects that lend themselves more to certain meetings. My second-grade teacher, Robin Bell, put the episode into perspective. The thought of an all-knowing being who watches their every move (maybe with help from the Elf on the Shelf) may even terrorize them. Now the place is a pile of rocks and does not exist anymore. Where does Santa Claus live? It’s so much easier once they have a first in a franchise that hits. Explain Differences. Most contemporary ideas about what Santa Claus does and looks like are based on the poem The Night Before Christmas by Clement Moore. The poor children don’t have mom and dad presents to supplement Santa’s, she sputtered. Santa Claus is one of the most notable icons of the holiday season. Director Sergio Pablos, an animator well known for devising the story of Despicable Me, imagined Klaus as a more traditional animated feature that incorporated technology normally used for CG features. Basically, this guy had to con or scam a whole town into getting his own selfish way. I always say that I always find the story when I find the irony. The teacher’s words caused “a blizzard of outrage” at George W. Miller Elementary School, where her actions are now being “addressed internally.”. We've scoured the globe, checking some of the most likely places, and hitting several dead-ends. So that goes into that drawer of things I’ll never do! But Klaus doesn’t look like the traditionally animated movies of the past either. His horns turn white with red stripes, and his chains are golden. Was the setting of Smeerensburg inspired by anything in the real world? But Mel Gibson got there first. “I don’t ever remember it being super traumatic or scarring,” she told me. I mean, I keep discovering gems I didn’t know about almost every week. That was the case with Klaus. All those years of guilt for nothing? There have also been various movies and TV shows that have tried to establish Santa Claus’ origin story. 2.) Klaus seems like a good opportunity to do that. I thought that was the irony of it. I think they’re taking risks narratively. We would not show them as elves, but they would still be in the burgeoning workshop. And once you step outside of what you know, the customs can feel strange. So it’s great. The name Klaus is a short form of Nikolaus, referring to Saint Nicholas, the historical origin of Santa Claus. He soon realizes the inhabitants of Smeerensburg are embroiled in a bitter, generational feud and aren’t too keen on sending each other letters. She’s watched kids hear the truth before, but it has “never destroyed anyone.” Just a few days ago, during a geography lesson on why magnets work, a kid announced that the North Pole is where Santa lives. Where did the idea for the Sámi people as Santa’s helpers come from? Many cultures have their own origin stories and versions of this beloved holiday figure. Santa Claus is a traditional, secular imaginary figure of Christmas good cheer who is the best known (at least in modern times) mascot of Christmas, developed in the United States as an amalgam of the story of St. Nicholas and various other seasonal folk heroes, with many aspects provided by the classic poem A Visit From St. Nicholas. I shouldn’t have told her! It’s good to see things like Spider-Verse, for example, pushing that medium, because to me, every film should be an attempt of doing something different, you know? You’ve said that this film “picks up” traditional animation where it left off — what does that mean? What do we get? How often did kids spoil Santa for their classmates? With the sole exception of Hannu-Pekka Björkman, playing the role of adult Nikolas, that of Santa Claus. That would make it interesting. So that’s why we decided. It was more about have you been missing these, than here’s something new. It actually used to be a poor chimney sweep, that was the original story. I do realize it puts so much more strain on studios. Also, the mail serves as a metaphor for communication in the film too, so it really helps. Then I realized that it didn’t quite take us there. Sergio Pablos’s lush Santa origin story is now on Netflix. So like flying reindeer, going down the chimney, the stockings, and all that stuff. And we found Neda [Labba] all the way up in Tromsø, Norway. For the first questions, I turned to Facebook. He’s a jolly old man with a white beard and a red gown. It's one thing to say he visits every boy and… The story of Santa Claus seems to be a tale as old as time, but the Christmas icon actually has his roots in a real-life person—the Catholic figure of St. Nicholas. Kids still believe. Why choose to root the story in reality? The 30-year teaching veteran has taught many classes split along Santa-belief party lines. Not only that, but Margu was one of the main characters in the film. These ideas could be floating around waiting for an angle until I go, well what if all that’s good about Santa came about through the actions of the worst human being I can conceive of. It’s a bit of a thing of legend for Scandinavian culture. So this morally reprehensible man with a very selfish goal to get letters was what the story needed to move forward. Tennenbaum was stunned. Klaus was introduced in the Winter's Feast update, alongside the homonym event. But I also was keenly aware that when Disney they tried to revive 2D animation, their angle was to lean heavily on nostalgia. I love a story that has a bit of a cynical element to it to begin with, but it leads unexpectedly to an honest truth. In my research, I found a list of the northernmost human settlements in history. We added a lighting department and a texturing department, which gives that unique look. They aren’t quite as protected. One of them, Jacqueline, was decorating a letter she’d written to Santa Claus. Sure, he has a bishop’s hat and staff and there’s no Mrs. Sinterklaas, but he doesn’t seem that different. Each year, around Christmas, I recall the events of that afternoon and wonder: Did my gaffe kill part of her hopeful, glittering soul? I thought, well if we go on this stream of “kindness is contagious,” [Klaus and Jesper] deliver this toy to this little Sámi girl and in exchange the Sámi come back and help them, that would actually fit in very well with that central message. The Real Santa Claus . During the Winter's Feast event Klaus has a slightly different appearance. 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How it … Even my mother, well after admitting the truth about Santa, kept the Tooth Fairy alive as long as she could (until I woke to find her slipping a silver dollar under my pillow). After crossing paths with the hermit-like woodcutter, Klaus (J.K. Simmons), Jesper implements a system where the children of Smeerensburg write letters asking for toys, and Klaus delivers. So I understand that. I feel that hurt them in the long run and I think that we didn’t want to fall into that. While running late for a "get-together," a man dressed as Santa Claus was approached by Kevin McCallister, who asked him to tell the real Santa Claus to bring his family back for Christmas. One of them was like, well there is going to be a point where we’re going to show the prototype of Santa’s workshop. When I saw her reply in my inbox a couple days later, I clicked anxiously. Santa Claus and his companions look very different depending on what part of the world they’re in. Possessing the secret made me feel deliciously superior. When kids argue about the old man’s existence, zealots tend to distrust the deniers, Tennenbaum says. Lastly, there is a large castle in which Santa Claus resides. That was the necessary step for ihm to realize, to turn his selfish means into altruistic means. We were both so horrified!”, Discovering the truth about Santa doesn’t destroy a childhood—it just propels kids forward on the path to adulthood. You’re not taking those risks and you know it’s money in the bank. I had somehow snagged a spot at a table with the popular third-grade girls. And yes, it's a more realistic take on Santa's origins, but did they really need to make him so unhinged. So I did my research and I found out about the Sámi. Right. Klaus was the right moment for it. This content is imported from Instagram. (I loved drawing those.) One year, while discussing a charity project, which involved purchasing Christmas presents for poor families, one student asked a logical question: Why did he need to buy gifts for the poor kids? He’s a jolly old man with a white beard and a red gown. Does she think of me each year by the Christmas tree, her eggnog made bitter by the memory of the day I took an ax to her childish sense of awe and wonder? By explaining to your child that some families choose to believe in Santa and others don't, he can understand to respect different traditions. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons user Glogger, of the Santa Claus parade in Toronto, 2007. Kids still believe. Santa Claus Village is a destination that covers a large area, enabling us to arrange the necessary safety distances for our clients while still offering memorable experiences. Every time we make a decision like this — let’s make it 2D — we realize our chances of selling the idea are going down. Unless Santa lives on a houseboat, he probably doesn’t live on an ocean. I set up the basic storyline with Gru and the three little girls, but I left the project before they got into particulars of Minions. Wouldn’t Santa take care of that? Parents need to know that Klaus is an animated holiday comedy about a possible origin story for Santa.The movie takes place in the fictional island village of Smeerensburg, where spoiled young postman Jesper (voiced by Jason Schwartzman) strikes up an unlikely friendship with a local carpenter/toymaker named Klaus (J.K. Simmons).The whole town is involved in a generations-old feud … Actually the whole production from the beginner pre-production to delivery took two-and a-half years. During one December art class, groups gathered around long, paint-splattered tables, coloring with broken crayons and chewed markers. I sent Jacqueline a message, then waited anxiously for her reply. “I definitely remember feeling older and wiser now that I knew Santa wasn’t real.”. The irony is something that I look for all the time. All I recall is wishing I could dissolve into metallic goo and seep away through a hole in the ground, a la Alex Mack. But at the end those were both fairly manageable and quick. Well the town of Smeerenburg — that’s Smeerenburg without the [second] ‘s’ — actually does, well did, exist. I think they have already. And then every now and then you have an idea that you go, Oh, you know what actually 2D would be perfect for this. The film is a Santa origin story, told from the point-of-view of Jesper (Jason Schwartzman), a spoiled postal-academy student, who’s sent to the desolate Northern town of Smeerensburg in order to establish a postal service. All contents © 2021 The Slate Group LLC. Margu is a little Sámi girl and she was essential in Jesper’s transformation. Perhaps one day, parents will also tell the story of the real Santa Claus – a man who dedicated his life to charity and gift-giving. They reach a very specialized audience entirely. But as a creator myself, I need to be challenged each time. And here I thought the pandemic would ruin Christmas. The new film Klaus is a first for Netflix, and a long-awaited return for the medium: departing from the styles of Pixar, Dreamworks, and Disney, it’s entirely 2D animated. The anchor broadcast the painful facts on the 9 o’clock news; the teacher broke the news to her students during a geography lesson. The anchor was deluged with irate responses and apologized for her “callous” act on-air the following evening. So I actually had to learn to draw Minions, even though I had nothing to do with them! Nicholas was born to Christian parents who left him an inheritance when they died, which he distributed to the poor. It’s not that much different from how they feel to you, because I actually was not involved in the film anymore by the time the Minions came into play. Sinterklaas looks an awful lot like a thin Santa Claus. What brought you back to hand-drawn? I’ve discovered things that I didn’t know existed myself and I thought I was knowledgeable of the medium. Santa gets an origin story in "Klaus," an animated tale about an everyman postal worker assigned to bring mail service to a remote northern village. We need to have those films, but they only have so much reach with audiences. I think there is less belief in things like that.”. “To be honest,” she wrote, “I have zero recollection of that happening.” A different girl, Carolyn, broke the devastating news, she said. “The man you’re going to see today is just a man in a suit, dressed up like Santa, but Santa does not exist,” he continues. Unfortunately, my newfound sophistication didn’t enhance my secret-keeping abilities. My parents taught me to believe in Santa and it never hurt me. How does it feel to see those characters — specifically the Minions — all over now? Worst case scenario, it would have been a tedious process frame-by-frame, but it ended up not being that at all. And we need those. If you’re a parent who wants your kid to believe in Santa, you aren’t going to ruin their lives so long as you make it clear Santa will always be kind to them. And one of them was Smeerenburg. In Santa Baby, Mary Claus … In Once Upon a Christmas, Kristin Claus (Kathy Ireland) opposes her sister Rudolfa who is trying to ruin the spirit of Christmas. So we are very much aware of what we’re doing, but we like the idea of taking the risk every now and then. And then you know what the road is ahead. It seems like it’s the parents who really have a tough time. I like my films to have certain roots in plausible reality. The intention was to make this look like a piece of visual development that you that you would find in an art book for an animated movie, but put it directly onto the screen without getting into the grinder of the usual look. Or Greenland? It used to be a very prosperous whaling post back in the 1600s. For example, Christmas Island seemed like a lock, but there's no evidence that Mr. Claus has a home on that remote speck of land in the middle of the Indian Ocean. For his latest instrument of torture, a k a film, the actor plays Chris Cringle, a k a Santa Claus, in "Fatman." ; emailSanta.com's Santa Claus Webcam: Video feed from Santa's North Pole office showing what he is doing. And Santa could only bring those kids one or two gifts. And I know too many friends who produced that first grade hit in a franchise and now they’re condemned to just do sequels for the rest of the career. The most recent one of these films is Netflix’s animated film, Klaus. Question: "What should parents tell their children about Santa Claus?" But apparently, while my Santa denial was merely hearsay, Carolyn had visual evidence to back up her claim. Answer: Although Santa Claus is a mythical figure, his creation is based in part on a great Christian man named Saint Nicholas of Myra, who lived in the 4th century. We were basically making a list of all the things that make up Santa’s legend. To avoid the tension, she sidesteps the subject. The Santa reveal, she said, is less of a problem these days, “because kids are more savvy and sophisticated. And then I’ll say, okay, what’s the best medium for this? If you want to know where Santa Claus is, these will also help you find him: Find out where Santa Claus is any day of the year. Sergio Pablos: That’s what made it interesting to me actually. Does it feel like some bigger animation studios aren’t taking risks when it comes to pushing animation styles forward? But there was no attempt ever at making 2D look more like 3D. I mean, they’re fantastic movies coming out, all of them. You started your career out in hand-drawn animation, but then worked on CG movies as the industry pivoted away. You never know!’ ” Bell recalled. Klaus director and writer Sergio Pablos talks to Polygon about his Santa origin story, the future of traditional animation, and why he keeps getting asked to draw Minions. The child, she said, looked quizzical. Plus, there was something about the word “smeer” that made the name sound interesting to me. History . If you grew up in America, you probably think Santa lives at the North Pole. Where does Santa live? They were written in English at first and I realized, oh actually this works so much better if they speak only Sámi. Should I tell her what I knew so she could begin a more meaningful art project? She’d gone to the bathroom in the middle of the night and seen her parents setting up gifts. 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