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3 | ''[[https://vimeo.com/255698341 One Small Step]]'' is a 2018 animated short film (8 minutes) directed by Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pointillas. It is the first production of the Chinese-American studio [[http://www.taikostudios.com/ TAIKO Studios]]. |
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5 | A Chinese-American girl named Luna Chu lives in San Francisco. Luna sees a NASA launch when she's a little girl and instantly becomes a space nut, making helmets out of cardboard, festooning the walls with drawings of rockets, hanging models of planets from the ceiling. Her father, a shoe repairman, indulges her, even buying her some child-sized NASA boots. Luna studies hard, trying to reach her goal of becoming an astronaut, but life intervenes. |
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9 | * AgeCut: A cut between Luna putting on her NASA boots and Luna putting on a more mature pair of shoes serves as transition from Luna as a little girl to Luna as a teen. |
10 | * AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Where's the mom? Dead? Abandoned the family? |
11 | * BittersweetEnding: Luna's father dies by the end of the short, but she is inspired by him to continue to strive to be an astronaut. And by the end, she becomes one. |
12 | * CompleteTheQuoteTitle: It is of course from Neil Armstrong's quote, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." |
13 | * CosmicMotifs: The moon. Luna's [[MeaningfulName name]] means "moon". The first scene has her watching the landing of the moon as a child. Her childhood shoes has moons on them. And the ending shot has a grown up Luna on the moon. |
14 | * DaddysGirl: Luna and her father are shown to be very close. |
15 | * EfficientDisplacement: Luna and her dad make a perfect outline when they fly right through her cardboard cutout of Saturn in an ImagineSpot. |
16 | * FootFocus: Luna's feet when we see her walking to and from college, and when she takes them off or puts them on. |
17 | * GenkiGirl: As a child, Luna was quite energetic. |
18 | * GoodParents: Luna's father is a caring, attentive father to his daughter. |
19 | * GrayRainOfDepression: Luna slogs home through the rain after bombing a test at the technical school. Things get worse after she gets home. |
20 | * HalfEmptyTwoShot: Every time Luna comes home from college, her father is sitting at the dinner table to greet her. One day, she arrives to an empty table... |
21 | * HeroicBSOD: Luna drives further into one as she fails her classes and receives a rejection letter. She fully hits it after discovering her father's death. |
22 | * ImportantHaircut: After being inspired by her father's memory, Luna cuts her long hair to a bob style. |
23 | * ImagineSpot: Little Luna likes to play pretend games where she and her dad get in her cardboard spaceship and zoom through the solar system. |
24 | * MatchCut: From Luna in her child's NASA boots, striding around her bed as a little girl, to Luna as a grown-up astronaut setting foot on the Moon for real. |
25 | * AMinorKidroduction: Luna is first introduced as a child before a young adult. |
26 | * {{Motifs}}: Shoes. Luna's father is a shoemaker and he presents a young Luna with her NASA boots on her birthday. The transitions of Luna as a child and young adult are seen from her change in footwear. Throughout the short, Luna's father is seen repairing shoes, mostly Luna's. She is re-inspired to achieve NASA dream after finding her old pair of NASA boots. And the MatchCut is between her NASA boots and the proper footwear for stepping on the moon. |
27 | * PrimaryColorChampion: Luna's clothing consist a variety of red, blue, and white. |
28 | * SignificantName: The little girl who dreams of becoming an astronaut is named "Luna". |
29 | * SilenceIsGolden: The whole short flim has no dialogue. |
30 | * WhamShot: Luna comes home after a miserable day and discovers that her father isn't at the table like he usually is. Worse, his walking cane is discarded on the floor... |
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