But his relatively quiet existence is shattered when he accidentally summons a spirit from his past which storms down from the heavens to enforce an age-old vendetta. Clever, kindhearted Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson of Game of Thrones) ekes out a humble living, telling stories to the people of his seaside town including Hosato (George Takei), Akihiro (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), and Kameyo (Academy Award nominee Brenda Vaccaro). Kubo and the Two Strings is an epic action-adventure set in a fantastical Japan from acclaimed animation studio LAIKA. Kubo and the Two Strings enters theaters on August 19th. But I think it really is just a beautiful and perfect encapsulation, musically, of what the whole movie’s about. So there’s almost too many-in the Venn Diagram of things that overlap-there’s almost too many connections with that song in this movie.
Kubo and the two strings theory movie#
The things that were exciting George Harrison at the time, the idea of connectivity and things being related and just the connectivity of all things, that’s something that we explore in this movie as well. He open a book up, and his finger landed on “gently weeps,” he sat down and he wrote a masterpiece… He opened it up and he decided to write a song based on whatever words his finger landed on. There’s also a really interesting story about how it was written because George Harrison, little lad from Liverpool, was starting to get into Eastern philosophy and he was reading the I Ching, the Chinese Book of Changes and he… there’s an idea of connectivity of all things within this book, which is… and he wanted to put that theory to… he wanted to see if that was true. You would never know that it was written in 1965 or whatever it happens to be it’s 50 years old and it’s as timeless as ever. It was the perfect encapsulation of all the things that we explore and it’s just a beautiful song.
And it was, to me, it was the perfect way to end the movie. He’s going to continue to tell her story. And then the way we construct the song, it’s effectively a mother singing to her son and saying, you know, carry on my story.Īnd at the very end, the coda at the end of the song we have a boys’ choir that comes in, as if it’s Kubo carrying on his mother’s song. It was sung beautifully by Regina Spector, who is also an enormous Beatles’ fan-and has a three-year-old son of her own-so this movie spoke to her in that way as well. It was arranged by our extraordinary composer, Dario Marianelli, who threaded different themes from the movie into it as well. And the way we constructed it, it felt like an extension of the movie. And when we were thinking about this movie and tried to come up with some kind of a musical accompaniment that was evocative of the ideas and the themes that were running through the movie, my mind kept going to that song because it really is a timeless extension… it’s a timeless expression of love and empathy, which is fundamentally what this movie’s about.Īnd the way we played it, I always heard it in my head as a female voice singing it because to me it was essentially kind of the last words that a mother, the mother gives to her son. It was essentially the soundtrack of my life and one, one song that was really, that I love, my mother and I loved more than anything, really, was While My Guitar Gently Weeps. It was just, you know, Beatles were just kind of part of our life. You know, we listened to the Beatles’ record on my mom’s hi-fi, on a 8-track in my dad’s blue Cougar coupe. My mom was 15 years old when the Beatles were on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time and of course, she was an enormous Beatles’ fan and that’s another gift that my mother bestowed to me. You know, I grew up in a Beatles’ household. During our interview, director Travis Knight shared the story of how While My Guitar Gently Weeps became part of the movie.Īs with so much of the things that are in this movie, there’s a family connection there.
Today marks the release of the official music video, featuring Regina Spektor’s haunting version of the classic song.
The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps made an early appearance-in instrumental form-in the Kubo and the Two Strings trailers. I attended the Kubo and the Two Strings Press Day as a guest of Focus Features.
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