‘The grave of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke in Novodevichye Cemetery in Moscow is surmounted by a stone on which is engraved a rest beneath a fermata with a triple forte noted at the bottom: A very, very loud extended silence.’
- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.
i actually consulted on Disney's Ratatouille back in '04. the team was animating the kitchen sequences and they needed someone to taste test all the soups the rat was cooking for flavour accuracy . Turns out that useless rodent had no idea what it was even doing there, despite auditioning and signing up for the roll. For the most part it just squeezed and tore at the kids scalp, definitely ripped out at least a few follicles permanently, though they were digitally replaced in the final cut. Dont feel too bad for him though, dude was an absolute brat. Constantly complaining about set feng shui, or screaming at his reflection in the makeup chair. He routinely got so aggravated with the cast and crew that he would piss himself on set just to be able to leave for the day. He'd claim the rat was manipulating his bladder before undoing his fly and spraying it around the kitchen as much as possible, which may have actually been true at least a couple of those times.