In the Disney movie “Tomorrowland” — named after a section in several Disney theme park properties — George Clooney plays Frank Walker, whom the actor describes as “a disenchanted grump who was a bit of a dreamer as a young boy and a smart little scientist.”
When Frank was a young boy of 11, he invented a jet pack, which he brought to the 1964 World’s Fair to enter it in a contest. There he meets a young girl who takes him to what he thought would be “the greatest place on Earth.” But things turned a little sour.
Present-day Frank shuns human contact, until he meets Casey (Britt Robertson). And then they run into Athena (Raffey Cassidy), the young girl Frank met in ’64… Only, she’s still the same young girl. Bonkers, right?
While this all maybe sounds logical on paper and it would do you well to just watch it rather than read it from us, suffice it to say George liked playing Frank because, in an interview, he says: “Between Casey and Athena, my character Frank just yells at young girls for most of the movie. I get to be grumpy and angry and yelling, but it’s fun.”
This is probably the only context where a grumpy old man yelling at girls can be described as fun.
Then George goes on to describe the dynamic between the three as such: “It’s a little family dynamic but the problem is that the youngest one is the parent. Casey and Frank are like the two fighting kids. It’s a very backward family; Frank is a big kid who didn’t really ever grow up and stopped evolving at around 11 years old and he’s fighting all the time with Casey and Athena.”
So… it’s a family movie. Got it. 🙂
Righteous Fun 