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If you happened to grow up in a particular section of Brooklyn in the ‘70s and played a game called Hot Peas and Butter with neighborhood kids, you might still have the welts to show for it.
As the Oscar-contending animated short The Originals reveals, that old time-y outdoor game involved the “winner” getting to smack other kids with a belt.
“Most of our games came with pain,” one of the characters in the true story remembers, with a certain fondness. The audio for the film comes from the reminiscences of a group of pals who have known each other “from when we were infants” in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn: Matteo Ruggiero, Carmine Ruggiero, Anthony DeMaio, Sal Alioto and Matteo Alioto. The short was directed by Cristina Costantini and Alfie Koetter, a young couple who used to live in a building in Carroll Gardens owned by Matty “Square” Ruggiero.
“We got to know our landlord the day he returned from prison,” Costantini said at a recent Q&A for the film at XTR Studios in Los Angeles. “We were captivated by [Matty] and the stories he would tell us. He was one of the best storytellers we ever met. He would make us just laugh every day when we sat on that stoop with him and would tell these incredible stories. And we wanted to figure out how we could capture that and how we could bring them to life.”
When the pandemic hit, Costantini, a filmmaker known for Mucho Mucho Amor and Science Fair, and her husband Alfie, an architect, decided to “combine their powers and their weaknesses” to transform the audio into a short. The title The Originals comes from what Matty Square and his buddies used to call themselves back in the 1970s in their Italian American enclave.
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