Thomas Kail moves Moana into live action and the ocean becomes the real test

Thomas Kail moves Moana into live action and the ocean becomes the real test

A drawn wave can carry feeling. It can swell on cue, hold a color, part like a curtain, behave less like water than like a second character with its own intentions. That was the quiet achievement of the animated film: an ocean that acted. The live-action remake inherits that ocean and a harder brief, which is to render it as something photographic and have it keep acting.The new film keeps the shape of the story. A young wayfinder leaves the ree…