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Horton Director Talks about Anime-Inspired Sequence

In a recent Los Angeles Times interview, James Hayward, the director of the CG-animated adaptation of the classic children's book Horton Hears a Who, briefly talked about the short anime-style fight sequence he included in the film. According to Hayward, he specifically worked it into the script as as an homage to Japanese animation, and to make up for an often overlooked part of Horton creator Dr. Seuss's biography. During World War II, Seuss, whose real name was Theodore Geisel, created a number of crudely stereotypical anti-Japanese war propaganda cartoons and caricatures.