NARRATOR: The world of The Incredibles includes a wide variety of settings. It begins as a story of superheros trying to lead “normal” lives in the suburbs of Metroville. Mr. Incredible, known to his friends as Bob Parr, has gained some weight and is not pleased with his boring office job. As you can see in this blue-toned picture by Production Designer Lou Romano, Bob really doesn’t fit at work.
LOU ROMANO: With this image, I just wanted to show how compartmentalized everyone's life is. The employees on either side of him are happy and they're engaged with what they're doing. And he's just static and miserable in his cube, and we wanted to make this interior of the office feel cold, almost frozen in ice cubes or something. And also we have that grid motif happening and these glass blocks, and just how stark that environment is. Even the exits are framed within the corridors of those cubicles.
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The cut paper collages just to the right show a stark modern house for the tiny designer E. It’s filled with gigantic sculpture to match her dynamic personality, inspired in part by a small performer with a lot of character – Bette Midler.
