Why “Hello Dolly”?
Stanton: It’s one of those things, I did it out of pure, unconscious abstraction at first. I just, sort of like an artist sticking two colors together and going, wow, I wonder why that works. I knew I wanted old-fashioned against the future and I loved the idea of some sort of old-fashioned music playing against the stars, almost like a Woody Allen film. And there was something about that, I just loved the juxtaposition, and then I started searching around for what the song would be. I did a lot of musical theater as a kid and there’s a short list of plays that I think everybody had to do, and I know “Hello Dolly’s” one of them. So I starting popping through it for a little bit and I heard “Put on Your Sunday Clothes” and that first phrase where it just says “Out there…” and has all this sort of hope and navet to it, and I thought that kind of works. And then I thought more about what that songs about and it’s about these two guys that have never been anywhere and they want to go to
