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You probably don't realize this, but you're self-declaring the hierarchy of authority and cherry-picking your source. A director's only capacity is to follow a script as best as possible. Fyi, directors are not at the top of the food chain. Directors don't read the script and then do whatever they want; you're mistaking the producer for the director.


 
Directors generally do not have power to make drastic or absolute changes to a finalized script; they answer to the producer who makes the final decisions and accepts / rejects scripts. Then the producer hands their approved version and notes of the script to the director who is then ordered to follow it as closely as possible to the best of ability within the time limit and resources available. Even so, if he wanted it clear that Li'l Cheese were a boy, they obviously would've taken off the eyelashes, but that wasn't a concern. That automatically means he left it open to interpretation to the character design art team.


 
Besides that, the information I've gathered, Big Jim never stepped in and authoritatively declared that he's a boy. Jim was making a reference to the script and _*stated he had made an assumption._* So he essentially pointed back at the script and the writing team verified that the 'he' pronoun was used as a placeholder but was not explicitly meant to be boy or girl.


 
But ultimately, writers are a "tier" above the director; they create the inherent and intended content that everyone else falls in line with to follow. The producer has the ability to ask for changes and in a sense has more authority, but producers don't write the content, just dictate what the goals are and assesses if the script falls in line with those goals.


 
The director's only job is to follow what's on the script as much as there. He didn't communicate to the visual character design art team any necessity for Li'l Cheese to be a boy, they either knew it was up for interpretation, or were told "do what you want from the script" and got info from the script department that gender wasn't important. So they shrugged and made Li'l Cheese likened to a girl. Big Jim probably noticed and just allowed it.
 
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**EDIT:** I just went over the end credits and noticed that Josh Haber is a producer (who also wrote the script). That means, roughly, Josh Haber is Big Jim's boss.

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You probably don't realize this, but you're self-declaring the hierarchy of authority and cherry-picking your source. A director's only capacity is to follow a script as best as possible. Fyi, directors are not at the top of the food chain. Directors don't read the script and then do whatever they want; you're mistaking the producer for the director.

Directors generally do not have power to make drastic or absolute changes to a finalized script; they answer to the producer who makes the final decisions and accepts / rejects scripts. Then the producer hands their approved version and notes of the script to the director who is then ordered to follow it as closely as possible to the best of ability within the time limit and resources available. Even so, if he wanted it clear that Li'l Cheese were a boy, they obviously would've taken off the eyelashes, but that wasn't a concern. That automatically means he left it open to interpretation to the character design art team.

Besides that, the information I've gathered, Big Jim never stepped in and authoritatively declared that he's a boy. Jim was making a reference to the script and _stated he had made an assumption._ So he essentially pointed back at the script and the writing team verified that the 'he' pronoun was used as a placeholder but was not explicitly meant to be boy or girl.

But ultimately, writers are a "tier" above the director; they create the inherent and intended content that everyone else falls in line with to follow. The producer has the ability to ask for changes and in a sense has more authority, but producers don't write the content, just dictate what the goals are and assesses if the script falls in line with those goals.

The director's only job is to follow what's on the script as much as there. He didn't communicate to the visual character design art team any necessity for Li'l Cheese to be a boy, they either knew it was up for interpretation, or were told "do what you want from the script" and got info from the script department that gender wasn't important. So they shrugged and made Li'l Cheese likened to a girl. Big Jim probably noticed and just allowed it.

"@TexasUberAlles":/images/2174529#comment_8559510
You probably don't realize this, but you're self-declaring the hierarchy of authority and cherry-picking your source. A director's only capacity is to follow a script as best as possible. Fyi, directors are not at the top of the food chain. Directors don't read the script and then do whatever they want; you're mistaking the producer for the director.

Directors generally do not have power to make drastic or absolute changes to a finalized script; they answer to the producer who makes the final decisions and accepts / rejects scripts. Then the producer hands their approved version and notes of the script to the director who is then ordered to follow it as closely as possible to the best of ability within the time limit and resources available. Even so, if he wanted it clear that Li'l Cheese were a boy, they obviously would've taken off the eyelashes, but that wasn't a concern. That automatically means he left it open to interpretation to the character design art team.

Besides that, the information I've gathered, Big Jim never stepped in and authoritatively declared that he's a boy. Jim was making a reference to the script and _stated he had made an assumption._ So he essentially pointed back at the script and the writing team verified that the 'he' pronoun was used as a placeholder but was not explicitly meant to be boy or girl.