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And the award for best pre-release special feature of all time goes to... THE FANTASTIC MR FOX!!!
Hey folks, Harry here with something so incredibly delightful that I just had to share. Sunday nights are Movie Nights for me. Where my wife goes out dancing with her best friend, and my dear friend Diana comes over and we watch a double feature. Tonight we started off with GRACE - an astonishingly wonderful horrifyingly profane film featuring the cutest baby ever. We were at such an icky place that we had to put on something happy... So I put on the direct to DVD - WALLACE & GROMIT'S MATTER OF LOAF & DEATH! It perfectly rose our spirits while still being a bit awesomely dark... Well, after that my friend leaves and I come over to the computer and find the following special feature on Apple: CLICK HERE to see new FANTASTIC MR FOX making of (with no spoilers)!
See? It isn't so much anything other than the fact that this is twice this year that I've seen amazing special features on children's book film adaptations that literally made my heart swell up for how exactly on target they are. The other being the Spike Jonze / Maurice Sendak WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE? special feature!
This one was amazing. Who doesn't love Roald Dahl? Here we have modern genius Wes Anderson discussing his screenwriting process on his new film, FANTASTIC MR FOX. Wes goes on to tell us that when he was writing the screenplay for FANTASTIC MR FOX - he decided he wanted to live and write it where Roald Dahl wrote the book. So he contacted Mrs. Dahl and she agreed. While there - he discovered that Dahl based MR FOX on himself, his world on the world he lived in and Wes decided to inform the character of MR FOX with some of Dahl's as well. Later still in the filmmaking process he had every object in the home photographed and reproduced to set dress the universe of the stop-motion animated FANTASTIC MR FOX.
Folks - this Glorious Quicktime Special Feature fucking rocks! Seriously! It is just easily one of the most awesome mini-stories I've heard in a while. They're miniaturizing Roald Dahl's life to be used in a stop-motion animated adaptation of one of Dahl's own stories! HOW AMAZING IS THAT? How AWESOME is Wes Anderson for being that big of a GEEK to want to write in Dahl's home, so he could discover more about the world of the author that created the work on which he wished to base a film adaptation upon?
That's so cool - and I had to share. Definitely check it out. Now, I'm off to watch a film I'm considering for BUTT-NUMB-A-THON 1138...
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and first maybe?
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and I was pretty impressed. I've been a Wes Anderson film all the way back to "Bottle Rocket" and I've been looking forward to this. Can't wait.
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It would drive traffic from those SW prequel bashers.
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so your missus goes out dancing with a friend, and you have a lady around to 'watch' films with? i'm impressed, i might suggest this to my girlfriend. not sure if she'll go for it though.
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His widow seems like a nice lady.. can't wait for this one.
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you know.... I'm a movie geek but getting all worked up about a "special feature"... Really?
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Once again, the LFF kicks off with a bang with Mr. Fox's world premier. I'm going to miss it though. :( Any other UK people going?
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I feel like Harry writes like this just as a gag, the hyperbole, the meaningless personal details, the rambling paragraph after paragraph, all for a two minute feature. It has to be a bit of a gag at this point right?
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which was lucky. Wow - writer does research on screenplay shocker. Art department photographs and replicates place and period shocker. If this is the best pre-release feature you've ever seen either a) you're in the pay of film companies or b) you're in the pay of film companies.
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you are new here right?
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You appear to have completely missed the point. The interesting part of the feature isn't that Anderson "did some research". It's that he's based the Character and aesthetic of the world on Roald Dahl himself.
I know cynicism is the most popular form of expression around here, but lazy cynicism is the tool of the ass-hat. -
Clooney etc.
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Thanks angranoid, I think I might frame that and put it on a wall in my house.
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Come on, all you do is watch movies, sometimes the same one three times in a single day.
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and it looks fucking awful. The writing may save it... but actually found it visually irritating. I've never "not liked" stop motion animation before (though I can't say I'm a fan either), and I enjoyed Nightmare before Christmas, Chicken Run, Wallace & Grommit, etc... but I'm probably gonna pass. The animation from the trailer alone made me cringe a little.
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Seriously. Sure, it looks like a Wes Anderson movie, even if it is stop-motion, but Wes has always had a certain type of movie that he makes as well, usually very dry and methodical in it's pacing. This? This just looks like they took one of Dahl's books and turned it into the usual actioneer slop. What the fuck happened, Wes?
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Thought it was....I don't know...creepy looking. The story sems dumb and the hairy stop-motion dolls and lots of stretched-out cotton effects is just bizarrely off-putting. I don't imagine kids will be very interested in this and adults certainly won't be.
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I can't think of a proper way to describe it, but it looks poorly done. The movements are harsh and the puppets themselves just look....I don't know...kind of creepy. It's one of those things words can't really encapsulate. You have to see it to know what we're talking about.
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I thought that sounded like him, but his voice is pitch-raised or something. Or maybe it's sped up. In any event, his character was quite irritating, and that was in a 90 second trailer. his constant whistling and clucking was very grating. Apparently it was supposed to be funny....it wasn't.
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Way to name check Torre
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How would Ardman have done this?
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Henry Selick been the head animator. I don't think this will top James and The Giant Peach.
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I read the book to my nephew years ago, and eh and I liked it but that trailer...was embarrassingly cheezy. Really weird-looking. The animals look like a taxidermist's rejects. Bleah.
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Can someone please tell me what Harry's little personal infidelity/date night story has anything remotely to do with this? I can see if it was something cool, but it just seems to be an excuse for Harry to tell how many fucking movies he watches with his "eclectic" group of friends. Thrilling.
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This screened to an audience of children and they LOVED it. They don't see the scrappiness of it. Just look at Saturday morning cartoons. You quickly overlook the roughness of animation if the story/characters/energy are right. Wait until you see the whole thing...
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They loved it. Wanted to watch it over several times. Henry Sellick & Aardman are not the only stop motion artists in the world.
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Fuck, man...did you see a cardiologist? Because if it "literally" happened, that means you're explicitly NOT using a metaphor or simile, right?
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Sucky movie is still gonna suck, no matter how much you try and hype the origins of the bad ideas. Kids will hate it because of the crappy animation and the lack of imagination and adults will hate it because it looks like a cheap shitty movie.
Harry, quit your fanboy bullshit.
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