is there no respite from the cruelty?
just saw this poster (can’t even bear to copy it to my site), purported to be an unofficial movie poster for the 2005 or 2006 release of the curious george movie.
there must be a disease in hollywood that removes clues. why would you disneyfy one of the most beautiful works for children there is? why would you not attempt, with scrupulous attention, to copy exactly what the sent-from-heaven reys (hans and margarete) brought to children so well?
i tell ya, as a hard core curious george fan since i was 3, this really pisses me off. and i never get pissed off! ; )
the proposed man in the yellow hat (voiced by will ferrell) and the bleh background are disgusting — spilled from the same tube of concentrated sacharine brewed for latter day disney “animation” characters such as beauty and the beast — pimped up barbie and ken dolls that hosed otherwise promising elements. can will ferrell save it? look for will, riding high from the beautiful elf, to drive the last screw into that pooch (blueprint here). if only there were some guarantee that there would be no musical ballads.
here’s what curious george and his environment should look like.
hollywood’s gonna improve on that? my ass.
January 14th, 2005 at 15:21
Amen, brutha!!! George and I go way back too, and it’s been both pleasure and pain to rediscover him with my snolfs … we found some videos of C.G. that fucked with the story (e.g., anti-smoking nannying inserted unnecessarily), and others that didn’t exactly disneyfy the art, but were wrecks all the same.
Hollywood better watch out — there’s a pissed off pig and a pissed off snake staring them down!
Sunni
January 14th, 2005 at 20:20
okay, there’s a smart, gorgeous, liberty freak girl who not only drops by my blog now and then, but leaves great comments complete with the eff bomb?
“will you marry me? will ya, will ya, will ya!?”
; )
oh, i know how you feel about marriage. don’t worry about that, snakey. i just feel sorry for hollywood. we are so gonna kick their asses. the curious george movie is dead. DEAD!
January 15th, 2005 at 09:57
ROFL!! Yes, I can be quite the salty snake … but have toned it down lately. Not everyone appreciates hearing “Fuck that shit!” or somesuch in the clear, sweet tones of a four-year-old child’s voice, ya know — even when it’s totally called for. :)
You’ve the advantage on appearance, but the admiration is quite mutual thus far. However, considering a snake-pig marriage … well, that’d be stranger than the owl and the pussycat, no? I mean, snakes my size usually eat pigs and that wouldn’t … er, well, … [blush] never mind.
Sunni
January 15th, 2005 at 10:10
:D
advantage on appearance? no matter how you mean that, you are absolutely smoking crack. i’ve seen you. you’ve seen me. i’m a dork, you’re… well, you’re not a dork. i’ll leave it at that. LMAO.
on the snake-pig marriage part, i think there are snakes and pigs on a south pacific island who get along well, and even have sex and stuff. we can be those kinds of snake and pig, as long as you don’t do that thing MOST american women do to me (require consent). fucking bitches. goddamn fucking whores, er, i mean anti-whores.
but not you — ohhhhh, not YOU, my leetle snakish one. fetch hither the fromage de la belle france! mmm!
January 15th, 2005 at 19:18
“… as long as you don’t do that thing MOST american women do to me (require consent).”
Er, um, what do you mean? Signed papers or “partner-may-I” a la Antioch College? (The only college my mother “forbade” me to attend, BTW.) That stuff’s a crock.
Salty Snake
January 16th, 2005 at 02:43
nah, salty, i was talking about the more pedestrian sort of consent requirement, as in having even the slightest desire to sleep with me. mild acquiescence — ahh, how aphrodisiacal.
yeah, it’s a shame the sort of rinky-dink stuff college kids have to go through. back in my day, you just tried real hard, she wanted you to try real hard, and you knew a decline when you were in its presence (not that i ever was; i’m just supposing that some men did get shut down. i’ve heard about it).