A Random Assortment of Dissociated Detritus

[tealin]

I watched Prince of Egypt for the first time in years last night, thanks to rawrsie. It's a good movie. There's some stilted dialogue, and I can see now the design problems mentioned by my colleagues which I couldn't see when it came out. But it's Dreamworks' first (and apparently last*) attempt at making a movie with real heart, for which I choose to give all the credit to Brenda Chapman ... who is now at Pixar. Anwyay, I still like it, probably because it was such a formative animation experience for me in high school ... but Moses sure can look like a friggin' alien sometimes.

At the New Year's party I went to, I ended up in a conversation with this fellow ... I'd never had such an opportunity to observe someone so comically, cartoonishly drunk before. I don't know if he'd drunk the entire bottle of wine he was holding (it wouldn't surprise me) but he tried convincing me that Mexicans were warm all the time because they ate spicy food and not, e.g., because they lived in Mexico; that San Diego was not in a desert; that CNN and the BBC are two houses both alike in dignity (though without the Shakespearean allusion); that the people in Iraq don't want to be occupied (really??); and the things written in the drawing. It was when he started putting his arm around my shoulder that it stopped being funny – luckily my friend gallantly stepped in, did some sort of Jedi mind trick to direct the conversation to someone else and we made our escape. Take that, inebriated and ignorant construction worker! That's what you get for making such an impression on someone who draws!

Hello, my name is Tealin, and I am an HTML table abuser. It started when I memorized the table code. Ye gods, it's hard to quit.

And finally: Bulgaria Inaugurates Army of John Cleeses? Go here and click on picture #5. Now that's just silly!

My favourite cat ever has died. He lasted out 2006 ... barely ... what a crummy year.

*This is from their official site: 'At DreamWorks Animation SKG, we strive to tell stories that are fun and comedic, told with a level of sophistication and irreverence that appeals to a broad audience.' Way to pigeonhole yourself, Dreamworks. Congratulations.

Comments

[martes.livejournal.com]

I think the problem with PoE was not that it was a serious story-- it was that it was retelling something that had been told, and told a lot better, a bunch of times before. They also ran into a wall of political correctness and they were trying so hard not to offend people that it placed the film into a straightjacket.

There about 5 billion books that could have been adapted into fabulous animated films without the limitations PoE had. But God forbid any animation executive actually go out on a limb with an untried property 9_9