Absurdism

[tealin]

This is, more or less, what I was thinking through that whole part of Pirates III...

I tell you, if I ever find myself in the salt flats and nothing surreal happens to me, I will be most disappointed.

Comments

[deisi.livejournal.com]

"Duck Amuck" is my favorite Looney Tunes short. Nice allusion.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

LOL! I wish I still had my quantum icon, this is cute.

[chibipengwin.livejournal.com]

Pratchett plus Looney Tunes plus Pirates... egad!
The great thing about this whole (very surreal) scene is that Johnny Depp plays such a convincing crazy.

[harbek.livejournal.com]

Omfg Daffy.

[zed-pm.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[aysquid.livejournal.com]

Haha, preeeety much x)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I know I've mentioned this before but I LOVE THAT ICON.

[aysquid.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks, I love it too. x)

[verselus.livejournal.com]

That drawing is priceless!

[hobbitonic.livejournal.com]

Throughout this whole scene, I was continuously thinking, "Someone has consumed ACID."

[octaveleap.livejournal.com]

100% agreed. That scene is still giving me very interesting dreams.

[rupertistheone.livejournal.com]

omg it's SOOOO like Duck Amuck! I was totally thinking that....although I'm sorta glad they didn't get that comical XD

Nice pic...he totally makes a great Screwball, or whatever that species would like to be called XD And your ship looks realleh nice too! :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I like drawing ships. :)

[pippins-nose.livejournal.com]

hahahah! Wow, that brings back memories.......
"Over the sea, let's go, men. We're shovin' right off, we're shovin' right off...and really bad eggs?"

[hobbitnat.livejournal.com]

Ha! thats awesome! i remember that Daffy Duck Amuck like perfectly! and it's so true, that scene was driving me crazy just watching it, I'd go bonkers there!

[cirix.livejournal.com]

omg. you win at life.


THAT IS A PERFECT DESCRIPTION of that one part...

seriously...

crabs?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Crabs are delicious. Got a problem with delicious crustaceans? Granted, there wasn't any water to boil them in...

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

But they were crabs made of stone!

Mmmm Stone Crabs

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

http://www.joesstonecrab.com/today/crabfacts.html

Re: Mmmm Stone Crabs

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

'S not quite the same as a crab made of stone, though.

[stevie-roch.livejournal.com]

WIN.

[buttfacemakani.livejournal.com]

LOL ilu :>

nice ship, too xD

[roga.livejournal.com]

Hee! Totally :-)

[thefordmustang.livejournal.com]

I love the Looney Tunes reference! I have not seen that cartoon in ages!

Thanks for the memories!

[frabjous-mimes.livejournal.com]

I love Duck Amuck! As can be seen from my icon ;D Hilarious drawing!

[frabjous-mimes.livejournal.com]

Oh, I suppose that was abrupt. Sorry! I've been following your drawings for a while; I love your style and you got me hooked on Discworld! I hope you don't mind if I friend.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Friend away! Welcome to the minions of the Pratchett Pusher! ;)

[sparrowofjack.livejournal.com]

The Pratchett Pusher? Oh my... "Wanna buy some Pratchett?"

I was thinking Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, the whole movie... the whole, "Going off the edge of the world, finding a desert" thing, and the frozen seas part, to the point where I initially thought the dead people in the water were sirens.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Hehe, yeah ... one of these days I'll put up some screencaps from Sinbad and everyone can see ... maybe after Pirates II comes out on DVD so we can have some side-by-side comparisons.

The dead people in the water reminded me more of the souls in Hades (or ... whatever his realm is called ... name escapes me) from Hercules. Disney cannibalizing its own material is slightly more OK, I guess.

Hmm... after a brief perusal of IMDB, I see that I recognized Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio not from Disney movies of the 90s but from the famously coherent, structured, and plot-rich classics El Dorado and Treasure Planet. Somehow this is not surprising, beyond the fact that I actually enjoyed this last one.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Erm ... edit: '...after Pirates III comes out on DVD.' Obvious, but it'll bug me if I know it's left uncorrected.

Edit again: I enjoyed El Dorado too, but not for the plot. In fact, I enjoyed it despite the plot, and have watched it enough times now that I'm well-practised at ignoring the plot.

...

... Pirates/El Dorado crossover ... hmmm ... Six characters in search of a plot! Someone call what's-his-name! Beckett? HEY! It all falls into place!!

[lepitot.livejournal.com]

I definitely thought of Sinbad as well, particularly the going off the edge of the world part.

What was wrong with the plot of El Dorado? (You don't have to clutter this up...you can just e-mail me if you want.)

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

Tartarus was a specific part of the underworld, wasn't it?

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[azvolrien.livejournal.com]

I think Erebus sounds better. Tartarus could be mistaken for a sauce by the unwary.

[tannhaeuser.livejournal.com]

[noodleface38.livejournal.com]

i LOVE el dorado, I used to quote it all the time!(still do) Miguel is the funniest character haha! "I am Miguel and this is Tullio....and they call us Miguel and Tullio!" " to she balba?.....TO SHE BALBA!" aaaaaah, good times. also If you haven't seen The Emperors new groove you MUST watch it hahaha soooooo good. "THE STRANGER AT THE DINER!....he didn't pay his cheque!"

and I remember that daffy thingymajig, but i don't really, ....youtube here I come!

[frabjous-mimes.livejournal.com]

Thanks, mein commandant! How do they rise up!

[method22madness.livejournal.com]

darkwing duck reference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
XD

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Um ... Daffy.

[method22madness.livejournal.com]

*shrinks back in shame*

ooops
Well, alright, so I got my cartoon ducks confused

[diminutivefox.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! Gotta love crazy Jack! The crabs en masse reminded me of Ghana where they were hidden in the surf until they hit your shins at speed!

[rebekah-weasley.livejournal.com]

Is it too late for me too say how much I adore this drawing?
Well... I do!

[lilanglniara.livejournal.com]

is screw ball origionally from darkwing duck? cause i've only seen it in Impulse comics...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, 'screwball' originally comes from baseball, where it is a type of pitch in which the ball looks like it will do one thing but actually does something different (i.e. screwy) which causes the batter to miss it. It also came to refer to a genre of film comedy in the 40s or so. This is from Daffy Duck, not Darkwing, and dates from the 50s, I think.

[has not looked any of this up]

[lilanglniara.livejournal.com]

no i mean the picture of the screw and then the picture of the ball to show screw ball. any idea where that originated? or a guess?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a pretty simple rebus of the word 'screwball' so I'd imagine it started pretty early ... if you can find any documentation of it pre-1953 (Duck Amuck) then good on ya.