I mean, they can't do them like the book, but I really hope they aren't remotely like the ones in the first movie.
With CGI I expect they could do them like the book. They're just wee.
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DavidS - Sep 16, 2004 11:16:09 am PDT #3935 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Frankenbuddha - Sep 16, 2004 11:21:12 am PDT #3936 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
With CGI I expect they could do them like the book. They're just wee.
I was thinking more that they were a tribe from...I think it was Africa, but it might have been South America. That's the part I don't think will fly in this day and age.
Mr. Broom - Sep 16, 2004 12:29:28 pm PDT #3937 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I mean, they can't do them like the book, but I really hope they aren't remotely like the ones in the first movie.They won't be, on account of the head writer has never seen the first film. He has deliberately avoided doing so in order to make the look of the movie entirely his (and Dahl's, of course.)
Betsy HP - Sep 16, 2004 1:59:57 pm PDT #3938 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Where did he grow up, Plato's Cave?
Katie M - Sep 16, 2004 2:02:30 pm PDT #3939 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
I've never seen it either, as far as I can recall.
tommyrot - Sep 16, 2004 2:11:51 pm PDT #3940 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've never seen it either, as far as I can recall.
Perhaps you've repressed it. It is a disturbing film.
Betsy HP - Sep 16, 2004 2:29:37 pm PDT #3941 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Gene Wilder's best performance, with the possible exception of Blazing Saddles.
Sue - Sep 16, 2004 2:37:26 pm PDT #3942 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I've never seen it either. I just could never imagine how they could successfully film that book, so I didn't bother.
tommyrot - Sep 16, 2004 2:46:44 pm PDT #3943 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gene Wilder's best performance, with the possible exception of Blazing Saddles.
I'd include The Producers with these two.
JZ - Sep 16, 2004 3:09:09 pm PDT #3944 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'd include The Producers with these two.
I'd elevate The Producers well above those two, but then I am in deep and helpless thrall to The Producers.
(eta: Not to speak ill of his performances in the other two, which are quite fine, but... The Producers! Like I said, thrall.)