Posts by Joe Wylie
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Taste Nazism has become far to prevalent.
Naziism or Nazyism?
Nartsy-fartsy.
If we can have taste nazism, how about birth nazism?
F'rexample, making snide cracks about one's fellow citizens as "baby boomers" - originally whistled up here, rather disappointingly, by Mr Brown. The miraculous prescience of the unconceived who, through sheer foresight, somehow managed to decree the very decade in which their progenitors got jiggy.Once I've managed to lay hand on all that elusive disposable income that's somehow my ill-gotten birthright, and blow it on an eclectic mixture of concert tickets (Joanna Newsom! Motorhead!), I'll top myself for the public good . Promise.
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Re. Max Havelaar - the version I saw was original Dutch language, with English subtitles. Like a couple of later Dutch-Indo co-productions I taped (and subsequently lost) off Australian SBS, the production values were pretty solid, with what seemed like meticulous period detail.
Oooh look:
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. . . Multituli's Max Havelaar, but a quick Wiki search reveals that it's already been done.
Hah! Saw that in the Ak. Filmfest back in the late 70s. Think it had just one morning screening. Memorable, if a tad earnest - all that liberal-colonial guilt, with many of the perpetrators of the later independence-era repressions still alive in the Netherlands at that time. Seemed to catch the anguished message of the book without getting sidetracked by the gorgeous locations.
Yeah, great book. Would be a real challenge to make that story resonate onscreen beyond its place and time.
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jackson&Others
Particularly Costa Botes, who'd earlier distinguished himself with this little gem.
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He's a Cecille B Demille and he's ours.
That'd be Colin McKenzie.
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I remember reading somewhere that if you like film-making but can't stand the actial film-making process, then comics/manga is the way to go.
Yeah, the poor unrecognised storyboard artist. I remember the unfailingly good-natured Sylvain Despretz popping up on an online storyboard forum a few years back, and ruefully mentioning that, while security types and production-thingies got invites to the premiere of Gladiator, no-one thought to ask him.
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What happened to the Wombles. Why didn't they go on.Picking up rubbish, getting into shit,getting drunk, fighting..
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Yes, and the red eyes, too. But as a kid I found that extremely scary.
Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer. While I don't think Frazetta received any kind of credit or remuneration from Bakshi's LOTR, from the number of times that image was knocked off in the film he certainly should have been entitled to a hefty cut.
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Bakshi used rotoscope, tracing off live-action film, as a shortcut, especially in the battle scenes. It's an old trick, and a horrible form of drudgery from an animator's POV, but the studio hyped it as some kind of technical breakthrough. Some scenes appear to be literal trace-offs from old WW2 Eastern Front footage, with recognisable German helmets badly disguised with hand-drawn horns. It's hard not to laugh when the horns wobble.
OTOH, the first encounter with the black riders in the shire is beautifully storyboarded, and was pretty much cribbed by Jackson, shot for shot.
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Apart from the hobbits themselves, I thought that wasn't a half bad movie for its day, pity they couldn't finish. Jackson drew on it heavily for his imagining, a great many compositions are lifted from it.
Good on you for pointing that out, Ben. While I have very mixed feelings about Ralph Bakshi's largely well-meaning but often heavy-handed output, I was surprised by the number of set-ups that Jackson obviously lifted from his LOTR.