Wes Anderson's MR. FOX performance videos
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Back in the classic Disney days, actors were often brought in to film references scenes for the animators, with Walt Disney himself occasionally acting out Mickey Mouse and other characters. (Bela Lugosi was brought in to act out the devil for the Night on Bald Mountain sequence in Fantasia, but the animators didn't care for his performance and his footage wasn't used.) More recently, Ang Lee used motion capture to act out the Hulk's scenes in The Hulk.
So this footage of Anderson hopping around in his bathrobe is really just part of an old animation tradition. Of course, that doesn't stop it from looking really goofy.
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2 comments:
Im a big fan of the book - and this looks like its going to spoil every childhood memory I have of reading it over and over - it bears no resemblance to the story or look and feel that makes the book great. I would not watch this film for any reason.
Hopeless and hateful rendition that I can only compare to the addition of Wonkas Dad to Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
Funny how there is no mention of the genius that was Roald Dahl and now how another of his works is being f`d in the A.
Ok this post is about Wes acting out parts - fine..still looks rubbish imo
I can relate, in that there are plenty of adaptations and remakes that have horribly botched things I really cared about. But I've never read Dahl's book, so this movie has no association like that for me. Taken purely as its own thing, it looks charming to me... based on the ads, anyway.
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