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- From: chuq@Apple.COM (Crow's Friend Timmy)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
- Subject: Re: Just Saw Alladin...
- Message-ID: <76001@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 22:02:03 GMT
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- Organization: Next Thursday A.D.
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- brad@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Brad Barton) writes:
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- >Let's not forget that spoiler warning for those who haven't seen Aladdin yet
- >(poor souls, with no one left to turn to)
- >
-
- >Others can correct me here if I'm wrong, but that's exactly the reaction you
- >are supposed to have to his actions there.
-
- Bingo. You have to have a "well, kids, I'm going to act like a shoothead for
- a while so when I get better everyone will like me even more" subplot.
- Besides, if he DOESN'T do it, the movie is about half an hour short.
-
- >>2) I was laughing at Robin Williams, but wonder if 20 years from now the
- >>references will be understood. I doubt it.
-
- The topicality of the references might be a problem, but on the other hand,
- how many kids laugh at the Bugs Bunny cartoons with all of the caricatures
- in them? Or where he and the gremlin make gasoline-rationing jokes?
-
- >>3) Can we get a woman who doesn't look like Belle/Ariel/EveryOtherWoman?
-
- >The animation style is similar, but I didn't really notice this as much as
- >some others have.
-
- She's actually rather different (all three have some significant drawing
- differences, in fact), but there are some inherent limitations to face
- drawing that create tradeoffs between the ability to create expression and
- faces that tend to look alike (my guess is Rick's complaining about the
- style of the eyes and etc...).
-
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