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I'm embarassed to even be blogging this--ok, bs--I HAVE no shame........ has anyone else noticed that the premise and imagery from the Wayans Brothers new film "Little Man" is lifted directly from "Baby Buggy Bunny"(1954)? The one where Baby-face Finster, a dwarf criminal, hides out at Bugs', disguised as a baby? Same bit with him shaving, the same "foundling on the door step" bit.....I admit, I haven't researched the film--they may be openly doing an homage, but jeepers--how does one pad out a 5 minute cartoon from the '50's into a full length feature?
And if we are due for more Bugs remakes--how about the one with Gruesome Gorilla (Gorilla my Dreams 1948), or the one with the little Penguine (Frigid Hare 1949)? I hear the auto-insurance gekko has optioned Aleister Crowley's "Diary of a Drug Fiend" (it's going to be a musical).
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The Wayan Brothers have a cartoon out?
Another blatant rip-off is in Monters Inc, that part where the little girl gets processed in a factory line, and the big blue monster looks on anguished, thinking sh'es being killed accidentally, and he can't do anything about it -- that's a "homage" to a Chuck Jones' animation, only his original version was a little kitten and big dog, and the little kitten was hidden inside the flour and turned into biscuits.
I always loved that one--the way the heart-broken dog puts the kitten biscuit on his shoulder---greek tragedy never matched it. Plus, it was a tuxedo kitten!
I saw it in a two-part documentary about Chuck Jones. He said he wasn't expecting people to go all teary eyed about it. How could anyone see that cartoon and not feel sad? The cat and dog relationship is just too sweet for you to find any humour in his pain.
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