tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post8099886793360873409..comments2024-01-27T18:00:54.268+00:00Comments on This Is My Blog: Fantastic Mr FoxMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-12147557453687791982011-06-26T08:12:08.224+01:002011-06-26T08:12:08.224+01:00whats the moral of the storywhats the moral of the storyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-24621005208282407902009-09-27T20:20:36.757+01:002009-09-27T20:20:36.757+01:00I think I'm in the avoid camp - a film would s...I think I'm in the avoid camp - a film would struggle to meet my imagination and it's so painful to watch over-sanitised versions of quite dark writing.<br /><br />I'm woefully behind the times and playing catch up so congratulations on the second job :)Carie @ Space for the Butterflieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13060566680311122115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-89232112720931917632009-09-21T18:10:50.045+01:002009-09-21T18:10:50.045+01:00Following relatively recent revelations about Dahl...Following <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2655185/Roald-Dahls-seductive-work-as-a-British-spy.html" rel="nofollow">relatively recent revelations</a> about Dahl's life after the end of events detailed in <i>Going Solo</i>, I think that the Uncle Oswald stories might have more grains of truth in them than were imagined when they were first published.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-69014730825121465882009-09-21T12:37:09.078+01:002009-09-21T12:37:09.078+01:00Avoid it like the plague. I am still mentally sca...Avoid it like the plague. I am still mentally scarred by what they did to The BFG.<br /><br />I can't see anyone making a film of My Uncle Oswald. Rather too many descendants of those crowned heads of europe with lawyers on speed dial I should think...Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06148992289166413933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-4498533931931095062009-09-21T10:21:41.529+01:002009-09-21T10:21:41.529+01:00No, it was shot - with a Nikon D3. It's stop m...No, it was shot - with a Nikon D3. It's stop motion.<br /><br />("malleable points of moral reference" at 3am, I ask you!)Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-82304996031583832662009-09-21T03:01:26.484+01:002009-09-21T03:01:26.484+01:00"Steve" *holds tail* :-)
I may be read..."Steve" *holds tail* :-)<br /><br />I may be reading too much into it and I'll admit that my last reading of Fantastic Mr Fox was lots of years ago, but I got the idea that Mr Fox was meant to be fantastic from the fox's point of view - he fed his family as foxes do, by scavenging. He held a party for his friends at the expense of the farmers trying to uproot them, hence winning the day etc etc. The rest of it is down to Dahl's malleable points of moral reference. Mr Fox is being a fox. Danny is a poacher. Uncle Oswald is... well, probably best just leave that one be. Some main characters shine in their 'goodness' (Charlie, James, Matilda) where others just shine in the telling, to my mind.<br />I can't help but worry a bit that the new film version's trailers made me think of nothing so much as 'Ocean's Eleven' - partly the Clooney casting, partly the way it was "shot' (yes, yes, cgi gets rendered not shot, I know).evilsteviehttp://127.0.0.1:631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-50579162431324180742009-09-20T19:15:29.877+01:002009-09-20T19:15:29.877+01:00I liked the film of Matilda, although I always fin...I liked the film of Matilda, although I always find something a little bit odd about films of books-that-promote-reading-over-watching, and the torture was rather watered down.<br /><br />But then, Matilda has a "happy ending" and more universally "acceptable" definitions of Bad Behaviour. For example, when Mr Wormwood bodge-fixes the cars he sells - it is given as a Bad Thing, whereas for Mr Fox that would be evidence of yet more Fantastic-ness.Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874443.post-5235765385127627152009-09-20T14:02:52.674+01:002009-09-20T14:02:52.674+01:00I love Dahl's writing for exactly the same rea...I love Dahl's writing for exactly the same reason.<br />I dunno. Film adaptations of books in general usually disappoint. That said, I quite liked the film version of 'Matilda'.butterflywingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16873407072604417252noreply@blogger.com