What is with that Tarzan? In all the posters he looks more like an ape than the gorilla characters do!

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Jenny Gonzalez,
Kronikle Komix

I heard in an interview with Matt Groening awhile ago (I think it was on NPR's Fresh Air) that there had once been a serious proposal for a Simpson's spin-off, which was, get this: A live-action version of the Krusty the Klown Show.
Now I hate live action stuff based on cartoons as much as the next guy, but under Groening's supervision, this sounds like it would've been an interesting, if not brilliant show.

-Ryen-

i'm beginning to suspect that a goodly portion of the american public simply, hoenstly just _doesn't like_ looking at drawings.

seriously, think about it.

I think Tarzan looks pretty cool. For my money, POE looked like bad rotoscope, but Tarzan looks like good old animation. The CG trees look pretty amazing too.

Like others here, I don't care for cartoons made into live movies. Real people in tights or whatever just don't look as appealing as drawings. The writers seemt o put the dunce caps on when writing a comic book film too. It's like they feel a need to dumb down their writing because they're writing to a "funny book" audience.

In response to Eric, who claims that the public doesn't like to look at drawings, I have to disagree. How else can one explain the success of animation on TV and in the theaters over the past 15 years? If anything, public acceptance of drawings is bigger than ever before and is clearly not a fad.

My guess is that animated superhero movies feel like Sat. morning cartoons to studio execs so they feel more comfortable making comic book movies in live action. The right marketing campaign could easily overcome this (IMO), but studio execs are a supersticious, cowardly lot.

Tarzan is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Tarzan moves like Spider-man! No live action movie could begin to compete with this kind of animation. Even if some CG were used for Spidey, he would be a guy in spandex for a goodly part of the film and real people just look stroopid in spandex. No one in their right mind would go out in spandex and pick a fight with anybody. A drawing of a guy in spandex can look indestructable, but a real guy just looks soft.

-Chris Bailey

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Certainly, Scott, I'm talking about the adaptation of the LI'L ABNER Broadway play, not that dreadful thing that had -- I think it was -- Red Buttons as Lonesome Polecat. (Was it as late as 1946? For some reason, I've got 1940 as its release date stuck in my brain.)

My goodness, tho, people here certainly are hostile toward musicals. Wassamatta, too macho to dig watching an ensemble burst into song and dance? I've always enjoyed the form, myself. I think the reason THE BLACK CAULDRON didn't make it is the simple fact that it's the only Disney animated feature that is NOT a musical.

As for Disney's TARZAN -- geez, I never thought it could happen! I mean, Disney and ERB, Inc. are both fanatical about retaining all ancillary rights to themselves. How could they ever have come to an agreement?

Quack, Don


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