tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post7698820328268896924..comments2023-11-03T11:37:13.579-04:00Comments on Something Old, Nothing New: Donald Duck Ruined Everything?Jaime J. Weinmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15128500411119962998noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-28505326146547325982008-07-01T23:49:00.000-04:002008-07-01T23:49:00.000-04:00Gerstein, if you're headed out there, I'll be at J...Gerstein, if you're headed out there, I'll be at Jay's tonight, k?<BR/><BR/>OAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-151354343886776992008-07-01T22:22:00.000-04:002008-07-01T22:22:00.000-04:00Donald is SO a heroic rebel. That's why Daisy, Gus...Donald is SO a heroic rebel. That's why Daisy, Gus, Gladstone, Gyro, Fethry, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and even Uncle Scrooge look up to me—I mean, him. Every day, the great Mr. Duck's words are quoted by thousands of adoring iconoclasts. And—<BR/><BR/>Oh, hi, Uncle Scrooge. What are you doing here? Hey, don't read that! Awright, awRIGHT! Only Fethry looks up to me. And that in itself is immensely disturbing. Stop hitting me, Unk! I'll stop typing right nAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-63350148359157550032008-06-27T08:51:00.000-04:002008-06-27T08:51:00.000-04:00That's what the Road Runner says: "Mi-mi!"That's what the Road Runner says: "Mi-mi!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-34849046838936088692008-06-26T21:13:00.000-04:002008-06-26T21:13:00.000-04:00The opening chapter of Joe Adamson's Tex Avery boo...The opening chapter of Joe Adamson's Tex Avery book includes some amusing swipes at Ralph Stevenson, and a general rant that is a good little time capsule of what early historians like Adamson, Michael Barrier, Leonard Maltin, and Jerry Beck faced, and what they must have felt at times.Stephen Rowleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18298365318402471885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-86515957637325125892008-06-26T10:30:00.000-04:002008-06-26T10:30:00.000-04:00This is one the most ass-backwards things I ever r...This is one the most ass-backwards things I ever read. The decline of cartoons began when characters were with distinctive personalities ?Ricardo Cantoralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00518171797365794688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-7345692746887604162008-06-26T00:47:00.000-04:002008-06-26T00:47:00.000-04:00Ralph Stevenson's clueless "The Animated Film" was...Ralph Stevenson's clueless "The Animated Film" was once a rather popular supplemental volume in colleges, during the last animation scholarship dark age. Stevenson actually refers to the Road Runner as "Mimi, the Road Runner" in that thing. Where on earth did he get such a name?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-80100912700661128202008-06-25T14:33:00.000-04:002008-06-25T14:33:00.000-04:00I agree with Rob with one caveat - some of the ver...I agree with Rob with one caveat - some of the very early Mickey's are pretty good before the theater owners and parents got Disney to tone down the wildness of Mickey's adventures. Mickey went from being a character who went to prison (where he picked up a dog named Pluto) and got chased by monsters (only to have it turn out to be a dream), to being a fairly staid and conservative suburbanite, whose biggest crisis was when a baby seal stows away in his car. No wonder a lot of people prefer the Gottfredson's comic strips to Mickey's movies.Brent McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883838112004433045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-71527479038743758972008-06-25T11:10:00.000-04:002008-06-25T11:10:00.000-04:00Funny, Donald is about the only Disney character I...Funny, Donald is about the only Disney character I care about. The others are just too bland for me.<BR/><BR/>Interesting piece. Thanks.Rob G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03389079991952510620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-74749401015921683372008-06-25T10:35:00.000-04:002008-06-25T10:35:00.000-04:00Ralph Stevenson's early 1970s book, "The Animated ...Ralph Stevenson's early 1970s book, "The Animated Film", which came out in England just before the new generation of animation historians and film critics started turning around the image of Hollywood theatricals, showed that the mindset in that London Times article held sway for the next two decades. <BR/><BR/>The negativity in the Times' piece towards the type of cartoons that proved the most popular is also the germ of what became in modern times the overreaching political correctness movement against the chase-and-violence type of cartoons (though it's ironic today, reading the Times story, that the sainted UPA's Mr. Magoo finally got ensnared by the PC nannies, when groups champion the rights of the blind protested he was making fun of sight-impaired people).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6956070.post-35106623515371632462008-06-25T00:55:00.000-04:002008-06-25T00:55:00.000-04:00Jaime, you've found the ultimate example of the "B...Jaime, you've found the ultimate example of the "British cinema snob." And I thank you.<BR/><BR/>There is no reason NOT to make fun of him.Thadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04443425643665474645noreply@blogger.com