As you may be aware, The Clash of the Titans
is being remade, undoubtedly it is going to be CGI-tastic and will bukkake in the face of the genius of Ray Harryhausen and his stop-motion animation technique.
below is an appeal to make things right (undoubtedly too late though ....)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPe-M6E8nbk
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(, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 0:44, Reply)
wow.
He's still alive? Respect. Though stop motion in this day and age? It can't compete with modern techniques. It can be a beautiful art form in it's own right, sure. The Aardman stuff proves it can work for children's animation, or cartoony style stuff, but to create monsters?
Ultimate respect to the master and forefather of the movie monsters though.
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 1:15,
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Ahhh, let them...
It'll be utter shite and not a patch on the original.
A bit like Peter Jackson's King Kong (romantic ice-skating
in Central Park? I mean, I reckon the guy is a brilliant
film maker, but what the hell was he thinking?).
In other stop motion news (the nth report in an infrequent series),
I watched Corpse Bride for the first time today and noticed the
piano played by the the main character was labelled a Harryhausen.
Made me smile, at least. A nice nod to Burton's influences...
(, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 1:53, Reply)
despite it's terrifying ubiquitous presence...
I still love wikipedia, because it tells us this:
* The Pixar film Monsters Inc.(2001) features scenes in a restaurant called Harryhausen's.
* Both the Tim Burton stop-motion film Corpse Bride and the Nick Park stop-motion film Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit featured a piano made by a piano maker called Harryhausen.
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 1:58,
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Dammit, see, I thought I was being smart picking up on that reference,
but obviously I should have googled before posting...
Interesting that both Curse of the Wererabbit and Corpse Bride should feature
the same homage - I noticed several other overlaps between the 2 films
(not least in the look of the bad guy). I'll probably now find both flicks share
the same artistic director or something.
(, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 2:05, Reply)