Animated film: The troll is not a dog ["The Snow Queen"]
Posted by Fred (Fred Patten) on Sun 28 Oct 2012 - 13:09
The Snow Queen, written in 1845 by Hans Christian Andersen, did not have any anthropomorphic characters in it. Hollywood; excuse me, Moscow; has corrected this omission. Not in the 1957 Soyuzmultfilm feature, which was a faithful enough adaptation of Andersen’s tale but with a talking raven, but in the new Wizart Animation 80-minute CGI feature, directed by Maxim Sveshnikov and Vlad Barbe, coming in Russia in December.
The story has been modernized and expanded for today's audiences, with a non-human troll added as a major character (for comedy relief); and Gerda has been given a pet ermine, who is not very anthropomorphic but is smarter than the average ermine. [Animation Magazine]
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And coming November 2013 - Disney's Frozen. Perhaps a little less anthropomorphic, but more likely to be seen by readers!
Like the Lion King and Kimba really.
I'm thinking more along the lines of Puss in Boots and The True Adventures of Puss 'N' Boots.
Yeah, it's a Russian fairy tale, but now is a suspicious time to dig it up ...
Actually, it's a Danish fairy tale set in Lappland.
Fred Patten
I'm 'Merican; don't confuse me with you fancy geographying.
Wow, this is fucking horrible.
Well, I'll be...
If you think that this looks horrible, look at "Sir Billi".
Fred Patten
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