this was notable apart from being a funny french movie full of extremes and escalating cartoonish revenge, by the state of the cinema that we saw it in. a) i saw it on my birthday, b) we had used a buy one get one free voucher, c) due to small audience numbers it had been allocated to the gold class lounge at regular prices. so basically i am cheap and it was awesome. also it was pretty cool that they had a poster for the movie as a gag in the movie itself? ingenious without being self-aggrandising (had to google that last word but my vocabularial hunch was correct [also it is exceedingly hard to google the word 'vocabulary' itself for an adjectival form!!!])
xix. fantastic mr. fox.
as may have been mentioned previously i was initially wary of this movie because of course the trailers focused most on george clooney and his american accent, upon which i based suspicions of americanisation. because roald dahl is nothing if not british. but my suspicions were only half founded, i don't know if it would have been too drab with an all-british cast. but i'm glad that boggis, bunce and bean were british, i mean otherwise it would have been entirely different. which brings me to the obvious issue of accents to demarcate animals and humans (and in other movies, humans and humans), namely, why??? why. and this is why i love quentin tarantino because inglorious basterds not only had correct accents but correct languages, i mean that is what life is like, right? aaanyway for all that i quite enjoyed fantastic mr. fox, more for the little wes anderson details than anything else.
also a slightly movie-related random picture, this shit is awesome, i don't think it quite deserves to be on ugliesttattoos.com.
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