It's a weird one. If you're still stumped the answer is... [highlight] COOL WORLD by Ralph Bakshi starring Brad Pitt and Kim Basinger. More first and last puzzles here. *
It's bizarre - and really bad in parts - but it's still sad it never found the right audience. That zany animated world was amazing. (Also, it was Bakshi's last big project, which is also sad.)
Wasn't Cool World supposed to be a much darker "end of the world" type film? I read somewhere that typical studio interference (ala "Alien 3") caused it to be what it was. FYI - i also read Kim Basinger wanted it re-edited so she could show it to sick kids in hospitals. any truth to that? i can only imagine....
What it was supposed to be was a riff on the idea of Roger Rabbit that said, "Hey, if there are cartoons, and there are humans, isn't there the risk of someone being half-cartoon. And wouldn't that half-cartoon be innately resentful. So yes, it's a horror." He got a bad producer who wanted to step away from horror. At that point Bakshi stopped caring what the plot was, not even giving a script to the animators.
The Rocketeer, perhaps?
ReplyDeletegood guess but that's not it.
ReplyDeleteCool World?
ReplyDeleteandreas got it. cool world with brad pitt and kim basinger. what a weird movie. Ralph Bakshi films are so endlessly strange.
ReplyDeleteIt's bizarre - and really bad in parts - but it's still sad it never found the right audience. That zany animated world was amazing. (Also, it was Bakshi's last big project, which is also sad.)
ReplyDeletewow, totally not what I was thinking, and to save embarressment I will keep it to myself ha ha.
ReplyDeletewell done Andreas
THE TOURIST TRAILER:
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Wasn't Cool World supposed to be a much darker "end of the world" type film? I read somewhere that typical studio interference (ala "Alien 3") caused it to be what it was. FYI - i also read Kim Basinger wanted it re-edited so she could show it to sick kids in hospitals. any truth to that? i can only imagine....
ReplyDeleteWhat it was supposed to be was a riff on the idea of Roger Rabbit that said, "Hey, if there are cartoons, and there are humans, isn't there the risk of someone being half-cartoon. And wouldn't that half-cartoon be innately resentful. So yes, it's a horror." He got a bad producer who wanted to step away from horror. At that point Bakshi stopped caring what the plot was, not even giving a script to the animators.
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