I Think She Might Have Liked Mine More
Horn Book reviewer Christine Heppermann heard a Who at the cineplex this weekend. I saw Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, which felt like a YA novel written by Robbe-Grillet, when in fact it was based on a YA novel written by Blake Nelson. It was good.
posted by Roger Sutton at 12:53 PM
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Ho ho ho, I won't see this one, but I might go for "Go Dog, Go!" (oh, and "Paranoid Park.")
...and once again, we see the messy combination of accents, animation, and American filmmaking. The "bad guy" in Horton, a vulture, is voiced by Will Arnett, an American actor imitating a Russian speaking English.
Do cartoon bad guys always have to be foreign these days? Can't we send cues about villainy through snappy dialogue and nuanced non-verbals without resorting to the lazy shortcut of exploiting and/or inciting xenophobia?
A "YA novel written by Robbe-Grillet" . . . very evocative. "Last Year at the Skate Park" anyone? Har har.
Signed, Anonymous Doofus
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