>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.
>I Think She Might Have Liked Mine More
March 18, 2008 by 3 Comments
About Roger SuttonRoger Sutton has been the editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc, since 1996. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his M.A. in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a B.A. from Pitzer College in 1978. Follow him on Twitter: @RogerReads.
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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