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The Return of Wallace and Gromit
blamanj writes "Aardman Studios have release the first peek (Quicktime) at the new Wallace & Gromit film, Curse of the Wererabbit. Currently scheduled for an October release, the slightly-less-than dynamic duo will be putting their talents to work chasing a were-rabbit that threatens the town's vegetables. Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter supply lead vocals. Character creator Nick Park co-directs his story."
I thought for a mo that they were taking over for the venerable Peter Sallis, the familiar voice of Wallace. I don't need shocks like that!
your's truly will provide the voice of gromit
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Currently scheduled for an October release, the slightly-less-than dynamic duo will be putting their talents to work chasing a were-rabbit that threatens the town's vegetables.
Firstly, the term is "differently abled". Secondly, who the hell does Nick Park think he is, enforcing bigoted ablecentric paradigms that reinforce stereotypes of helplessness and dependency?
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We'll make an exception. It'll make for A Grand Day Out, especially if I remember to have A Close Shave and don't wear The Wrong Trousers.
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I watched the trailer earlier this morning and the movie looks very promising. The subject of the movie is sort of hidden within the trailer, but if you look at all the working titles from different countries it will probably give you a better idea of what the movie will be about.
I think that Wallace and Grommet should be boycotted by the slashdot community for their negative stereotyping of penguins as evil criminal masterminds!
(you do realize this is a joke, right?)
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Helena Bonham Carter.
I would watch her read a telephone book on film.
Then buy the DVD too.
Oh yeah. I eagerly await the new W & G flick too!!!
According to my old AQFL story and Dark Horizons, there was a WMV trailer on Screen Rant but the Web site seems to be down. You can look at Google's cached Web page. And here is the original Web site that hosted it (still works for now).
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Check out the link for the full trailer. http://212.100.255.23/media/video/Wallace_and_Grom it_Trailer_330k.wmv
And secondly, they are made of clay. It doesn't get much more dynamic than that. :P
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W&G is such a nice break from the (albeit quite good) CG animation movies of the past few years. Claymation requires so much handwork and attention to detail, that there are very few people who can do it, let alone do it well. The folks at Pixar et al are great at what they do, and they put in a lot of detail... but the computer rendering is also responsible for a bunch of the look. Here you have straight-up, old-fashioned hard work, care, and love on the part of the animators.
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In January, as part of the USA Film Festival's KidFilm (in Dallas), the "Animation Celebration" featured 10 Wallace & Gromit shorts, back-to-back-to-back. This was noted clearly in the program, but clearly many of the attendees didn't *read* the program -- probably the ones who came for the insipid Barbie Fairytopia movie.
We saw a short introduction (featuring a typical Wallace & Gromit contraption cracking an egg), then the first episode came and went. Then the intro started again, and the murmurs started. The third round saw louder mutterings. By the fifth round, there was scattered applause and mild catcalls. At seven or eight, many of the kids could be heard saying "why are they showing that again?" By the time the tenth episode came on the screen, there was general laughter from the entire crowd. When an 11th episode failed to appear, in favor of a longer Nick Park feature (Dogs & Cats, or something like that), I believe there was applause.
Several years ago, the early Simpsons shorts (from the Tracy Ullman show, before the series even started) were sprinkled throughout the Animation Celebration program. I still wonder if the organizers put the W&G shorts back-to-back just for artistic effect.
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http://movies.apple.com/movies/dreamworks/wallace_ and_gromit/wallace_and_gromit-fte_m480.mov
_ and_gromit/wallace_and_gromit-fte_m320.mov
_ and_gromit/wallace_and_gromit-fte_m240.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/dreamworks/wallace
http://movies.apple.com/movies/dreamworks/wallace
Wallace: Cheeeeeese!! Gromit: [Shrug with Upturned Eyebrow]
I've met Nick Park - he's from the same town as me (Preston, England) and when I was at the local college he came to talk to the students. He's the worlds most utterly boring talker, but was playing with plasticine while he talked and would occasionally throw a fully-formed Wallace or Gromit into the crowd. Anyways, my name is Sean, i'm from Preston, he named it after me dagnabbit!
Looking at Nick Park. That placid, cheerful face with the extremely plastic eyebrows. It's like he's spent so many hours manipulating his characters he's become one of them.
He always was! I've read an interview with him, where he said that Grommit is his plasticine alter ego. "Grand Day Out" was Nick Park's reflection on a real event from his own childhood, when his father has built a homebrew caravan and took his family on a trip. His father was very proud of himself, but for young Nick, it was more of a traumatic experience - the caravan was largely built of cardboard and general junk and young Nick felt very insecure. He portrayed his father as a crazy inventor, who builds a junk space rocket and takes his dog on a trip - ignoring all the possible perils (all too obvious to the poor, scared dog).
Just a side note: hobbyists often ignore how annoying their passion can be to their families. I wonder how many fellow slashdotters repeated the mistake of Mr Park senior. They said to their significant other (or their children): "Look! This is a computer I made using power supply from an old refrigerator, defunct playstation, keyboard from electric typewriter and screen from our old TV-set, all running a custom-compiled version of BSD! Ain't that cool?". And they fail to see a clear message in the eyes of their families: "why can't we just buy something normal like everyone else?".