I've got 5 kids, with the youngest being the 10 year old, and all of them have been big calvin and hobbes fans. They seem to all identify with Calvin. I am not sure that that is good.
That seems to happen around my house too, especially when I am telling them, 'you are supposed to laugh at Calvin, not with him!' when he's driving his father crazy.
Cool :) Speaking of C&H, it looks like there won't be a film: "Bill Watterson, who created the immensely popular comic strip about a boy and his tiger friend, has said that although he’s impressed with modern animated films from the likes of Pixar, he doesn’t see the need for a big-screen adaptation.
“The visual sophistication of Pixar blows me away, but I have zero interest in animating Calvin and Hobbes. If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served. As a comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes works exactly the way I intended it to. There’s no upside for me in adapting it.”
there is ONE exception to this, the 11 h Brideshead Revisited with jeremy irons as charles ryder. the whole novel is in the movie. the movie is better.
I've got 5 kids, with the youngest being the 10 year old, and all of them have been big calvin and hobbes fans. They seem to all identify with Calvin. I am not sure that that is good.
ReplyDeleteC&H seems to have made son naughtier. Not sure whether it's good or bad.
ReplyDeleteThose pumpkins look like Terrance and Phillip.
ReplyDeleteThat seems to happen around my house too, especially when I am telling them, 'you are supposed to laugh at Calvin, not with him!' when he's driving his father crazy.
ReplyDeleteHas your guy seen this one? It's just for him.
http://archive.is/1I6A
Cool :) Speaking of C&H, it looks like there won't be a film:
ReplyDelete"Bill Watterson, who created the immensely popular comic strip about a boy and his tiger friend, has said that although he’s impressed with modern animated films from the likes of Pixar, he doesn’t see the need for a big-screen adaptation.
“The visual sophistication of Pixar blows me away, but I have zero interest in animating Calvin and Hobbes. If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served. As a comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes works exactly the way I intended it to. There’s no upside for me in adapting it.”
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2013/10/no_calvin_and_hobbes_film.html
it's interesting how halloween has completely died where i live now but was still a real to-do in other places i've lived.
ReplyDeletethere is ONE exception to this, the 11 h Brideshead Revisited with jeremy irons as charles ryder. the whole novel is in the movie. the movie is better.
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