- Small Strange Bird
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I'd be tempted to do Stealth ($138m budget, $32m US, $76m total worldwide) if I could find anything about the writing process and how much the original concept got changed once Rob Cohen and the Pentagon got involved. Somehow I don't think that WD Richter (Invasion of the Body Snatchers '78, Big Trouble In Little China, Buckaroo Banzai) had it in mind to write a screenplay about how awesome drones are at bombing brown and yellow people and if only they didn't occasionally get struck by lightning and turn evil and listen to nu-metal everything would be perfect. U-S-A! U-S-A!
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- Small Strange Bird
- Sep 22, 2006
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The creators seemed so worried about the CG characters in Spirits Within looking "cartoony" that they dialled their expressions way, way down - with the result that they seemed as stiff and unemotive as Thunderbirds puppets. Ironically, the only time I thought Aki and co really came alive was in some of the gag reel stuff (like the Thriller spoof), where the animators cranked their expressions up far beyond anything in the film itself.
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- Small Strange Bird
- Sep 22, 2006
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There was an interview with Hewlett and Martin (that I wish I could find, but the pertinent quote was so memorable that it stuck in my head and is still there 19 years later) where on their first meeting with Tank Girl's screenwriter Tadi Sarafian, they instantly and mockingly dismissed him as a "cowboy-booted Los Angeles tit".
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