-
Fantastic Mr Fox
This is NOT a rage against Fantastic Mr Fox, this is a rage against everyone who refuses to see it, or didn’t like it, because of the use of stop-motion animation. I’ve had three people, most young, use that as an excuse now, saying ‘preschoolers could do better’. Um, no, they couldn’t. God, you’re so spoiled these days with your polished animations. I’m not necessarily knocking the new technologies in animation, I’m just saying have some appreciation for its history and how far it’s come. Personally, I think the story line for FMF fits stop-motion animation perfectly, there’s a certain quirkiness about the film that could have been lost through CGI. What really annoys me too is that they seem to think that it’s rough around the edges by accident? No, it’s called an aesthetic losers. There’s no camera shake, that’s technique, everything that looks rough is done on purpose. They COULD have made it with CGI or they could have made a more polished stop-motion (think Wallace and Gromit) but there’s something so delightfully kitsch about the film’s aesthetic that would have been lost if they’d done it any other way. People took the time to hand craft that movie, so stop being so ignorant and open your minds a little.
