Tarantino

[Joe Allonby]

That's why they call me the Master of Digression.
At any rate, just riffing on the low art/high art thing that seems to
figure so prominently in TRP's work and is one of the things that
attracts me to it in the first place. I'll put the soap box away now.
We didn't find Disney funny over here either. It was just "safe" for
kids what with "Zippity Doo Dah" and those crows in "Dumbo". Oops,
different soap box.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:
> Oi Vey! What have I started?!
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> Great stuff on RoadRunner/ACME/WWII Joe.
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> But in my original Tarantino post, all I said was Pulp Fiction was about
> as *realistic* as [first thing that came into my head=] Bugs Bunny. I
> never said those cartoons weren't no good, Doc.
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> In fact I loved them as a kid and love them now and intend to make sure
> my son gets exposed to them in preference to the muck of Disney. Growing
> up in the UK, we never really got (in either sense) Donald Duck, Mickey
> Mouse etc., at least not as much as I imagine our American cousins did.
> I don't recall ever finding those Disney cartoons funny, whereas
> everybody over here loved Bugs, Road Runner, Tom & Jerry........
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