Computer Animation Arts

More Death Of The Author fun and games here as the seemingly irreconcilable worlds of Breaking Bad and Frozen are mashed together to comic - and strangely moving - effect.  In a previous post, I suggested how Disney might be 'queered' in terms of the meanings ascribed it by audiences , and here, the original intent of two distinct texts are again re-enscribed for parodic effect.

Okay, so, back in 1982, John Carpenter (dir. of horror smash, Halloween ) remade The Thing From Another World (1951), and so unleashed some pretty amazing non-cg special effects set-pieces in which dogs turned inside out and disembodied heads sprouted legs.  This was the film that got the playground buzzing in terms of its extreme gore and 'out there' creature design.  A prequel to the film is due for release very soon, but it appears to this jaded viewer, that The Thing 2011 is just the The Thing '82 all over again - but with cg augmentation probably undoing all that was properly visceral and grisly about Rob Bottin's extraordinary puppets...   Anyway, this postmodernism-themed post could be about the continuing slow death of the avant-garde in terms of film-making as Hollywood stagnates in a perpetual 'nostalgia mode', as it seeks only to remake and revisit its own back-catalogue, as the levers of capitalism demand bums on seats over...

A 'Premake' trailer for Pixar's UP , which seeks to suggest that the 2009 animated film you know and love was 'originally' made in 1965 with Spencer Tracy...  How postmodern (but more on this later!).