Wallace and Grommit
April 22nd 2010 15:23
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Wallace and Grommit
Three Cracking Adventures!
Available on DVD and well worth watching more than once Wallace and Grommit.
I find Wallace and Grommit completely endearing because the animation is virtually secondary to the storytelling, and yet obviously, the animation is fundamental to the actual experience. Nick Park the animator is a bit of a genius as far as I can tell. These quaint characters are so real, I buy into their world quite easily; just like watching Family Guy or The Flintstones, they're fabulously alive in their worlds and easy to enjoy.
The simplicity of the storytelling is fantastic. Information is conveyed through images most of the time, actual dialogue is relatively rare. It requires the watching and being engaged to communicate its ideas fully. No wonder the original A Grand Day Out is such a well loved animation. The quality of capturing story is done so well.
The lovable characters from 62 West Wallaby Street are so well defined. The silent Grommit delivering some of the funniest moments imaginable while his master Wallace is total magic. Wallace is so simply English, loving his cheese and looking for a bank holiday experience like no other. Instead of heading for the supermarket (it would be closed on a bank holiday wouldn't it?) He heads to that place that we all know is made of cheese.
Building your own rocket and taking it off through your house was Nick Park's initial story idea.
The story developed beautifully after that. There are so many wonderful moments in this animation. Tossing a ball up on the moon and waiting for it to land back in the hand is a great moment of character, and descriptive conceit - yes, there is no gravity - yes they do not need helmets they are Wallace and Grommit, and this is their world.
The thinking (channelling) note taking, weapon wielding, robot stove on wheels who longs to ski the alps, and has such great character and determination it fights to escape, away with our heroes.
The sad moment when the stove so desperately tries to climb the ladder, or when it is expelled from the rocket, like the alien when ever it has been expelled by Ripley. Well in the original anyway, and to a lesser degree in Aliens. But I digress. I can only give a huge thumbs up to these wonderful characters from this fabulous world.
Thanks to Roadshow, the first few emails received from blog readers in South Australia can collect a copy of three Wallace and Grommit Adventures. A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave all on one DVD. Just compose your message the Moderator here including your name and postal address.
Roadshow and BBC present on DVD
The Lost World of Communism
Documentary series on the fall of the Iron Curtain and its legacy.
1989 marked the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and an end to a way of life for millions of people. Having lived through extraordinary times, they tell their stories of life behind the Iron Curtain, looking beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political repression, to reveal a rich tapestry of experience.
In Czechoslovakia, attempts to reform communism were brutally crushed in an invasion by Warsaw Pact allies in 1968. Hard-line rule, known as 'normalisation', was reimposed, where reformers were removed, reforms reversed and history rewritten. The country became known as The Kingdom of Forgetting.
Three Cracking Adventures!
Available on DVD and well worth watching more than once Wallace and Grommit.
I find Wallace and Grommit completely endearing because the animation is virtually secondary to the storytelling, and yet obviously, the animation is fundamental to the actual experience. Nick Park the animator is a bit of a genius as far as I can tell. These quaint characters are so real, I buy into their world quite easily; just like watching Family Guy or The Flintstones, they're fabulously alive in their worlds and easy to enjoy.
The lovable characters from 62 West Wallaby Street are so well defined. The silent Grommit delivering some of the funniest moments imaginable while his master Wallace is total magic. Wallace is so simply English, loving his cheese and looking for a bank holiday experience like no other. Instead of heading for the supermarket (it would be closed on a bank holiday wouldn't it?) He heads to that place that we all know is made of cheese.
Building your own rocket and taking it off through your house was Nick Park's initial story idea.
The story developed beautifully after that. There are so many wonderful moments in this animation. Tossing a ball up on the moon and waiting for it to land back in the hand is a great moment of character, and descriptive conceit - yes, there is no gravity - yes they do not need helmets they are Wallace and Grommit, and this is their world.
The thinking (channelling) note taking, weapon wielding, robot stove on wheels who longs to ski the alps, and has such great character and determination it fights to escape, away with our heroes.
The sad moment when the stove so desperately tries to climb the ladder, or when it is expelled from the rocket, like the alien when ever it has been expelled by Ripley. Well in the original anyway, and to a lesser degree in Aliens. But I digress. I can only give a huge thumbs up to these wonderful characters from this fabulous world.
Thanks to Roadshow, the first few emails received from blog readers in South Australia can collect a copy of three Wallace and Grommit Adventures. A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave all on one DVD. Just compose your message the Moderator here including your name and postal address.
Roadshow and BBC present on DVD
The Lost World of Communism
Documentary series on the fall of the Iron Curtain and its legacy.
1989 marked the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and an end to a way of life for millions of people. Having lived through extraordinary times, they tell their stories of life behind the Iron Curtain, looking beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political repression, to reveal a rich tapestry of experience.
In Czechoslovakia, attempts to reform communism were brutally crushed in an invasion by Warsaw Pact allies in 1968. Hard-line rule, known as 'normalisation', was reimposed, where reformers were removed, reforms reversed and history rewritten. The country became known as The Kingdom of Forgetting.
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