So-called Speedy Gonzales movie
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:-(
This is from ComingSoon.net ...
Speedy Gonzales
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Release Date: TBA
Studio: New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Not Available
Screenwriter: Alec Sokolow, Joel Cohen
Starring: George Lopez
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Plot Summary:
New Line/Warner Bros. is developing a big screen version of
"Speedy Gonzales," to be voiced by George Lopez.
Garfield writers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen will adapt the
classic animated Looney Tunes character into a live-action/CG
hybrid feature. The movie will reportedly take place in present
day.
Speedy's going to be a misunderstood boy who comes from a
family that works in a very meticulous setting, and he's a little
too fast for what they do. He makes a mess of that. So he has
to go out in the world to find what he's good at. That path
becomes clearer once Speedy befriends a gun-shy race-car
driver.
Known as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico," there have been
46 cartoons made either starring or featuring the character.
Keeerrrraaaappppp!!!! :-(
Anim8rFSK
"Your Name" <your...@isp.com> wrote:
More:
Over the years, Speedy appeared in the live-action/animation features
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit," "Space Jam" and "Looney Tunes: Back in
Action." But the character has often courted criticism that the ethnic
characterizations of him and his compatriots (especially lazy cousin
Slowpoke Rodriguez) are stereotypically racist and severely outdated.
Aware of this, New Line and the producers plan to update the brand with
a modernized sensibility (it takes place in present day) under what Anne
Lopez calls George's "Latino seal of approval." (No need to throw fuel
on the fire that serves as an immigration debate in this country.)
"We wanted to make sure that it was not the Speedy of the 1950s -- the
racist Speedy," Anne Lopez said with a chuckle. "Speedy's going to be a
misunderstood boy who comes from a family that works in a very
meticulous setting, and he's a little too fast for what they do. He
makes a mess of that. So he has to go out in the world to find what he's
good at."
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The whole thing mystifies me. Speedy is racist? Why? Because he talks
in pigeon Spanish catchphrases? Or his outfit? If you get rid of
those, is there a character left? He's a boy, not a mouse??
Who's the target audience for this???
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the second half of the 1966 BATMAN series pilot when Jill St. John
as Molly as Robin as Molly fell into the Batmobile's atomic pile:
"What a terrible way to go-go"
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"Anim8rFSK" <ANIM...@cox.net> wrote in message
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> The whole thing mystifies me. Speedy is racist? Why?
Because people are becoming dumber and dumber with each passing generation.
:-(
> Because he talks in pigeon Spanish catchphrases? Or his outfit?
> If you get rid of those, is there a character left?
Nope. These days you can't have characterisations - it annoys the humourless
Politically Correct morons.
> He's a boy, not a mouse??
I told you - it's just the usual unrecognisable garbage hiding behind the
name of an old show. :-(
> Who's the target audience for this???
Mexicans?!? ;-)
The "target audience" is, as usual, the Hollyweird wallet at the expense of
yet another old show due to almost no creativity there these days. :-(
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
I recall reading somewhere that Speedy was quite popular in Central America
where the folks didn't mind seeing their Northern neighbors taken down
a peg or two..
OTOH, let's not pretend that Speedy was some great character. The
original shorts made under the Warner old-regime were not bad, but
then there were all those post-closure contracted out
Sylvester/Speedy/Daffy shorts that were not so hot...
Ted
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wrote:
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>The whole thing mystifies me. Speedy is racist? Why? Because he talks
>in pigeon Spanish catchphrases? Or his outfit? If you get rid of
>those, is there a character left? He's a boy, not a mouse??
>Who's the target audience for this???
Speedy is racist because he was done by white folks, and anything done
by white folks is racist, by definition.
Well, at least in some quarter, it is.
The /really/ interesting question is whether the film will include "La
Cucaracha" with all the words ... including the line that ends
"marijuana por fumar".
Somehow, I doubt it.
--
Nature must be explained in
her own terms through
the experience of our senses.
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I had another thought after logging off the Internet ... if "Speedy" is now
a silly boy instead of a talking mouse, why the {beep} are they using
CGI?!?!? Brains in Hollyweird - an oxy-moron like "Army Intelligence". :-\