Eccentric Flower talk:201008/Just a Note
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Um. What did I say here that invoked Toni Braxton? I'm lost.
-- 19:55, 26 August 2010 (BST)
Iain:
It was just that phrase "when I can breathe again". I really and truly do not know why it made her song of the same title come up in my head; it's not like I haven't heard that phrase or something similar before without getting earwormed. But somehow, this time, there it was. Complete with hoop skirts.
-- 23:50, 26 August 2010 (BST)
Looking forward to receiving your postcard from the singularity.
-- 17:52, 27 August 2010 (BST)
Yeah, just a note:
Thought you'd like to know I finally got around to watching The Three Caballeros. The human/animation mix is brilliant. This is why Mary Poppins has always been one of my favorite movies. Dick Van Dyke cracks me up, jumping across the animated stream on animated rocks. At the time, I didn't know it had been done before and was blown away. I can't find your previous post, but I recall your saying something about this technology not having been used again until much later than Mary Poppins, skipping MP entirely. Maybe I misread what you said. I remember being puzzled by it, at the time.
-- 16:56, 3 September 2010 (BST)
I think I said it wouldn't be duplicated at the same complexity and quality until Roger Rabbit. Obviously there's some basis for disputing that.
Personally, I think the live/animation mix scenes in Mary Poppins aren't as sophisticated or as tricky - basically they are the humans standing in front of a back-projection or a bluescreen of the cartoon, and not shaking hands or doing partnered dancing with the animated chars (or tossing them into the air in a beach blanket, and so on).
I admit to some bias; I think the cartoon sequences in Mary Poppins are the weakest bits of the film (you understand, I love that film dearly, so 'weakest' is relative).
-- 04:37, 4 September 2010 (BST)
Got it. I don't suppose I ever considered that there were weak parts to Mary Poppins. It's just enchanting. All of it. I'd say especially the music, but then I'd be admitting to relativity, wouldn't I... 8-P
-- 16:56, 4 September 2010 (BST)
Iain:
Sorry to hear you're so overwhelmingly busy. I can sort of relate.
Also, you have somehow for some reason earwormed me with Toni Braxton. I didn't even know I remembered that song. (I think perhaps it's the thing about her running in slow motion through a maze, while wearing a frothy princess gown with hoop skirts, which may or may not be apropos to your current situation.) (The maze, not the hoop skirts.)
-- 17:37, 26 August 2010 (BST)