From: Simon Palmer <simon-AT-illustrated-history.net> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:00:46 +0000 To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] FANTASTIC MR. FOX On 14 Nov 2009, at 12:23, serendipitypuppets-AT-googlemail.com wrote: > One of his pet gripes was how,'the bloody yanks' had won every war > since Cromwell but were never in any of em!! Seems like your grandfather forgot that small post-Cromwellian skirmish, the American War of Independence. I'm pretty sure they had a hand in winning that... But I think Michael's post referred to Fantastic Mr. Fox rather than War Horse. My understanding is that the farmers are British (Michael Gambon, Robin Hurlstone, Hugo Guinness) and the animals are American, and why not? I'm not sure a badger has to have a British accent. It's a provocative point of differentiation to create an American underground beneath the British landscape; Wes Anderson is being half naive and half arch, not untypically. How much of what we call "quintessential Britishness" is really just a conventional overlay, an irritable skin, a little too tight and a little too thin. Perhaps there are alternative systems, rhizomatic developments, intensities and freedoms underneath our precious culture, one can certainly hope so... Poultry theft notwithstanding maybe we are being presented with an Animal War of Independence. I don't think Roald Dahl would necessarily have disapproved. _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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