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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Black Cauldron
Message-ID: <594@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 18:44:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 18:44:51 1985
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <3037@nsc.UUCP> chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>
>Disney needed to work harder at the characterizations. With the exclusion
>of the young boy here (also known as the Klutz with the Golden Heart) and
>the funny looking thing called Gurgie (also known as the Ewok Clone -- keep
>an eye on toy stores for this one, folks...) I didn't care about anyone in
>the film.

	Well, not exactly a clone, since the character is in the
books, which came out *long* before Star Wars.(Tho he may not have
been *quite* so cute in the books)

>The 'princess' was especially bad -- she reminded me more of
>Wendy or Princess Leia than anything else, and seemed badly out of place.

	Actually, as I remember the books, the Princess *was/is* a lot
like Princess Leia, so this is probably the place they remain most
faithful to the books!

>
>One of the fairy folk, also, looked suspiciously like Peter Pan. In
>general, all of the fairy folk drove me up the wall -- I kept making snide
>'Wendy-bird' comments throughout every scene they were in. They were just
>TOO cute for my taste -- stolen from both "Peter Pan" and "Fantasia"
>simultaneously, they seem to have gotten the worst of both...
>
	This is in fact really unfortunate since the fairie-folk
in the books were more of the "little people"/"leprechaun" type
rather than the cutesy winged sprite type. Oh Welll.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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