Bad Storytelling

[Oscar Quill <stonebugdotnet@yahoo.com>]

--- ELurio@aol.com wrote:
> 
> As one of the directors of the film said when the
> film came out last 
> spring:"Dinosaurs didn't speak english either. Big
> Deal."


May have been, but since the dinos weren't wearing
clothes or listening to Jazz or going to jobs, either,
I have to chalk that comment up to poor grounding in
basic storytelling skills.

Not there's no shortage of _that_ in the animation
film industry.  But it is surprising to hear something
like that come from someone who works for Disney.

The lips...not a problem.  The're there for a
_reason_.  The grass... isn't justified at all.  More
green in a scene can be accomplished by any number of
contemporary flora.  While I don't think the film can
really hold a candle to something (say) like Watership
Down, it's instructive for animating storytellers to
notice that there were no details in WD that _weren't_
there for a reason.

But then, this is pretty off-topic.  Mea culpa.

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