Mark Steyn has written an excellent school composition (scroll down) on the subject of the recent animated films Corpse Bride and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Any high school teacher would surely give him an "A" for the way he discusses the stylistic and socio-economic similarities and differences of the two works As a review, however, it fails to tell me whether I would enjoy watching either of them so in that regard the article is a failure.
I am not put off by the presence of class as a topic. Given England's relatively stratified society class issues have been a mainstay of their entertainment industry. One of our all-time favorite classic films is about how a group of working class Ladies Who Do afterhours office cleaning defeat a dastardly developer so wealthy that he even has a phone in his motorcar.
Posted by triticale at November 5, 2005 07:18 AM | TrackBack