April 08, 2012
Esquisse de printemps
With really terrible hiss because something is wrong with my setup but I can't bring myself to invest the time to figure out what.
Nice day today. Making up music like this is almost, but not quite, a substitute for actually going outside. I'm going to go outside now.
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January 04, 2012
Disney Canon #37: Tarzan (1999)
MIKE The storyline seemed very similar to Avatar.
ADAM It's true. It felt like an archetype.
BROOM In that he leads the bad guys to the secret place in the forest and betrays his tribe. But here he is one of the tribe, unlike in Avatar. Avatar is more interesting than this.
BETH I thought this was pretty dull, except that the action sequences were well done.
ADAM Oh, come on. Come on, everyone! Didn't this touch your heart?
BETH Not that much.
ADAM No?
BROOM This was like my least favorite in a while. That's where I'm coming from.
ADAM What? What??
BROOM I was sleepier this time than usual, but yes.
BETH It looked like you were about to fall asleep for most of it.
BROOM I was waiting for something to be meaningful to me but it felt totally synthetic.
ADAM I was very touched by the rank sentimentality of this movie.
BETH I think it must be your mood or something.
BROOM The opening, the stuff about his parents dying, I was willing to take that as something. But all the Sonic The Hedgehog stuff, I felt distant from it.
BETH I enjoyed the Sonic The Hedgehog stuff! That was fun to watch.
ADAM I mean, like... yes, we keep seeing the same movie over and over again, everyone, that's true. In Pocahontas, she went away with him at the end, but basically the same concept.
BETH I actually liked the woman here; I thought that she had...
ADAM She had a goofy personality.
BETH And she looked kind of like Maggie Gyllenhaal.
MIKE But aren't their weird button noses and pointed chins some kind of... bizarre Anglo-beauty?
ADAM They felt anime-ish.
BROOM They felt comic book fetish-ized, to me. Which is another way of saying the same thing.
ADAM But I enjoy that.
BROOM This one had more of that skeevy geek-sex veneer on it than any of them.
BETH Because of how Tarzan looked?
BROOM You know, there are certain lines on the physique that don't really exist in real life, but they exist in people's sex-minds. Something about the way his legs met his body wasn't anatomically realistic but it certainly had fetish value. And that skeeves me. And the whole thing, even the Sonic The Hedgehog stuff, it's got this amped-up synthetic quality.
ADAM I frankly enjoyed his unnatural physique. Finally the shoe was on the other foot, gender-wise.
BROOM But I'm saying the same thing about her. Her design also tweaked in a direction that doesn't have anything to do with "character."
BETH She almost looked more anime than other Disney characters. Her eyes were way too big.
ADAM She does continue the tradition of Disney heroines who are very much unlike their squat-nosed, bizarre fathers.
BROOM Yeah, what a terrible character the father was. Adam, isn't this the movie about which those self-righteous people in [college dormitory] said "Can you believe they wanted to cast Chris Rock? And he was like 'No way man, no way am I playing a monkey!' They just don't get it! Can you believe how insensitive Disney is?" And you and I said, "as the Rosie O'Donnell part? It would have been exactly the same with Chris Rock. It has nothing to do with race." Who played Kerchak?
BETH I wondered that too. But I missed it.
ADAM Not a black man.
BROOM And was the mother Glenn Close?
BETH Glenn Close??
BROOM That's what I think I read in the DVD info.
BETH Okay, I believe it.
ADAM Well, it does kind of have to do with race. In the way that Dances With Wolves did. Like, it's sort of weird that this charismatic white man can become the leader of these, you know, apes, just because of his awesomeness.
BROOM Well, it doesn't even feel right on the movie's terms. How can he be the dominant male? We were making jokes about it because it doesn't make any sense.
ADAM He is obviously not stronger than the other males in the band.
BROOM I haven't read Tarzan or seen any prior Tarzan movies, but isn't the story that he does go back to England, and lives between both worlds?
ADAM But then it would be hard to have the villain character.
BROOM Well, they made up this stupid villain character. I'm saying this is a much less interesting story.
ADAM Isn't this also the story of The Jungle Book, by the way?
MIKE Mowgli.
BROOM Yeah, that's right. He's raised by wolves.
BETH And then he meets that girl.
BROOM Exactly — he goes to live with the humans, which is what he's supposed to do. The Jungle Book is much better than this.
ADAM I found the Phil Collins score extremely effective and touching.
BROOM I certainly thought he did a better job than Elton John.
BETH It was very restrained. They didn't overdo "musical numbers" at all; there really weren't any.
ADAM There were like five.
BROOM I think "Trashing the Camp" is pretty awful.
ADAM As a musical number.
BROOM Clearly someone was like, "They can do 'Stomp'! It can be like that great show 'Stomp'!" Yeah, it makes a lot of sense to do that in animation.
BETH The music just wasn't as cheesy as it usually is.
BROOM Because it wasn't Alan Menken and it wasn't Elton John.
ADAM And it did feel very period.
BROOM I thought the songs were actually not bad. "You'll Be In My Heart" is actually not a bad song.
ADAM "I Wanna Know": also a song that I have caught myself singing many times.
BROOM I thought that sequence was okay, even though it didn't make sense that they were teaching him about all these things when he had no human language at all.
ADAM Did you enjoy it, Mike? Did you not enjoy it?
MIKE It was okay.
ADAM Could you elaborate?
MIKE I wouldn't rent it again.
BETH We won't.
BROOM I thought — especially at the beginning; I think it actually got better later — that the editing pace had been goosed up significantly from where it had been, in a way that numbs me.
BETH You felt like it was more our current era?
BROOM Yeah, I felt like it leapt forward into that sense of, like... and I was thinking, "Is this because I've gotten a chip on my shoulder about this issue and I'm sensitized to it?" but, you know, I'd seen this before and it just went in one ear and out the other, and I think it's going to do that this time too. And it has something to do with that. When the visual gets so stylized and the cutting gets so fast, it just starts be like a wash of... stuff.
ADAM We were watching a trailer today for Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, which we considered seeing today.
BROOM I gather it's very bad.
ADAM And it's cut like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Like, there's a lot of, like, a gun fires and then there's like fwoooosh! [indicating awesome camera motion]. And this does have a complement of that.
BROOM This was like that. It was cut like a trailer. It has that kinetic...
ADAM Because we're too bored to just watch a movie.
BROOM I use this word "fetish" all the time, and I need more words for this, but there's just this way of dealing with the surface as surface, and that's the level of interest. The early Disney movies — you think of Dumbo and the love of his mother, which is the same thing they were going for here — that's all about feelings and the characters, where this just felt like it was about a "look and feel."
ADAM I would like to stand up for this movie, because I enjoyed it very much at the time; it was one of my favorites of the nineties ones, and still is. Even though it is a little sentimental — but they're all a little bit sentimental. Even though it's a little bit archetypal — but they all are.
BROOM I don't object to the sentimentality. I would rather they'd have laid that on thick, because that would have been something. But the elephant, and Rosie O'Donnell...
ADAM You just hate sidekicks.
BROOM I do hate sidekicks. And the conflict with Kerchak? None of that meant anything to me; it all seemed really to be about whoosh! whoosh! boof! chh! whoosh! When the gorilla went up into the treehouse at the beginning, and we see that it's all ruined, I was almost going to ask, "did we already see what happened here? Were we supposed to already know that this is what she was going to find?" We've only been watching the movie for two minutes, and I already don't know whether I'm missing information, because it's all been this quick cutting...
BETH Well, it's a montage. That whole opening was a montage.
BROOM But like a trailer. A fast montage where you just get a sort of general impression.
ADAM So the movie was too complex for you.
BROOM I thought that! I thought: this very fast montage technique, either it's a high-intellectual art sort of thing, or it's something where you're just supposed to space out. In music videos where that style was popularized in the eighties, you weren't supposed to be having individual thoughts like "oh, now they're singing in that room again! — oh, now it's that fish tank again! —" It's just stuff, and you sort of roll with it.
BETH Yeah, but you know, music videos were much slower than this.
BROOM That's true too. This was even faster. It just makes me glaze over, and then they sort of designed the movie so that it doesn't matter if you glaze over.
BETH So you think this was the beginning of a trend, of that.
BROOM Yeah.
ADAM Well, I'm sorry everyone.
BROOM It's really pretty. The production was really, really high quality.
BETH The background illustrations were among the best we've seen.
BROOM Technically really good.
BETH Yeah. Except for the faces. I didn't think the faces were good.
ADAM The villainy could have been a little more complex, I'll grant you that. Like, couldn't they tell that he was a bad dude from the beginning? Evidently not.
BROOM And the jokes. And everything.
ADAM Is Avatar really a better movie than this? Or is it just a prettier movie than this?
BROOM I think Avatar is a more interesting story if you're going to follow the story, because the guy is sent in and has to learn the ways of the native culture, and then he's conflicted when he betrays them because he's made himself be of two worlds. Whereas here it's just dumped on him.
ADAM Well that really is more Dances With Wolves than this.
BROOM And Avatar had a bunch of distinct sequences to it. It had the part where he learned to fly on a dragon bird...
ADAM This had the montage where he learns to, like, use vines.
BETH That was the montage when he grew up, right?
BROOM And it had a very long fight with a leopard. And you started looking at your phone —
BETH Sorry.
BROOM And I thought, "When she looks up, I'm going to call her out and ask her, Beth, how did the leopard die?" But you looked at your phone for four minutes, and when you looked back, he was still fighting the leopard. You didn't miss anything. I couldn't even throw it back at you, because you were right, it was a waste of our time.
MIKE This movie came out in '99. Economically the modes of production are shifting pretty dramatically. And you have the internet, and media companies thinking about convergence. And I gotta think there was something about this that we're not getting. Like, there was a video game series already built into this, or it was an internet play. There was something about this that was a commercial —
BROOM Well, a Broadway show was supposed to have been built into this, because of the success of Lion King and Beauty and the Beast. And they tried it, eventually. It happened. It just didn't do as well as those.
BETH It has video game characteristics.
BROOM I thought cause-and-effect there went the other way. I'm not kidding about Sonic The Hedgehog; that's where that comes from. But as for franchise potential... I mean, since Aladdin they'd been making video games when they made the movies. Maybe even earlier.
MIKE I guess the internet is the thing that I would think had some influence. I don't know, it's just interesting.
ADAM Disney is, of course, now 0 for 2 on movies set in Africa featuring black people.
BROOM What is 1?
ADAM The Lion King.
MIKE I thought The Lion King was a home run.
ADAM There's no black people in The Lion King either.
BETH Oh, oh, I see what you're saying.
BROOM His mother was black, right?
ADAM Well, she's voiced by a black woman.
MIKE Why can't Disney, the company, be coming out with different formats for around the world? Like, why aren't they producing an Indian-ized animated film, and an Asian one...
ADAM Like an Aladdin set in Asia?
MIKE Yeah.
[we read the New York Times review]
ADAM He does have a striking physique for someone who presumably was raised on insects and fruit.
BROOM Kerchak was Lance Henriksen. And it was Wayne Knight as the elephant. We were just asking what happened to him.
ADAM They know better than to cast Morgan Freeman as the head ape.
BROOM It was pretty, you know. But so is Bambi.
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December 30, 2011
There is no audience
When I started posting material to this site in 2005, it was a very particular psychological exercise for me: see if you can keep thinking what you think when you're alone, but now in sight of whatever readers happen to wander in; dare to disregard the difference between being seen and being unseen. The objective was to start to inure my terminally shy private mind to public exposure, feed it on scraps of validation, and maybe even finally nurture it into something sturdy enough to carry out in the Light Of Day.
Well, over these six and a half years I have failed utterly. Instead of learning that being naked is no shame, my skin has spontaneously calloused itself into some kind of awful leathery clothes, completely dead and numb — even, to my horror, when I'm alone. This despite the fact that my audience here has consisted, essentially, only of the people closest to me and most supportive of me in my life. The Light Of Day will never never be so kind and mild as my reception here has been. And yet all the same here I am, backslid beyond my least wild dreams.
I'm not saying that maintaining this blog has done anything negative to me — I'm just saying that for all my good intentions, I did not, in fact, allow myself to receive the intended exercise and benefit in the way I needed. I did not follow the fear. I knew that my objective was to learn to stop worrying and love the bomb, but my intuition led me astray by telling me that this demanded some kind of bravado.
Bravado is the enemy of real courage, which is to say the strength to experience fear and do nothing about it. To be brave is to retain all one's faculties in the presence of fear because one does not misuse any of them in combating it.
(The notions of "courage" and "bravery" as generally invoked are actually pretty vague and muddled and this has long been a point of confusion for me. It occurs to me now that maybe this is because everyone everywhere "has issues," so I'm defining them as I like.)
The process of inuring myself to that which embarrasses me will by definition entail being constantly embarrassed, and I ought rightly to have my hands tied from doing anything about it. Unfortunately the "hands" in question are little neural hands inside my head that can slither out of the tightest knots, not just like Houdini but like Droopy Dog being locked in a safe inside a safe inside a safe inside a safe and then walking in the front door. "Hello." It's Toontown up there.
But I think I've learned a thing or two recently about what it really means to shiver in the cold rather than grow nightmare clothes (which here are, per the previous image, clothes one grows in a nightmare and clothes one grows to protect oneself from a nightmare), and I think I finally know which path through the Tulgey Wood takes me to that sad little rock where I can be good and lonely. ("I give myself very good advice / but I very seldom follow it.") Edifyingly lonely.
The fine line for me, here, is between writing for myself but feeling subconsciously that there might be some magic audience out there that will receive it... and writing for a real audience but striving always to be true to myself, striving against the suffocating expanse of their difference from me.
The latter seems smart and clear but entails an endless and ultimately debilitating struggle that I am now trying very hard to renounce. Mu that! The former is easy and joyful but requires faith in something akin to God. It is a balloon whose string I have let slip. But the ceiling may not be all that high.
There is no magic audience, fine; there's no real audience either. Existentially speaking, I'm all alone in this and I can type whatever I want without fear or hope of that ever changing. If I get to choose what to believe in I'm going to choose magic over you people. My God, I feel pretty sure, is, as Gods go, pretty down to earth, and is surely at least as good a life coach as any of the people I turn to for advice. "Respect only thy ruling faculty and the divinity within thee," amen.
This site was supposed to be as big a mess as my old hard drive, but instead it has gradually become me trying harder and harder to "do justice to myself," a less honorable goal than it sounds. I know some sites that have collapsed completely from that kind of dry rot.
Well, that and the Disney things. Typing up those transcripts is for me the latest in a long personal tradition of simulacra of the creative act to which I am impulsively drawn at times when the soul is silent — a substitute teacher who in her sense of inadequacy puts on, ahem, a Disney movie, rather than try to teach. That said and acknowledged, I'm going to keep doing it.
Yeah, I bet you thought this was going to be some kind of sign-off, but it's not. More to come. More of the same! Hopefully more embarrassing, is all I'm saying.
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November 05, 2011
Disney Canon #36: Mulan (1998)
BETH It wasn't bad. It actually was fine.
ADAM It picked up a lot in the second half, I think.
BROOM Oh, I'm going to say that it was bad, and that in the second half I really lost my willingness to humor it.
ADAM Well, I thought at least things were happening in the second half that were not creaky Disney "I wanna get out of this place" setup.
BROOM I thought the "I wanna get out of this place" was a little forced, but I thought the basic premise of this movie was not necessarily mishandled. But after it became action sequences and denouement it was all completely fumbled. That's how I felt.
BETH Why?
BROOM As you said, Adam: six Huns survive the avalanche, and then hold all of China hostage by showing up at the victory celebration and grabbing the emperor — it doesn't make any sense. So the entire last act made no sense.
ADAM It was gripping.
BROOM It didn't make sense literally or emotionally. The amount that she saved the day in the first climax was no less than the amount that she saved them all again later, so the turnaround of "now we accept her and will change our sexist ways" at the end — but not after the avalanche — was totally undeserved. The story didn't earn us anything at any point after they got to the snow. And if the thing with the avalanche had been the climax of the whole movie, I would have rolled with it... but it was pretty stupid.
ADAM You have to admit it was pretty compelling when she moved the cannon suddenly off course, and you're like "What are you doing??"
BROOM You already know what she's doing, because you see her look up at the mountain.
ADAM I know — but if you didn't know that, though!
BROOM Up to there, I was like, "this movie has some things going for it," but after that I couldn't do it anymore.
BETH But I found all of the ridiculousness entertaining. Yes, compelling. Who cared?
ADAM Beth, give us the woman's point of view.
BROOM Yes, how did you feel about the feminism?
BETH I don't really think of myself as a feminist, so...
BROOM Why not?
BETH I just don't like the label. I'm a woman.
BROOM Do you think it's a feminist or a not-feminist joke, when the men are dressed up as women and he says "any questions?" and one says "does this dress make me look fat?"
BETH Non-feminist.
ADAM This movie is obviously responding to the criticism of all the Disney heroines. It's like, "Fine! You think that Disney heroines are passive princesses? Take that!"
BROOM She had almost no breasts at all.
ADAM And two parents!
BETH That's true. The mom was not very prominent, though, because they didn't know how to make a mom who was actually a nice person and well-rounded.
BROOM She was complicit in the subjugation-of-women sequence at the beginning. She was part of the problem.
BETH That's true, but she wasn't the evil stepmother, which is more of a character for Disney.
BROOM The matchmaker here.
BETH They have never done, like, the loving mother. Have they?
ADAM I think Bambi might have had a loving mother.
BROOM The fairy godmother.
BETH Yeah, Bambi, fine.
BROOM The Rescuers Down Under had a loving mother.
ADAM Dumbo had a loving mother.
BROOM Yeah! That's right. They, like, blew it out in 1941 and it's never gonna happen again.
ADAM This movie did seem a little calculated to appeal to both P.C. critics of their female characters and Asian markets.
BROOM I don't know that it appeals to Asian markets; it appeals to Asian interest groups.
ADAM They prepared it in part to be successful in overseas sales, like in China and Japan.
BROOM And was it? Moreso than the ones where the characters were not so ostensibly Asian?
ADAM I do not remember, but if I recall correctly, they took some care to actually choose, like, an authentic Chinese legend. Editor, check on that.
[Ed.: Yes, the legend is authentic, but I can't find anyone claiming that it was chosen as a business calculation. Apparently there was some hope at Disney that this movie might mend its relations with China, which had soured after the release of the Dalai Lama-adoring Kundun in 1997, which Disney distributed. China did eventually allow Mulan to be seen but it did not do well.]
BROOM It didn't seem authentically Chinese in any way; it seemed completely contrived.
ADAM Having a dragon named Mushu played by Eddie Murphy is a giveaway.
BROOM None of it felt natural. It was embarrassing if you paid attention to it, so we didn't. Right? Am I right?
ADAM The Chinese-ness?
BROOM Yeah.
ADAM Those ancestors really made me understand the concept of filial piety.
BROOM Why didn't the stone dragon come to life? It didn't make any sense.
BETH Why was it outside and they were inside?
ADAM Because it was so powerful.
BROOM And the... It was just all a crock of shit; there's no getting into it. Was this movie better than Pocahontas?
ADAM Yes. There was better character development. Mulan was a character that you actually believed in.
BROOM Yes, Mulan was more sympathetic than anyone in Pocahontas.
BETH It seemed like different things were happening than usually happen in Disney movies, and that's why I was okay with this movie.
BROOM Such as?
BETH Such as gray zombie Huns coming to life.
ADAM Well, that happened in The Black Cauldron.
BETH Well, that was a good one!
ADAM The fussbudget pseudo-villain was not as gay as normal. That was good.
BROOM Who? Oh right, the officious snaggletoothed guy.
BETH Not as gay. But there were still references.
ADAM That was certainly the hunkiest Asian man I've ever seen.
BETH Who was somehow completely awkward around women.
ADAM Well, he knows an army life.
BROOM Just to return to what was so terrible at the end: that the guys dressed up as women and shimmied up the poles like she had in training, and they played the music from before like it was all a callback, like it had all been leading up to this, which in no way was a payoff to any of those things. It was all forced.
BETH It just didn't bother me.
BROOM That last sequence, I just felt like there was nothing onscreen that I could care about. Except for flashing colors.
ADAM She wasn't that pretty. I mean, that was satisfying, right?
BROOM She was fairly pretty.
BETH She was pretty. Prettier than all the other marriage candidates.
ADAM And the other soldiers. But she was not prettier than, like, Cinderella.
BETH She was not the typical bombshell.
ADAM She was Asian.
BROOM I want you guys to say something along with me here — that to be accepting this shows that our standards have dropped exponentially.
BETH Oh, yeah! I can admit that. This is not good! This is not good.
ADAM Not as good as Dumbo.
BROOM How does this compare to The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
ADAM I thought The Hunchback of Notre Dame had a fearsome energy that redeemed its terribleness.
BROOM I thought The Hunchback of Notre Dame was mistaken from the get-go, and really terrible in lots of ways, but it was competent on some level that this lacked... Well, I mean, this was obviously "competent," as work...
BETH I thought the backgrounds were nice.
BROOM I thought the animation was generally nice.
BETH I thought the CGI was eh.
ADAM I think these might have been the most generic songs since The Fox and the Hound.
BROOM They were bad; they were very undistinguished. But that one that we've been singing since we first saw it is really fun.
ADAM [singing:] "I know why I..." I don't even remember the lyrics, but it sounds like every other Disney song.
BROOM [singing:] "Let's get down to business / to defeat / the Huns!" That's a terrible terrible song, but it's done with gusto.
ADAM [singing:] "Did they send me daughters / when I asked..."
BROOM Wait for it...
ADAM [singing:] "... for sons?" Yes.
BROOM And I actually kind of liked the "epic" musical cue when she makes the decision to go in her father's place.
BETH That weird synth thing?
BROOM Yeah, with like an 80s synth going.
BETH I thought that was cool too, but it seemed strange.
BROOM The movie several times had moments that were like comic book, like, "YESSSSS!" Like that 80s music...
ADAM The Hun punching through the snow! And the roof.
BROOM And the way the "I'll Make a Man Out of You" sequence was directed, with a lot of awesome sword-swiveling.
BETH It was like Karate Kid, a little bit.
BROOM It seemed like it had some real geeks working on the animation staff.
ADAM Think about the songs for a second; think only back to Beauty and the Beast. In Beauty and the Beast there are at least three songs that we can all sing happily and that are pretty good. Even the notes of these songs were generic and bad.
BETH Just hearing us try to sing that song, none of us could find a note to actually sing.
BROOM I don't know how they ended up with this Matthew Wilder guy.
ADAM "Mysterious as the dark side of the moon!" Can you sing any other song from it?
BETH I won't be able to sing that one tomorrow.
BROOM [faking:] "Do your parents proud and marry a man, man, man!"
ADAM Can you sing "A Girl Worth Fighting For?" That was the most weirdly generic of all of them.
BROOM They were like, "You know that song the guys sing in South Pacific? They should sing that."
ADAM At that point, why even do a musical?
BROOM Well, exactly. "Why even do" many of the things they did. Why put comedy in this movie? It didn't feel like they thought it was funny. It was the worst comedy yet.
ADAM It was just the most half-assed.
BROOM I thought even the slapstick, which doesn't have to necessarily involve writers, was terrible.
ADAM I thought it was funny when the cricket confesses that he's not lucky, and Eddie Murphy asks the horse, "what are you, a sheep?" That's pretty funny.
BROOM I'm not going to say "pretty funny." I thought the first time he called it a cow for no reason was a little funny. Then he did it four more times.
ADAM Eddie Murphy clearly giggling all the way to the bank on this one.
BETH It seemed like he was enjoying himself.
BROOM Really? I think he walked to the bank stony-faced.
ADAM Do you think he was prouder of this than Norbit?
BROOM I don't think pride enters into his equation these days.
BETH What about twelve years ago?
BROOM I think he has other stuff going on in his life.
BETH Tower Heist?
ADAM This movie's just not that memorable.
BETH No, but I wasn't constantly looking at how much time had elapsed, which is always my indicator.
ADAM I was a little at the beginning.
BETH Yeah, maybe for the first fifteen minutes I was.
BROOM I never look at the clock. I find hating these things pretty occupying. I never think, "let it be over with!" I'm watching it the whole time, thinking about it the whole time, but it was pretty negative. So I think Pocahontas was worse than this, but...
ADAM Pocahontas was boring. This was just kind of a journeyman effort.
BETH Can we rank the last five?
BROOM They were Hercules, Hunchback, Pocahontas, and then The Lion King, which I think we agree was better. So just those four post-Lion King.
BETH So then it would be Hercules, Hunchback, this, and then Pocahontas.
BROOM I agree with that.
ADAM Clearly. And what's next, Tarzan?
BROOM Yes.
ADAM I think Tarzan is great!
BROOM Because he has the biggest pecs.
ADAM You thought Hercules was muscular! I think also Rosie O'Donnell is in Tarzan.
(we read the New York Times review)
BETH Wow, that is harsh.
BROOM But right!
BETH Yeah, but it just doesn't seem worth it.
ADAM Come on, Janet.
BETH I just didn't dislike it as much as that.
ADAM It was fine.
BROOM I respect you two for continuing to do this.
(yes, this is really the last frame of the movie!)
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