Experiment gone wrong

[pasithea]

Last night, I decided to test a new idea. My experiments can be a little iffy at times, but I think this one went well outside the realms of sanity and I learned things that I think mankind was never meant to know...

I have two monitors and two DVD players... So I played 'Fritz the Cat' and 'The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat' side by side and.... Wow... The horror. What I learned is this: Ralph Bakshi's film was better animated, more coherent, less rotoscoped, and less offensive than 'Nine Lives'. Let me repeat that: RALPH BAKSHI'S FILM WAS COMPLETELY SUPERIOR. And now I must live with this knowledge.

Comments

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

Wasn't the whole 'Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat' so bad that Crumb killed off the character because of it?

[idragosani.livejournal.com]

Never seen the sequel, but love the original, which was before Bakshi started doing any rotoscoping, as far as I recall.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

All of Bakshi's features are failures. But they're amazingly noble failures.

Also, when he was hanging around Spümcø, he was talking about doing a Fritz sequel. There are probably still some of Vince's sketches for "Fritz The Cat On The Road" hanging around a storage space somewhere. It was starting to turn into a funny-animal adaptation of Kerouack's "On The Road"...

[paka.livejournal.com]

I think it made actually watching either film so impossible that it was easier to just pick up on stuff being there. The thing that struck me this time watching Fritz the Cat, or only-vaguely-watching, is that those watercolor backgrounds of NYC are utterly beautiful. I wonder if Bakshi painted them himself, because he's quite a good painter. I also kind of think Bakshi is basically an optimist, and it comes through here - where Nine Lives was a lot more bleak and the mockery was less gentle.

'Course the other thing is that if I'm going to actually notice parts of a movie, it helps to not drink half a bottle of vodka.