Horton Hears A Who

[filkertom]

Hopeful. It had 82% so far this morning at Rotten Tomatoes.

You can also watch Chuck Jones' version, starring Hans Conried and June Foray.

Comments

[tony-goldmark.livejournal.com]

Making it animated is certainly a step in the right direction - if nothing else, the visuals look spot-on and if you like you can probably shut your ears from the references and just stare in admiration.

But the references still hinder Geisel's muse.

Okay, open letter to Hollywood - here's what I propose for the next big-screen Seuss adaptation: an entire feature film where ALL the dialogue is in Seussian rhyme. Let's face it, you can't adapt Seuss without preserving SOME of the rhyme schemes, and switching from rhyming to not rhyming to back again is just kind of weird (why suddenly break into rhyming in the middle of rhymeless dialogue?) To me, it just doesn't feel like SEUSS if it doesn't rhyme. Sure it'd be a challenge, but I know a great many rhymers extraordinaire who'd be up to it - and maybe you could have long stretches of the film with NO dialogue at all, just fun cartoonish action.

The first story I recommend to adapt with this method? "The Lorax." Green is getting sexier by the minute, people. You better cash in before the planet is SAVED already and we don't have to worry anymore :P

Get back to me.

Sincerely,
The Internet.