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Film, no. Series though? Arguably Speed Racer.

oh that’s a point. i’ve seen some of the race sequences in that and they were really striking and cool. kinda reminded me of Redline back over in animation land. I’ve not seen the original Speed Racer though.

bowtochris replied to your post “has there ever been a good live action adaptation of an animated film?...”

I didn't see it, but wasn't Maleficent supposed to be good?

I’ve not either, but it’s plausible...

I guess the thing is that you can’t just try to tell the same story but now with live action. You have to do something new, that plays to the strengths of the new medium.

experimentalmeowsiclesbian replied to your post “has there ever been a good live action adaptation of an animated film?...”

it's almost like form and content aren't actually separable

why are violins inherent in the cistern why is that a joke

Oh, you haven’t heard this one?

OK, well you already know the punchline, but...

One day, Friedrich Engels goes to his fancy new bathroom (this is the Victorian era, they’ve only just reinvented indoor plumbing), and is amazed to hear that when he flushes, an orchestra plays a beautiful melody. He checks inside, and can’t see anything but the expected water, and he goes away baffled.

The next time he goes to the toilet, Engels checks around outside, looks on the street in case there’s any music performers, taps on the porcelain... nothing. But when he flushes, there it is again - a violin concerto, the moment he flushes!

The next day, Karl Marx comes round, busy developing the manuscript that will become Capital. Marx is expounding on the tendency for the rate of profit to fall and the implications this has for the long term stability of the capitalist system, but he can tell Engels’s heart isn’t in it. He asks his friend to explain, but Engels is reluctant... but after a bit of coaxing, he admits this strange phenomenon.

“I’ll be the laughing stock of the International Workingmens’ Association!” he says. “Am I hearing things? Is my toilet haunted?”

Marx looks at him and laughs.

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I love that jazz musicians sometimes actually did this, like u listen to so what on miles in Berlin and its literally twice as fast as on kind of blue completely different mood

The body makes like no difference to the sound of a fully electric guitar so you could just make one out of whatever strong material you like