I tivoed the CBS Evening News today and just watched it. I caught a report about Warner Brothers extreme makeover of Bugs Bunny. Warner's proposes to turn the wascally wabbit into some kind of crimefighting "INCREDIBLES"-like (only not as good) hipster figure along with all the other immortal Looney Tunes characters.
The powers that be at Time-Warner should take the people at Warner's animation who thought this up and summarily fire every one of them. This was reported in this morning's Wall Street Journal as well. If this isn't a mistake on the order of the Coca Cola makeover of several years ago, I don't know what is. I can tell you I was just sickened by it. And this isn't just nostalgia either. Those Warner characters have lots of life left in them, if the idiots at Warner's knew how to use them.
No doubt some will be found who will rise to Warner's defense in this dubious enterprise, but yours truly will not be among them. Sometimes you just have to wonder who these people are that make these nutty decisions. In the past, animators brought Bugs and friends into fine-tuned versions of themselves that was, in my opinion, perfected in the 1950s. But this is radical and just destructive of wonderful intellectual property.
If it's not broke, don't fix it.
Please excuse the rant.
Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.net
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