Pirates As Puppets
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beamjockeyA few weeks ago we went to see The Pirates!* (the exclamation point is part of the title).
I have enjoyed many superb stop-motion films from Aardman Animations, notably the Wallace and Gromit series. Most of them I have watched more than once. They were all quite funny. Nevertheless, they were missing something.
What I hadn't realized, until now, is that none of them featured a scene where characters posing as scientists bluff their way through delivering a lecture at the Royal Society in London.
Laughed my head off.
(It was all the funnier for the many hours I have spent listening to podcasts of history-of-science lectures at the Royal Society.)
See it.
*Officially known by two rather lame titles, The Pirates! Band of Misfits in 3D or The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!. Let's just shorten it to two words for now.
I have enjoyed many superb stop-motion films from Aardman Animations, notably the Wallace and Gromit series. Most of them I have watched more than once. They were all quite funny. Nevertheless, they were missing something.
What I hadn't realized, until now, is that none of them featured a scene where characters posing as scientists bluff their way through delivering a lecture at the Royal Society in London.
Laughed my head off.
(It was all the funnier for the many hours I have spent listening to podcasts of history-of-science lectures at the Royal Society.)
See it.
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Date: 2012-05-29 02:18 am (UTC)Six half-hour episodes that have Wallace & Gromit as "hosts", but then segments done in live-action, about real inventors, current day and historical.
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Date: 2012-05-29 03:17 am (UTC)