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"They've got some lovely turnips over there," said Marge. She then spotted some man straining to drag one home. "On second thought, we'd better quit while we're ahead."Here we see the downsized gals taking advantage of the community garden...plenty of food here. The chili peppers are easier to carry, but are considered a deadly weapon at that size. This was the next idea that hit me in my "Downsizing" series; I sent my buddy kiff57krocker.deviantart.com/ a doodle of it, and we chatted about the scene in "Sleeper" with the giant vegetables www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfrShu… . If you're vegan, this is definitely the place to be.
Marge is the property of Matt Groening.
Lois is the property of Seth MacFarlane.
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In the valley of the jolly (haw,haw,haw) Caucasian Giant
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::chuckles:: you hardly hear that word Caucasian anymore. Used back in the day when flight attendants were still stewardesses, and Mastercard was still Mastercharge.
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This reminds me of a Mickey Mouse comic I had years ago - Mickey & Goofy visit an island, where the only thing the natives eat are bananas - day in, day out, nothing but bananas.
Judging by the sign, a foot is still a foot, but to the downsized people, means more like a decametre (about ten yards to you non-metrics).
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::chuckles:: I and one other friend are about the only ones that think that we should have gone to the metric system. We were supposed to go all metric in the United States around 1985, but it just sort of faded away and no one spoke of it again. We were even gearing up for it - highway signs were being posted in both miles and kilometers. We would have been totally acclimated to it by now. When my daughter was being taught metric in elementary school, I referred her to an old Midnight Oil song that says, "The Western Desert lives and breathes...in 45 degrees." I used it to teach her Celsius.
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It reminds me of the Merrie Melodies "Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk"! Really great work! Who's gigantic hand is that reaching into the scene there??
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I figured it might be one of the full-sized people running the garden, helping the residents out.
Oh there were several really good cartoons that inspired this; I studied stills from "Lumber Jack Rabbit" for this piece, mainly in the area of background.
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That was the other one I was thinking of! I just remember the Victory Garden in Jack-Wabbit and that made me think of this garden!
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Years ago I watched that with my daughter, and she loved the last line the giant made as he fell to Earth. "That last step is a doosie!"
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Hahaha!! Yes that is a great line! I still use that line from time to time and it always makes me think of that!
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Today's young kids won't know that the term comes from the really fancy car called a Duesenberg. So if you had something that was a "doosie," it was really something!
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Lift that bale! Tote that barge! Haul that carrot! It's good to see your doodle finally come to life, so to speak, here in your gallery. That one carrot alone could feed an entire miniaturized family for a month! Well done.
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Thanks! Sadly, I had to leave out the two guys trying to haul off the bell pepper.
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Yes, so I saw. Oh well, the picture in and of itself is still very cute and original.
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Well, it's required viewing for us fans of Futurama - it practically is a movie version of Futurama.
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Just the same, I won't be seeing "Downsizing," simply because the plot tends to go nowhere according to the reviews I've read from numerous film critics, including those from Rotten Tomatoes. And believe me, I love Futurama as much as you do.
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Well, like I noted before, I think most were expecting a different kind of movie. The theme of the film sort of promises this. If you go looking for "Guardians of the Galaxy" or "Fifth Element," you're in for a let down. As you can see by my cartoons, I really enjoy a lot of giant/tiny interaction - there isn't much of this in the film, except for bits here and there. I still enjoyed the film, as there were several notable performances by some good actors, but I'm glad I didn't spend the money to buy it or watch it in a theater. I think in this day of CG special effects, it would have been fun to see this go a different direction.
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Perhaps. As for me, I'll just content myself to looking at your giantism/miniaturization parodies, particularly those that lampoon Dr. Cyclops or Attack of the Puppet People or The Incredible Shrinking Man or Gulliver's Travels. You know, the classics. And perhaps, I may again venture into a gigantism scenario, although most likely it will involve my OCs facing a giant monster or some oversized human freak.
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All those were the classics. They go back to the days where they were just starting to realize what could be done with movie effects. Dr. Cyclops has some of the most amazing movie sets ever.
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True enough. And you do raise in interesting point: it never occurred to me that the character, Dr. Bullfinch, does somewhat resemble Lenin. And I agree with you, it's most likely a coincidence. Albert Dekker was superb as Dr. Thorkel. Indeed, he was superb in playing movie villains in general. It's just too bad that he died in such a bizarre and, frankly, a very twisted, freaky manner.
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Oh, you'll love this. I just did some more study on the film, and it was released on this date in 1940. What coincidence.
Speaking of that look alike thingee, Goldfinger always has looked like Nikita Khrushchev to me. The actor himself was handpicked by the director after seeing him in a German film. It was only after they met that he then realized that this actor couldn't speak a word of English - he had to be overdubbed.
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Ah, you're referring to Gert Frobe. Yes, he played the title character, Goldfinger. I have two films on dvd that Frobe had appeared in since "Goldfinger." And by then, his English had improved somewhat. These include "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" and "Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies." As for him looking like Khrushchev, well I'm sorry but I just don't see it. In looking up "Goldfinger" on Wikipedia, I also noticed Oddjob (Harold Sakata) Goldfinger's huge Japanese henchman with the steel derby. I was thinking that he might make an interesting opponent for "Lethal Lois." As I recall in watching clips from "Goldfinger," James Bond was pretty well getting his ass kicked by Oddjob before Oddjob gets pushed into an electronic circuit panel.
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I've heard a lot about Oddjob. He was a Korean olympic champion in shot put I believe, and they said that he's one of the nicest guys that you'd ever meet. Another Bond baddie that I was very impressed with was Tee-hee, with that prosthetic arm in "Live and Let Die." He was a WW2 veteran who served in England, and he said that they treated him very nicely during the shooting. He did say that when the "Butterhook" joke came up, he got stuck with the nickname for the rest of the movie production. It would be fun to see several of them together in one adventure image.
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Since I've never seen "Live and Let Die," once again I'll have to take your word about the villain Tee-Hee.
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OMG, you never have? Tee Hee is one of the best Bond villains. Yaphet Koto from "Alien" is the main bad guy, and Jane Seymour is one of the main characters. Here is the iconic Crocodile scene, which has it's own story behind it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmH0PP… Large parts of this film were shot in Louisiana, although this croc farm was shot in the Bahamas. Here's where we first meet him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIbIiF…
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I'll admit, Tee-Hee is an interesting villain. Perhaps you'll do a Marge and Lois pic featuring the ladies confronting him. Should be good for a few laughs. As for the croc farm, at least the filmmakers used real crocodiles. Usually, especially in low-rent adventure films, they'll use footage of alligators, thinking that the general public won't know the difference. Also, if I may indulge in a little criticism, that last scene with Bond escaping by running across a row of crocs backs is so contrived! That would never happen in real life.
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If I can remember the story, a croc trainer used Roger Moore's shoes and pants to do the stunt. Obviously some of them were fake, but it was shot on location. There's also a great scene shot at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvqldW…
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Yes, that was a pretty wild chase scene you linked. Of course, that Cessna 180 that Bond hijacks with a very startled student pilot along with all the other planes that get wrecked during the chase were all fake.
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What you don't see from that video is the ass-chewing 007 gets from his superiors about the airport. BTW, aren't those 1973 Chevies lovely looking? At the beginning of the scene someone pulls up in a 72 Impala, which is what we had growing up. My brother eventually started putting some of his own money into it for repairs, so dad just signed it over to him. He had it well into the mid 1980's.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't blame "M" for having 007's hide. After all, that was hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars worth of damage he caused, not to mention scaring some poor student pilot half to death, LOL. The old '70s cars were nice enough, but I was more interested in the old sport planes parked on the tarmac. Pipers, Cessnas, Beechcrafts and even a Piper Tri-Pacer. And I nearly screamed in pain after seeing a vintage DC-3 getting wrecked in the film.
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I have a funny feeling that some of those aircraft destroyed were probably headed for the salvage yard anyway. And we forgot to talk about Sheriff Pepper, who made an appearance in two Bond films. He looks like a twin brother of our First Sergeant Pierpoint; Pierpoint didn't talk like that, but they were very close in appearance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmawMN…
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You're referring to the actor Clifton James of course. It must've been pretty eerie to have had a First Sergeant who looked like that guy, but without the southern accent. James was in a number of films, usually playing redneck stereotypes. My favorite character played by him was Carr the Floorwalker in "Cool Hand Luke." As for the trashed-up planes in the chase scene probably going to the scrap yard, that might have been true, but I could see that they were fakes. For example, when Bond crashes through the hanger door and tears the wings off that Cessna 180, you can see shreds of fabric hanging off the wing roots. Those Cessnas were made entirely of aluminum! The last sport plane that had canvas-covered wings, apart from Stearman biplanes, was the Piper Cub.
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Oh, he had the southern drawl, as he was from Tennessee, but he was a much more serious guy. He told us a great story about when he got back from the Korean War. Some of his uncles and such lived in some pretty remote areas up in the hills. His one uncle told him, "Oh, you was fightin' them red men..." He had the hardest time explaining to him that they weren't actually red, but called that because of politics. He was also the guy that warned a friend and I about "Sammy the skunk" when he assigned us to sentry duty at a bivouac site. "You're gonna see things out here that look like they're alive, but they're not," he told us, "and you're gonna see some things that look like they're dead, but they're not. Don't touch none of them. Oh, and stay away from Sammy the skunk." We did actually see Sammy, but we gave him a wide berth and he just walked on his way.
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Skunks are definitely nothing you want to mess with, unless you like bathing in tomato juice to kill the stink. And you and your friend were wise to stay away from Sammy. The worst thing that happened to me was not on a field maneuver, but while deer hunting with some Army buddies in Arkansas when I got run up a tree by a wild boar. My buddies never let me hear the end of that. Looking back, I never realized that I could climb a tree so fast. But then, the threat of being gored by a boar's tusks was a pretty good motivator.
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::laughs:: I don't know of much we could do with Sammy, seeing as we were carrying empty M-16's with no ammo. A few years later in southern Indiana I was out driving with some friends at night and a skunk came up in the headlights; my big 6'4" marine friend next to me screamed, "Don't hit it!!" Again, I wisely just let him walk out of the road. I figure that if you can smell them from a mile away, I had no business hitting one.
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I recall that story from another chat we had about a year ago. And I also remember you telling me how that supposedly tough Marine screamed like a girl at the prospect of you running over that skunk. What I wouldn't have given to have seen that! I don't think I would've stopped laughing. Of course, getting sprayed by a skunk is piddling compared to being almost gored by a wild boar. Then again, getting ribbed about that is no cocktail party either.
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That was our Monday Night Football bunch back in 1984, and our one buddy lived out in this cabin in the boonies. In all fairness, the marine had a tough go of it. They discharged him from the marines after a jeep crash claimed the life of one of his buddies; he showed me the picture of what was left of the jeep. He had to leave college later after he was accused of messing with a fellow student's teenage daughter - the mother was a total heartless bitch, so we will never ever know what really happened. I've always felt bad for him. But he was always nice to me, and gave me some good advice in that time.
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I'm very sorry to hear about the rough life your Marine buddy had to go through. What happened in the Marine Corps was bad enough, but being falsely accused of having sex with an underage girl, man, I wouldn't wish that on my worse enemy.
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He's part of the reason I never wanted to take drugs. We chatted once about cocaine, not that I ever really wanted any, but he told me that once you try it, you've just got to have it again. I then said, "The stuff has got you after just one try? I never want to have that stuff in me." I wisely veered away from substances like that, and have no regrets for doing so.
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Same here, good buddy. The more I studied on the addictive properties of cocaine, heroin and other street drugs, the more I was determined not to have anything to do with that stuff, or the people who use it. Sadly, we now have a nationwide problem with addictions to prescription opioid-based pain killers.
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Oh, cocaine is fun stuff. I don't know if you follow basketball, but there was a talented young man named Len Bias who had just gotten signed by the Indiana Pacers in 1986. Who knows what this young man could have done - hall of fame, championships...we'll never know. That night as he celebrated his success, he was given some 90% pure cocaine (he was used to having about 60%). It shut his heart down and he died. He was my age - he would have been 55 this year. I made it a point to tell my daughter this story. www.washingtonpost.com/news/ea…
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When you say cocaine is "fun stuff," I assume you meant that sarcastically. No, I've never followed the story of Len Bias. But then, I've never followed basketball either. I'm strictly a baseball, football, auto racing kind of guy. And if this Bias fellow was already using cocaine before the Indiana Pacers signed him, then he was already a dead man walking.
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To me cocaine is like playing Russian roulette with a revolver; it's just a matter of time until that bullet is in the right chamber. I had another former friend who screwed up his whole marriage (to another friend of mine) with that stuff - I'll have to tell you his long story sometime.
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Perhaps, at a future date, I'll hear your other friend's story, sad as it must be. Cocaine, like methamphetamine and heroine, will gradually suck the life from the user like a vampire at a blood bank.
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Whenever I watch that particular film on DVD, I study the machinery that Dr. Thorkel uses to shrink his captives. True, Thorkel's devices are crude, clunky and practically Stone Age when compared with today's micro-technology. But the radium diffuser that he raises and lowers into a mine shaft and other gadgets have always fascinated me, the same as with the electronic machinery used in the Frankenstein movies starring Boris Karloff.
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The set is just dead bang on - the desk, books, lab equipment. Even Thorkel's "hand" is pretty well handcrafted. I know it's of no consequence, but it always intrigued me how Dr. Bullfinch looks very much like Lenin - I'm sure it's coincidence. Anyway, the film was years ahead of it's time.
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True enough. And as for the character of Dr. Bullfinch resembling Lenin, I agree with you. Probably a mere coincidence. The late Albert Dekker was superb as Dr. Thorkel. In fact, Dekker was superb in playing many movie villains. It's just sad that he died in such a bizarre, twisted and, frankly, freaky manner.
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