tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post6349870325345082199..comments2024-03-29T01:41:15.713+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-80141917425004594672016-11-03T11:10:44.084+00:002016-11-03T11:10:44.084+00:00Steve Bell's penguins (in The Guardian, passim...Steve Bell's penguins (in The Guardian, passim) also have teeth: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/03/23/If2.jpgharryghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04184350321693687780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-61337157424539308162016-11-02T03:34:25.807+00:002016-11-02T03:34:25.807+00:00My goodness what did I start? I saw some of the st...My goodness what did I start? I saw some of the still ads for Black Sheep and was meaning to see it some time. You may also like the (reality) Angry Ram videos on youtube, which I think began as ram vs motorbike, also from New Zealand. JimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-24286676423990885012016-11-01T20:23:26.144+00:002016-11-01T20:23:26.144+00:00When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,
A...When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark,<br />And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark,<br />But, when the tide rises and sharks are around,<br />His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.<br /><br />--- Lewis Carroll, ' 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster', from <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-1038811570543798462016-11-01T20:19:34.004+00:002016-11-01T20:19:34.004+00:00Nick Park didn't like penguins, though. The pe...Nick Park didn't like penguins, though. The penguin villain of <i>The Wrong Trousers</i> is quite alarming, not least because he has teeth.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-49823383815242427292016-11-01T20:18:01.160+00:002016-11-01T20:18:01.160+00:00There's also a New Zealand film called Black S...There's also a New Zealand film called <i>Black Sheep</i> in which the country's ubiquitous sheep turn carnivorous. I enjoyed this, but am a person of low and depraved tastes.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-41034196611678787102016-11-01T15:39:29.308+00:002016-11-01T15:39:29.308+00:00Perhaps Hitchcock didn't like birds (unfortuna...Perhaps Hitchcock didn't like birds (unfortunately most people dislike them). Nick Park, who made 'Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit', seems to have a good attitude towards animals. I really like that film.<br />Justyna C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-68757596475320392942016-11-01T12:38:15.600+00:002016-11-01T12:38:15.600+00:00The movie The Birds puzzles me. It appears to have...The movie The Birds puzzles me. It appears to have been made by someone who hated living things very much. You can see the terror in the actors and in the animals as well. And to what end? It might be technically a great movie, but what is the message it intends to portray? I've never understood it.Tinúvielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794275230697959519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-2634577869517910362016-11-01T12:35:22.354+00:002016-11-01T12:35:22.354+00:00Oh, is that like the killer rabbit in Monty Python...Oh, is that like the killer rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? I almost died of laughter the first time I saw that.Tinúvielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794275230697959519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-73296798625508656312016-11-01T12:34:27.822+00:002016-11-01T12:34:27.822+00:00I always rooted for the shark in that movie, anywa...I always rooted for the shark in that movie, anyway. I think most of the times I've watched that movie in company people took the shark's side.<br /><br />That reminds me of something Oleg Gazenko, one of the engineers who was involved in sending Laika into space to its certain death, said: that had he had to do it again, he wouldn't.<br />Tinúvielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794275230697959519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-41375325011094134552016-11-01T11:32:13.972+00:002016-11-01T11:32:13.972+00:00The other seasonally apt film with a link to the i...The other seasonally apt film with a link to the inhabitants of Hyde Park would be the early '70s 'Night of the Lepus', in which the inhabitants of a small Arizona town are menaced by thousands of mutated, carnivorous, killer rabbits. I can't entirely recommend it. harryghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04184350321693687780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-72913771763774888242016-11-01T07:53:58.376+00:002016-11-01T07:53:58.376+00:00Peter Benchley, who wrote 'Jaws', said: &#...Peter Benchley, who wrote 'Jaws', said: 'I do know one thing, however: if I were to try to write Jaws today, I couldn't do it. Or, at least, the book I would write would be vastly different and, I surmise, much less successful. I see the sea today from a new perspective, not as an antagonist but as an ally, rife less with menace than with mystery and wonder.<br /><br />And I know I am not alone. Scientists, swimmers, scuba divers, snorkelers, and sailors all are learning that the sea is worthy more of respect and protection than of fear and exploitation.<br /><br />Twenty years may be but a wink in the long span of humanity's relationship with the sea, but since the early l970s our knowledge of and attitude toward the oceans and the animals that live in them have grown and changed more than at any time in history.' <br />This quote comes from <a href="http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/ocean_planet_book_peril_intro.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> .<br />Justyna C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-36406333303518446322016-11-01T03:47:57.616+00:002016-11-01T03:47:57.616+00:00I really loathe that film. The gulls were tied on ...I really loathe that film. The gulls were tied on to the actors with thread -- no wonder they panicked. It is a worse lie even than the notorious Disney 'documentary' where they used a spinning turntable to hurl lemmings off a studio cliff, since the myth it created was more harmful.<br /><br />But <i>Attack of the 50ft Ladybugs</i> would be fun, in slightly blurred black and white with close-up shots of insects badly double-exposed over scenes of human actors screaming stagily and fleeing in roughly the right direction.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-90572106660796413622016-11-01T03:27:39.558+00:002016-11-01T03:27:39.558+00:00So Hitchcock's "The Birds" in 2016 b...So Hitchcock's "The Birds" in 2016 becomes "The Ladybirds" in time for Hallowe'en. Aptly they bear a 'Bat out of Hell' figure on their pronotum, Bat out of Hell the musical seeing its West End debut next year as we recently learnt. JimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com