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Animation: George Lopez = Non-Racist Speedy Gonzalez
Owenashi
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Don't expect to see this in the theater
I don't think I need to highlight the parts that send off any red flags when it comes to how potentially awful this can be. Now I can understand (a little) why some cartoons of old may not work as it did years ago, but I think there's limits to what actually needs to be covered under the politically-correct banner. How long will it be before the animation of recent years ends up chopped up and eventually locked in some vault somewhere?
Will this be seen as too violent?
Is this too disturbing?
Yahoo! Movies wrote:LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Speedy Gonzales is taking his folk-hero status, incredible speed and signature red kerchief to the big screen, with help from George Lopez.
The comedian is attached to provide the voice of the fastest mouse in all Mexico for a politically correct live-action/CG hybrid feature set up at New Line Cinema.
The Looney Tunes character debuted in the 1950s as a regular nemesis of Sylvester the Cat. A 1955 short about the tiny hero, "Speedy Gonzales," won the Academy Award for best short subject, (cartoon). Pat Boone even released a hit song about the famous mouse in 1962.
Over the years, Speedy appeared in the live-action/animation features "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," "Space Jam" and "Looney Tunes: Back in Action." But the character has often courted criticism that the ethnic characterizations of him and his compatriots (especially lazy cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez) are stereotypically racist and severely outdated.
Aware of this, New Line and the producers plan to update the brand with a modernized sensibility.
"We wanted to make sure that it was not the Speedy of the 1950s -- the racist Speedy," said the comedian's wife Ann Lopez, who will serve alongside him as a producer. "Speedy's going to be a misunderstood boy who comes from a family that works in a very meticulous setting, and he's a little too fast for what they do. He makes a mess of that. So he has to go out in the world to find what he's good at."
That path becomes clearer once Speedy befriends a gun-shy race-car driver.
"Garfield" scribes Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen will write the script.
I don't think I need to highlight the parts that send off any red flags when it comes to how potentially awful this can be. Now I can understand (a little) why some cartoons of old may not work as it did years ago, but I think there's limits to what actually needs to be covered under the politically-correct banner. How long will it be before the animation of recent years ends up chopped up and eventually locked in some vault somewhere?
Will this be seen as too violent?
Is this too disturbing?
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I thought they were a culture, as a part of a nation
Can I be racist towards Americans as well
Yeah, because that guy never plays up stereotypes at all.
national and ethnic group
americans arent an ethnic group
are they really trying to get a heartwarming and life-affirming story out of Speedy fucking Gonzales
is that what they are doing
adventure time is coming in april
i am excited for it
also this is a pretty neat little pilot that didn't get picked up by nickelodeon
Also Jerry.
Also Tweety.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
weird i imagined him to be a fan of lolis
Tweety was just annoying.
That Flapjack clip comes from the most demented episode I've yet seen on the show. I don't know how they got that much past the censors. And on that note Adventure Time managed to push it enough it now has a tv-pg rating. Perhaps you've seenthe promo clip where they punch the heart until it blood bursts forth?
This is actually really good
He's hard working, brave, sticks up for the little guy, is competent with explosives and it hard working.
Granted the ridiculous amount of Spanish he uses and the hat he wears isn't the best, but it wouldn't be that hard to change those those two features. And lets be honest here, no one really remembers details of his friends other the fact that he was rescued (which were admittedly bad stereotypes). You could swap them out without anyone noticing.
Satans..... hints.....
i thought he was finn's VA?
i could be completely wrong on this
seriously. I rather liked that.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
You might be thinking of miramax that just got shut down
I'm pretty sure Speedy Gonzales was cartoonizing mexican culture and stereotypes, not hispanic race and stereotypes, at least from what I remember
Kind of like how a lot of American material cartoonizes french culture and stereotypes. I would not call that racist.
But then, I barely remember anything of the god damn show so I don't know why I am arguing for it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGwn_0k_TQo
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