1. Stuart Little
Surprised? No doubt you are.
The iconic status that Stuart Little reaches is no doubt in part to the clever screenwriting of M. Night Shyamalan. True, each and every character Night created, from Joseph Cross' Joshua A. Beal, to Adrien Brody's Noah Percy, stood as a testament to the overstated beauty of a cinematic icon. But it is Michael J. Fox's vocal treatment, the brilliantly animated character, Stuart Little, who came to represent not just the iconic flair of the Children's genre, but motion picture history itself. His presence here on the list could be counted as a representation of every character ever created, and as a representation of the cinema itself.
Larger than life, with an uncanny smile, Little launched an entire career from this character. He never really deviated from its path for that matter. However, as the fun-living mouse, his character holds the most respectability. Here, he is truly a cinematic icon, and not just some rip-off of so many other rip-offs.
The iconic status of this character is especially interesting to note, because it caused so many other things to take root in filmmaking. What’s more, his legendary presence was sealed because of a number of things not necessarily attributed to Fox's performance.
Ha, ha, ha! Oh, man that cracks me up! Did I actually fool you? Probably not.
7 comments:
Zing! That was great. Talk about your all time best posts. You really had my number with that one. heh heh heh.
I forget that Shyamalan did write Stuart Little for the big screen.
Well, I directly lifted from your "The Man With No Name" post. It fits nicely. "The Man With No Name," Stuart Little, they're pretty synonomous.
I hadn't considered that.
You know, Hudson might agree with your choice. He really likes that movie.
Nice fake out. I was trying to have an open mind and take it in. I should have noticed it was Gabe posting.
Even though this is a joke, I completely agree with the selection.
My first reaction was "No!" Then I tried to have an open mind, since I haven't really seen the Stuart Little movies. Then I began thinking that Brock must be a real Manoj freak.
The part where I was getting really confused was the sentence: "Little launched an entire career from this character." I'm like, "BUT LITTLE IS THE CHARACTER!" I thought it was just my small mind that was rejecting it.
Does this post merit the overexposed "LOL"? I think it does. lol!
Great prank Gabe.
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