![]() ![]() What? I didn’t mention the whole thing’s done with two-inch-tall cardboard puppets…? My bad. ![]() That guy from the talking pig movie ( James Cromwell).Īnd Beakman ( Paul Zaloom)! He’s the head puppeteer too. So instead of Brunetto Latini and Guido da Montefeltro suffering in the “abode of the damned” it’s Robert Moses, Strom Thurmond and Jim Jones.īut Virgil still leads him down into Hell, and it’s got a three-headed Cerberus, the centaurs, false prophets with their heads twisted around 180˚, and it’s got a great musical number…! Well, yeah, took it outta Hell and put it in Los Angeles, but six of one, half a dozen of the other.Īnd, yeah… they modernized it. “Oh, man, kid you not,” I enthuse enthusiastically, “the most faithful adaptation of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno ever. Ernest Kearney - I love it when I’m describing a film to someone and I see that pallid perturbed look of perplexity slowly pervade their faces as they begin to suspect that I’m just screwing with them, that I’m concocting a ludicrous, “movie” simply to see if they’re gullible enough to fall for it. ![]()
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