Reading a book after seeing the ANIMATED movie.

[Jack]

So I know lots of people end up picturing characters as the actor that played them if they saw the movie first, which is annoying enough, but how about when its animated?

I'm reading The Last Unicorn and cannot stop seeing it as the animated movie in my head. Must make it stop...

[Steven]

I'm so sorry. That must be painful,indeed.

[Joanna Chaplin]

When I think of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, I think of the animated version I watched over and over as a kid. But I think they were pretty faithful to the original, besides the fact that they made Lucy blond.

[Steven]

Joanna -- If you're thinking of the one made by Bill Melendez (who made all the Peanuts specials), I did his publicity for it. This was a loooong time ago.

[Joanna Chaplin]

Steven wrote: "Joanna -- If you're thinking of the one made by Bill Melendez (who made all the Peanuts specials), I did his publicity for it. This was a loooong time ago."

*Does a little internet searching* Yes, that's the one. I must have watched it hundreds of times as a kid. It's been on my mind lately what with the extra-snowy winter we've had in the US Northeast.

"When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death. And when he shakes his mane, we will have spring again."

[Steven]

Originally it was going to be done by Chuck Jones (famous Looney Tunes director) by he had creative differences with the producers, so he suggested they take it to Bill. Chuck's would have been a far more illustrated looking film, rather that the more Peanuts-like cartoon design that Bill used.

[Keith]

Somehow I never envisioned elves as the Grinch with cabbage hair

[Joanna Chaplin]

Keith wrote: "Somehow I never envisioned elves as the Grinch with cabbage hair"

Both the Grinch and the wood elves from the animated Hobbit were drawn with Williams syndrome-like faces.

There is a theory that stories about "little people" and the good fae may have been inspired by folks with Williams syndrome, since they tend to be small of stature, musical, very social but not always good at focusing on details, and with distinctive facial features. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams...

I was just thinking about what it might be like if a modern cartoonist gave an entire fantasy race faces like that often seen on folks with Down syndrome and I shudder.

[Pete]

I watched the Rankin/Bass "The Return of the King" years before reading The Lord of the Rings. Since the movie obviously only covers the last third of the trilogy, it was a little weird when I read the book and remembered things.

[Joseph]

My first introduction to Tolkien was the Rankin-Bass Hobbit. Ever since then, that's how Bilbo looks. And sounds.