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Age: 36
Sign: Virgo

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Thursday, July 13, 2006 

The Wayans Bros. have a new movie coming out about a pint sized baby-faced thief called Little Man and I can't wait!!!!

Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans star in Columbia Pictures' Little Man

I wonder where they ever came up with such a great idea?! Let's check out the official site for details:

"Little Man is the brainchild of comedy innovators Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans... The initial spark for a story about a baby-like criminal came from a trip to the video store. "I saw a cover for a horror movie called Test Tube Baby," recalls director/writer/producer Keenen Ivory Wayans. "I thought it was a funny idea what if something went wrong with the first test tube baby and he didnt come out quite right?"

That's Awesome! I can't wait to see some images from the movie!!

Marlon Wayans in Columbia Pictures' Little Man

Hey! Wait a minute guys, this looks kind of familiar...


  

Hmmm, probably just a coincidence. I know those Wayans boys are way too creative to have to get ideas from somewhere else. I'll let one of their producers tell you just how creative and smart they are:

"Coming up with an idea for a movie is never a problem for the Wayans brothers," Producer Alvarez continues. "They've got a million ideas, but theres always one that breaks through and we all get really excited about. We loved the concept of literally shrinking Marlon down to someone who was two and a half feet tall."

Hahahaha!!! Marlon two feet tall!! I wonder what that's gonna look like?

HAHAHA!! I was right that is funny... but wait. I think I've seen this before, too:


"Once I'd gotten the image in my head, it was all about building a life for the little guy and figuring out a plot and a story," explains Keenen.

Really? So you came up with all this and built a whole life for the little guy completely in your head?

According to writer/producer/star Marlon Wayans, "As it developed, it turned into a truly funny script. When people read it they ask what we get high on to come up with our ideas and I tell them green tea and Snickerdoodles."

Really? Green Tea and Snickerdoodles? If you say so, I guess...

 

I have to be honest, guys. I'm starting to lose faith here.

I think I remember this cartoon. What was it called again? Oh yeah! "Baby Buggy Bunny!" From those classic Warner Bros. Cartoons! It was great! Baby Face Finster was a pint sized crook who hid from the law by posing as a baby and pulling the wool over Bugs' eyes for a short time...

Are you guys really so full of yourselves that you're gonna try and say it was an originally inspired idea?

Oh wait, here's the producer to the rescue. I guess he realizes he better do some damage control, before those Wayans make a really big mistake (oops, forgot about White Chics...).

"Little Man evolved into something of an homage to the Bugs Bunny cartoon Baby Finster (You can't even get the name right, dude). The Wayans brothers are very much into things like the Little Rascals, Bugs Bunny and the Three Stooges," explains producer Rick Alvarez, who runs Wayans Bros. Productions and is their long-time producing partner.

But how come he has to say this after Keenan has already tried to say he came up with the idea completely from his own inspiration? Why did I have to search multiple reviews to hunt down even this little admission? Why aren't they just admitting that they tried to turn a 3 minute cartoon of pure genius into hack 90 minute movie?

The concept was perfect as a cartoon. It was a gag that could be played for all its slapstick worth in 3 minutes. Are they so fucking desparate that they need to steal a GAG and try to turn it into a live action movie?

Adds Marlon: "We want to give audiences a kick and make them laugh. I feel bad when I go to a movie and see that people arent getting their money's worth. A movie costs ten dollars. You could feed a family with ten dollars."

I got my moneys worth and then some 20 years ago on Saturday morning while eating my Fruity Pebbles...

The Original cartoon ended with Baby Finster getting his due in the form of a beating from Bugs Bunny... I wish Bugs would smack some sense into these guys.

You're pathetic, Wayans Brothers, if you think you can pass off the work of real geniuses and pioneers of animation and comedic story telling as your own.

Wineaux

 
are you a copywrite lawyer? you got the mad skills and the propper amount of disgust!
 
Posted by Wineaux on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 9:36 AM
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kirk

 

I was very disgusted... and more so after I read the quotes from Wayans never once mentioning the cartoon as inspiration.

 "I saw this cover in the video store... blah, blah... created the world in my head, blah blah..."

Assholes.... Yeah, they disgusted me.


 
Posted by kirk on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 9:51 AM
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yuri todded
yuri todded

 
this is brilliant, kirk. i hate those damn wayan brothers, and the first thing i thought of when i saw the preview was that baby smoking a cigar in the carriage with bugs bunny. leave it to you to be able to research all of it, it woulda taken me forever to find that "kid."
   i'm not positive, but i think "our gang" did one too.

 
Posted by yuri todded on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 9:42 AM
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kirk

 

If it's one thing I'm protective of it's Animators that I respect... and the guys at Warner Bros. back in the day have had no equals when it comes to the art of movement and timing. They also were AMAZING at story telling and had excellent comedic awareness.

Nothing has come close, and I was livid when I saw that image of Marlon Wayans being passed off as Baby Face Finster...

The Our Gang thing is probably true and that's why the Producer mentioned them in the quote above.


 
Posted by kirk on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 9:49 AM
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kirk

 
Agreed... Hollywood loves to drag everything out. Look at "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar."
 
Posted by kirk on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 3:37 PM
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Doctor Fantastic
Doctor Fantastic

 
My friend, you have done a great service to the true underappreciated genii of the early WB scene.  Those guys were the shit, and they knew comedy.

The Wayans brothers (Shawn and Marlon) suck.  Keenan and Damon were pretty cool, though.  "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" was funny.

That whole 3 minutes does not equal 90 minutes point should be brought to the attention of the SNL movie factory. . .
 
Posted by Doctor Fantastic on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 11:50 AM
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kirk

 

I liked, "In Living Color," back in the day... but their movies haven't impressed me much.

Maybe it is a Sketch comedy curse thing, as evidenced by the SNL attempts recently.


 
Posted by kirk on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 3:39 PM
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dietpopstar

 
I recognized the Baby Face Finster thing the moment I saw him shaving with the cigar in his mouth and just rolled my eyes. 

I loved this post - I only wish my expectations of the Wayans Bros. was high enough that the obvious rip-off didn't surprise me at all - it's not like they've come up with a quality original idea before.  A rip-off was just a matter of time.  It does take balls to rip off what was, as you so eloquently put it, "the work of real geniuses and pioneers of animation and comedic story telling".  And one so easily recognized, at that.

The whole taking full credit for the "original" idea, however, disgusts the shit out of me.

They'll burn, dontchoo worry your pretty little eyelet bonnet about that.

 
Posted by dietpopstar on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 12:06 PM
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kirk

 

I wasn't really surprised either... And then I read Keenan talking about how he, "came up," with the idea and never once mentioned Bugs and Pals. I figured I'd at least find them talking about having the technology to pull off Cartoon like stunts so they went ahaed and made a cartoon into life...

Nope. "I came up with and idea,"... that just happened to already be a cartoon is what it seems like.


 
Posted by kirk on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 3:43 PM
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aw, i cna come up with plagarised ideas like that.  can i be famous, can i can i can i?!?!?!?!
 
Posted by on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 12:43 PM
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kirk

 
Wait, you mean Hollywood isn't beating your door down after typing this comment?
 
Posted by kirk on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 3:49 PM
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not yet?  i know i'll post some more blogs, then surely theyll notice me.......................
 
Posted by on Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 2:26 PM
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Arpeggi

 

i still insist they should make a movie of homey the clown. think of the merchandising possibilities!!


 
Posted by Arpeggi on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 1:10 PM
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kirk

 
At least they'd be stealing from themselves and it can't be because they're scared of turning a 3 minute idea into a whole movie...
 
Posted by kirk on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 3:51 PM
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The ILLUSTRIOUS Rose
Rose Mathews

 

If I found an ugly ass baby like that on my doorstep, I'd kick it.


 
Posted by The ILLUSTRIOUS Rose on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 3:14 PM
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kirk

 
If I found the Wayans Bros. on my doorstep I'd kick them.
 
Posted by kirk on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 3:52 PM
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beneath tall then

 

Excellent blog.  It's ridiculous that they have not given credit to Bugs.

The only animation to real life movie with any merit, in my opinion, was George of the Jungle.  And that is due to the millions of us who took our children to see it and collectively gasped at sight of Brendan Frasier in a loin cloth.  *sigh*


 
Posted by beneath tall then on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 3:51 PM
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kirk

 
You are so fired...
 
Posted by kirk on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 3:54 PM
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What a minute...Buddha Mama writes...and I can write...hey Buddha Mama, let's write a feature-length film! It'll star Wineaux, who's dressed up in a metal bra and steel hat with Viking horns. She'll be trying to avoid a hunter with a really bad speech impediment, and they'll be taking turns singing operatic duets while chasing each other across a set filled with Greek columns and vines and stuff. Whatdya think??? Pretty original, huh?
 
Posted by on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 6:54 PM
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kirk

 

"Kill the Wineaux, Kill the Wineaux!"

Excellent... but we have to make a full length Feature. So come up with some fluff filler.


 
Posted by kirk on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 2:50 AM
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SM

 
Kirk
You earn back full status of your name from me (like ya cared) with this one.
Excellent detective work with the images!!

Kisses
Erin

 
Posted by SM on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 8:30 AM
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Jeremy

 

I knew there was a good reason (in case anyone asked) why I would not see this movie.  Thank you for illustrating it.

Long live Bugs!


 
Posted by Jeremy on Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 9:12 PM
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HOly fuck I hate the Wayans Brothers...

Steve~


 
Posted by on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 3:21 AM
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The Kevitron XR-138

 
I'm in the middle of writing my first novel.  It's about a high school girl who gets picked on by all the other kids at school and her mother's a psychotic fundamentalist Christian.  But the girl has telekinetic powers.  I think I'm gonna turn it into a sad horror story by making her kill everyone at her high school prom.  The title is "Mary". 

 
Posted by The Kevitron XR-138 on Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 3:58 AM
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kirk

 
Sounds like a winner!! Publishing houses will be knocking down your door in no time.
 
Posted by kirk on Saturday, July 22, 2006 - 4:08 AM
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Dark Water Productions

 
LOL! Awsome review! the minute I saw the trailor I was like oh they got the idea from the old Bugs Bunny Cartoon. You ever think about being a serious movie critic: ) I think you have the stuff man: ) For realz : )
 
Posted by Dark Water Productions on Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 2:11 AM
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