“Legolas, what do your elf eyes see?”
“Too much, Aragorn…”
(Title and screencap by ohpippin. Dialogue by thorin-theeagles)
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Tag Archives: Ralph Bakshi
Have You Seen This Animator?
Brenda Banks is an inspirational mystery wrapped up in a historical enigma. Or, to put it another way: Banks was the third Black female animator to work in the American animation industry (EVER!), yet no one in the industry has heard from her in nearly a decade. What gives? Continue reading
Bakshi Is Back!
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Via The TAG Blog, quoting huge chunks from The Jewish Daily Forward:
… There hasn’t been much recent news from [Ralph] Bakshi, … but with “Last Days of Coney Island” he’s making a return to filmmaking, and to subjects that have marked his career since the beginning: crime, corruption, and the grime-ridden streets of New York. …
The decline of Coney Island was a local tragedy, but it wasn’t just the beach that was in trouble. As Bakshi tells it, the fate of the neighborhood was a metaphor for everything happening in America, including the assassinations of Kennedy and King. “Coney Island was a place where poor people could go and not feel poor,” he said. “You wouldn’t run into any Rolls Royces, and you didn’t feel that there was anything that you could not afford to do. But it ended up trashed, and I felt that America was headed the same way. Continue reading
