| # | Author | Message |
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| BlueOhanaTerror
Tue 4/15/2008 2:09p | Frankly, I want Mickey to fly planes like a daredevil. I want him to be heroic. I want him to race cars. I want Mickey to be a "nice" superstar, who runs high on adrenaline. I want him to be Bruce Wayne without the brooding Alter Ego, but the penchant for adventure.
Maybe Indiana Jones is a better paradigm... nice guy Academic one week, punching out Nazis (or Commies) the next, and saving the world.
Mickey could be heroic and exciting again, and still retain his nice guy, aw-shucks appeal... It's not a stretch. |
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| SoThisIsLove
Tue 4/15/2008 2:13p | Oooh, BlueOhanaTerror...I think you're on to something. I like that very, very much. The Indiana Jones persona captures the appeal quite nicely. |
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| Kar2oonMan
Tue 4/15/2008 2:15p | I'd like to see new animated shorts with Mickey involved in some new situations. Getting "back to his roots" doesn't mean recreating his world circa 1930.
I think Mickey sort of lost his sense of humor over the years. It happens to icons, I guess. But what's been missing is that little bit of good-natured mischeif. There was a good dose of Charlie Chaplin-esque charm in the early Mickey Mouse, that mix of likeability and hijinx of a guy just tryin' to get by, and that's originally what made him connect with audiences.
It's not an easy task. Would audiences accept a Mickey Mouse that has a little bit of an edge, is a bit of a prankster, or even has a bit of a temper? Or would people see any of that as him being "too mean"? Can the character that has spent decades being the gentle "aw, shucks" guy, the most universally recognized corporate symbol on earth and the guy playing straight man to Donald, Goofy and Pluto's antics be reinvented at this late date?
It's a tough one. I hope it can be done. But it's a tough one. |
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| alexbook
Tue 4/15/2008 2:17p | Re: Heroic Mickey
Actually, I think "Three Musketeers" fits that concept pretty well. The problem there was poor execution. |
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| SBSBelle22
Tue 4/15/2008 2:24p | <<<Once again, the debate is kept going, not by us, but by Disney. Veddy interesting.>>>
Quite right, quite right!
Indy Mickey! *giggle* I LOOOOOOOOVE it!!! |
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| alexbook
Tue 4/15/2008 2:28p | http://ilearntechnology.com/wo...re-4.jpg |
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| WDWFreak92
Tue 4/15/2008 5:28p | Just wanted to interject here- I loved The Three Musketeers! It was great. Yeah, maybe they could've done better but it was still a great and it's one of my favorites!
AS far as the topic of Mickey's future goes... I absolutley love BlueOhanaTerror's way of putting it.
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| u k fan
Thu 4/17/2008 2:21a | Wasn't there talk of some kind of Mickey adventurer series in the vein of Indy a while back?
I can't remember if it was to be a TV show or comics, but I'm sure I read about it somewhere.
He did have a slight edge in Runaway Brain so that was a step in the right direction!!! |
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| mawnck
Thu 4/17/2008 7:33a | Giving Mickey an "edge" and making him more interesting are two different and mutually exclusive things. The last ting we need is some deluded exec deciding that Mickey needs to be more "Family Guy." Hopefully they will turn him over to people who understand that. |
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| SoThisIsLove
Thu 4/17/2008 7:59a | Cute, alexbook, ever the resource! :) |
