Popeye at Paramount
September 21st, 2006
We’ve jumped all around Popeye’s film career this week while ReFrederator has been featuring its Popeye-a-thon. Which brings up the issue of the sailor man’s later, post-Max Fleischer cartoons. Okay, okay, okay — everyone agrees the early weird-ass Fleischer entries are, on the whole, better — BUT — I kinda like the slick Paramount Famous Cartoon Studio installments too. Don’t hate me.
For good or bad, Popeye is more of an everyman in these later films. He has an astounding array of occupations. He has many ordinary homeowner-type concerns. He has a nice suburban house.
He has teeth.
So sue me.
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On September 21st, 2006 at 12:00 am
The one thing I really like about Famous cartoons is Jackson Beck. He really gives Brutus character, much more than the animators can. As for the Fleischer/Famous comparison, in the Fleischers, Popeye, Olive, and Bluto are set characters and the cartoons work these set characters in different backgrounds and situations, like at a zoo, on a skyscraper construction site, or in the Arabian desert. In the famous cartoons, the characters are more like actors, taking on different roles and adapting their personal characters to those roles.
On September 23rd, 2006 at 12:00 am
Popeye’s great great grandson :
http://www.mkbmemorial.com/adler/8×10.html