Starting Over

An unpleasant update for a grand story that's been in the blogosphere and msm for the past couple of days —Aardman Animations, the company behind Nick Park's universally loved Wallace & Gromit cartoons, had almost all of its sets, props and other equipment destroyed in a fire. (The story is our no. 18 link today.) Park has been surprisingly sanguine about it, though, because the fire came right on the heels of the devastating Pakistan earthquake and, compared to that disaster, "isn't a big deal," he said. Bloggers are picking up on that tone, it seems. This one simultaneously admires Aardman's films and laments its recent calamity, with an approving eye towards Park's mature reaction to the fire. This Blog For All tries to inject its own levity into the situation after commenting on the fire: "Gromit's facial expressions in each of the movies convey more emotion than most actors in all of Hollywood. Of course, Gromit doesn't have to go for Botox, which would explain the stiff upper lip on most of Hollywood. Oh, and did I mention that Gromit is a dog that doesn't talk." A good point. For more on this theme look here.

Posted by Philip Ewing at October 11, 2005 11:12 AM

Category: Moving Pictures