"Mice don't mock. They don't have a sense of humor or irony. He's not sitting in his hole in a smoking jacket sipping cognac, and giggling to himself, "I left the pit!""
Mouse Hunt, 1997.
Dir. Gore Verbinski | Writ. Adam Rifkin | DOP Phedon Papamichael
Ok damn, if it wasnt for all the way too gory bits n futuristic elements, id say that Love+Death+Robots s3 episode Mason’s Rats, was more akin to what I imagined The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents could look like.. Its properly haggard with nicely twisted stylisation.. and the rats look GREAT. A look that would fit more to a story like Maurice.. a story that is inherently twisted and fragged up in its core. With The Rat King and human cruelty and everything..
*interesting thing to note, is that Neal Asher published Mason's Rats in 1999 while Pratchett published Maurice in 2001. While it continues the classical trope of smart animals vs humans, I feel like its one of the examples where Pratchett borrowed a specific story and then he just examined it, dismantled it, and let it loose to expand in the lands of Discworld.
**I like how late 90s and early 2000s were sort of fertile with stories about intelligent rodents.. next example Mousehunt movie (1997)
Watching Mouse hunt 1997 and I can't believe these two are brothers??? They have like every fic ever troupes???
These two men have Only One Bed and Falling Down into Each Others Laps, and even Foil of Each Other, Exact Opposites, and Same Coin Different Sides??? And they're related?????
I work on a game called mouseHunt, and (surprise) I draw a lot of mice related characters. BUT, every so often I get to draw a mouse mixed with ANOTHER animal, here are some of those guys.
Comédie un peu étrange rappelant maman j’ai raté l’avion avec une souris à la place de l’enfant. Parfois on dirait que c’est Tim Burton qui réalise une adaptation livre de Tom & Jerry.
Weird comedy which kind of looks like Home Alone but with a mouse instead of a kid. Sometimes it looks like Tim Burton who would direct a live adaptation of a Tom & Jerry adventure.