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Post by RandallBoggs on Jan 23, 2009 20:22:32 GMT -5
Halfly baffling really. Surprised you haven't made a Fosters crossover Pitbulllady ^_- (I'm saying that, but I know why ^_^ Oh yeah that's true...thankfully not the..."other" one of him...
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Post by pitbulllady on Jan 23, 2009 21:10:05 GMT -5
Halfly baffling really. Surprised you haven't made a Fosters crossover Pitbulllady ^_- (I'm saying that, but I know why ^_^ Oh yeah that's true...thankfully not the..."other" one of him... I've thought about, but you know I'm one of those writers who basically has to have a pretty good idea of how I want something to begin and end, before I sit down and write it, and I have not been able to really come up with a good way to end that particular plot bunny. I'd thought that it would be funny if the Randall seen in that episode was the REAL one, not an Imaginary Friend, but who'd know the difference, right? Technically, most of the Imaginary Friends qualify as "monsters" by human standards, anyway. I'd even thought of a theory that the "Mons" mentioned in "History of the Monster World" were actually early Imaginary Friends, and the people just didn't understand that, since humans had only recently evolved the capacity to imagine things that didn't exist, and human children had therefore just developed the ability to create Imaginary Friends, much to the consternation of the elders. Over time, and separation from the Mans who'd created them, the descendants of the Mons had forgotten their true origins, and so had filled in the blanks to explain their history. If Randall showed up at Foster's, he'd blend right in(no pun intended). Who'd suspect that he was a real monster, conceived and born "the old-fashioned way", and not a figment of some child's vivid imagination, brought to life? Thing is, Randall would probably assume that the IF's were MONSTERS, who'd either been banished or wound up in the Human World by various means, like himself. pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Jan 23, 2009 21:16:44 GMT -5
You need any inspiration? ^_^
*waves hand* I always had this idea of Ran and some sort of "banishment home" developed by those who were thrown into the human world wrongly, but never quite panneed it out.
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Post by lizardgirl on Feb 9, 2009 16:16:46 GMT -5
Very interesting, pitbulllady! I wonder if the similarity in accent and surname in relation to the Human World was accidental or on purpose...It does seem a bit too much of a coincidence to be accidental. I'd love to meet whoever had a hand in designing the final version of Randall and asking them lots of questions about their choices for his character, both physically and psychologically.
I quite like the name Ned. And yes, I agree, I also rather like the old version of Randall, where he was still a bit mean and bad-tempered but in a sort of nice, "he's only being like that as a front" type guy. He even added comedic value to the storyboard scene shown on the DVD extras, as far as I can remember. Really need to watch that again sometime!
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Post by pitbulllady on Feb 9, 2009 20:20:43 GMT -5
Very interesting, pitbulllady! I wonder if the similarity in accent and surname in relation to the Human World was accidental or on purpose...It does seem a bit too much of a coincidence to be accidental. I'd love to meet whoever had a hand in designing the final version of Randall and asking them lots of questions about their choices for his character, both physically and psychologically. I quite like the name Ned. And yes, I agree, I also rather like the old version of Randall, where he was still a bit mean and bad-tempered but in a sort of nice, "he's only being like that as a front" type guy. He even added comedic value to the storyboard scene shown on the DVD extras, as far as I can remember. Really need to watch that again sometime! I did read an extensive interview with the lead animator for Randall's final version, a guy with a Latino last name(can't recall it exactly), but he mostly went on about the difficulties in capturing Randall's complex movements, due to his having so many limbs and such a flexible body, as well as a tail that essentially was a limb itself. He mentioned having spent hours observing animals at the San Diego Zoo, first the large lizards, but then deciding that their movements were too slow and awkward to give Randall that predator's grace, so he turned to the big cats-leopards and cougars, specifically-to find inspiration for Randall's movements, which are far more feline than reptilian. I've never read of anything concerning Randall's accent, the closest thing being how Steve Buscemi intentionally strained his voice by going to hockey and basketball games and yelling and screaming(I have this mental image of him and Wilt getting all in each others' faces at a game, lol)so he could give Randall a stressed-out edge to his voice(nice touch, too). Where the accent came in, though, I have no idea. Steve B. can do many accents very well, although he normally sounds very much like the stereotypical Italian-American New Yorker. I've heard him sound as "redneck" as Larry the Cable Guy. WHY, out of all the accents he can provide, he picked an Indiana Hoosier twang is beyond me. Maybe he figured(or the Pixar folks figured-don't know who is really responsible for that choice)that this accent would be obscure to most fans watching the movie, while at the same time give Randall SOME sort of regional identity, even if people couldn't place it. It wouldn't be a "generic" American accent, but at the same time, wouldn't sound distinctively familiar to most people, either, like a New York or a typical Southern accent would. pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Feb 9, 2009 20:34:57 GMT -5
Well Ran use to be very comical (we see a little of that in the opening) before Waternoose got him -_- I think I've read that article somewhere...and if I recall it wasn't just one animator that worked on him...
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