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Group: rec.arts.animation · Group Profile
Author: Dorothy J HeydtDorothy J Heydt Date: Apr 23, 2008 14:20
In article blue.rahul.net>,
Ken Arromdee green.rahul.net> wrote:>In article enews1.newsguy.com>,
>Avoid normal situations. eskimo.com> wrote:>> I'd bet on _Ranma 1/2_. A man who changes into a woman when doused with
>>cold water is a concept that would fit right in in one of those light
>>fantasy/comedies that old Hollywood often did well (_Topper_, _The Ghost
>>and Mrs. Muir_, et al.).
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>A lot of Ranma is based on parodies and exaggerations of martial arts
>movies and Japanese culture. Hollywood decades ago would care about and
>understand neither of these.
True, and it would have to be modified somewhat.
Perhaps a Western, with a tomboy cowgirl who can out-ride and
out-rope all the boys? A collection of shape-changing pools
somewhere out in the lone prairee, found and lost _ad libitum_
like ghostly gold mines, would fit right in.
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt@kithrup.com
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