tyrantisterror:

I’ve been thinking about that Grinch movie idea and little bits of dialogue have been popping into my brain, and I’m pretty sure I’d have at least one small line where the Grinch references his “cousin Onceler,” just to canonize the “The Onceler and the Grinch are the same species” idea.

OOO! OOOOO! And the Cat in the Hat could be Cat Z, the infinitesimally small Cat in the Hat from The Cat in the Hat Comes Back! Because Whoville exists on a speck of dust, so it would follow that its Cat in the Hat must be the super tiny cat!

How would handle a feature length Grinch adaptation if you had to? Like, “gun to your head” had to. You can do it any way you want, but you can’t not-do it, and it must be at least 70 minutes long.

tyrantisterror:

I’d make an Anthology film called Seasons of the Grinch. Each would tell the story of the Grinch’s relationship with Who-ville. Spring would be when he moves into Mt. Krumpet, and the whos attempt to make friends with him (it doesn’t go well, but he does reluctantly keep the dog one of them gave him as gift). Summer would be a faceoff between the Grinch and the Cat in the Hat, who briefly enters Who-ville to do his normal bit of light mischief, and the two end up competing to see who’s the better trickster scourge. Fall would be an update of Halloween is Grinch Night, and Winter would be “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”

It would keep the Grinch as a sort of inexplicable monster in the folkloric vein – a creature that isn’t to be slain, but rather out-smarted and perhaps eventually redeemed. We’d develop his character slowly without giving him a reason or excuse to be a grouch (since the lack of a clear reason for his grouchiness is a key character trait of his – removing it destroys the Christmas story’s potency), and hopefully by the end you’d get a story where the Grinch is a very complicated character whose redemption feels very earned. He’s a fuckup, but he’s a fuckup you want to see get his shit together, and that desire is what connects the four separate stories of the anthology – the overarching plot, the true story of the entire film, is of the Grinch finally getting his shit together.

I’d find ways to work in Eucariah and Cindy Loo Who into all four seasons, since they both play important roles in the Grinch’s story (one of the things I don’t hate about the adaptations is their expansion of Cindy’s role in all of this), and the Grinch’s relationship with Max would be fleshed out as well.

Every line of dialogue would be poetic – rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, consonance, all the good shit from Dr. Seuss’s books that adaptations inevitably cut because it would be too hard to reproduce and possibly be off-putting to people because it’s “weird”. And I’d find a good actor with horror credentials to play the Grinch – off the top of my head, I’m thinking either Ron Perlman, Keith David, or Robert Englund.

It would be very weird and experimental and it would never get funding, but hopefully it would do right by Dr. Seuss.

Grinch and isolation

I feel rather than a bullying backstory, any tale of rejection for the Grinch would work better if it was like H.P Lovecraft’s The Outsider, but toned down of course.

And honestly, I have no problem with the Grinch buying groceries, but I at least expect him to have a disguise like the Phantom of the Opera

zefronishowiknowimnotgay:

0l0x:

2018 Grinch has no edge. He’s got no bite. He’s not even that much of an asshole. He’s just a sassy gay furry with unusually nice teeth despite his famous theme song declaring otherwise.

1966 Grinch? Now that was a mean, scary bastard. He was a crusty old fuck who hated society so much that he only came off his shitty frozen mountain to commit crimes and terrorism out of spite.

Bennyhoo Cumberland Grinch comes down from his mountain to buy groceries.

You can round the edges off a character to make them more “relatable” or whatever, but you also run the risk of losing what defined them in the first place. The end result is bland and generic.

2018 Grinch is a reflection of modern society’s rejection of real character flaws in the interest of being “unproblematic” and in this essay i will

I liked the new Grinch because I thought it was a different take on what the Grinch stands for. He isn’t miserabe to be miserable. He hates Christmas because a deep sense of loneliness has left him with severe social anxiety results in panic attacks. To make himself feel safe and to keep from having more panic attacks he goes on the defense, planning to steal the things that trigger him to those attacks.

Cindy Loo-Whos desire to help her mom, giving up everything else for Christmas, shows the Grinch that Christmas isnt about presents. Its about loving those around you. And then, even after she knows that he stole everything, she still invites him to be a part of Christmas. Because she sees he is lonely and she wants to help him start to have a family too.

You can tell the Grinch doesn’t believe that people actually like him because of his refusal to accept friendship from other Who’s around him.

I dunno, maybe I am defenaive Because I love the Grinch so much. But. It wasnt bad.

I sometimes like to reblog rare opinions.

I do wonder if this film might have worked better now if it was a new character stealing Christmas for these reasons. Sadly it would probably be considered a ripoff despite the fact Nightmare before Christmas got away with it.

I do like what I’ve heard about the new take on the ending thought