The Brave Little Toaster
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captain_slinkyBy far the most depressingly scary Disney film of all time... THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER. I barely remember watching it once "back in the day", but Molly and i are watching it right now and... WOW. She's engrossed in it! Makes me have high hopes for other non-Princess-Musical-CGI films like The Iron Giant :)
If you've never seen The Brave little Toaster, think of all the saddest, depressing moments of the Toy Story movies (the whole abandoned/forgotten/guilt parts) plus all the frightening parts (Sid)... now take those parts and make a movie about common household appliances.
There's a musical number in here, I sh*t you not, where cars in a junkyard sing about how they can't believe they're about to die and plead for their lives before being mashed to bits by the merciless scrapper. Dark, man... dark.
They can turn that in to a ride at Disneyland, right?
If you've never seen The Brave little Toaster, think of all the saddest, depressing moments of the Toy Story movies (the whole abandoned/forgotten/guilt parts) plus all the frightening parts (Sid)... now take those parts and make a movie about common household appliances.
There's a musical number in here, I sh*t you not, where cars in a junkyard sing about how they can't believe they're about to die and plead for their lives before being mashed to bits by the merciless scrapper. Dark, man... dark.
They can turn that in to a ride at Disneyland, right?
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Date: 2010-01-08 12:41 am (UTC)I have the original book by Thomas M. Disch (which is out of print and incredibly hard to find!), an author of mostly-adult science fiction novels. I also have the original printing of the story which was first published in the August 1980 "Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction".
Dark, you say? The author killed himself about a year and a half ago, on July 4th, 2008. He was gay. His partner of 35 years died in 2005 and that was just the start of a downhill slide. http://www.advocate.com/printArticle.aspx?id=44478
He had a Livejournal, which I followed before his death: http://tomsdisch.livejournal.com/
It took me awhile to figure out why he stopped posting!
I think the story is brilliant, myself.
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