Ozy and Millie: the Movie

Doctor Fred · Postby **Doctor Fred** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:34 am

What if our beloved internet strip became a motion picture on the silver screen? What if you could see your favorite characters move? What if you could hear them speak?... on a scale more literal than your imagination, I mean. What if Ozy and Millie was a movie? Or a T.V. show, either one. Who should be in it? Do you even like the idea at all? Me? I think Jack Black would be the suitable guy to provide the voice for Avery, and Kevin Kline would be the man for Llewelyn. What's your thoughts? (I figured we should spend a little time outside the forum games section. Let my corny attempt at a conversation starter commence !)

Foxchild · Postby **Foxchild** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:36 am

I had thought about that... i was thinking along the lines of the charlie brown/peanuts movies. That would be what i would like. Life as a child would see it, with some of the outrageouse events that make their world so unique and special. Honestly, I truley believe this woild work well, with only one problem that I will bring up later.

HerrSkofild · Postby **HerrSkofild** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:43 am

hrm...i can only see that really happening...if it would happen, i can only see it as an animated film, but, when would our good man simpson ever going to find time for that...it would be nice, but kinda unsensible...i dunno who would voice the chars either...

Doctor Fred · Postby **Doctor Fred** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:50 am

As a comic strip, Ozy and Millie has gone under a method of story telling in which it starts and stops and starts and stops with each new strip. And, consequently, it has become the type of storytelling that it translates to best. As a movie, it would have to start and then keep going and going and going until it finally comes to a close and Ozy and Millie might not be able to handle that. That's one potential problem.

MidnightRealism · Postby **MidnightRealism** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:55 am

As a full length movie, no. No way. It would never, ever work. Maybe as a "Peanuts" style special every once in a while, but no way otherwise. I should mention, however, that the very idea of Jack Black as the voice of Avery is pretty funny. I could see that. As a show...it could work, but I'm not sure how well it would translate...certain shows destroyed preconceived notions I had about who the characters were, what they sounded like, and so on ("Dilbert", I'm looking right at you).

Foxchild · Postby **Foxchild** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:57 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> i dunno who would voice the chars either...</td></tr></table>  actually that was the problem that I woulda mentioned. I have a set of voices, that while may be similar, will not be the same as yours colectivley. As for who would animate it, i don't think Charles Scholtz animated his own movies, so that would not necciccarily be a problem. Also, look how many consecutive storys can go on in a peanuts movie. It is VERY plausible for a comic to be transposed into a movie. Plus, the comics do have some closure, such as when ozy breaths fire to destroy his arranged marriage papers. It can be done, and quite well. EDIT:  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Maybe as a "Peanuts" style special every once in a while, but no way otherwise.</td></tr></table>  yes, thats the kinda thing i was talking about. It would work, like a yearly special such as christmas, or easter, or thanksgiving. Something along those lines

Doctor Fred · Postby **Doctor Fred** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:59 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (MidnightRealism @ Oct 28 2003, 02:55 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> "Dilbert", I'm looking right at you.  </td></tr></table>  Yeah, Dilburt did suck, didn't it? Although, I think it still had the potential.

LotharBot · Postby **LotharBot** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 4:59 am

I'd rather not see it as a full-length movie... but it would make a really cute interlude in a longer movie, sort of like Itchy and Scratchy on Simpsons.

Foxchild · Postby **Foxchild** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:04 am

see, that would leave me feeling more like i had MISSED a full lenght(well, at least an hour long anyway) movie. as for the show idea, i don't think it would translate as well. First thing that comes to mind for me is Garfield, which was an O.K. show, with half of it not even garfield. It could work, but I'd much rather see a series of movies like the afore mentioned peanuts. I keep bringing that up... but you kow, i can't think of anything else done in that style. (of coarse having the DDR song of Drop the Bomb Speedy Mix stuck in my head isn't helping!)

MidnightRealism · Postby **MidnightRealism** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:21 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (FoxChild @ Oct 28 2003, 12:04 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> the DDR song of Drop the Bomb Speedy Mix stuck in my head  </td></tr></table>  It's easy to blast them all away Pull a trigger, press a button, say adios to today SUFFER! Anyway, now that I'm done antagonizing you, I'll toss in my opinion of "Garfield and Friends": if it were just the "Friends" of Garfield, it would have been so superior to the show as it was. The "U.S. Acres" cartoons between Garfield cartoons were way funnier than the main cartoons. If O&M the cartoon was like those...hm...it wouldn't be half bad.

simon · Postby **simon** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:02 am

I doubt it'd work. O&M isn't the kind of strip that would work in a movie unless you added a silly un-O&M-like storyline to it.

Seven · Postby **Seven** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:41 am

A series of shorts would work well, I think. half hour at the most, more along the 15 minute mark. That would be long enough to staisfy my own itchings for "more!" yet short enough to not beat a story to death. But I agree - voices would be the hardest part. I rarely imagine the voices (if at all) the way they usually get porttrayed in animated films. The only exception was the Peanuts movies, and mostly because I'd started watching those before I started reading the comics <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> *wishes he were better at animating..*

Foxchild · Postby **Foxchild** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:44 am

Well, the storyline of the family reunion would clearly work... the first time ozy got shaved by millie could be used as a sub-story that would last for a bit (much like, say, the 'adventure' lucy had at the mall in... i can't remember which special, or trying to find the christmas tree and looking at the aluminum ones). I completely disagree with you 5hfifty, i think it would make a perfect movie transition. It would not work as a standard kid cartoon today though, no. Thats not the style of the strip, and therefore would not work for a movie. Take for another example, when Charlie Brown was turned invisible by Snoopy, and there are the many gags done as to what he could do if he were invisible, and how to get him back. That's a lot like some of the charactor driven storylines in O&M. I kinda feel as if I'd be the main advocate for the idea of a movie(again a peanuts styled one. If you have not seen a peanuts movie, Firstly i'd be flaberghasted(sp?), secondly, I'd pitty you to no end). I even have several scenes running through my head right now of already made strips that could translate well. I'm gonna try and save some steam for this for later, so at least i won't be defensless. if it comes down to it, i think we should hold a small debate-like thing, after witch we have a poll. just a suggestion there, don't have to take it to seriously.

Deranged Mr. Pappy · Postby **Deranged Mr. Pappy** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:10 am

I am told a moral correction of discrimination in the plot would be a grand and unique item.

Crispy · Postby **Crispy** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 8:38 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'>Quote: (5hfifty @ Oct 28 2003, 04:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I doubt it'd work. O&M isn't the kind of strip that would work in a movie unless you added a silly un-O&M-like storyline to it.  </td></tr></table>  I agree ... O&M is the kind of comic that you need to think about and you would'n be able to do that properly if it was a fast moving animation ...... with that said I would (of course) watch it anyway <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

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