Pooh and Piglet Go on a Rampage

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” Director Teases Slasher Film Plot

“Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” will see Pooh and Piglet as “the main villains…going on a rampage” after being abandoned by a college-bound Christopher Robin. “Christopher Robin is pulled away from them, and he’s not [given] them food, it’s made Pooh and Piglet’s life quite difficult.”

12 thoughts on “Pooh and Piglet Go on a Rampage

  1. I suppose we can expect this sort of bullcrap if/when Disney loses the copyrights on their characters. Just because you can, etc.

    1. And you have a problem with that? I, honestly, can’t wait to see what get’s done with Sherlock Holmes and assorted personages from that fictional universe.

      Yes, there will be dross, but … I’d suggest that a goodly portion of Winnie the Pooh canon *is* dross, but … that’s just, like, my opinion, man.

      1. Dorothy Parker, as the New Yorker’s “Constant Reader” reviewed the first Winnie the Pooh book when it was published in 1928. Suffice it to say, she was not a fan. A line of her review achieved fame:

        “And it is that word “hummy,” my darlings, that marks the first place in “The House at Pooh Corner” at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up.”

        1. And A. A. Milne’s response (I couldn’t find the exact quote, but it was something like this): No self-respecting children’s author is going to say to himself, the hell with the kids, Mrs. Parker will love it.

          I certainly don’t have a problem with parody in general. Nor do I think Winnie the Pooh is particularly outstanding kidlit. OK, but ignorable. But I suspect that the Disney stable of characters will get raked over the coals, once people get the legal OK. “Yes, there will be dross,” Mr. Dobbs predicts. My question is, will there be anything BUT dross? We’ll see, I guess.

          1. I’m not even necessarily talking about parody, per se. More re-interpretation/re-imagining. Some will be good, some not so much.

            Having said that, I’m with Stick in being *all* for Disney IP being dragged. It’s only, what, 30+ years overdue?

            The *ONLY* reason they aren’t lobbying Congress to extend copyright on Mickey Mouse is due to political climate. They did it three times previously, and would again if they thought they could slide it past.

        2. I think doing this kind of parody of a famous children’s book shows the sort of creative bankruptcy in moviemaking that the big budget movie makers have been suffering from for quite a few years. Maybe that bankruptcy says something about the audience, too. I don’t know, I’m not a deep thinker. It just seems like a waste.

          As for Dorothy Parker, I just liked her take on the book. Sure, it’s arguable, given that it’s a book for children, but a dash of cynicism can head off literary diabetes from too much sugar in writing.

          1. I’m still wondering what Dorothy Parker was doing reviewing House at Pooh Corner in the first place. It would be like Anton Ego reviewing an Arby’s. Was it that slow a week in the literary world?

          2. You know those highbrow types love to hob-nob with the hoi polloi, just to show how well they stay in touch. I hear James Joyce used to love to watch the three stooges, and would hum along with the theme song.

            Although he didn’t like the ones with Shemp.

            Gertrude Stein almost punched him out once for that. She was a huge Shemp fan. Had a picture of him above her fireplace. Luckily F. Scott and Zelda broke it up by holding them back. Zelda had no trouble restraining the Irishman, but Stein turned her wrath back on F. Scott and bloodied his nose. It was really misplaced wrath because, as luck would have it, Scotty was also a Shempomaniac (as they called themselves).

            Dorothy Parker was OK with Shemp, but she just despised Joe Besser.

        1. Au contraire! I can’t remember all the details (sorry, it’s early and I’ve not yet finished my first cup ‘o Joe), but my recollection is that most of the stories are PD but not all, and the Doyle Estate is *incredibly* litigious. Again, from recollection, I believe the entirety of the original A.C. Doyle work re: Holmes becomes PD this year, actually.

    2. And oh it’ll be so sweet. Proper payback for the copyright extensions they never should have gotten in the first place. Walt died a long time ago and Disney is just another multi-billion dollar corporation. And quite a ruthless one at that. They were the leader in jacking up cable tv prices by constantly raising the price of ESPN, the most expensive cable channel by far. It’s time to pay the piper.

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