A Shaggy Dog Story
Jun. 7th, 2011 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanillafluffyDiscussing the movie "Jumpin' Jack Flash" yesterday, I abbreviated it as JJF...after a typo that came out as JJR. Sometime during the night, a synapse fired, and I thought, "Wouldn't that be interesting if it was 'Jumpin' Jack Russell'?!" Given the manic nature of the terrier terrors, they probably would've out-hypered Whoopi.
With that in mind, I think there are a lot of movies that might be better served by being dog stories. I mean, "The Shawshank Redemption" is one of my favorite movies of all time, but I'd also sit through "The Shawshank Rottweiler". Tunneling his way to freedom...in a similar vein, the Steve McQueen movie "Papillon" would be much different if a *real* Papillon starred in it.
I'm not much of a Brad Pitt fan---if he was Brad Pitbull, maybe---but I'd go see "A Rhodesian Ridgeback Runs Through It", and I'd be in the front row for "The Curious Case of Dandie Dinmont". (Likewise, if his beloved had given us "Growl, Interrupted", I might have been more enthused.)
Oh, the classics that could be given a tail-wagging reboot! "Ordinary Pomeranians", "Field of Dalmatians", "Sherlock Hounds", "The French Bulldog Connection", "Dante's Pekinese", "The Silence of the Labs".... I totally want to see "2001: A Shiba Inu Odyssey", and "O Boxer, Where Art Thou".
I've always been a fan of spaghetti westerns---I can hardly wait to watch "The Good, the Bedlington and the Ugly". I can perfectly visualize the poster: the Good is a yellow Lab and the Ugly is a Xoloitzcuintle.
Of course, who can forget that lovely Irish Setter Scarlett O'Hairy at the end of "Gone With the Airedale" as she says, "I'll think about it tomorow. After all, tomorrow is---squirrel?!"
And the Oscar goes to---"Schnauzer's List"! Think that's in bad taste? Two words: Puppy mills. Not a laughing matter.
Cats? You're on your own. The only title that comes to mind is "Stand By Meow".
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With that in mind, I think there are a lot of movies that might be better served by being dog stories. I mean, "The Shawshank Redemption" is one of my favorite movies of all time, but I'd also sit through "The Shawshank Rottweiler". Tunneling his way to freedom...in a similar vein, the Steve McQueen movie "Papillon" would be much different if a *real* Papillon starred in it.
I'm not much of a Brad Pitt fan---if he was Brad Pitbull, maybe---but I'd go see "A Rhodesian Ridgeback Runs Through It", and I'd be in the front row for "The Curious Case of Dandie Dinmont". (Likewise, if his beloved had given us "Growl, Interrupted", I might have been more enthused.)
Oh, the classics that could be given a tail-wagging reboot! "Ordinary Pomeranians", "Field of Dalmatians", "Sherlock Hounds", "The French Bulldog Connection", "Dante's Pekinese", "The Silence of the Labs".... I totally want to see "2001: A Shiba Inu Odyssey", and "O Boxer, Where Art Thou".
I've always been a fan of spaghetti westerns---I can hardly wait to watch "The Good, the Bedlington and the Ugly". I can perfectly visualize the poster: the Good is a yellow Lab and the Ugly is a Xoloitzcuintle.
Of course, who can forget that lovely Irish Setter Scarlett O'Hairy at the end of "Gone With the Airedale" as she says, "I'll think about it tomorow. After all, tomorrow is---squirrel?!"
And the Oscar goes to---"Schnauzer's List"! Think that's in bad taste? Two words: Puppy mills. Not a laughing matter.
Cats? You're on your own. The only title that comes to mind is "Stand By Meow".
.