[XivD - Mute Ac3] Idiots and Angels - Bill Plympton [TNTVillage org]

(Idioti e angeli - 2008)

di/by Bill Plympton

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Di idioti è pieno il mondo, si sa. Ma di angeli?

Angel è una persona gretta, insensibile, egocentrica ed egoista. Cattivo? Sì, perché fregarsene di tutto e di tutti è una sua norma di vita, non perché sia malvagio: e si sa che chi pensa esclusivamente a sé stesso tanto buono non potrà mai essere...
Il suo lavoro, anch'esso non proprio raccomandabile, si svolge in un laido bar di periferia, dove altri personaggi più o meno anonimi ripetono ogni giorno le medesime cose, disperdendo la loro esistenza.

Un giorno, però, sulla schiena di Angel spuntano due strane escrescenze. Ogni tentativo di amputarle o di sbarazzarsene è vano: alla fine, quelle sgraziate e un po' schifose "zampette" si trasformano in vere e proprio ali angeliche. Ali che non soltanto sono imbarazzanti perché impossibili (o quasi) da nascondere, ma perché in qualche modo riescono a costringere il malcapitato a compiere buone azioni, suo malgrado. E quanto Angel sia riluttante a fare da boy-scout o da buon samaritano è noto al mondo intero...
Ma questo "terribile prezzo da pagare" non lo scoraggia e, purtroppo, non scoraggia altra gente che pensa che un angelo, dopo tutto, si possa sempre fregare. Così Angel si rende conto di una cosa: che in questo mondo molte persone sono disposte a tutto pur di possedere un paio di ali per volare!

Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally bankrupt man who hangs out as his local bar, berating the other patrons. One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up with a pair of wings on his back. The wings make him do good deeds, contrary to his nature. He desperately tries to rid himself of the good wings, but eventually finds himself fighting those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune.






Titolo originale: Idiots & angels

Directed by
Bill Plympton


Writing credits
Bill Plympton....writer


Produced by
Biljana Labovic....producer
Bill Plympton....producer
Steve Tenhonen....live action producer

Original Music by
Corey A. Jackson (as Corey Allen Jackson)

Film Editing by
Kevin Palmer


Art Direction by
Biljana Labovic
Bill Plympton


Art Department
Kerri Allegretta....production artist
Biljana Labovic....production artist
Lisa LaBracio....production artist

Sound Department
Greg Sextro...sound designer
Greg Sextro....supervising sound editor

Animation Department
Bill Plympton....animator

Editorial Department
Barbara Jean Kearney....digital intermediate executive producer
Daniel Silverman....digital imaging supervisor

Other crew
Daniel Silverman....digital film project manager






Bill Plympton

Bill Plympton (Portland, 30 aprile 1946) è un disegnatore, illustratore e animatore statunitense.

Plympton è uno dei rarissimi animatori che disegnano ogni fotogramma della maggior parte dei propri film animati a mano e senza l'aiuto di nessuno. I suoi corti e film sono noti per il frequente utilizzo di violenza e tematiche sessuali trattati in modo appunto "cartoonesco", portati a un tale grado di esagerazione da diventare surreali.

Dal 1964 al 1967 Plympton ha frequentato la Portland State University, per poi trasferirsi nel 1968 alla School of Visual Arts di New York.

Nel 1975 ha iniziato a pubblicare una strip di contenuto politico, chiamata "Plympton", pubblicata fino ad oggi su più di 20 quotidiani. Le sue vignette e illustrazioni sono a tutt'oggi pubblicate sui quotidiani New York Times e The Village Voice, nonché sulle riviste Rolling Stone, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Penthouse e National Lampoon.

Nel 1987 ha vinto un premio Oscar per il suo cortometraggio animato Your Face, mentre un altro cortometraggio, Guard Dog, ha ricevuto una nomination all'Oscar nel 2005.

Nel 1991, durante la pre-produzione di Aladdin, la Disney ha offerto a Plympton la possibilità di diventare animatore capo per il film, più un contratto di sette anni con l'azienda, ma egli rifiutò perché, da indipendente quale è e vuole rimanere, sapeva che qualunque sua creazione elaborata sotto l'ala della Disney sarebbe automaticamente divenuta proprietà intellettuale dell'azienda.

Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946) is an American animator, former cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog.

Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon, to Don and Wilda Plympton. From 1964 to 1968, he attended Portland State University, where he was a member of the film society and worked on the yearbook. In 1968, he transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Plympton's illustrations and cartoons have been published in The New York Times and weekly newspaper The Village Voice, as well as in the magazines Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Penthouse, and National Lampoon. His political cartoon strip Plympton, which began in 1975 in the Soho Weekly News, eventually was syndicated and appeared in over 20 newspapers. His distinctive style is easily recognized.
Plympton is the only animator ever to draw every frame for an animated feature film by himself. Signe Baumane, also a director and animator, has been inking and painting Plympton's cels for many years. As of 2006, Plympton had created 26 animated short films and five animated features. He has also published a comic book, The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton. Plympton usually publishes a graphic novel version during the production of each feature in order to raise money for the film itself.
Plympton, together with other independent New York City animators, has released two DVDs of animated shorts, both titled Avoid Eye Contact. His work also appeared on the 1992–1993 Fox comedy series The Edge; on MTV during the late 1980s; and on MTV's animated series Liquid Television in the early 1990s. In 1995, he contributed animation and graphics to a computer game collection, Take Your Best Shot.
From 2001 to 2003, he teamed with Don Hertzfeldt for the touring "The Don and Bill Show", which played throughout the United States. In 2005, Plympton animated a music video for Kanye West's "Heard 'Em Say". The following year, he created the music video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Don't Download This Song".
The actress Martha Plimpton, a distant relative of his,served as associate producer on Plympton's animated feature Hair High (2004), doing much of the casting. The movie's voice cast included her father Keith Carradine and her uncle David Carradine. Plympton contributed animation in the History Channel series, 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America, to illustrate the events of Shays' Rebellion.
His films: The Fan and the Flower; Eat, Your Face, Guard Dog and Santa: The Fascist Years were included in the Animation Show of Shows.
Plympton's 2008 80-minute feature, Idiots and Angels, had no dialog. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 26 April 2008,[5] and was nominated in the feature film category at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2008.
In 2011, a documentary on Plympton's life called Adventures In Plymptoons! [6] by filmmaker Alexia Anastasio, was completed.







Format Video: 16:9
Durata: 78 minuti
Audio: muto - mute



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