091. Nick Park & Steve Box: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

The classic genres… horror, rom-com, monster film, bunny-comedy? In our preparation for the recently released Vengeance Most Fowl, join us as we cover Nick Park’s 2005 Wallace & Gromit feature, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, co-directed with Steve Box. Eli recounts the experience he had watching this in theaters as a kid. Wilson talks about why stop motion animation scares him. And Ben leads us into an interesting conversation about genre, and how comedy operates in this film and in our lives 

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Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(06:49) Plot summary

(08:58) General reactions

(13:17) Types of humour

(20:55) Genre

(28:30) Payoffs

(35:30) Stop-motion and humanity

(41:42) Margin of safety

(45:35) Comedy and horror

(47:57) Childhood movies and tragedy

(51:27) Outro