{"id":473,"date":"2006-05-07T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2006-05-07T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T16:59:00","slug":"slandering-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Slandering The Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m just appalled at how people have dissed the movie <i>The Wild<\/i> by saying it&#8217;s basically the same as <i>Madagascar<\/i>.  I&#8217;m here to set the record straight.<\/p>\n<p>They are very different movies.   To wit:<\/p>\n<p><i>The Wild<\/i> (TW) doesn&#8217;t have a zebra, a hippo, a lion and a giraffe as the main cast.  It has a Koala, a snake, a squirrel, a lion and a giraffe.<\/p>\n<p>In M, the zebra longs for the wild.  In TW, it is a lion.<\/p>\n<p>In M, a lion figures out how to steer a boat bound for the wild.  In M, it is a penguin.<\/p>\n<p>In M, when they are first wandering through the wilderness, the lion steps on a thorned vine.  In TW, it is the koala.<\/p>\n<p>In M, the group encounters a group of dancing Lemurs who have a secret agenda that involves the lion.  In TW, the group encounters a group of dancing wildebeasts who have a secret agenda that involves the lion.<\/p>\n<p>The wildebeasts are choreographed, the lemurs dance freeform.<\/p>\n<p>In the <i>Madagascar<\/i> christmas short, the heroes are terrorized by a poofy, white, bloodthirsty poodle in a New York apartment.  In <i>The Wild<\/i>, the heroes are terrorized by a poofy, white, bloodthirsty poodle in a New York alley.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Madagascar<\/i>, the heroes are aided by psychotic penguins who believe themselves to be secret agents.  In <i>The Wild<\/i>, our heroes are aided by psychotic chameleons who believe themselves to be secret agents. <\/p>\n<p>So, there you go.  Completely different.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the animation in <i>The Wild<\/i> is more realistic.  There&#8217;s that, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m just appalled at how people have dissed the movie The Wild by saying it&#8217;s basically the same as Madagascar. I&#8217;m here to set the record straight. They are very different movies. To wit: The Wild (TW) doesn&#8217;t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=473\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}