おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
Wallace and Gromit映画の写真特集記事。
shaunの可愛さにまいってますが、AardmanにはまったきっかけはGromitなのです。（shaunもだけど）知的だしお耳の動きが可愛いのよねぇ。
props
意味 [通例～s][劇] 小道具 (property).
Emma Stirling-Middleton, curator at the Cartoon Museum: The exhibition has everything that survives relating to The Wrong Trousers (1993). It takes you on a journey through the making of the film, from Nick Park’s sketchbooks, seeing the evolution of the characters, then developing them into an original script, then storyboarding. Then stepping onto the studio floor to see original models and props. And then we look at the film’s legacy – including the Oscar.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/aug/21/wallace-and-gromit-the-wrong-trousers-30-exhibition-cartoon-museum
今度Shaunの展示会に行くんだけど（福岡に来てくれてありがと）、実際のセットやキャラクターってほんとに小さいし可愛いし粘土感あるし…ずっと見ちゃえるのよねえ。
steal the limelight from A
意味 A から注目を奪う.
ESM: At the Oscars in 1991, Nick Park was up for two of the three films in the best short animation category. He won for Creature Comforts, which beat A Grand Day Out, the first Wallace and Gromit film. At that time, Creature Comforts stole the limelight while A Grand Day Out was more of a slow burn. It was really with The Wrong Trousers that public interest in Wallace and Gromit exploded.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/aug/21/wallace-and-gromit-the-wrong-trousers-30-exhibition-cartoon-museum
like a house on fire
意味 (くだけた話) どんどん, すみやかに, すらすらと, じゃんじゃん
DS: Nick had written most of A Grand Day Out solo, but for this one we teamed him up with Bob Baker, who’d written a lot of Doctor Who. They got on like a house on fire. Bob said: ‘Come on Nick, let’s go through the sketchbooks and see what ideas you’ve got.’ [• This caption was amended on 22 August 2023 to correct Bob Baker’s surname.]
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/aug/21/wallace-and-gromit-the-wrong-trousers-30-exhibition-cartoon-museum
この表現面白いなあ！調べる前は「徹夜でひーひー燃えてる感じなのかな」って読み違えてたw
vein
意味 [C][通例 a ～ of A]A〈特質など〉の傾向, 特徴
DS: Nick had about 24 sketches of a train chase on a model railway because he thought it would be funny to have something in the vein of a major cowboy film or a Bond movie, but on a living room carpet. Bob said: ‘Well, I think what we’ve got here is a heist movie, and that train chase is the denouement. And there’s a picture of a penguin here. I think that’s your villain.’
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/aug/21/wallace-and-gromit-the-wrong-trousers-30-exhibition-cartoon-museum
endearing
意味 〈性質· 行動などが〉人に好感 [愛情] を抱かせる, 親しみのわく.
Brian Sibley, Aardman historian and co-writer on The Wrong Trousers: There’s something so human about Gromit. Just the placing of the eyes – they can be hugely expressive. Although he is a dog, he’s immensely endearing. He’s very much half of a partnership; Wallace and Gromit is a middle-aged kind of concept. It’s sort of Terry and June, a married couple that were the comedy diet in the 60s and 70s.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/aug/21/wallace-and-gromit-the-wrong-trousers-30-exhibition-cartoon-museum
そうなのよ。Gromitって口元が動かないからShaunよりも無口に見えるんだけど（いやだから喋らないんだがw）、目元で気持ちが分かるのよー可愛いのよ！愛想があまりなくてクールなのもよい。
reassuring
意味 〈言葉· 行為などが〉（人を） 安心させる, 元気づける
BS: Wallace and Gromit are appealing, reassuring, warm shapes. Not angular. Everything about them is comfortable. We lean towards characters like Mickey Mouse, which is all circles, or Charles Schulz’s characters, which are based mostly on circular shapes. Wallace and Gromit fit that bill, as do the chickens in Chicken Run and Morph [seen here with David Sproxton (left) and his Aardman co-founder, Peter Lord]. And, obviously, the sheep.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/aug/21/wallace-and-gromit-the-wrong-trousers-30-exhibition-cartoon-museum
うんうん。壁紙に設定したらまあ見るたびにかわいいかわいい言っちゃうw 造形が最高にかわいい。
odds and ends
意味 (くだけて)[複数扱い]がらくた, 雑多なもの; こまごまとした用事.
ESM: Everything was done by hand, even the special effects: they put in pieces of glass to create the gunshots. A lot of their equipment was antique – mismatched odds and ends they brought from home. And they couldn’t watch back any footage: it was physical film that had to be sent from Bristol to London to be developed.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/aug/21/wallace-and-gromit-the-wrong-trousers-30-exhibition-cartoon-museum
Lilliputian
意味 リリパットの住民.[l-]小人
BS: It was a Lilliputian enterprise: repositioning tiny figures for hours each day. The meticulousness and labour-intensive concentration that goes into animation means it’s a really dedicated craft. It’s not something you just rush off.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2023/aug/21/wallace-and-gromit-the-wrong-trousers-30-exhibition-cartoon-museum
辞書ひいて「だからリリパットってなんだよ」と思って日本語検索→ガリヴァー旅行記由来のようです。知らんがな！
