Fantastic Planet 4/8

[silvereagle2061]

The "goaway" sound you hear is from an actual bird that lives in Africa and Australia.

[timepoet77]

As freaky and weird as this movie is, I give Teeva (or Tiva) credit: she really does love Terr with all her heart. You can really see the love she has.

[9Iamthewalrus]

What is that caged preditor at 5:05, Liz I had a hallusination bout that thing

[marioskywalker64]

Its like doing drugs, without drugs!

[FreedumbFighter28]

I never ate any

[Solicyte]

This is the most f*cked thing I have ever seen, lol.

[aramanth]

At 5:05 something happens that I found a description for on a French website long ago... the little pig-bat critter (or Blop-Blop) is considered a nuisance by the Draags. The caged predator is put in place by the Draags to catch and kill Blop-Blops.

Whether the predator gets a sick thrill out of it is its own business....

The Quadropod, the four legged critter dragging a large appendage, is from the sick and brilliant mind of Roland Topor. Life on this world is either brutal or sexual!

[Kemonokami]

@aramanth

Which site is that? I must know!

[aramanth]

@Kemonokami The site is gone and it was in French. I also remember the Weavers. It told of the Weavers who covered Ter in moist kisses as they wove his clothing. lol again if it isn't brutal, it's sexual!! I would try doing a search for La Planete Sauvage and Blop Blop if that helps.

[dharmaseed]

@aramanth Do you remember what the deal was with that crazy bipedal cow-dog-snail thing that eats the tiny bird?

[aramanth]

@dharmaseed It's not mentioned in the book, in fact not much fauna is discussed at all just a few. I think it's one of Topor's continuous allegory of the large engulfing the small. In fact the vision of the Draag men, the bizarre flora and fauna and even the female Om that Terr falls in love with are not in the book! Just fruits form the incredible brilliant mind of Roland Topor! The book is still a good read, english translation isn't bad reads like a junior high sci-fi novel.

[dharmaseed]

@aramanth Hmm, interesting. Might he by any chance have a website?

[aramanth]

@dharmaseed Roland Topor did have a detailed website long ago, in French. But that site has long been taken down. You might search him on google.fr (french google).

The site with the info I saw long ago was a fan site, where the information came from I have no clue. Wikipedia has very little on Topor's life other than this film and his book the Tenant.

[dharmaseed]

@aramanth Thanks for the info, I checked it out, there were a bunch of image results. Fairly insane stuff. Surreal and sexual at the same time.

[aramanth]

@dharmaseed Oh yeah... I should have mentioned that Topor's artwork ranges from the obscure to the grotesquely sexual in nature. Still a brilliant original artist. If you like him you might check some of the German Expressionists from the early 1900s like Egon Schiele and George Grosz, their work is a bit grizzly too.

[dharmaseed]

@aramanth Okay, I will check them out. Expressionism is not one of my areas of knowledge, so it should be interesting.

[RatBatSpiderCrab]

That Creature at 4:53 has some serious mental issues!

[Johnlindsey289]

Does this movie remind anyone of Monty Python with Heavy Metal, Avatar and Nausicaa?

[Kemonokami]

2:49 - Wow, this planet has hand-lotion fungi!

[PeekaPeep]

One of my favorite parts of this film was when that dumbass kept banging the box after the kid told him it was a trap and the box ends up pwning him, lol!!!

[L00ney2665]

oh god, i can just watch 4:52 again and again, it's the most epic wtf-moment ever

[ancalites]

@L00ney2665 That was seriously like something straight out of one of Terry Gilliam's animated sequences for Monty Python.

[TsakirisAlexandros]

My brain had a logic fart watching this cartoon. Pretty sick and awesome!

[7DARKHELLS]

Mentally disturbed fish -bat killer at 5:05!