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Smith Family ----> Addam's Family

posted 10 years ago by RichN36
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After watching this movie today and doing some thinking. I wonder if Charles Addams was trying to parody the Smith family in this movie when he created his Addams family comic strip?

I mean they were both eccentric family's only one was light the other was kind of Dark. Also the similarities between Tootie Smith and Wednesday Addams makes me think Charles Addams was poking this film as well.

Also the Smith Family home was a Clean Version of the Dark Addams House.

In the end it doesn't matter I would accept either family as Friends in my Neighborhood.

Col. G. Stonehill: Most people around here have heard of Rooster Cogburn.

[–] freudified_n_funkified 10 years ago

That occurred to me as well. The Halloween sequence and some of the youngest daughters' lines (threatening to stab the maid in her sleep and halve her with wild horses, the rumors about the Braukoffs, wanting a hunting knife for Christmas, even the drinking song) have that same kind of 'wholesome twistedness' that was Addams' signature.

[–] Earl-Janoth 9 years ago

I read in an anthology of Addams' work (from the Addams Family and beyond) where he described breaking into an old, abandoned Gothic mansion as a teen and 'hanging out' in there for a while and it was supposedly while inside that he had the idea for the Addams family. Although, he also explained that the family was largely based on his own.

He started the strip in '38 - a few years prior to this film. So unless the characters in Sally Benson's book that this film is based on bear a striking resemblance to how they are in the film, I'd guess that it was definitely of no influence.