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If Devil's Bayou WERE An Island...

posted 12 years ago by idonnowho
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* Why would the Disney animators have DELIBERATELY cast an entire cast of Southerners as the BAYOU'S natives, have them consume moonshine, etc.?
* Why would Penny be trying to run away from Medusa and return to the orphanage, if she in a murky swamp on an uncharted island, miles away from New York? Could she REALLY hope to swim halfway across the Atlantic without drowning?
* On that subject, if the island's uncharted, how would Medusa have been able to take a planned flight at an airport in a large city like New York to somewhere UNCHARTED? (Sure Bernard and Miss Bianca took their own albatross there, but Medusa obviously had to book the next flight there...)
* Why wouldn't the filmmakers make it much more OBVIOUS to the "hack*TYPICAL(!!)*hack* viewer that they did, indeed intend for it to be an island (i.e. say it more than just Snoops mentioning that Brutus and Nero are supposed to be patrolling "the island", which still implies the large mass of land in the bayou, where their riverboat is wrecked upon, show an aerial view, be more explicit about it in more than just those alleged trailers, which I have yet to see myself, if anyone has a link, please show it to me... )

[–] Taran_Wanderer_2 12 years ago

Who are you talking to, you idiot? It's funny how you post a general message addressing a specific person as if people were somehow interested in keeping track of which users you like to pester with your stupidity.

I don't argue with idiots, but by your "logic," Robin Hood could be said to take place in the southern United States, ejem... Maybe these actors formed part of Disney's main selection of available popular television actors at the time? D'uh.

Why do you think Orville flies off into the Atlantic? To reach Louisiana as soon as possible on an emergency rescue mission? Yes, that makes perfect sense.

Even if Devil's Bayou were inland, it's unlikely it'd have it's own airport. Thus, taking a flight "down to Devil's Bayou" simply means landing at the nearest airport.

Devil's Bayou is in a fictional island. Deal with it. And the 'alleged' trailers exist (and in more than one language), which I am not going to dig up because proving anything to you is not within my list of things I care to get done. Throw a tantrum about that one, you're good at it.

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[–] idonnowho 12 years ago

Devil's Bayou is in a fictional island.

I find it hilarious that you seem to be the one person I've met who has this insistence. Most every other person will say it's Louisiana.

Throw a tantrum about that one, you're good at it.

And thank you for your kind, sympathetic words... Or was that the wind?

[–] Taran_Wanderer_2 12 years ago

Well, I guess you have the kind of friends who would fly off into the Atlantic to make it to Louisiana. You must be from St. Olaf.

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[–] idonnowho 12 years ago

Robin Hood could be said to take place in the southern United States, ejem... Maybe these actors formed part of Disney's main selection of available popular television actors at the time? D'uh.

Except that they at LEAST had the dignity to cast Sir Peter Ustinov (who's name alone clearly sounds EUROPEAN, at least) and, for the voice of the title character, Brian Bedford (who, according to the "Robin Hood" trivia section, was only the second truly British actor, after Barrie Ingham in 1967's "A Challenge for Robin Hood", to play the legend of Sherwood Forest, himself). amongst other such actors/actresses for "RH". Furthermore, I don't recall anyone (regardless as to what accent they had) consuming whatever Luke's drink here was in "Robin Hood"...

I also find it rather interesting you were unable to come up with contenders to how Penny planned to escape Medusa's clutches if the whole place was an island (without swimming across the Atlantic and ultimately drowning, obviously) and how she, Bernard, Bianca, Evinrude and the rest of the swamp critters were successfully able to hijack Medusa's swamp mobile and ride it all the way (or at least halfway) across the Atlantic, without running out of gas or getting completely lost...

Unless you're able to ask a Disney official who worked on this film, "Where did you intend for much of the film's action to take place; the southeastern US...or some nonexistent island near ENGLAND?", I still can't agree with your insistence...

Now. For anyone who's NOT ole Taran Wanderer 2, care to give YOUR (almost certainly much nicer) thoughts on this?

[–] Taran_Wanderer_2 12 years ago

You may notice that I couldn't care less whether you agree or not. I'm also not concerned with your opinion on this or any other matter.

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[–] ZakkWyldeMyLittlePony 12 years ago

I suggest you put Taran Wanderer on ignore. I have and I feel much happier. Oh and I also have his good friend WeirdRaptor on ignore too.

"You may now kiss the royal foot"-Woody Woodpecker

[–] idonnowho 12 years ago

Check. Taran Wanderer is now on my ignore list. Thanks for recommending it, tdaskrrollins. .

[–] Taran_Wanderer_2 12 years ago

Hopefully this will save me from having to read any further idiotic posts directed at me. I generally don't need the "ignaur" list, but certain whiners do get tiresome after a while. I second the thanks.

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[–] HaddonfieldMemorial 11 years ago

Where is the love fellas?

[–] Taran_Wanderer_2 11 years ago

I have found plenty of it in better places.

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[–] HaddonfieldMemorial 11 years ago

I think you two should date personally.

[–] lukiedoux 11 years ago

Let's not forget the fact of native flora and fauna. Brutus and Nero are alligators. There are only two types of alligators: Chinese alligators and American alligators. Unless they're in China, Brutus and Nero are both American alligators, which are Native to southeastern US.

Also it's likely that Penny's note travelled on the loop current and up the Gulf Stream to get to NYC.

[–] ExplorerDS6789 11 years ago

Perhaps Devil's Bayou is an island in the same sense that Manhattan is an island, or Statten Island is an island.

[–] lukiedoux 11 years ago

I concur. I live in the south and have seen bayous meander back into themselves forming a loop of water surrounding land, which is by definition an island. Perhaps this is what we're seeing on the film.

At any rate, the fictional setting of an animated picture should never be the source of such vitriol.

[–] Taran_Wanderer_2 11 years ago

There's actually some behind-the-scenes information in which they briefly discuss how they had indeed intended for the United States south to be the setting (not anywhere specifically, but just in general), however, as the story progressed, they noticed some discrepancies so they detached themselves from a specific location and created a more fictional setting, reminiscent of most Disney films.

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[–] idonnowho 11 years ago

There's actually some behind-the-scenes information in which they briefly discuss how they had indeed intended for the United States south to be the setting

Where was this behind-the-scenes info found? Surely not on that new Blu-Ray you complained about. After all, that had next to no bonus features, nor did the 2012 DVD (which I did get for Christmas two years ago). I am suddenly VERY curious.

[–] Taran_Wanderer_2 11 years ago

Then go out and read, like the rest of us do.

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[–] lukiedoux 11 years ago

Gotcha! Cool deal then.