Popeye
March 2nd, 2006
A lot more fun than I was led to believe, or remembered. Robin Williams does a strange mumbling shuffling turn in the title role, and Shelley Duval was born to play Olive Oyl. The singing is hilarious, and the script by Jules Feiffer has a lot of very funny low-key lines that are easy to miss with Altman’s trademark overlapping dialogue. A very odd movie–I enjoyed it more now then I did when I was 11.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081353/
March 2nd, 2006 at 11:55 am
Wow. Okay. I’m up for giving this a shot, too.
My memory is of being indoors on a rainy day — in a gymnasium, probably at some summer camp thing — I’m thinking 8 years old. The counselors say we’re gonna see Popeye — everyone cheers! They bring out a 16mm projector and a pulldown screen. . .and within 5 minutes all the kids stop paying attention and start beating me up.
I saw a Robert Altman puff-doc and the stories about the production of this (in Malta?) were insane.