Lenny could found a reef chapter of PETA (Predators for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) on the basis of his activist intervention one night at dinner, when he sets a shrimp cocktail free.ĭon Lino is fed up with Lenny, and orders Frankie to take the lad on a swimabout and teach him the life lessons of sharkhood. His two sons are Frankie ( Michael Imperioli), who has grown up to be a shark any dad can be proud of, and Lenny ( Jack Black), who has disgraced the family by becoming a vegetarian. The mob is ruled by Don Lino (voice by Robert De Niro, channeling Marlon Brando), who is a ruthless but, by his own standards, a fair shark. Doug) to take him on a trip and teach him a lesson he'll never forget.
Oscar is deep in debt to Sykes, who assigns a couple of Rastafarian enforcers (Ziggy Marley and Doug E. It's a mob front, run by Sykes (voice by Martin Scorsese), a puffer fish who has extraordinary eyebrows, for a fish. The story's hero is Oscar (voice by Will Smith), who works down at the Whale Wash. The movie doesn't follow the plot of "The Godfather" so much as recycle its characters, and the "Jaws" inspiration gets an early smile when the famous theme music, scary for people, is as inspiring to sharks as the national anthem. Coral formations, undersea debris and vegetation combine to create an aquatic Times Square, and, as in " Shrek 2," real retailers have their Toon equivalents. It takes place on an underwater reef where sharks are the local gangsters, and run things from their headquarters on the hulk of the Titanic. The movie is the latest production of DreamWorks Animation, co-directed by Vicky Jenson (" Shrek"), Bibo Bergeron (" The Road To El Dorado") and Rob Letterman. Sure, it would be better for your kids to grow up to be more like Don Vito than Scarface, but what a choice. Strange, too, that the movie's values also seem to come from "The Godfather," a study in situational ethics that preferred good gangsters with old-fashioned values (the Corleone family) to bad gangsters who sold drugs.
But it's strange that a kid-oriented film would be based on parody of a 1972 gangster movie for adults. Since the target audience for "Shark Tale" is presumably kids and younger teenagers, how many of them have seen the R-rated "Godfather" and will get all the inside jokes? Not a few, I suppose, and some of its characters and dialogue have passed into common knowledge. Time slips into the future, and movies still fresh in our hearts are considered by younger audiences to be ancient classics. " The Godfather," which is behind most of the inspiration for "Shark Tale," is 32 years old, and " Jaws," its other inspiration, is 29 years old. Hitchcock invested in Universal, while Spielberg earns $30 million annually from these parks." Casablanca" was only 25 years old when I started as a movie critic, but I thought of it as an old movie. Hitchcock and Spielberg have strong ties to Universal Studios Hollywood tour and theme park. I can’t sit down and talk to the boy who did the fish movie. “I said, ‘Why do you feel Spielberg makes you a whore?’ Hitch said, ‘Because I’m the voice of the Jaws ride. “Hitchcock said, ‘Isn’t that the boy who made the fish movie? I could never sit down and talk to him…because I look at him and feel like such a whore.’”ĭern continued in his book Bruce Dern: A Memoir: He just to sit at your feet for five minutes and chat with you’,” Dern wrote, stating that Hitchcock flat-out refused. Actor Bruce Dern worked with Hitchcock on Marnie (1964) and Family Plot (1976), and said to Hitchcock: Dern revealed that he tried to convince Hitchcock to meet the director of Jaws. The reason why Hitchcock refused to meet Spielberg was only disclosed in Bruce Dern’s 2007 autobiography. In Stephen Schochet’s 2001 audiobook Tales of Hollywood, it’s mentioned that Alfred Hitchcock was annoyed by a young man on his movie set, who turned out to be Spielberg and was promptly removed from the sets of Family Plot.Īlso read: “I don’t think I’ll do that”: Steven Spielberg Cut One Scary Jurassic Park Scene After His Own Traumatic Experience While Filming $476M Movie That Endangered The Cast The Reason Behind Alfred Hitchcock’s Unpected Rejection of Meeting Steven Spielberg Bruce Dern
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