Saturday, October 04, 2014
Three lazy bears
Inspired by the Okanogan Lazy Bear and the Port Coquitlam Lazy Bear, I went looking for other Lazy Bears to complete a trio.
Bumped into something VASTLY better than a simple Lazy Bear. The Маша и Медведь series. Wonderful modern animation with purely old-fashioned themes. Masha is hypercompetitive, always pushing, always getting into everyone else's affairs, always ready for everything even when there's nothing to be ready for. Bear is laid back, always ready to enjoy a good nap. Sometimes Bear manages to turn Masha's hyperenergy toward good ends, sometimes not.
Маша и Медведь is clearly descended from Краденое солнце, which is the best motion picture ever made. (I'm tempted to call it the best thing ever made by humans, but I need to leave room for Bach.) The scenery and secondary characters are the same. Bear is the same Bear, faced with a different opponent in a different era, using different tactics to handle the new opponent.
In other words: Masha is just a little bit ... or a whole lot ... like America.
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Followup thought here.
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