I visited the Peanuts exhibition at Somerset House and greatly enjoyed it, despite most of it being very familiar to me as an aficionado for 45 years. The cartoons were well chosen, though it brought back to me how often they were really more about the emotion and existential strife of the characters rather than funny ha-ha. There were other exhibits by artists "inspired" by Peanuts one or two of which seemed a bit tenuous and not offering much evidence of engagement with the series. But I did enjoy this, which I hadn't seen before - R. Sikoryak's mash-up of Peanuts and Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Anyone a fan of the cartoon? It seems to have enjoyed a bit of a critical revival lately. I always thought the TV versions made a mistake in using real kids to voice over the characters, given how "adult" the dialogue generally was - I thought they should have done a Simpsons and used adult actors. Still, that was always compensated for by the Vince Guaraldi soundtracks, which did a lot of work in conveying the nuance and melancholy underlying the series - jazz is good at that.
https://lithub.com/kafka-meets-charl...LQsMB2y-MmWOGg
Anyone a fan of the cartoon? It seems to have enjoyed a bit of a critical revival lately. I always thought the TV versions made a mistake in using real kids to voice over the characters, given how "adult" the dialogue generally was - I thought they should have done a Simpsons and used adult actors. Still, that was always compensated for by the Vince Guaraldi soundtracks, which did a lot of work in conveying the nuance and melancholy underlying the series - jazz is good at that.
https://lithub.com/kafka-meets-charl...LQsMB2y-MmWOGg
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