Let’s get that damn Wererabbit

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I have been a die-hard Wallace and Gromit fan for years now.  Ever since I saw A Grand Day Out on PBS in the 90s, I’ve been hooked.  In that movie the clumsy inventor Wallace with his faithful and cerebral dog Gromit, go to the Moon to look for cheese (which they have run out of).  There was no movie that I was looking more forward to seeing this year than Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Wererabbit (well except for one maybe).  I will probably go this weekend to watch it.  For the last month in fact I was desperately searching for a desi angle on the movie so that I could bring this dynamic duo to the attention of SM readers.  Manish emailed me this morning about our old friend Turbanhead’s latest post.  It seems there is a desi character in the new movie.  So who is this South Asian character, and how does he fit into the film?  Turbanhead tells us:

Towards the end, the “Indian” character is the one who improvises a stand that sells pitchforks and torches to an angry mob.

Ha!  Well…I mean someone has to provide weapons to an angry mob…err, right?  May as well make a buck off of it.  Those damn wererabbits need to be hunted down anyways right?  You could say he is an exemplary citizen.

Footnote: Bad news. Let’s hope the desi character didn’t provide the torches for this one.

16 thoughts on “Let’s get that damn Wererabbit”

  1. I lurve Wallace & Gromit! They used to be shown at Animation Festivals when I was in college, and were always a big hit. I think they’re also responsible for the Creature Feature things (I’m forgetting the name, but basically, they interview animals throughout the entire short, to grand effect). Very sad about the fire.

  2. They used to be shown at Animation Festivals when I was in college

    i only saw them on pbs. they definitely weren’t shown at the spike and mike cartoon festival.

  4. I think that Comedy Central was showing the “Creature Comforts” episodes for a little while. Supposedly they’ll also be running on BBC America in December. (I think these are the newer episodes, not the original shorts.)

  5. i’ve been waiting so long for this movie.. went opening evening right after work… and trust me, laughed my head off…

    it’s brilliant.. with subtle and not so subtle double entendres… and the duo of wallace and grommit are awesome…

    they were #1 at the box office this wkend, and unfortunately on monday, their studio with all their sets caught on fire…

    the indian dude was funny… the only brown person in the british town.. now if they only had shown a curry house.. i’d be hysteric!

    here are some snippets…. ‘i smell cheeeeeeeeese ;)’

    http://garbanzobean.blogspot.com/2005/10/wallace-grommit.html

    http://garbanzobean.blogspot.com/2005/10/wallace-grommit-was-awesome.html

    http://garbanzobean.blogspot.com/2005/10/up-in-smoke-for-wallace-and-gromit.html

  7. I guess we now know what else Abhi was reading about when he blogged this. 😉

    Is it just me or does the desi. ..clayperson. ..(I almost said muppet! that’s how cool W&G are!) look an awful lot like Bert?

  8. When I clicked on the link for “Turbanhead’s latest post” I was taken to a page on the concept of the “Perfect Man” in Ismailiism…not Wallace & Gromit yo…

  10. Erm! there’s something about that Turbanhead link that doesn’t quite fit guys!

    Sorry Sunny. I was writing two posts at once and the links got crossed 🙁 It’s fixed now.

  11. Yes, yes. If you all must know I was simultaneously working on humorous post for my own blog that asked the question if Wallace might represent the “Perfect Man” as discussed in Sufism. I guess there is no point now that the cat is out of the bag 🙂 It would have been funny too 🙂

  14. “I was simultaneously working on humorous post for my own blog that asked the question if Wallace might represent the “Perfect Man” as discussed in Sufism”

    …and here I thought all along Abhi was the Insaan-al-kaamil…

    Green one, anyone?

  15. The guy selling the pitchforks and other weapons was probably Gujrati. Ha ha. I kid. But seriously, they are good businessmen.

  16. Hurrah, I can be the one who says “look who I’ve met” now, as it’s a dyed-in-the-wool British production. I’ve met Nick Park! The filmmaking gene has been strong in me for many years, but when I was 8 I didn’t have any actors at my disposal. So I copied Aardman and went claymating. I went to meet Nick Park and gave him two of my ‘masterpieces’ – The Adventures of Fatso and Buddha and Speeding Blob – who was an easy-to-animate character who drove my Indian toy car.

    I never heard back. Not surprising!

    I have two friends hoping to make it in animation. It’s such a tough line to choose, but when it’s good – like W&G – it’s the most universal fun there is.