Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.movies.current-films Subject: Shoutout to Capek in "The Wild Robot" Date: 10 Nov 2024 17:37:08 GMT Organization: loft Lines: 9 Message-ID: X-Trace: individual.net DE0VryYxCMZgMEgavAp3wgxlKHOGyNBMrginlbcubwtJ3B/C7P X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:NOva1o/nzKxLSuerWeRPrlDHS1Y= sha256:U0ttRABUVqqumwU5UlzytUAMpBJ45YK5RdDuhjRTWW4= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Bytes: 1066 Finally saw this the other night, and noticed that the titular character's name is definitely a shoutout to Capek's play. The movie itself is basically a "heartwarming family film", and I enjoyed it well enough, but had very big plot logic/world logic problems with one sequence which became even more pronounced at the denouement. -- columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..