Tuesday, 26 August 2008

To The Point!


See, I told you my next post was going to be "animated". The charming poster you see above is for one of only two animation feature films Ringo was involved with (the other one being of course, Yellow Submarine). And who better than me than Wikipedia to tell you all about it:

The Point! is a fable by American songwriter and musician Harry Nilsson about a boy named Oblio, the only round-headed person in The Pointed Village, where by law everyone and everything had to have a point.


"I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'" -- Harry Nilsson

The film version of The Point! first aired February 2, 1971, at 7:30pm on the ABC television network as a "movie of the week." The film was directed by Fred Wolf and produced by Murakami-Wolf Films in association with Nilsson House Music. In this version, there is a framing device of a father telling his son the fable as a bedtime story. In its initial airing, the voice of the father was provided by Dustin Hoffman, but for contractual reasons later airings of the film could not use Hoffman's voice and it had to be re-recorded. The initial re-recording was done by actor Alan Barzman. The VHS and DVD releases feature Ringo Starr as the father.

I don't know why but I just happen to love Ringo's monochordic voice with that particularly delicious liverpuddlian accent, so I guess this little movie with a big message is a no-brainer for me. That reminds me, I really should be putting some money on the side for all the Ringo Starr-ing movies I've yet to see. And so should you!

And to further prove that I'm your best friend, here's a link to that wonderful blog I'm always mentioning about that will take you to the version of The Point! narrated by Dustin Hoffman. See what things I do for you?

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