Word: nicks
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...Nick Cords, a violist from the ensemble, says that these sessions were a highlight for him. “In just spending ten minutes on those things, it was amazing how much [the students] were able to make the piece their own,” he says. “The rhythm, for instance, is something that everyone feels in a slightly different...
Directed by Steve Box and Nick Park...
There's oodles of action in Nick Park and Steve Box's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, about the attempts of a daffy English inventor and his stoic, smarter dog to rid their home village of a vegetable-ravaging monster. Wallace, the man, scoops up rabbits by the hundreds in his mighty Bun-Vac 6000 ("It blows and sucks"). Gromit, the pooch, gets involved in some World War I--style aerial combat with another canine--a real dogfight. At film's end, the heroine, Lady Tottington, and the dread Were-Rabbit have a housetop confrontation worthy...
...Wallace and Gromit shorts were intimate affairs: the man, the dog and one or two other characters. Were-Rabbit creates a panorama of rural England: dozens of humans with the standard Nick Park facial expression (dazed) and eccentricities (too much mouth and not enough teeth). Aardman's feature films are sponsored by the Hollywood studio DreamWorks, but their tone and humor are totally, defiantly, blitheringly English, in a manner reminiscent of the classic Ealing comedies. Were-Rabbit is admirably old-fashioned in another way: while the rest of the animation world has gone to computer-generated (CG) features...
Dawson’s sporadic effectiveness and playing time meant more carries for reserves junior Nick Sherlock and sophomore Charles Baakel, who picked up seven and 17 yards on the ground respectively...