Word: segar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...JANUARY 17th, 1929, Elzie Segar introduced into his comic strip "Thimble Theater" a character named Popeye, a one-eyed, banananosed sailor who smoked a corncob pipe. III-favored, inarticulate, but possessed of a keen sense of "humiligration," Popeye quickly rose to star billing in the strip. His broad and timeless appeal lay in his simplicity and in his embodiment of a universal revenge fantasy. As his creator Segar put it: "I'd like to cut loose and knock the heck out of a lot of people, but my good judgement and size hold me back. Instead I use my imagination...
...contrast, Popeye seems to be less an adaptation of Elzie Segar's great creation than of one of those over-Freudianized analyses of popular art that used to appear in the little magazines. Some of the fault may lie in Jules Feiffer's script, which has Popeye searching for his lost father...
...real trouble is Altman's direction, at once spacy and junked up. He caused an entire small town, Sweethaven, to be constructed on Malta, and it is as jumbled as Segar's Thimble Theatre was clean-lined. Worse, the sound track is constantly amutter with asides, off-screen voices, half-overheards-Altman trademarks at odds with the spare, sharp verbal play that was one of the delights in the comic...