The Mascot
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- signature
Neutral, breathless, measured stop-motion / puppet, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A toy stuffed dog has just been sewn together when it hears a young child ask for an orange. The child's mother explains that they have no money, and so she cannot buy any oranges. The dog is then packed up along with a box full of other toys to be sold, but it soon winds up in the street. The dog picks up an orange from a curb side stand, and hopes to take it home to the child. But that night, before the dog can get back to the child's home, it must face a series of strange and frightening adventures.
Our read · The Mascot (1933) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal stop-motion · puppet · surreal entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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