Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Inappropriate in so many ways...

Little known fact: the story of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, that creepy bit in Fantasia with Mickey Mouse battling the brooms (which terrified me as a child, BTW), is actually based on a poem by Goethe. Yep, the dude responsible for The Sorrows of Young Werther, a novel rumored to have inspired more suicides than any other.

So, naturally, Disney has decided to make it into a Nicolas Cage movie:

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3 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Hey, at least it looks pretty. And Cage surprised me by looking good as the sorcerer.

5:45 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yet another strange wig for the Cagester. He's turning into Sean Connery...

8:26 PM

 
Blogger Megwin said...

Yeah... the whole thing creeps me out.

10:26 PM

 

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