Homage: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Amy Stanton |
| This scene in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids initially put me in mind of Jonathan Swift's commentary in A Modest Proposal:
”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”
(Plainly, the older ones are only palatable when shrunken to 1/100th of their original size and served with Cheerios and strawberries.)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids also has much in common with Swift's other notable work, Gulliver's Travels, in so far as the main characters must grapple with perpective-shifting proportion. They are reduced to Lilliputian stature and must traverse a world where an ant bears a terrifying aspect and the danger of being devoured in a spoonful of Cheerios becomes frighteningly real. |
Project Filmography |
 |
Behind The Scenes |
on utata
on flickr
(Quixotic Pixels) |
Soylent Green
Sol: There was a world, once, you punk.
Det. Thorn: Yes, so you keep telling me.
Sol: I was there. I can prove it.
Det. Thorn: I know, I know. When you were young, people were better.
Sol: Aw, nuts. People were always rotten. But the world 'was' beautiful.
