How did a plastic dinosaur with a brain the size of a pocket calculator take over the planet? Oliver Burkeman and Jonathan Watts trace the evolution of the Roboraptor

Inutile de dire que mes plus vieux font partie de cette masse de pré-ados bavant devant les prouesses de ce joli morceau de plastique.

It will lunge towards you if you stray too close, or try to snatch anything you put in its mouth. Now it has become the most terrifying beast of all – this year’s must-have Christmas toy., The Guardian, le 22 décembre 2005.

En commentaire au billet The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou du site world in progress… , je me suis permis de souligner à quel point je trouvais ce film riche d’une exploration artistique de la paternité incomparable. J’écrivis :

If I may, I would suggest that it gets even better with the third and fourth and fith viewing (I think that’s were I’m at… ). The full complexity of the characters, their sensibility and their absurdity come really to life. I especially like all the that subplot about paternity… How Ned grew up with out a father, how Steve as been a father figure for so many people but doesn’t like fathers himself, how Ned will become a father figure for a baby that will never know him and how Steve begins to understand the importance he has as a father for is crew (Eleanor is the brain, but Steve is the Zissou !)… Steve is in fact a great father, flawed, laisy, but still, he’ll do anything for his crew (confront the pirates when he understands his own mistake of going threw unprotected waters, go and save the bond company stooge… ). Anyway, I find this movie funny (hilarious by the complexity and the absurdity of the characters), but at the same time a brilliant exploration of what it means to be a father at what a father means to us… Definitely one of my favourite movies.

I forgot, as examples of that paternity subplot, the rivalry of Steve and Alistair Hennessey for the attention of their mentor and the search of Klaus to be recognise as a son to Steve and Esteban…

Chaque fois que je réécoute ce film (tout comme The Royal Tenenbaums), je suis frappé par la sensibilité des personnages qui, s’ils sont parfois absurdes, ne font qu’en être plus prêts d’une réelle exploration de la richesse de l’aventure humaine. Un travail d’artiste comme j’aimerais être capable en faire!!!