80° anniversario di Woody Woodpecker ne “Il barbiere di Siviglia”

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Woody Woodpecker’s 1944 cartoon The Barber of Seville is a dizzying display of cartoon comedy and animation artistry. It’s easy to see why The Barber of Seville was counted among The 50 Greatest Cartoons in Jerry Beck’s 1994 book of the same name (Barber came in at number 43). In the book, contributor Joe Adamson wrote, “We can still ask the logical questions, but rather than just evade them, Woody in The Barber of Seville is transcending them, making himself an understandable personality, if never quite an explicable one, and one of the greatest cartoon characters of Hollywood animation’s golden age, even if he was all cartoon and no character.” The Barber of Seville, celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, marks the first time Woody would make his soon-to-be iconic opening before the credits, where he pops out of a log and exclaims, “Guess who?!?” …

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