The New Yorker riffs on Epic Mickey for Nintendo Wii
Chicago Video Game Examiner
In this week's issue of The New Yorker, humorist Paul Rudnick takes on the upcoming Warren Spector-helmed Epic Mickey for Nintendo Wii.
Rudnick uses this quote as a jumping off point to spoof the new game's adult portrayal of the classically benign Mickey Mouse.
"Now, however, concerned that Mickey has become more of a corporate symbol than a beloved character for recent generations of young people, Disney is taking the risky step of re-imagining him for the future. The first glimpse of this will be the introduction next year of a new video game, Epic Mickey, in which the formerly squeaky-clean character can be cantankerous and cunning, as well as heroic, as he traverses a forbidding wasteland." —The Times.
Rudnick goes on:
MEMO: To all Epic Mickey personnel
FROM: Disney Board of Directors
SUBJECT: New Mickey
Guys—we love the rethink, but we just have a few tweaks:
—When Mickey leers at Minnie in the waterfront bar, let’s have him squeak, “You know what they say, baby. Big ears . . .”
—In the “Brokeback Mickey” flashback, when Mickey makes tender love to Donald Duck, let’s have Mickey murmur, “Leave the little sailor hat on.”
Read the rest: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/02/01/100201sh_shouts_rudnick#ixzz0e4K1vHzi
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