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AFI's 10 Top 10: Animation
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"The animation top ten was the first list and it got the evening off to a shaky start. The problems with this list run much deeper than its rather uninspired roster of, almost exclusively, Disney “classics”. Most fundamentally, animation is not a genre; it's a medium. However, it is also the case that in Hollywood, animation verges on being a genre, but the American animation genre of the 20th century is not the same as the genre in the 21st century except insofar as animation is treated as a medium for children's, or “family”, films. In the 20th century, as ably shown by the list, animation was more or less the new medium for musicals. In this millenium, music remains an important part of animated films, but they are less often actual musicals. They are, however, characterized by hyperreal computer animation and dialogue rich with “clever” asides and pop culture references. Does that make a genre? Maybe, but not one that has much in common with t ... "
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"American Pop is the kind of ambitious film that only Ralph Bakshi could have made. If it were live action, it would probably be called a clichéd melodrama, but as animation, it is an incredibly evocation of our collective memory. It traces eighty years of American history and popular music, and there is not a trace of cliché or cheap, unearned tricks in the film. Bakshi's film follows four plotlines, each around a specific character. The first is a Russian immigrant named Zalmie (voice of Jeremy Lippa) who arrives in the US shortly as a child after the turn of the century. His father, a Rabbi, was killed in an uprising in the native country and his mother dies in an industrial accident shortly after their arrival. He is informally adopted by Louie (Jerry Holland) a gangster who owns a vaudeville show, and he quickly puts Zalmie on stage, despite his dubious talent. The second plotline revolves around Zalmie's son, Benny (Richard Singer), a gifted jazz musician ... "
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