{"id":27994,"date":"2025-04-02T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=27994"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:24:47","slug":"antediluvian-a-film-by-mario-lanzas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/04\/02\/antediluvian-a-film-by-mario-lanzas\/","title":{"rendered":"Antediluvian, a film by Mario Lanzas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/antediluvian1-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/antediluvian1.jpg\" alt=\"antediluvian1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LHszQL-kxfQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This short animated film<\/a> differs from many other dinosaur films in using outmoded representations of the creatures for its source rather than the more accurate depictions we have today. The first modellings of dinosaurs were <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Obsolete_paleoart\">crude and often very inaccurate<\/a>, to a degree that the earliest renderings now have a naive charm of their own, like the hearsay depictions of African animals or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/11\/29\/athanasius-kirchers-pyramids\/\">Egyptian monuments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/antediluvian2-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/antediluvian2.jpg\" alt=\"antediluvian2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Antediluvian<\/em> has an additional attraction in its unintended resemblance to Roland Topor&#8217;s designs for Ren\u00e9 Laloux&#8217;s <em>Fantastic Planet<\/em>. Topor&#8217;s snapping, shrieking fauna are just as vicious as the outmoded saurians while being rendered in an equally naive style. All that <em>Antediluvian<\/em> requires is some suitably alien flora to push it into Topor-land, or at least the planet next door.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/08\/02\/les-temps-morts-by-rene-laloux\/\">Les Temps Morts by Ren\u00e9 Laloux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short animated film differs from many other dinosaur films in using outmoded representations of the creatures for its source rather than the more accurate depictions we have today. The first modellings of dinosaurs were crude and often very inaccurate, to a degree that the earliest renderings now have a naive charm of their own, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/04\/02\/antediluvian-a-film-by-mario-lanzas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Antediluvian, a film by Mario Lanzas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Antediluvian, a film by Mario Lanzas","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,2,7,13],"tags":[13907,895,896],"class_list":["post-27994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-art","category-film","category-science","tag-mario-lanzas","tag-rene-laloux","tag-roland-topor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7hw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}