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HE IS NOT A MOUSE

Description: This is a screenshot of the "Stuart Little" Wikipedia. The excerpt reads "A boy named Stuart is born to an ordinary family in New York City. He is normal in every way except that he is only just over two inches (5 cm) tall and looks exactly like a mouse"

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[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 83 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No, this is not the most important SL lore:

Lost painting unknowingly used on set

One of the paintings used as set dressing for the Littles' home was Hungarian avant-garde painter Róbert Berény's 1920s painting Sleeping Lady with Black Vase, which had long been considered lost. A set designer for the film had purchased the painting at an antiques store in Pasadena, California, for $500 for use in the film, unaware of its significance. In 2009, art historian Gergely Barki, while watching Stuart Little on television with his daughter, noticed the painting, and after contacting the studios was able to track down its whereabouts.[8] In 2014, its owner sold the painting at an auction for €229,500.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Little_(film)#Lost_painting_unknowingly_used_on_set

https://www.wikiart.org/en/bereny-robert

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Imagine being some art history dork and your grand contribution to humanity being making some rich dude richer

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine some people are so materialistic that this is they only see in this story

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago

Materialistic is absolutely how I feel when an object is sold for multiple years of my income.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

It was literally his Leo pointing meme moment:

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (4 children)

He's still a giant piece of fucking shit that can die in a house fire for all I care... Fuck. Stuart. Little.

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He is not a mouse but he pretends to be a mouse, piece of shit

[–] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Species appropriation

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Story time?

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

Lmao, Stuart is getting the GranpaJoeHate treatment

[–] THEDAEMON@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

All my homies hate stuart little. (I don't think they do . Do they ?)

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

And he still got picked over other kids at the orphanage.

[–] Spesknight@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

His mother must have some strange secrets...

[–] DanglingFury@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The Gerbil goes up, the Gerbil cums down

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The overview is even more explicit

The book is a realistic yet fantastical story about a mouse-like human boy named Stuart Little.

[–] TheyCallMeHacked@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

realistic yet fantastical

So which is it then ?

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

It’s a genre called magical realism.

I never read the books, but this sounds like what they mean.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My muscles are soft in comparison to granite and hard in comparison to a pillow. How can they be both hard and soft at the same time?

[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember reading Stuart Little as a kid and being SO pissed off at the ending. It felt like a massive troll job.

[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Mint_Raccoon@kbin.social 22 points 10 months ago

It just stops. The story I heard about why was because the author was afraid of dying and leaving it unfinished, so he just stopped and effectively left it unfinished.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 7 points 10 months ago

Sequel bait

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago
[–] Davel23@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago
[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

This isn't a meme...