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[pfjw@aol.com]

Nor does being a genius automatically confer common sense or rationality. A rational genius with common sense would not make a very good cartoon character.

A good illustration of this point was in the first Indiana Jones movie - Indi is in the Souk chasing after the girl - and a very large individual with a very large scimitar appears. Indi calmly pulls out his gun and shoots him. That is common sense - and entirely unexpected.

Goldfinger - Why the laser - just shoot James Bond.

Were the villains to have common sense, there would be no story. Warner Brothers (mostly Chuck Jones) understood this completely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9dF5xuJBbM

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

 

[John-Del]

On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 8:23:07 AM UTC-5, pf...@aol.com wrote:

Goldfinger - Why the laser - just shoot James Bond.

Were the villains to have common sense, there would be no story. Warner Brothers (mostly Chuck Jones) understood this completely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9dF5xuJBbM

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

Same with TV's campy Batman TV series. The villains didn't just kill the Caped Crusader (and his "ward"), they set up a Rube Goldberg contraption to off them, giving them enough time to use their batbrains to figure out what in Batman's unlimited utility belt would be useful to effect an escape.

But it's not just cartoons, most TV and movie bad guys miss the opportunity to simply kill the hero immediately and instead engage in some useless conversation or something allowing time for our hero to escape.

 

[Dave Platt]

In article <BrsPB.4358$5k6.2113@fx25.iad>,
Michael A Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote:

There are Jackrabbits and other animals that are a lot slower, and
provide more food than a Roadrunner. Not only that, but the Coyote is a
self described 'Genius'.

"Super Genius", in fact.

Coyote is at one end of the curve: ranks high on clever, inventive,
and cunning, but barely moves the needle on the wise-meter.