Editing 1164: Home Alone
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | ''{{w|Home Alone}}'' is a popular 1990 film in which the child protagonist Kevin McCallister (portrayed by {{w|Macaulay Culkin}}) is accidentally left alone in his house when his family goes on vacation, and has to thwart a burglary all by himself. In the movie, McCallister comes up with a variety of ingenious traps and schemes (usually involving {{w|jury rig|jury-rigged}} toys and household items) to harass, injure and eventually incapacitate the burglars, which was the film's defining feature | + | ''{{w|Home Alone}}'' is a popular 1990 film in which the child protagonist Kevin McCallister (portrayed by {{w|Macaulay Culkin}}) is accidentally left alone in his house when his family goes on vacation, and has to thwart a burglary all by himself. In the movie, McCallister comes up with a variety of ingenious traps and schemes (usually involving {{w|jury rig|jury-rigged}} toys and household items) to harass, injure and eventually incapacitate the burglars, which was the film's defining feature. The film spawned a {{w|Home Alone (franchise)|series of sequels}} (4 as of 2012, the first of which also starred Culkin) all with a similar premise to the original. |
− | + | The scene depicted in the strip is an adaptation of an iconic scene from the first movie (used heavily in advertising) where McCallister hangs two paint cans in strings above the staircase, and let them swing down to hit the burglars in the face. | |
− | + | On a more general level, the films revolves around the classical trope with an [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UnderdogsNeverLose underdog defeating a much stronger opponent] (the burglars), through his own ingenuity. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] suggests {{w|Reboot_(fiction)|reboot}}ing the franchise (i.e. begin the series fresh, with new ideas, ignoring the previous continuity. Common since the start of the century. {{w|Reboot_(fiction)#Film|Examples.}}) Rebooting Home Alone with "reversed" ages, so that an adult protagonist uses his skills to harm children burglars, would obviously spoil the basic idea, and make a very bad family comedy. (On the upside, Culkin could again play the protagonist, and get his career rebooted.) Bad as such a movie would be, joking ''about'' this luckily makes good {{w|black comedy}}. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[ | + | :[Aged man standing at the head of a flight of stairs. A paint can on a rope is swinging into a child at the foot of the stairs. A child on the floor is in a semi-fetal position and crying.] |
:Child: Ow!! | :Child: Ow!! | ||
:Child on floor: Waaaaaaaaa! | :Child on floor: Waaaaaaaaa! | ||
:Rejected movie ideas: | :Rejected movie ideas: | ||
− | :Age-reversed ''Home Alone'' reboot. | + | :Age-reversed ''Home Alone'' reboot. |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |