From:    Sue Armstrong
To:      All                                    94-06-03 23:%:02
Subject: Allegro non Tropo

For anyone who's interested, you might like an entertaining 
little Italian version of Disney's "Fantasia" called Allegro 
non Tropo .. Most of the animated segments are mediocre at 
best, but there is one that I think most people around here 
would enjoy ..

It's done to the tune of "Bolero", and sort of lays out 
evolutionary history in a simplistic, fanciful (but highly 
entertaining) manner .. it's got life starting from the scum at 
the bottom of a Coke bottle that some aliens carelessly discard 
.. :)  The scum evolves enough to leave its bottle, and manages 
to diversify gradually into countless weird and wonderful 
creatures of all sorts, all of whom are shown walking in a line 
towards nowhere in particular, the individuals changing and 
sometimes dying off as they go .. About halfway through a chimp 
shows up and starts causing all sorts of trouble, at least 
until he picks up a stick that caught on fire from lightning .. 
after which he sets a little animal on fire, gets excited, and 
runs off on his own, away from the marching line of beasties .. 
who eventually march past pyramids, and a HUGE cross (which 
they pause at, in a properly reverential manner - this movie 
_is_ from Catholic Italy) .. But that's all I'll give away.
The ending should be experienced for oneself :)

There's very little about evolution in entertainment, but I 
think this deserves some attention .. I think everyone here 
(including Bob and Kyle) would enjoy it. I think you can get a 
dubbed English version of it, but it's enjoyable even in 
Italian, and anyway, the animated segments are all done to 
classical music anyway, with no talking.

The only problem is, now whenever I hear that tune, this is 
what I think of .. which, I suppose, is better than thinking of 
Brooke Shields. (yuk). :)



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the universe.

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