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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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 25 points 9 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 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

It was literally his Leo pointing meme moment:

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago (3 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 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Species appropriation

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 8 points 9 months ago

Lmao, Stuart is getting the GranpaJoeHate treatment

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Story time?

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Spesknight@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

His mother must have some strange secrets...

[–] DanglingFury@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

The Gerbil goes up, the Gerbil cums down

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 16 points 9 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 9 months ago (2 children)

realistic yet fantastical

So which is it then ?

[–] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago

It’s a genre called magical realism.

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

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 10 points 9 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 9 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 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] Mint_Raccoon@kbin.social 21 points 9 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 9 months ago

Sequel bait

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago
[–] Davel23@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago
[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

This isn't a meme...