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The Mouse and His Child

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The Mouse and His Child	comment	A novel by Russell Hoban, The Mouse and His Child, published in 1967, tells the story of a wind-up toy mouse-and-child pair and their friends the Tin Seal and the Elephant in a small-town toy shop. The central point of the novel is the nature of free will and self-determination; in the toy shop, the toys are told that they can only do what they're "wound" to do, but Mouse and Child want to be "self-winding" and determine their own future, and live with their friends as a "family" instead of being sold or disposed of.After an accident due to a cat, Mouse and Child are thrown out of their owners' home and sent to the town dump, where the story actually begins and we meet the Big Bad, Manny the Rat, who represents the dangers out in the world beyond the toy shop, enslaving wind-ups to plunder for him and his gang of rats. As Mouse and Child travel the countryside just outside the town, they discover several characters that help them on their quest, including a kindly Muskrat and a Frog who can see the future, but also encounter other dangers such as militant shrews and hungry seabirds. Eventually, Mouse, Child, Elephant and the Tin Seal reunite and defeat Manny's gang, and Mouse and Child's dream of a family comes true.The novel was adapted into an animated movie in 1977, bankrolled by Sanrio (the people behind Hello Kitty) and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, and animated by Murakami-Wolf (the same studio that made The Point and the 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series), with a score by composer Roger Kellaway (probably best known for the closing theme of All in the Family; he had just been nominated for an Oscar for the 1976 version of A Star Is Born). It flopped at the box office, but was popular years later on cable and pay-TV services, especially HBO, and was released on VHS in the early 1980s. It hasn't been released on DVD, but the whole movie is available on YouTube.Just like Watership Down, which was popular at the same time, it's proven to be a rich source of Nightmare Fuel; in fact, TV Guide listings in the late 1980s warned that it "may frighten younger children."
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The Mouse and His Child / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
The Mouse and His Child / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Manny, in the novel. Possibly the film as well, though it's unclear if he ever actually meets up with the main characters again.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_21bde5e8	type	The Tooth Hurts
The Mouse and His Child / int_21bde5e8	comment	The Tooth Hurts: In the novel, Manny loses all of his teeth courtesy of the donkey's kick (aided by the "YOU SHALL SUCCEED" coin), which leads to his Heel Face Turn because he can no longer defend himself, or chew most of the foods he used to eat.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_27a58d30	type	Carnivore Confusion
The Mouse and His Child / int_27a58d30	comment	Carnivore Confusion: Inverted in the case of a particular hawk in the movie, who fully intends to eat them but doesn't realize the "mice" he's caught are clockwork:
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The Mouse and His Child / int_286eaf85	type	Dragon Ascendant
The Mouse and His Child / int_286eaf85	comment	Dragon Ascendant: Manny's top henchman Iggy takes over control of the rats during the finale when Manny is despondent over his plans failing, rallying them to fight back against the wind-ups and their friends. He also continues trying to kill them after his troops are defeated.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Mouse and His Child / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Sort of. Child wants the Elephant to be his mom.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
The Mouse and His Child / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: In the film, after Manny loses everything, including his teeth, the heroes see Manny react in a shriveling terrified way with the mouse child trying to reach for him. His response, without words, is surely like this.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_475d592d	type	You Dirty Rat!
The Mouse and His Child / int_475d592d	comment	You Dirty Rat!: Manny and his gang.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Mouse and His Child / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: In the film the camera pulls away as the donkey is disassembled and we see the shadows of his parts as they are flung across the room to land in a scrap heap. Also when Manny Rat smashes the mice to pieces with a rock. Only Manny's reaction to what he's done is shown, and he recoils in abject horror.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
The Mouse and His Child / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: AND HOW. One particular sequence sees the mice grabbed by a hawk that tries to eat them, dumped into a pond, a catfish tries to eat them again, then they are forced to argue about recursive infinity with a snapping turtle at the bottom of the pond.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Mouse and His Child / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the film, the mouse states that they survived “war, robbery, flood, and showbusiness.”
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The Mouse and His Child / int_8d7a4732	type	Ball-Balancing Seal
The Mouse and His Child / int_8d7a4732	comment	Ball-Balancing Seal: One of the Living Toys is a windup seal who spins a ball on her nose. Over the course of the novel, she loses it and replaces it with multiple other things, including a spinning platform for a mouse dancer to perform on and a rod to help the philosophical beaver wind his fishing line.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_97522514	type	Heel–Face Revolving Door
The Mouse and His Child / int_97522514	comment	Heel–Face Revolving Door: Manny Rat, very much so in the novel, eventually landing on good and staying there at the end of the novel and presumably until the end of his days.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Mouse and His Child / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The main point of the story.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_a1591cc3	comment	Living Toys: All of the wind-up dolls seem to be sentient to some degree.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Mouse and His Child / int_ad1db87c	comment	Also when Manny Rat smashes the mice to pieces with a rock. Only Manny's reaction to what he's done is shown, and he recoils in abject horror.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_b3860333	comment	Droste Image: The dog food can seen numerous times throughout the movie. The characters speculate that some great wisdom lies beyond the last visible dog.
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The Mouse and His Child / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Mouse and His Child / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending
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