THEY ARE REMAKING A BUGS BUNNY CARTOON!!!
And they don't even admit it.
Do you remember the Bugs Bunny cartoon where the midget criminal pretends to be a baby that Bugs takes in and the money he sticks in a baby carriage falls in his rabbit hole? He spends the entire cartoon trying to steal the money back. It was called "Baby Buggy Bunny".
This is from an interview1 with Shawn Wayans:
" 'Little Man' is a movie about a guy named Darrell and his wife, Vanessa. Darrell really wants to have a baby and his wife doesn't because she's not ready, but that doesn't stop him from trying. At the same time, there's this guy Calvin who is this little dude, this vertically challenged guy, who just got out of prison and robs a jewelry store.
"The cops are chasing him from his botched jewelry-heist attempt, and he runs back into the store and hides the diamond inside of my wife's bag. Then he follows us home to get it back and shows up on our doorstep as a baby. Comedy ensues."
And then Kennan Ivory Wayans says1, "I kinda had the initial idea, and then we all rewrote it together."
NO, you didn't. Michael Maltese, Chuck Jones and Mel Blanc did.
Hell, this scene was lifted STRAIGHT from the cartoon.
God, I feel bad rooting against black people but I hope someone from one of their estates sues their collective asses off.
1 http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1533572/06052006/story.jhtml
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There's sampling, there's jacking, and then there's this. I can only hope for the Wayanses, all 376 of them, that despite their feigned ignorance of the Bugs cartoon, they paid a fee or something.
Actually, I'm sure the animators were paying homage to the Harry Earles part in "The Unholy Three":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unholy_Three_%281925_film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unholy_Three_%281930_film%29
which was the film version of a novel by Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/2125/0jwf.jpg
Harry Earles, "The Unholy Three"
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