Your Face
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Music
The vocals are by Maureen McElheron, known for composing the songs in The Tune, also by Bill Plympton.[2] After the song was recorded,[3] it was slowed by one-third, giving the desired and unusual effect, also making the voice more masculine.[4] His face is distorted into many different shapes, such as a balloon, a cube and an ice cream cone.
Lyrics
The song is original,[5] made specifically for this short film, and the lyrics depict a metaphorical description of someone's face by using musical vocabulary to describe the beauty of their features.[6]
Legacy
The short received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film[7] at the 60th Academy Awards.[8][9][10]
A variation of this short was used as the couch gag on The SimpsonsTemplate:'s 29th season episode "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage", with Homer Simpson's face replacing the original man, and Dan Castellaneta singing the vocals. This version ends with the Simpson family sitting on their living room couch.[11]
Your Face was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.[12]
The short was restored and uploaded to Bill Plympton's YouTube channel on August 23, 2024.[13]
References
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- ↑ Films by Bill Plympton - The Criterion Channel
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- ↑ Maureen McElheron - Your Face (speed version)-YouTube
- ↑ Your Face by Maureen McElheron- Topic on YouTube
- ↑ Your Face - Films by Bill Plympton - The Criterion Channel
- ↑ Oddball Films: Metamorphic Cinema: Meditations on Transformation - Thur. May 12th - 8PM
- ↑ Shout! Factory Announces Acquisitions of Bill Plympton Library|Shout Factory
- ↑ The Man Who Planted Trees Wins Animated Short: 1988 Oscars
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External links
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- Your Face at TCM
- Animation Show of Shows Excerpt on Vimeo
- Full short film
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