Editing Mario (section)

==The First Movie==
[[Image: MarioCyberpunkDystopia.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Because when you think of "Mario", you think of a dystopic city ruled by Bowser.]]
Whilst the first movie in 1993 was given rather negative reviews, it wasn't all bad. Taking place in an alternate version of New York City in a timeline where Dinosaurs never went extinct but instead evolved into humanoids, the setting was best described as the elements of Mario turned into a slurry and mixed with a heaping helping of [[Cyberpunk]]. King Koopa himself (played by the late Dennis Hopper) was even portrayed as a figure similar to Donald Trump, who at the time wasn't involved in politics and didn't have nearly as many people calling for his head on a pike.

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Many of the strange artistic choices in this movie came down to Nintendo taking a hands-off approach as they believed that the Mario brand was strong enough that if the movie turned out weird it wouldn’t hurt them (which is exactly how things turned out); the end result was a lack of cohesive vision for the film. The directors wanted a Burton-esque dinosaur parody of NYC, the screenwriters wanted an adult and female-driven treatment, and then the producers remembered that this was supposed to be a kids film and had to do some last minute touch ups to try and steer the film back to their target audience. Overall it’s a strange, confusing fever dream of a film that has almost nothing to do with the Mario brothers (though Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo deserve praise for holding their own as the stars of this mess despite not looking anything like brothers), but it’s still a funny little cultural artifact in its own right.

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