Now with x10 the FWTD
Sup homies, it's your weirdo friendo Heghodge here, back with another PE proposal, proposal number 7 more specifically. Today, I'm ending this year with a bang, as this propsal will also be my very first re-proposal. Not only that, but today's subect is none other than the infamous axe-wielding chicken maiden herself, Melisha Tweedy, or just Mrs. Tweedy. After watching the recent Chicken Run movie, it's safe to say...she might very well count after what she does there.
I thank Lucariobot and The Pro-Wrestler for granting me permission to make this re-proposal.
What Is The Work?[]
Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion animated film created by Aardman Animations. It tells the story of a ginger-feathered hen named, well, Ginger, who intended to escape a farm owned by the crazed axe-wielding farmer, and the subject of this proposal, Mrs. Melisha Tweedy. She does so with the help of an American circus rooster, Rocky Rhodes, who saves her from a pie machien that Tweedy had bought to turn her chickens into pies. Ginger then hatches an escape plan which allows all of the chickens to escape unscathed.
The sequel, Dawn of the Nugget, released 23 years later, details the adventures of Ginger saving her daughter Molly from a far more technologically advanced farm, the Fun Land Farms, with Tweedy having far more devious and elusive schemes up her sleeves.
Who Is She and What Has She Done?[]
The infamous Melisha Tweedy, more commonly referred to by Mrs. Tweedy, is a greedy and abusive farmer who slaughters her chickens, running her farm like a concentration, forcing the chickens she keeps ot lay eggs for profits. Any chickens that fail to lay any eggs within a week get the axe, both literally and figuratively.
When Tweedy notices the lack of egg laying within the year, she buys a pie machine she sees in a magazine, with the intent of turning all of the chickens into pies, with Ginger being the first she and her husband attempt to use the machine, only to be stopped by an American rooster named Rocky, who clogs the gravy sprayer with a carrot as he gets Ginger out of the machine.
As a result of the prior mishap, after repairs on the machine are done, Tweedy orders her husband to fetch all of the chickens, whilst putting the machine. When Mr. Tweedy finds that most of his tools have been stolen by the chickens, who decided to use them for their recent escape plan, and tries to warn his wife about this, all she does is rudely dismiss it, deeming him as dumb for believing it.
When Tweedy finally discovers what has ben going on amongst the chickens, she tries to stop Ginger with her axe as she is setting up a ramp for their escape, but Rocky thankfully returns to knock the axe out of Tweedy's hand causing her to fall on the ground unconcious. When she wakes up, in pursuit of the escaping chickens, she grabs onto the dragging rope, and insanely mad at them. She climbs up onto the rope, with Tweedy then cutting the christmas lights in an attempt to kill Ginger. This was however just a trick from Ginger, as she is still alive, and releases the now cut Christmas lights, causing Tweedy to fall in the very same pie making machine she tried to use on the chickens.
After the machine explodes, Mr. Tweedy berates his wife for not believing him about the chickens being organized, which only enrages her further due to his incompetence. Mr. Tweedy, fed up with her abusive behavior, then tips over the barn door on her.
Years after this event, after her divorce with Mr. Tweedy and finding out the chickens have sapience, she marries a scientist named Dr. Fry to create a profitable empire of producing chicken nuggets in a large factory called the Fun Land Farms, which uses far more twisted and elaborate means of profitting the chickens, this time profitting off of chicken nuggets. Along with this, she makes a deal with the owner of the Sir Eat-a-Lot restaurant chain, Reginald Smith, so that she can distribute said nuggets worldwide.
Mrs. Tweedy, having realized that the chickens have sapience, and realizing that chicken meat tastes far better when the chickens are not shitting themselves, decides to use a set of mind control collars that her husband had created, which when turned on, actually gets them to WANT to get chopped apart, and then eaten. She also creates a sort of Pleasure Island type of attraction within the factory, which would give them a false sense of security beforehand. Yeesh, and I thought Tweedy in the first film was dark.
When Mrs. Tweedy spots Ginger, in her attempt to save her daughter Molly, she chains her up and attempts to use one of the collars in order to torture her, out of revenge for her impossible escape in the prior movie. To top it all of, she deems this as her being "ungrateful" due to supposedly have given her shelter. When Ginger proves herself reslient to the collar due to her strong will, she puts the damned collar up to its MAX setting. The collar proved itself so powerful that even when the thing was turned off, its effects still lingered on Ginger, and only then when Molly took it off of her did it stop.
Molly's attempt to take the collar off of Ginger had inadvertently gotten her, her mother, and all of the other chickens into a grain silo, which Mrs. Tweedy, when informed by a guard that they are there, then turns on in an attempt to kill them all by shredding them all to bits. The worst part, she came very close to succeeding with this, as the only thing that stopped her was Rocky remembering that popcorn was a thing, using Mac's glasses as a lens to light a firecracker and heat up the corn to make it into popcorn and escape.
Though Tweedy notices the chickens' escape, too caught up with Reginald's order, orders Dr. Fry to activiate all of the collars all at once, so that all of the chickens will get turned into nuggets, which Rocky and Ginger thankfully prevents in the nick of time. Mrs. Tweedy arrives shortly after this, with Dr. Fry proving himself utterly incomptent, she reaches the brainwashing remote. Now armed with her signature axe, Mrs. Tweedy chasesGinger and Rocky over the remote, while Molly, Bunty, Babs, Mac, Nick, Fetcher, and Frizzle try to prevent the brainwashed chickens from going into the nugget machine.
It is now up to Ginger to stop the chickens from marching to their deaths, but Mrs. Tweedy then sadistically threatens Ginger that if she pushes the off button on the remote, she will decapitate Molly, who she had just found out is her daughter. When Ginger does press the button, the only thing that stops Tweedy is Rocky swinging on a wire and using it to swipe the axe from her. When Molly bites one of Tweedy's finger, this causes her to fall towards the grinder only to be saved by Ginger, who then falls but is saved by Rocky. Tweedy then attempts to drop all three of them into the grinder, only for her axe to come smack her in the forehead, causing her to fall into the grinder in a similar fashion as with the pie machine in the first movie.
Tweedy, emerging from the machine covered in oil and bread crumbs, then chase after the truck that the chickens had escape in an attempt to just kill them all straight off the bat, using her axe to break into the top of the van, only to be stopped by Fowler, causing Tweedy to fall into the moat of her farm and get targeted by the robot ducks. Dr. Fry then comes to warn Tweedy of the overheating of the factory, but the ducks fire at Tweedy, and the factory then explodes from over-heating.
Heinous Standard?[]
This is where things get interesting, since this was the primary reason why she was rejected at first, for failing to discover the chicken's plans before Mr. Tweedy, who discovered that the chickens were sapient before Mrs. Tweedy, and dismissed the idea entirely when she was told about it, thus giving her husband more time to do heinous things.
This is completely subverted in the second movie however, as what she does to the chickens after obtaining the knowledge of the chicken's intelligence proves how utterly twisted and cruel she truly is. She once again proves herself to be utterly abusive to her new husband Dr. Fry, who created the collars by her request, and intended to use them to get them to ENJOY being killed rather brutally. And the icing on the cake is that she also intended to have the owner of a prevalent fast-food chain buy her nuggets, so that the demand for said nuggets goes up, all just to get revenge on Ginger and the other chickens.
Mitigating Factors?[]
Nothing really. She is a psychotic, homicidal woman that jumps from man to man in the hopes of advancing her schemes, all of which involves killing and or torturing sentient chickens in some way. Even outside of the chickens, Tweedy is an utterly abusive wife to both of her spouses, Mr. Tweedy and Dr. Fry.
In the case of Mr. Tweedy, she compares the former's stupidty to the chickens and not even wanting to admit he was right. In the case of Dr. Fry, while she claims that she married him for his scientific genius and wealth, it is heavily implied that she only really married him for having many of the same traits as Mr. Tweedy, being rather absent-minded and submissive to her.
She even shows some degree of interest towards Reginald Smith on some ocassions, such as when he becomes impressed with her work and they talk about "revenge" and "revenue". Additionally, when Smith takes out what looks like a wedding ring box, Tweedy, believing that Smith wants to marry her, happily accepts, only to then reveal that Smith only wanted to have her try his new dipping sauce. Regardless, it's also shown that she doesn't really care for Reginald as a person, only caring for his wealth and ownership of the fast food chain. He is utterly clueless to Tweedy's ultimate goals, and when he questions her about her "revenge", she puts on a friendly facade to make it seem like their deal will help the both of them.
The only real point of concern I could think of for Melisha, however, are the more comedic moments surrounding her. In the first movie, you have her getting trapped in the pie making machine, and having Mr. Tweedy push the door onto her. Here though, this isn't really that detracting, since this defeat isn't that out of the ordinary or absurd, and the film makes it abundently clear that she deserved this. In the second film, she's arguably more hammy and comedic, having more exaggerated reactions and outbursts after her defeat, and the tone of the movie overall is more light in tone, due to being a parody of spy movies, rather than that of prison escape films like the first. However, this still isn't very detracting, considering she's just as taken seriously by the chickens, and is treated as a major source of trauma by Ginger.
Conclusion?[]
Yes from me, but I'll let you all decide for yourselves.