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Sep. 15th, 2005 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changeyourstars8Something that amuses me . . .
I want to see the movie Grizzly Man (for those of you who don't know, it's about a very dedicated 'nature boy', Timothy Treadwell, who spent a lot of time with grizzly bears in the wild. He believed they wouldn't hurt him. They ended up killing both him and his girlfriend).
Anyway, I was looking up some articles and opinion pieces on Treadwell, and found a discussion board where they were making fun of the fact that Treadwell was apparently a technical advisor on the movie Brother Bear. Don't know if this is true, IMDB doesn't list his name. Considering the way the conversation went, it might've been just something someone made up in order to complain about the movie.
Comments were generally along the line of, "Would you look at this? Disney's trying to teach kids that it's okay to go up to bears, that bears are just humans with a lot of fur, and you can see where that attitude got Tim."
They were apparently serious.
Me-- "Wait. You mean I can't go up and hug a grizzly? My worldview, it is shattered, for Disney has lied to me. Next thing you'll be telling me that gorillas don't sing to the human children they adopt, and Pocahontas wasn't an adult woman, and animals don't gather in a huge mass and bow down to the predators that might one day eat them."
I mean, c'mon, if they're going to complain about a Disney movie teaching bad things, they could at least go for the big issues, like incest. Just look at The Lion King, would you? Exactly who was Nala's father, hmmmmmm? Only one male in that pack. And yet people bring this movie into their homes? Think of the children!
I want to see the movie Grizzly Man (for those of you who don't know, it's about a very dedicated 'nature boy', Timothy Treadwell, who spent a lot of time with grizzly bears in the wild. He believed they wouldn't hurt him. They ended up killing both him and his girlfriend).
Anyway, I was looking up some articles and opinion pieces on Treadwell, and found a discussion board where they were making fun of the fact that Treadwell was apparently a technical advisor on the movie Brother Bear. Don't know if this is true, IMDB doesn't list his name. Considering the way the conversation went, it might've been just something someone made up in order to complain about the movie.
Comments were generally along the line of, "Would you look at this? Disney's trying to teach kids that it's okay to go up to bears, that bears are just humans with a lot of fur, and you can see where that attitude got Tim."
They were apparently serious.
Me-- "Wait. You mean I can't go up and hug a grizzly? My worldview, it is shattered, for Disney has lied to me. Next thing you'll be telling me that gorillas don't sing to the human children they adopt, and Pocahontas wasn't an adult woman, and animals don't gather in a huge mass and bow down to the predators that might one day eat them."
I mean, c'mon, if they're going to complain about a Disney movie teaching bad things, they could at least go for the big issues, like incest. Just look at The Lion King, would you? Exactly who was Nala's father, hmmmmmm? Only one male in that pack. And yet people bring this movie into their homes? Think of the children!
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Date: 2005-09-19 01:53 am (UTC)The one that I had said to me personally, though, was the killer for me. One man I knew wouldn't allow Beauty and the Beast into his house, because it condoned beastiality.
And I also want to know what parent in their right mind would have their children alone in close enough proxemity to a grizzly that there would be concern that the child would try to HUG it?! Really. It's not movies that we should be concerned about. It's parents who allow movies to do all their child rearing for them.
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Date: 2005-09-20 12:08 am (UTC)And oh my goodness. Beauty and the Beast condones beastiality? Now honestly, that's not something I have ever thought of, and I'm almost 24 and quite a bit of a perv. lol When I was a child, I certainly wasn't thinking it.
There's another concern: these rather twisted adults thinking that children's minds work the exact same way that theirs do.
Sheesh.