In keeping with previous entries, we're still going to talk about movies though. I am not sure whether this movie has opened in India yet, we still don't have it where I am living currently, but it is called "Happy Feet" and it is about a feisty little emperor penguin that will dance his way into your heart! Or, well, something like that.
Good, bad, I don't know yet, I haven't seen it, that's not the point. The point is this: click to see youtube video.
Apparently, since the movie is about penguins and thus takes place in the Antarctic, the makers worked in a few messages about environmental awareness, specifically about global warming and the polar ice caps. And boy, some right-wing nutjobs in America are PISSED OFF about it. How dare they market "animated propaganda" to our kids, they ask? There should be a warning on the film so that parents know that their children are going to be bombarded with those sneaky environmental activist messages! After all, it's just a children's movie, and any messages indoctrinating them to this "green" point of view are wholly inappropriate and have no place in a kids' film.
Er, what? It's suddenly a bad thing now to tell a tale to children that has a moral anywhere in it? Oh, wait, only when it disagrees with how Big Industry is paying you Republican bastards to think, that's right, I forgot.
Discuss.
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thus spake arunamatata @ 5:44 am
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