Google| Subject | Re: Slavery in Disney (was Re: Mickey and Donald) |
| From | Laurie Forbes |
| Date | 08/24/2004 21:29 (08/24/2004 21:29) |
| Message-ID | <XGMWc.46459$Kt5.43039@twister.nyroc.rr.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | Matthew Bladen |
| Followups | ?jevind L?ng (3d, 19h & 44m) > Laurie Forbes |
"Matthew Bladen" <tamibirt@oohay.oc.kuREVERSO>wrote in message news:MPG.1b943292a578b0629896a2@news.btopenworld.com... | In article <UDeWc.37541$Kt5.27863@twister.nyroc.rr.com>, Laurie Forbes | <moc.rr.eniam@1sebrofr>says... | | [snip ridiculous farrago that isn't worth the trouble to argue with]
Hey! That's my new Dodge Farrago, and you leave it alone! I still have to make the payments!
| I note without surprise that none of the spurious verbiage in this | thread has touched on the real issue: the overt approval of slavery in | Disney cartoons. Goofy, the mentally subnormal yet independently wealthy | canine who made millions by appearing in the various Disney self-help | movies cranked out to take advantage of the desperate attempts at self- | improvement among the American proleta---
Good lord! When we bought you that vocabulary for your birthday, you weren't suppoeed to go and use it all up at once! Now you've overfished this area and are going to have to reduce your output to one or two syllables at a time in order to let the stock recover.
[snip]
| and doubtless molested by the Duck (surely a | typo! And now we know why he doesn't wear trousers).
Whoa! You're going to be in trouble here with ?jevind. Just wait until he reveals to you what he can do with his semester of drawing and animation.
| Truly, the roots of | Abu Ghraib are to be found in Disney's portrayal of the 'foreign dogs'. | If powerful they are pandered to despite their manifest inadequacies; if | useless, they are kept chained up in kennels. If anyone now doubts that | Disney's severed head is giving instructions to the White House after | the manner of Alcasan in 'That Hideous Strength' (by CS Lewis, friend of | Tolkien - voila! En topique!) then that person is a fool, a popinjay, a | pommefrite, and I will expose them accordingly.
(LOL!) Well, now .... do I want everyone to think me a pommefrite? Pourquoi ? Middle-terre pas? Think about the creatures and their various portrayals. Who's "top dog," as it were, an Ent or an Elf? Perhaps we can say, in our typically egalitarian way, that each rules in his own sphere. It is much the same with Disney, except there is more mixing and mingling and no segregated milieux. We are not supposed to see one animated character as a tall dog with alternative dentition, nor another as an oddly-shaped duck who shouldn't even be able to walk. It would be a misviewing of the canon to say that mice should not command dogs, nor should a cow walk upright carrying a mem? purse and wearing too much lipstick, udder swaying seductively. Forget the particulars. These are beings who represent certain "qualities" or characteristics of Life (tm). It's all allegorical, and I'm certain Tolkien would agree with me.
08/24/2004
