Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

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(05-18-2023, 07:18 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Dude, which classic Disney movie had the princess at age 14?  I assume you're referring to Snow White based on the Brother's Grimm fairy tale.  The Disney version couldn't be more sanitized if you tried.  The original tales were dark AF.



The original movie?  I legitimately have no memory of that.



Not a huge Disney fan myself, but I can't watch one of the classic movies, or the new golden age (e.g. Little Mermaid, Aladdin, BatB) and glean a political message from them.  My nephews are young, so I saw them quite a bit in the past few years.


You cheeky monkey. 

Disney aside, a lot of "entertainment" has a political message.  If folks like DeSantis realized that they would have seen Lindsey Graham as the lone scientist who said "If we build this monster, we'll lose control and it'll destroy us all!"  Disney always has the message that ugly people and step-families are evil, at least.

Whether you are making a movie about the perils of nuclear testing, or writing a song called Born In the USA, some folks will get it and some folks won't.  I'm no comic head, but isn't The Punisher a Nixon-era critique of the justice system?  That's a bunch of preachy commie talk, but now it's a symbol for some of the uh, more authoritarian leaning of us.  Lord almighty, as a culture we are great at missing the point.


My favorite non-political one is the movie Rocky.  A story about a down and out kid from humble roots who goes the distance with the champ, he doesn't win the match, but he won at life.  Response from the public....Hey, that was nice but how about instead of not winning Rocky is like, invincible and always wins?  Yeah!  That'd be way better!  Give us that!


EDIT - I was going to add that back in the good ol' days step-sisters were ugly and evil and looked like Jewish stereotypes, but these days step-sister is like THE most popular porno hub thing.  I'm too classy to point that out, though.