There was a huge post in a foster parents group warning this movie is terrible and will trigger foster kids because the kid has to "earn" it's mother's love and a bunch of other nonsense, apparently even politically correct remakes are offensive
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 10:46 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > Have they seen the original animated version? It has been kind of buried > because the depiction of the roustabouts and the jive-talking crows are > considered racist. On the other hand I always thought the lesson of the > movie was not to discriminate against a person (or elephant) because of how > they look, and that the roustabouts and crows were depicted favorably vs. > the greedy circus owners. If you can get past the controversy, it is one > of > the Disney classics. As a kid I loved the sequence where the train goes > through the rain and then the elephants and roustabouts set up the circus > in > the next town. I guess maybe people would also object to the grandkids > seeing Dumbo get drunk. But who can forget "pink elephants on parade"? > > The reviews I have seen on the Tim Burton version have been negative, style > over substance, and with no heart. > > As far as the controversy, at least not as bad as Song of the South, which > I > don't believe has ever been released for home video. Not really a classic > of animation like Dumbo though. It does seem a shame that anything derived > from the Uncle Remus stories are banished now. Br'er Rabbit and his > friends > came from African folk tales, and I have always thought the story about the > tar baby said a lot about human nature, although it sounds quite offensive. > Sometimes a tar baby is just a baby made out of tar. > > Cleaning out a bunch of books and taking them to an annual charity book > sale, I came across a copy of Little Black Sambo. That one did not go to > the book sale, they probably would have burned it. But sometimes, watching > the U.S. Congress or the U.K. Parliament, I expect them to turn into > butter. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2019 9:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review &c > > My grandkids hate my keyboard... security device I guess. > > Saw Dumbo with them yesterday. > They seemed to like it, I thought it was pretty poor. > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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