Should Catholics boycott Disney?

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Ah true. It’ll be a good excuse to read up a bit too. I remember when I was little we watched so much British comedy that I thought our prime minister was Margaret Thatcher (it was 1991 and I was a 5 year old in Australia! )
 
redbetta said:
Whatever. There are other reasons why the new trilogy is SJW rubbish and I’m not patronizing it.
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Sorry, I know some Star Wars fans have a bone about this but from a film studies stance Star Wars has always followed this pattern because it uses the heroes journey and dislikes fascism.

The hero tends to be randomly better at things than they should be, protagonists often are (just look at how various children out smart adults, or plucky newbies best the villain because they have more heart, or how a farm boy can fly a space ship better than many trained pilots). And they combat fascism, because it’s a pretty straight forward bad guy.
 
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‘Gravity Falls’ is full of occult/Masonic symbols.
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I’m not a huge Gravity Falls fan, but from what I’ve seen, I’d hardly say it is supporting the occult. Yeah, it artistically uses a lot of standard tropes from ghost stories, conspiracy theories, and urban legends, but that hardly means that the writers or producers are, for instance, part of the Illuminati. J.R.R. Tolkien took influences from various European myths when writing The Lord of the Rings, but he obviously didn’t support the pagan religions that believed them. C.S. Lewis did the same with The Chronicles of Narnia, but he obviously wasn’t a pagan.
 
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OK, but please do not trick yourself into thinking that, therefore, movies cannot influence us at an unconscious level.
 
Ecclesiastes said:
OK, but please do not trick yourself into thinking that, therefore, movies cannot influence us at an unconscious level.
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Oh my good Lord.

Again - I have NEVER ONCE SAID THAT. That is only remotely related to what I was talking about.

I was talking about CHILDREN. CHILDREN who do not know enough about sex to understand innuendo. CHILDREN who don’t get why Shrek is funny because they don’t understand the implied jokes. It goes right over their heads.

Please - reread all the posts from the start. Good grief, man.

I know there is such a thing as subliminal suggestion. I explained that. I get that. But that’s not what I"m talking about. You still have to understand the message for it to make any sense, even on a subconscious level.

You completely missed the point.
 
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Sexual stimuli can indeed affect children, and it can lay dormant in their unconscious til they reach puberty.
 
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Again - NOT THE POINT.

I didn’t say STIMULI. I said INNUENDO. You can’t understand innuendo if you don’t understand the context.
 
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Innuendo IS basically subliminal. But a child doesn’t know what it means. You can’t get the joke if you don’t understand where it comes from.

I have no idea why this is eluding you.
 
Ever seen Frozen?

Know the scene where Anna makes the comment that “foot size doesn’t matter”?

EVERY adult cracked up in the theater. NO KID understood why that was hilarious.

THAT IS INNUENDO, and it went right over their heads. It’s oxymoronic to say it, but that was blatant innuendo, and it was targeted at the adults. Just like a bunch of stuff in Shrek.

They simply don’t have the experience or the context to understand it. It’s basic human development.
 
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Oh it was hilarious to pretty much the entire theater.

Kids have no clue what that means. Adults get it.

I’m 45; pretty sure I’m allowed to think it was funny. If it’s not your brand of humor, don’t find it amusing - there’s nothing wrong with not thinking it’s funny. It illustrated the point very well: kids don’t get the stuff that adults find “hidden” in movies. Adults don’t have to like it, they don’t have to think it’s funny, they don’t have to find it acceptable - but it goes right over the heads of kids.

If that bugged you, I wouldn’t watch “Shrek” anytime soon.
 
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For some reason, the majority of jokes aimed at adults are sexual in nature. But it is quite tasteless when inserted into a cartoon aimed at children.
 
Pup7 said:
They don’t understand the satire in Charlie Brown, whose characters actually mirror much of modern existence
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The older I get, the funnier Lucy’s sign “Psychiatric Care 5cents” seems.
 
0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
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Gertabelle:
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
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Everybody should read that book.
Francie is tragically relatable.
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At this point in my life, I relate more to her mom Katie.
 
It uses a lot of occult/Masonic symbols. The symbols aren’t Christianized. I don’t know the producers intent but they are unnecessary.

Tolkien did I borrow from pagan stories. But that has really nothing to do with a visual work that uses occult symbols as occult symbols.

Is there a Disney show that features a bunch of Christian symbols? If there was how would you interpret that? Would you interpret it as subtly pushing Christianity? I can tell you this. It won’t happen precisely because everyone would see it that way. So why do occult/Masonic symbols get a completely different interpretation? They are harmless fun but a bunch of Christian symbols are a conspiracy to promote Christianity?
 
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