On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 12:18, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:42:47PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:50:26AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > > > Yup, both in Toy Story. You really should see the movie. For being a > > > "kids" movie it is very good!! > > > > This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Americans > > associate animation strictly with children? > > Two words: "Walt Disney"
Which is actually really sad and unfair to Walt Disney himself. He never advocated animation strictly as entertainment for children. It was after his passing that the company decided to head in this direction. Walt Disney had a close collaboration with Salvador Dali that began with Fantasia. Disney intended to release a Fantasia 2 which was to be drawn and overseen by Dali himself. There are still a number of preliminary sketches done by Dali for the project floating around. Unfortunately, after Walt Disney's passing, the company decided that children should be their target audience and, hence, animation as a children's form of entertainment was born. Thankfully, this is a phenomenon which seems to be primarily restricted to the US. Japan is a prime example of a country that most certainly does NOT make animation strictly for children. Neon Genesis Evangelion anyone? Or, for the NC-17 side of things La Blue Girl. Though the US does seem to be making some progress. Shrek was a wonderful movie for adults and children. I would venture to say that a good half of the movie was targeted PURELY at adults without being obvious enough to make it necessary to restrict children from watching it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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