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James Corden's Peter Rabbit: another kids' classic wrecked forever
The Guardian ^
| 9-25-17
| Stuart Heritage
Posted on 09/25/2017 3:53:46 PM PDT by dynachrome
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Peter Rabbit as a thug? sheesh.
To: dynachrome
Just don't bring trash into the house. Parents control the books and movies bought. The internet should be in a public space. None of my children had smartphones, so I know it is a bit more difficult now. Cut the cable.
Attend church together, and have dinner at home as a family.
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posted on
09/25/2017 3:58:33 PM PDT
by
FatherofFive
(Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
To: dynachrome
To: dynachrome
It’s been a long time since I had a young boy in the house, but as I recall, boys aged 9-11 can be sweet innocent angels one minute and cheer on what looks like mayhem and hysterical rampages the next.
Actually, I think my husband would chortle at the hedgehog dart scene.
I wouldn’t expose anyone under eight to this version, but honestly, the mash-up will likely find young fans who will not grow up to be serial killers.
To: dynachrome
Rabbits are not “garden friends”
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:06:47 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: dynachrome
In the books he was always stealing the farmer’s food.
I spent a lot of time on a farm growing up.
I like telling it how it really is about rabbits.
Call me the wabbit swayed.
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:09:57 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: reformedliberal
I wouldnt expose anyone under eight to this version, but honestly, the mash-up will likely find young fans who will not grow up to be serial killers.
It's not about that. It's about taking someone with an established identity and persona and treasured place in literature and completely botching it. Call it something else. Don't trade on the good well that Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit earned.
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:16:10 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:21:00 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: dynachrome
Next spring, let me guess they think this constitutes an “Easter” film.
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:21:48 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: FatherofFive
Sad how things that were commonplace in our childhood have become foreign.
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:31:41 PM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(Waiting for inspiration)
To: dynachrome
This is NOT a cartoon for young kids. Period.
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:32:52 PM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
To: dynachrome
Thats how much of a dick this Peter Rabbit is.
...
It’s a shame this so-called writer has such a limited vocabulary that he needs to use filthy words.
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:42:35 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:48:09 PM PDT
by
oblomov
(We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
To: dynachrome
If the Guardian hates it, it must be awesome.
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:48:59 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: Dr. Sivana
I agree ....you can be inspired to write this and it probably is good cartoon but the author is not here to give her permission to call it Peter rabbit...give it another name and be honest with where the inspiration for it came from...
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:50:51 PM PDT
by
PCPOET7
To: Bigg Red
Stay away from aisle 5.
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posted on
09/25/2017 4:54:59 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: KosmicKitty
cultural revolution, I mean appropriation
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posted on
09/25/2017 5:01:18 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
To: dynachrome
Peter Rabbit wasn't a very nice rabbit in the book either which is why his mother sent him to bed without his supper.
And while Beatrix Potter's other works are protected her in the US her agent failed to do the proper paperwork and so she lost her rights to Peter Rabbit.
I thought everybody knew that.
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posted on
09/25/2017 5:03:55 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
To: dynachrome
James Corden?
Is that that sausage-fingered Brit that thinks he's the Queens gift to America, with his smarmy remarks and stupid ass non-comedy routines?
Yeah, THAT James Corden.
Don't care.
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posted on
09/25/2017 5:53:58 PM PDT
by
OldSmaj
(The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
To: Dr. Sivana
There’s an entire genre of re-told fairy tales, most with a bloody cast. Nad all the old tales had their violent side. It will sink or swim dependent on the fanbase. That fanbase is NOT the toddler cohort that loves Peter Rabbit and, by the time they reach the age targeted by this version,they will not be damaged.
There’s something to be said for someone casting Farmer MacGregor as the victim. Shows some compassion. I know I curse rabbits in my garden. Little buggers kill ornamentals, too. You know, gangbangers plead they’re only helping to feed _their_ families.
There are always two sides to every story, even Peter Rabbit. It’s a story, like so many others, not sacred canon.
Honestly, I think there’s a lot of hyperventilating going around.
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