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Pro-people protests at propaganda by penguin
The Sunday Telegraph ^ | December 3, 2006 | Philip Sherwell

Posted on 12/03/2006 1:40:11 AM PST by MadIvan

It should be the ideal family film for Christmas: the animated adventures of a colony of penguins singing and dancing on the ice floes of Antarctica.

But just days ahead of its British release, Happy Feet is struggling to avoid an iceberg of its own, after Right-wing critics accused it of targeting youngsters with anti-mankind messages.

Commentators in the United States, where the film opened last month, have labelled the plot – penguins struggling to survive man's wrecking of their ecosystem – as pro-green propaganda hidden in a children's adventure.

Fox News presenter Neil Cavuto said: "What I found offensive is that they shove this in a kids' movie – you hear the penguins are starving because of mean old man, mean old companies."

CNN talk show host Glenn Beck added: "If you're going to include those themes, the least you could do is tell me, a parent, so I know I'm walking into propaganda."

The film, which stars the voices of Hollywood A-listers Elijah Wood, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and Robin Williams, is seen by studio Warner Bros as a rival to new Bond film Casino Royale at the British box office.

Alan Horn, the studio's president and chief executive and the founder of the Environmental Media Association which advises the industry on green themes, said: "There is a very strong environmental message but it's couched in the context of entertainment and a story that's personal and I think the film's over-riding message is that it's okay to be different."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthday; environmentalists; leftistpropaganda; penguins; rats; whackos
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Regards, Ivan

1 posted on 12/03/2006 1:40:14 AM PST by MadIvan
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To: Mrs Ivan; odds; DCPatriot; Texican; Watery Tart; Deetes; Barset; fanfan; LadyofShalott; Tolik; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 12/03/2006 1:40:50 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: MadIvan
...Right-wing critics accused it of targeting youngsters with anti-mankind messages.

It all started when that #$%@! hunter shot Bambi!

3 posted on 12/03/2006 1:53:18 AM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: The Duke

Ooops...Bambi's mom...(even worse!)


4 posted on 12/03/2006 1:53:44 AM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: MadIvan

North Korea is soon to test an exploding penguin.


5 posted on 12/03/2006 2:05:57 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Zimbabwe, leftist success story.)
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To: MadIvan

I'm in the mood for some barbecued penguin wings all of a sudden.


6 posted on 12/03/2006 2:19:33 AM PST by kb2614 (Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
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To: MadIvan
CNN talk show host Glenn Beck added: "If you're going to include those themes, the least you could do is tell me, a parent, so I know I'm walking into propaganda."

You know, I really like Glenn Beck, but sometimes he says the dumbest things. Earth to Glenn, the movie was made in Hollywood. That it is a propaganda piece is a given.
7 posted on 12/03/2006 3:11:07 AM PST by newheart (The Truth? You can't handle the Truth. But He can handle you.)
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To: MadIvan

Are they just angry that this movie beat Casino Royale in the United States?


8 posted on 12/03/2006 3:50:21 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( FRhomepage on IE is very ugly. Firefox was used to make. Can you help?)
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To: kb2614

Penguin's supposed to taste bad.


9 posted on 12/03/2006 3:51:06 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( FRhomepage on IE is very ugly. Firefox was used to make. Can you help?)
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To: MadIvan
Saw the movie. Penguins good/People bad. That said, Hugh Jackman does a very good Elvis impersonation as Memphis the Penguin in the movie.
10 posted on 12/03/2006 3:52:19 AM PST by sockmonkey (Die, Possums, Die)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
If you read the article carefully, you'll see the people objecting to the film are Americans.

Regards, Ivan

11 posted on 12/03/2006 3:54:54 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Penguin's supposed to taste bad.

Most anything that lives on fish tastes bad. Fish ducks are horrible.

I had an uncle on a polar sub expedition. A weather station they visited made a big deal out of giving them some polar bear meat. The cooks started to prepare it while underway and it stank like rancid fish. The crew's sentiment was that the weather station was lucky to be out of torp range.
12 posted on 12/03/2006 5:10:13 AM PST by CrazyIvan (If you read only one book this year, read "Stolen Valor".)
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To: The Duke
What did she dress out at?
13 posted on 12/03/2006 5:32:18 AM PST by Little Bill (A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
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To: MadIvan; All

What?!?!?

The Ministry of Hollywood made another propogandizing movie to stick in our faces?

NO!

Who wudda thunk it?!?!?

You would think it was like a trend or something.


They are so blatant even my kid sees it.
And still they ask, "Why aren't the stupid proles going to see our movies?"
14 posted on 12/03/2006 5:49:40 AM PST by ct_libertarian (We inbellyfeel Democrat duckspeak doubleplusgood! AmSoc! AmSoc! Doubleplusgood!)
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To: newheart

Glenn Beck recently devoted an entire hour to this movie on his radio show....he really socked it to the producers and other assorted libs.


15 posted on 12/03/2006 6:19:56 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Don't Blame Me! I Voted for Republicans in 2006)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Penguin's supposed to taste bad.

probably true, but I do know they stink.

16 posted on 12/03/2006 6:48:16 AM PST by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

Casino Royale... wasn't that the name of a very strange episode of Startrek Generations?


17 posted on 12/03/2006 6:54:32 AM PST by Mercat
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To: Mercat
Not a Trekkie.

Sorry to keep asking these webpage questions, but there are continuing difficulties with making the page. Can you go, particularly if you use Internet Explorer, to http://www.freerepublic.com/~jedimasterpikachu/ and freepmail whether it looks organized or not to you. The width of the topic tables were set to 100% and the pixels of the non-table pictures were specified some minutes ago.

18 posted on 12/03/2006 6:57:37 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( FRhomepage on IE is very ugly. Firefox was used to make. Can you help?)
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To: MadIvan

"THERE! I've run rings around you logically."

Who'll be the first to steal that for their tagline, I wonder? LOL!

I love those guys. They always make me laugh out loud. We used to have their 3-sided record, which was pretty amazing.


19 posted on 12/03/2006 6:58:23 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: sockmonkey

Saw it too, with my kids. The propaganda angle aside-it was just a bad movie. Plot continuity sucked, and that made it seem much longer than it was. The 98 minutes seemed like 98 days to me.

All the other crap in it-the humanization of animals, exclusion of someone different, raising emotion (song in your heart) to a pedestal above accomplishment and logic, and the enviro-happy crap, was standard fair for movies like this, except they pushed all it of over the top. To the level of absurd.

The final "you gotta be kidding me" was when the UN fixed it and made the people/penguin world one big happy place, where everyone danced and happily ate fish.

I don't usually comment on such things to my kids after movies, but I had to set them straight on this one.


20 posted on 12/03/2006 7:00:19 AM PST by 5Madman2 (There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber)
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