Top 10 Kid’s Movies With Hidden Conservative Messages

NewsReal ^ | November 27, 2010 | Stacy Webber

[Catsrus]

No, you learn to use YOUR mind and think. You also need to do research on the author and the books she has read which inspired this series. Yes, its boogeyman, and the author shows kids how to reject parental authority and gain power for themselves through this school of wizardry. Interesting isn’t it, that the school teaches spells, etc.?

Its apparent that you are ignorant of the spiritual warfare we engaged in on a daily basis. Satan wants people to think and believe its harmless fiction.

How easily it is to deceive so many!

[Catsrus]

C.S. Lewis’s books aren’t the point of our discussion, are they? I think not!

[Chickensoup]

Never heard of either of them, are they on the Net?

[ElayneJ]

Interesting data about the thunderbolt! What I was thinking about in reference to HP was the teacher (can’t recall his name) who showed the flip sides of good and evil. I remember thinking that was pretty well done.

[usmcobra]

As A young lad it convinced me of two things:
1) Enviromental wackos were indeed mental
2) They would kill us all if they got the chance over a plant.

[A_perfect_lady]

Nanny McPhee, the first one, is a nice movie. Importance of family and good manners and all.

[Future Snake Eater]

“Master and Commander” is an epic film. It tells the story of Sea Captain Jack O’Brian and and his crew. The story is set in the year 1805 aboard a British frigate during the Napoleonic Wars. Captain O’Brian is hunting down a french privateer named Acheron. They travel around the horn of Africa and to the Galapagos Islands in their relentless pursuit of this mission.

Hardly any of that is correct. Did this guy even watch the movie?

[paudio]

I agree with you. The notion that there's evil in the world, and the 'peace loving' government tried to deny it at first (under Cornelius Fudge), ineffective (under Rufus Scrimgeour), then purely evil who wants to control people's life (Pius Thickness) should make children be skeptical of government...

I used to avoid HP books and movies, but after a while I came around. There's a reason C.S. Lewis used fable, witches, etc., to tell the Good story. It appeals to children (and other ages too). While Rowling didn't mean to tell the Gospel, nevertheless she unintendedly tells a conservative story.

[Ted Grant]

What do you think of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s ‘Dr Strange’ comics in the 1960s?

[MacMattico]

You do realize that Voldemort is the epitome of evil, and that he attacked Harry after killing his parents who were on the side of good, thus the scar. Harry didn't die from the attack but lives with the pain of the scar throughout all of the books, and in no way embraces the evil from which it came. I've always thought the Harry Potter books were conservative leaning in many ways. Quite honestly I think JK Rowling “borrowed” lots of her names, places and characters from medieval, historical, perhaps pagan or occult names, in order to create her magical world. This doesn't mean she is inherently evil in her thinking or brainwashing those who read her books. It means she needed names to create the world her characters live in. In all of the Harry Potter books good and evil are clearly defined. Harry is one of the few, along with the other heroes of the series, that see the evil on the horizon and try to be proactive. The “establishment” wants nothing to do with them and even blames them for the evil that has invaded their world at one point. Sound familiar? But in the end it is their perseverance that saves the world from the evil that is Voldemort. I see nothing that will drag me into the occult in any of the seven books, and I've read them all and seen all the movies — the latest one was great!

[Hugin]

Spiderman 1 and 2.

The whole theme is about taking responsibilty for ones actions (”with great power comes great reasponisbility”). Spidey sacrifices his own happiness for the sake of those he loves, as his Aunt May does for him. He sacrifices his chance for love with Mary Jane because it would endanger her, until she refuses and sacrifices her safety for their love. On a more mundane level, he struggles to put himself through school as a freelance photographer (no student aid!). What’s more conservative than family and personal responsibility?

[MacMattico]

I wholeheartedly agree!

[Grizzled Bear]

What are your opinions concerning Narnia or The Lord of the Rings?

[Arthur McGowan]

A Tale of Two Cities (MGM-1935) (Anti-Jacobin)
David Copperfield (MGM-1935)
The Big Parade (MGM-1925) (Anti-Wilsonian)
Penny Serenade (1941) (Pro-Adoption)
Spite Marriage (1929) (Man Must Prove Worthiness to Marry)

[Persevero]

I always liked what I thought the theme of “the Incredibles” is - “When everyone’s special. . . then no one is.”

Squashes the pass-everyone spread-the-misery non-exceptionalism philosophy of the left well. They don’t want anyone to excel. They think one kid running the fastest will hurt the slower ones.

[MacMattico]

Why do you think that Hogwarts teaches kids to “reject parental authority” and “gain power for themselves”? Most of the parents that send their kids to the school attended it themselves, and it is nothing more then a boarding school that is the setting for a fictitious novel. Is it the word “witch” and/or ‘”witchcraft” that scares you? If I were going to write a book enticing people to join the occult, I certainly wouldn't call it fiction and I certainly wouldn't be so overt as to call the main characters witches and wizards. I wouldn't have it revolve around the world of magic. May I ask, have you read any of the books? If the answer is yes, do you believe yourself to have been pulled into the occult? If you say no, how have your formed your staunch anti-Harry Potter beliefs, if you haven't read them yourself?

[Arthur McGowan]

Key Largo (Redistributionist murderers get theirs.)
Dark Passage (Anti-newspaper, pro-jury-nullification, anti-sexual revolution [trampy woman falls out window])
It Happened One Night (pro-abstinence [Walls of Jericho])
Conrack (Anti-government-school [Message is only implicit, unfortunately])
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (Millionaires invest in a good idea, become billionaires, all of society benefits)

[kwlaber2]

Here’s what I think, with my mind.
1) You’ve never read the books, you are simply relying on something someone else told you, probably your pastor or sunday school teacher.
2) I’m certain your pastor and/or sunday school teacher tell you to think independently and to critically think on your own.
3) Lord of the Rings uses the same good versus evil (and spells) and yet Tolkien used it for an analogy for christianity.

Feel the same about him???

Sometimes...a book is just that...a book.

[goat granny]

Don't remember the name of the recent movie on TV, it was one of Tolkiens I think, the Lion sacrafices himself for the live of others and is brought back to life....

The Lion of Judah was what it said to me and resurrection...

[BenKenobi]

Steve Ditko, is a name I didn’t hear of until long after he’d already been sitting in my head for 20 years.

Now I know why I think and act the way I do because I loved reading about Peter Parker.