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Top 10 Kid’s Movies With Hidden Conservative Messages
NewsReal ^ | November 27, 2010 | Stacy Webber

Posted on 11/27/2010 7:20:50 PM PST by TheHawksNest

Here we are at the beginning of the Holiday “season.” All parents know that these breaks bring with them pleas from children for some extra time in front of what my priest refers to as “the magic lantern” and my husband calls “the devil box.” There is truth in each of these labels, but most Moms call it ”an hour and a half of peace and quiet to get a few things done.”

Yes, I am speaking of the television. While it can be argued that watching TV is an inferior way to spend time, it does play a role in the lives of most — OK, pretty much all — families. I would argue that not all TV viewing is the same. Movies, because of the absence of commercials, are far superior to anything that you can find channel surfing. Commercial free-PBS is not much better. While it does not show many product commercials, it is often worse than network or cable television due to the obnoxious amount of politically correct messages and indoctrination into the leftist agenda by puppets and cartoon characters. Movies, if they are any good, have the ability to hold a child’s uninterrupted attention and convey a message in tact.

So, what children watch does make a difference. For example, does anyone want their daughters learning teen morality from Hannah Montana or her evil twin Miley Cyrus? Since we will sit our kids in front of the TV at some point, I have compiled a list of the top ten kid’s movies with hidden conservative messages.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: conservativemovies; goodmovies; hollywood; moviereview; movies; topten
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To: kwlaber2

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!


41 posted on 11/27/2010 8:41:11 PM PST by Catsrus (Have)
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To: kwlaber2

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


42 posted on 11/27/2010 8:42:28 PM PST by Catsrus (Have)
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To: 50sDad

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


43 posted on 11/27/2010 8:44:36 PM PST by Chickensoup (In the Leftist protected species hierarchy, Islamics trump Homosexuals trump Women trump Blacks)
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To: Catsrus

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.


44 posted on 11/27/2010 8:47:39 PM PST by ElayneJ
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To: TheHawksNest

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.

45 posted on 11/27/2010 8:48:02 PM PST by usmcobra (.Islam: providing Live Targets for United States Marines since 1786!)
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To: TheHawksNest

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


46 posted on 11/27/2010 8:48:30 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: TheHawksNest
“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?

47 posted on 11/27/2010 8:51:14 PM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: I still care
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.

48 posted on 11/27/2010 8:53:43 PM PST by paudio (The differences between Clinton and 0bama? About a dozen of former Democratic Congressmen.)
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To: Catsrus

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


49 posted on 11/27/2010 8:54:27 PM PST by Ted Grant
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To: Catsrus
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!
50 posted on 11/27/2010 8:56:20 PM PST by MacMattico
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To: TheHawksNest

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?


51 posted on 11/27/2010 8:57:52 PM PST by Hugin ("A man'll usually tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear it"--- Open Range)
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To: I still care

I wholeheartedly agree!


52 posted on 11/27/2010 8:58:18 PM PST by MacMattico
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To: Catsrus

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


53 posted on 11/27/2010 9:05:38 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: TheHawksNest

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)


54 posted on 11/27/2010 9:12:29 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

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.


55 posted on 11/27/2010 9:31:45 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Catsrus
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?
56 posted on 11/27/2010 9:33:47 PM PST by MacMattico
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To: TheHawksNest

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)


57 posted on 11/27/2010 9:37:43 PM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: Catsrus

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.


58 posted on 11/27/2010 10:26:59 PM PST by kwlaber2
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To: kwlaber2
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...

59 posted on 11/27/2010 10:38:46 PM PST by goat granny
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To: Hugin

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.


60 posted on 11/27/2010 10:52:25 PM PST by BenKenobi (DonÂ’t worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.)
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