11-21-2018, 01:34 PM
(11-20-2018, 09:36 PM)gabrielle Wrote: The Gen X era may have been a "dark age" for Disney films, but that was largely because their genius creator, Walt Disney, was no longer producing the films and it took them a while to regain their footing.
If you look beyond Disney to other children's films of the era, I don't think Gen X fared that badly. We had the original Star Wars trilogy (yes, they were kids' films, Lucas said so), Indiana Jones, ET, the Black Stallion etc.
Star Wars IV is extremely violent and depicts the most horrible crime possible: genocide. It is a repackaged WWII movie. I may love the climactic scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark in which the Nazis open the Ark of the Covenant and face the greatest power that they could ever unleash -- the Wrath of God -- upon themselves. At the least it is Nazis who die.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.