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Post by janntosh on Oct 31, 2021 17:06:39 GMT
the classic Disney animated movie about an elephant that is bullied for his large ears but ends up being able to use them to fly. The film is beautifully animated and wonderfully charming and even sad at some points and has been shared from generation to generation but has run into controversy recently because many people point out how the crows that show up in the end have "Black accents" or something. The film now even has a warning on Disney Plus (though it never needed one for about 70 or so years) and is unable to be watched on kids profiles without parental approval! Personally I say come on, 1941 was obviously a far different time but if the worse thing about this film from that era is that a bunch of characters (that are meant to be sympathetic and encouraging) sound black, I'd say this movie is really tame. Ignore the naysayers and continue to share this classic with your kids!  |
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Post by ck100 on Oct 31, 2021 17:36:50 GMT
How do you feel about the Tim Burton version?
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Post by janntosh on Oct 31, 2021 18:00:31 GMT
How do you feel about the Tim Burton version? Didn’t watch it |
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Post by mstreepsucks on Oct 31, 2021 19:03:29 GMT
Ya the black crows are taboo.
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Post by jamesbamesy on Oct 31, 2021 19:33:26 GMT
One of Disney's classic films. The crows don't bother me that much either.
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Post by Archelaus on Oct 31, 2021 22:46:00 GMT
It's an enduring classic. 9/10
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Post by phantomparticle on Nov 1, 2021 1:15:39 GMT
I have a rather poor dupe of this from an old vhs. Watch it from time to time and shed a tear when Dumbo visits his incarcerated mother. You have to be made of hardwood not to get emotional over that.
The return to a more garish and spare style of animation after the gorgeous visuals of Pinocchio was exactly the right choice for a circus oriented movie.
The singing crows sequence was energetic and amusing. Love every second of it. If someone has a problem with it, it is their problem, not mine.
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Post by petrolino on Nov 1, 2021 1:25:37 GMT
Lovely film.
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Post by darkreviewer2013 on Nov 1, 2021 6:51:11 GMT
Haven't watched the film since childhood. It was never a favourite of mine and the racial caricatures are self-evident, but it is a product of its era and there were far nastier, more outrageously racist cartoons produced during those times than warrant far more criticism than anything seen here.
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Post by gw on Nov 1, 2021 6:59:46 GMT
I wonder why nobody has pointed out that black people were portrayed as crows in Fritz the Cat too, in the early 70's. Maybe it is that the audiences are so different that nobody finds it tasteful to point out that fact.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 1, 2021 8:55:10 GMT
I have seen it, but it must be around 30 years ago. So i don`t remember if i liked it or not.
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Nov 1, 2021 15:03:34 GMT
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Post by vegalyra on Nov 1, 2021 18:08:08 GMT
Never one of my favorites but it’s still a good one. I have the old bluray and the kids liked it.
I always liked the sequence of General Stilwell (Robert Stack) watching the movie in 1941. He tears up during the incarceration scene too.
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