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The Secret World of Arrietty (Yonebayashi, 2012) — Studio Ghibli's The Borrowers

Old 02-21-12, 08:29 PM
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Re: The Secret World of Arrietty (Yonebayashi, 2012) — Studio Ghibli's The Borrowers

At first I thought the boy was voiced by Tobey Maguire.

Originally Posted by Tom Creo
I have the same 'The Littles" feeling. Was that Saturday morning cartoon based on The Barrowers?
The Borrowers and The Littles are different books, but obviously the subject matter is similar. That always confused me as a kid (my sister read them; I didn't).
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I did not like Earthsea even a little bit and thought Ponyo was a bore.
Doubtful that I'll go to see this but when it comes to blu I'll give it a spin. just hope it's better then the other two.
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Lou Dobbs bashes ‘The Lorax’ and ‘Secret World of Arrietty’ for ‘indoctrinating liberal agenda’

Fox Business host sees President's 'liberal friends in Hollywood' as targeting their messages at kids

In the Dr. Seuss book, the Lorax speaks for trees, "for the trees have no tongues."

Lou Dobbs, on the other hand, most definitely has a tongue and he's not afraid to wield it against the beloved children's character.

On a segment of Dobbs’ Fox Business Network show Tuesday night that was flagged by the advocacy group Media Matters, the cantankerous conservative pundit bashed two new animated movies as an example how Hollywood "once again is trying to indoctrinate our children.”

Dobbs lambasted Disney's "The Secret World of Arrietty," a Japanese film that opened last Friday, for its story about a 4-inch-tall family of "borrowers" who take items from humans without paying for them. Universal's "The Lorax," opening March 2, "is about a woodland creature who speaks for the trees and fights rampant industrialism," Dobbs said, emphasizing the last two words.


"Where have we heard this before?" asked Dobbs. "Occupy Wall Street forever tried to put the makers against the takers and President Obama repeating that everyone should pay their fair share in dozens of speeches since his State of the Union address last month.

"The President's liberal friends in Hollywood targeting a younger demographic using animated movies to sell their agenda to children."

Turning to his three guests, Dobbs found sympathy for his arguments.

"What we're doing is creating Occu-toddlers," right-wing talk-show host Matt Patrick said. "Here's what I would recommend. If you want to go see the movie and we all know what the agenda is, buy huge tubs of popcorn, ram it in your face, they're all made of paper, you crinkle it all up, throw it on the floor, you walk out. You spend all kinds of money on stuff and you leave it on the floor. ... I mean you go into the movie theaters and you actually fight back against this message."
It's not the first time the network has picked on a children's movie. During the Dec. 2 broadcast of Fox Business' "Follow the Money," host Eric Bolling claimed the “The Muppets” was being used by liberals to “brainwash” America’s children with a socialist message.

“The Muppets are back and being terrorized by an evil oil executive in their new movie,” said Bolling. “Liberal Hollywood depicting a successful businessman as ‘evil,’ that’s not new.”

"The Secret of Arrietty" actually did have a not-so-secret message — at least in Japan, where the movie was created by Studio Ghibli for that country's audiences, director Hiromasa Yonebayashi recently told the Daily News.

"The first thing [studio head Hayao] Miyazaki told me is that nowadays [Japanese] people are into buying things and a very materialistic way of living," Yonebayashi said. "And in this particular [economic] time it might be very important to create this kind of story where little people borrow a bit from other people."


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz1nE9Fg5Xy
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^^What a bunch of rabid fucking dopes.
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^^What a bunch of rabid fucking dopes.
Hey, my six year old daughter snuck over to the neighbor's house and stole a sugar cube and a push pin after watching The Secret World of Arriety. Damn liberal agenda.
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Re: The Secret World of Arrietty (Yonebayashi, 2012) — Studio Ghibli's The Borrowers

Originally Posted by cungar
Hey, my six year old daughter snuck over to the neighbor's house and stole a sugar cube and a push pin after watching The Secret World of Arriety. Damn liberal agenda.
As long as the neighbor is part of the 1%, I'm okay with this

Yeah, that article is so full of stupid...
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I didn't realize Studio Ghibli were the president's liberal friends in Hollywood.

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