The Peanuts Movie

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 12:44 pm

Charles Shultz was a genius.

How else could one explain Peanuts?

I am really looking forward to watching The Peanuts Movie

Read a couple of reviews on it like The Peanuts Movie is surprisingly good, but it gets one big thing wrong

Which two characters shouldn't be the same age?

Unless it was pointed out I wouldn't know or care. No problem as he is just doing what critics do. I am a big fan of reading of movie inconsistencies.

This injecting progressive policy is as absurd as Film colorization

Like most classic jokes, “Peanuts isn’t so much funny as mildly amusing, which is evidently one of the many aspects of Schulz’s legacy that his son Craig and grandson Bryan fought to protect as screenwriters and producers on the film (presumably trumping their genuinely hilarious collaborator, Paul Feig, also credited as a producer alongside co-writer Cornelius Uliano). But a little modernization wouldn’t have hurt, especially in the diversity department. While Franklin remains Charlie Brown’s only brown friend, a non-white love interest would have been as progressive as Schulz’s tomboyish depiction of Peppermint Patty was back in the day.

Variety

Why not air brush the Mona Lisa?

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 1:17 pm

Even Peanuts evolves. There are plenty of archived movies/stories of Peanuts and the gang to watch if you don't wish to see change. Time allows for change and many story listeners/watchers look for change. Many of us might prefer to see Peanuts dealing with the 21st century now, since we've seen the 20th century Peanuts.

I know I'm different now than I was 25 years ago, Peanuts would be as well.

That's the difference between progress and conservatism. Us progressives invite change while most conservatives are afraid of it and denounce it.

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 1:50 pm

Ahso!;1489128 wrote:

I know I'm different now than I was 25 years ago, Peanuts would be as well.

Really?

And you are the one to make that determination? I just don't see an honored cartoon strip being made the tool for political advantage.

Ahso!;1489128 wrote: That's the difference between progress and conservatism.

Explain the progress in corrupting a cartoon for progressive goals.

Ahso!;1489128 wrote: Us progressives invite change while most conservatives are afraid of it and denounce it.

BS

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 3:21 pm

tude dog;1489129 wrote: cartoon strip being made the tool for political advantage.Many of them are just that. I wouldn't be surprised if politics played a roll in Peanuts from the get-go.

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 3:29 pm

Ahso!;1489146 wrote: Many of them are just that. I wouldn't be surprised if politics played a roll in Peanuts from the get-go.

That's the best ya got.

You own it.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 4:22 pm

Have you checked out the wikipedia page on Peanuts?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q ... 3889,d.cWw

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Sat Nov 07, 2015 4:30 pm

Good Grief !!

Saint_ · Post by **Saint_** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 7:58 am

FourPart;1489158 wrote: Good Grief !!

lol. You beat me to it. But, yeah, politics has always played a subdued role in Peanuts. I love it as much today as 45 years ago. I do remember some controversies, Peppermint Patty was one, and there was something about the Vietnam War too.

Health care, gun control, the environment, and racial equality were all topics broached by Charles M. Schulz in the fifty years he created the Peanuts comic strip. His beloved Peanuts characters raised issues of the day: Lucy embraced feminist philosophies, Linus panicked when he mistook snow for nuclear fallout, and Sally whispered about praying in school. Schulz also introduced Franklin, a black Peanuts character, into the predominately white cast July 31, 1968, just months after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 1:16 pm

Well, I don't believe the average person wants to go and watch a Peanuts Movie loaded with politics.

Can't we give it a rest and everybody get along?

Post by **LarsMac** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 1:30 pm

Sure. I haven't yet seen the movie, but I am sure that at some point the great grandkids will want to see it. They don't care much about politics.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 1:34 pm

It's not like most people, especially young people, realize the political inferences in cartoons. Case in point, the OP didn't even know that the thing was loaded with it from the outset.

Ahso! · Post by **Ahso!** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 1:49 pm

And what's more, he loves a cartoon in which its creator was a progressive liberal. :-3

tude dog · Post by **tude dog** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 3:23 pm

Ahso!;1489257 wrote: It's not like most people, especially young people, realize the political inferences in cartoons. Case in point, the OP didn't even know that the thing was loaded with it from the outset.

Well, gee whizz.

Not really sorry to disappoint ya all, but don't remember the politics at all. I liked the strip but was not fanatic about it.

All I am saying is that leave it alone.

Seems to me promoted as a family show, simply as entertainment.

Post by **LarsMac** » Mon Nov 09, 2015 3:30 pm

tude dog;1489261 wrote: Well, gee whizz.

Not really sorry to disappoint ya all, but don't remember the politics at all. I liked the strip but was not fanatic about it.

All I am saying is that leave it alone.

Seems to me promoted as a family show, simply as entertainment.

Works for me.