[ SHOWGSD-L ] Charlottes (Tangled) Web
- From: "Ginger Cleary" <cleary1414@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Showgsd-L@Freelists. Org" <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:12:45 -0500
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/3194
December 7, 2006
Charlotte's (Tangled) Web
If you have children, you're likely to be pestered for movie tickets
After the new adaptation of Charlotte's Web opens later this month. But
The images prodding your kids toward the multiplex might be more about
Animal rights than E.B. White. One Charlotte's Web commercial airing on
Nickelodeon (oddly enough, during an episode of Mr. Meaty) shows heroic
Bike-riding teens in pig-snout masks "liberating" (read: stealing) a
Barn full of pigs. Is this illegal? Definitely. Is it appropriate
Advertising for a G-rated movie? No way. Does Paramount Pictures
Understand what it's wading into? You be the judge:
* The TV commercial ends with a plea for kids to visit
SaveWilbur.com, a Nickelodeon / Paramount website that encourages kids
To "Say no to bacon" and print out stickers reading "Tofu Rulez."
* Paramount's official website for Charlotte's Web includes
"educational links" to animal-rights extremist groups including Farm
Sanctuary and the Humane Society of the United States.
* Last year, Paramount Pictures hosted a 25th-Anniversary gala for
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on its Hollywood
Studio lot. (We were there too.)
* The Sydney Morning Herald reports that "Paramount Pictures made a
'significant' donation to Animals Australia" after Charlotte's Web was
Filmed Down Under. Paramount's contribution funded a $500,000
Advertising campaign attacking the idea of eating pork. The ads include
Cookbook-style presentations of "Emotionally Stressed Pork Sausages" and
"Traumatised Suckling Piglet."
Of course, Charlotte's Web is a work of fiction. The real world, as
Author E.B. White's own life attested, is still the real world. (White
Raised and killed pigs on his own Vermont farm for decades.) In the
World of the film's animal-liberation commercial, White would be the
Depraved farmer, shocked to find his livelihood exiting the barn en masse.
Paramount appears to be calculating that adults won't be sufficiently
Turned off by a blatant animal-rights promotion to take their children
To see Unaccompanied Minors instead. The studio might want to remember
That the non-vegetarian majority buys a lot of movie tickets. And we
Could always decide not to.
Ginger Cleary
Rome, GA www.rihadin.com
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo
the fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine
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