Geez, who makes movies for kids? They are terrifying!
My mother never let us see Disney movies because she'd never recovered from the animated movie scene where a mother is shot dead. (Bambi, 1942--my mother would have been eight).
I had to wait until I was a teenager to see animated movies, and I agree with her--I'd take kids to a lot of grown up movies before I'd terrorize them with some kids' fare.
Today I remembered that two of them feature garbage:
Waste Management as a Bosch-like vision of Hell.
1. The Killing Fields in The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
The Little Toaster and its friends, other old appliances, are thrown out by appliances on "the Cutting-Edge of Technology" when their owner, Rob, is about to go to college.
They find themselves on a conveyor belt at the car graveyard, watching living, talking cars ahead of them get chomped to death.
The toaster saves them by throwing itself into the gears. Rob takes them all home to be repaired.
2. The Holocaust Scene in Toy Story 3 (2010)
Woody and his friends, other childhood toys, are thrown out by an evil toy when their owner, Andy, is about to go to college.
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They find themselves on a conveyer belt header for a hellish furnace.
Realizing they can't escape, they join hands to go together.
I cried.
But then they are rescued by a claw, operated by cute fat aliens.
Message?
Don't go to college! Stay home with your toys and eat toast.
My mother never let us see Disney movies because she'd never recovered from the animated movie scene where a mother is shot dead. (Bambi, 1942--my mother would have been eight).
I had to wait until I was a teenager to see animated movies, and I agree with her--I'd take kids to a lot of grown up movies before I'd terrorize them with some kids' fare.
Today I remembered that two of them feature garbage:
Waste Management as a Bosch-like vision of Hell.
1. The Killing Fields in The Brave Little Toaster (1987)The Little Toaster and its friends, other old appliances, are thrown out by appliances on "the Cutting-Edge of Technology" when their owner, Rob, is about to go to college.
They find themselves on a conveyor belt at the car graveyard, watching living, talking cars ahead of them get chomped to death.
The toaster saves them by throwing itself into the gears. Rob takes them all home to be repaired.
2. The Holocaust Scene in Toy Story 3 (2010)
Woody and his friends, other childhood toys, are thrown out by an evil toy when their owner, Andy, is about to go to college. _____________________________
Realizing they can't escape, they join hands to go together.
I cried.
But then they are rescued by a claw, operated by cute fat aliens.
Don't go to college! Stay home with your toys and eat toast.
