What about Walt Disney?

When you have kids, you tend to start to look at the world from a different perspective. I know it really took a turn for me when the molding of 3 precious lives was placed in my hands by "The Man Upstairs".

If you don't have kids, read here: If you haven't had children, you can only guess how deeply this goes. Believe me, I've been without children and I've been with them. You haven't. Oh, and please don't tell me, "I know responsibility, cause I have a pet dog." You have about the same level of experience in this area as Sadam Hussein had in war tactics. I don't mean to make you mad, that's just the way it is.

If you do have kids, read here: Children as a rule, need to get out more. BUT, they need to get out to the right places. Countless hours are being spent in front of a television set that portrays an imaginary world of happiness and entertainment. To a point this is fine. Imagination is good. It's needed! Without it we would never have been to the moon, invented the computer, sailed the oceans or had thoughts that included the Dallas Cowboy's Cheerleaders!

Disney has made some of the finest, world class entertainment of our time. However, let me interject some points I have observed from Disney and others. I'm not saying there's a conspiracy, I'm just saying think about the following:

The Movie

The Bad Guy
Bambi -  animals talk, Bambi's father risks his life to pep-talk Bambi into jumping a ditch and escape a fire, fire is set by careless hunters, careless hunters indiscriminately shoot multiple shots at any moving wildlife, Bambi is never warned to look out for any predator but man, hunters are the bad guys.
Jurassic Park the Lost World -  hunter's break baby dinosaur's leg, hunter's use baby dinosaur as bait, only hunters and exploitative businessmen are killed, hunters are the "ignorant bad guys".

Loony Toones - 

 Elmer Fudd (the only human with a major role) - hunter's are the ignorant bad guys again.
Tarzan -  bad guys? hunters again.

George of the Jungle - 

 and again...
101 Dalmatians -  bad guy/gal? The fur wearer.
Beethoven -  bad guys? The gun industry.
Anaconda -  bad guy? The hunter, uh.....and the snake.

As reported by MSN.COM,  a Harvard Graduate Study was reported in the May,2000 Journal of the American Medical Assn. findings that support what I am saying!  http://entertainment.msn.com/news/eonline/0530/bambi.asp

"May 28, 2000 — Does the "G" in G-rated stand for gore when it comes to Bambi, Dumbo and the rest of Disney gang? 

Not quite, but violence is becoming a more intentional part of kiddie flicks, according to a new study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Two researchers at the Harvard Center for Risk
Analysis looked at every G-rated film available on video
as of last September, 74 in all, from the 1937 classic
Snow White to last year's The King and I. And the
researchers came up with some startling results. "

"Every film contained at least one act of violence. At
least one character was injured in 46 of the movies,
and at least one was killed in half of the films. 
Overall, the authors said they found 125 injuries in the
films, 62 of which resulted in death. The study revealed
that violent acts by good characters were potrayed in a
light or funny tone (Dumbo shooting peanuts at the
ringmaster), while violent acts by bad characters were
likely to be dark or sinister (a hunter killing Bambi's
mother). 

"Our content analysis reveals a striking behavioral
message implied by many of the G-rated animated
films that the good guys triumph over the bad through
the use of physical force," the study concluded. "

My Hunting Stance