Posted by
Brad B on Thursday, February 01, 2007 6:22:21 PM
Cartoons and society
Current mood: Go Joe!
Category: Go Joe! Movies, TV, Celebrities
I was reading a friend of mines blog on movies of the 80s. (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=87347461&blogID=144084207&MyToken=8f76b4ff-6a6b-44c6-acdb-ecd26111912b) He was contending that the most remembered movies or the biggest blockbusters fo that decade were teen angsty pseudo true to life (ie John Hughes films..)
Well in a way to long comment I went on the examine the Star Wars duo of the 80s, Inianda Jones Trio, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket...etc
Driving around today I began to ponder the cartoons of the 80s and how they are different from today. Emtpy V had made apoint showing how the writeers and directors of the decade had experience Vietnam (all be it on TV) and that they had had their fill of violence and thus made these movies. And today we are so far removed (or have been up until the last 3-4 years) from violence that our movies are more so.
But look at the cartoons...some of which he mentions. We had our GI Joe and He Man, Transformers, and even Looney Tunes that were based all but solely on violence...as latent as it may have been.
Today however a quick flip over to Nick Jr will reveal the Tela-tubbies, Barney still, some efeminite guys in make up prancing around, some British pop group for kids...all that crap. So have we shifted from masculine psuedo violence for kids and puppies and flowers for adult in the 80s to guns and nudity for adults and gender confusion for kids? well thats what cmments to the blog are for...answers...so have we.
Also with more moms and dads than ever in the work place and the inivitable lack of a clear and conscise gender model at home and none (even confusion) on TV...where will our kids learn to be Men and Women. Will we become a society of little gender difference, purely physical difference. No fitting roles. What will that do to society? I have a thought or two...what are yours...