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Monkey Business

It is entirely possible that the “End Times” will begin with .... a cartoon. Or so it seems. We are surrounded by creatures on both sides of modern life who seem to be determined to act like children over cartoons. Is Roger Rabbit the Anti-Christ? Or is it Elmer Fudd who carries the “number of the beast”? Either way, we have Mad Muslims™ on one side screaming over Mohammed cartoons and on the other side we have the Angry Left™ screaming over pictures of .... a monkey?

Yes, dear friends of the rational world, the Liberals are outraged over a new movie starring Curious George. It seems there are all sorts of politically incorrect things going on in this dark cinematographic tale that will soon be indoctrinating your 4-year-old with many, many bad ideas. I leave it up to you. Read the article below and go read the whole editorial for more. Try to control your laughter over some of the comments made by the wacky Liberals. Then decide if the human race is really worth saving ....

Curiously, New Monkey Movie Lands In Middle Of Cultural Battle
(SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE)

For the politically correct Bay Area parent, the “Curious George” children’s books are a minefield of cultural horrors through which to tiptoe. Imperialism. Animal abuse. Bad parenting. Puh-leeeeze, George’s defenders say. They’re children’s books, whose charm has not dimmed—25 million books and countless swag sold—even if ideas about political correctness have evolved since the first George adventure was published in 1941. Sometimes a speechless, mischievous monkey is just that—a monkey, not a metaphor. Besides, George’s tales are no more un-PC than those of that royalist warmonger, Babar.

Both camps are wondering how “Curious George,” the animated movie that premieres today, will translate details of the popular series of children’s books for the more heightened sensitivities of 2006. The Curious George oeuvre was the work of the husband-and-wife team of H.A. and Margaret Rey, German Jews who escaped France with the first book’s manuscript as the Nazis invaded. Most of the seven stories they wrote feature the antics of a monkey whose sweet curiosity gets him in trouble until he’s rescued by the nameless Man with the Yellow Hat, George’s keeper/parental figure/pal with bail money.

To some, that’s the core of an unhealthy relationship. “The books are really irresponsible to me. It’s sickening, really,” said Robin Roth, managing editor of http://www.arkonline.com, an animal welfare Web site. Start with the Caucasian, gun-carrying Man with the Yellow Hat venturing to Africa (imperialism alert!) to harvest wildlife for a zoo (animal repression alert!). Continue with George being unsupervised and allowed to smoke a pipe and huff ether (bad parenting alert!), and it’s a wonder there aren’t pickets already forming around movie theaters.

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Roth, a high school English teacher in Los Angeles, writes on her animal rights Web site that “Curious George” reveals “the sinister side of a corrupt wildlife trade with perilous roots in Western imperialism.” When the mischievous George is sent to jail, “the picture of the forlorn little primate alone in his cell conjures haunting images of countless monkeys lingering in laboratories, suffering silently and alone.”

That’s a bit of a stretch, say the book’s defenders, such as Frederick Meekins of the Web site http://www.theconservativevoice.com. “It’s not like George ends up being used in laboratory experimentation,” Meekins writes on his site. “From what’s depicted in the storybooks, it always looked like he had a pretty good life, as do many other zoo animals.” The filmmakers steer a middle ground in the G-rated film, scrubbing up some of the books’ more politically incorrect tones while keeping the old-school animation and simple story line.

While George still doesn’t talk, the Man with the Yellow Hat—goofily voiced by comic actor Will Ferrell—now has a name (Ted) and a more palatable backstory than being a game hunter. Sort of. He’s trying to save the museum he works for by retrieving an African idol and making it the centerpiece of a new exhibition. (Third World plundering alert!)

Ted in the film is more of George’s buddy, while the Man with the Yellow Hat in the books was more of a parental figure—and an absentee one, at that. He’d leave George in the morning, making him just another latchkey monkey with no discernible supervision. The film’s director, Matthew O’Callaghan, told The Chronicle this week that the script’s few changes from the books were made in the name of story-telling and character development.

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/13/2006 at 12:02 PM   
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