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[ SECRET POST #3680 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3680 ⌋

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[Versailles]

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[Mad Max: Fury Road]

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[Shannara]

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[A Series of Unfortunate Events]

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nayrt but

1) "A Series of Unfortunate Events" is rather mild understatement once you realize what the subject matter is. If you don't, then you don't realize that it's about losing your parents, evil guardians, kidnapping, forced marriage, etc. because an "unfortunate event" implies it's more along the lines of dropping your ice cream cone or getting your sandwich stolen by a seagull.

2) Do you not find that the majority of literature for children ARE generally nice happy stories as opposed to depressing tales of loss and suffering?

1. I guess this is more subjective than I thought because no, I don't think of dropping an ice cream cone when I hear that title. But I also wouldn't assume that a PG movie was about dropping an ice cream cone. To be fair, when I first read the title, I was looking at an illustrated cover of the book. And then I read the back of the book.

2. Actually, no. A lot of excellent children's literature deals with dark themes and puts the children in scary situations. They don't all have that as the major premise of the story, but kids books are full of orphans, abusive adults, life-threatening danger. Hell, all of those plot points you listed are in a lot of fairytales. And imo that's good for kids. It lets them use their imaginations and prepare for the harsh realities of life, while maintaining a safe distance. And in the case of kids whose lives are already harsh, it can be a huge comfort.

How on earth were you able to sit through basically any Disney movie?

I mean even just recent ones feature the death of parents and intense alienation in Frozen.

MATILDA

Or hell, Princess Bride? There's forced marriage and a fucking PAIN MACHINE

Edited 2017-01-31 02:04 (UTC)

DAVID BOWIE HAS KIDNAPPED A BABY AND THERE ARE MONSTERS

DANCE MAGIC DANCE? INAPPROPRIATE KIDNAPPING INAPPROPRIATE

HOW DARE THEY SHOW THIS IN SCHOOL

THERE WAS AN OBNOXIOUS MOHAWK BOY WHO WAS SLAUGHTERED ON SCREEN BY AN OLD MAN

PETER PAN IS AN ADULT HANGING OUT WITH CHILDREN THAT IS INAPPROPRIATE

EVEN THE NAME OF THIS MOVIE IS A WEAPON

THIS HALF NAKED BOY'S HORSE JUST DIED IN A SWAMP

AT NO POINT IS SHE WEARING A FLOTATION DEVICE

SEXUAL ROCKS ARE NOT FOR CHILDREN

Calm down. *I* wasn't the one who thought A Series of Unfortunate Events was too dark for kids. I was merely pointing out that if you didn't know the subject matter, the title doesn't necessarily clue you in and that a lot of childrens literature doesn't necessarily cover similar subjects, i.e. parental death, getting creeped on by a rando kidnapper, relatives getting horribly killed off, etc.

You're usually a little more with it than this, but I guess the temptation to go on a clever all-caps rant was too much, eh?

Your whole thread here just made me laugh, thank you.

Sharing this whole ASOUE thread with a friend and we were both like, "OH MY GOD, RETURN TO OZ!"

That shit... The fucking wheelers, the lady with all the heads, her being in an institute or whatever because it was all "in her head".

Offhand, I'm thinking of these cheerful tales:

Where the Lilies Bloom
The Outsiders
That Was Then, This is Now
Sounder
My Brother Sam is Dead
The Chocolate War
I Am the Cheese
Where the Red Fern Grows
After the First Death
Wringer

I... don't know any of these titles...

Maybe I'm showing my age. Almost all of them (except for Wringer) are from the 70s and 80s.

Yeah, I was only born in 83. XD

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[ SECRET POST #3680 ]

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Oh my god you were a boring as fuck kid

FATHER THE CHILDREN ARE CRYING

FATHER FATHER

I AM OFFENDED

I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I WATCHED MOANA TWICE

THAT'S IT! I TOLD YOU

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NAYRT

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