Too woke Tuesday
As if heavy rain wasn’t causing enough trouble, we’ve also had an onslaught of snowflakes.
First the usually squeaky-clean Mickey Mouse was in Pluto’s doghouse over his use of gendered pronouns at Disney’s theme parks (“Welcome boys and girls” has been replaced with “Welcome friends and dreamers” – so I guess insomniacs must now wait in the car).
Then Disney-owned Star Wars became one of several classics, including Flash Gordon, to be reclassified from a child-friendly U certificate to a 12A.
Why? Well, research found some youngsters had “heightened” anxiety over the film’s “real-world scenarios” they feared would happen to them.
How perfectly reasonable. Just last week I was enjoying a coffee break when I had to pop out in my X-wing fighter and blow up a planetdestroying Death Star designed by a shoddy architect. Next I was frozen in carbonite by a mate I owed a
tenner. And don’t get me started on the Tinder date where I snogged my secret twin brother to make a nerf herder jealous.
Perhaps the powers that be should instead consider films with scary-but-more-earthbound “real-world scenarios”?
A parent being gruesomely murdered? (Bambi, Lion King, Tarzan), an abusive step-parent? (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty), or an unconscious teen being kissed by an older man? (Snow White).
The chilling 57 seconds of Bambi calling for his beloved mum after the hunter’s shot is harrowing – even more so than the infamous wait for Se7en’s Brad Pitt to look in
box. So forget 12As, just dish out these...