nachonaco wrote:Easy. Have you ever seen The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, or the Little Mermaid?
These were movies from Disney's golden era, and I must say at sixteen (I'll be 17 when the TLM PE comes out) I still treasure these films.
Sure, for some it's not the heartwarminess or the slapstick, but moments that make you think....things that little kids aren't smart enough to pick up.
Well those 3 films are the ones I haven't seen. I guess the only comparison I can make here would be the old Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck cartoons.... These are perfect examples of cartoons with gags in them that were geared to adults but there was slapstick in them so they were equally funny to kids, even if they didn't get the adult humor part of the cartoons.... then as I got older, I started to comprehend the adult humor that was built into those cartoons. Those cartoons appeal to all ages.
I had a friend I used to play with when I was 8 or 9 yrs old and when I would come over to her house on Saturday mornings her dad, who was a police officer would be sitting on the couch laughing to the point of tears over the old Roadrunner cartoons.... he must have been in his mid to late 20s - this grown policeman watched those cartoons every Saturday!
The people who made the animated shorts with Bugs and Daffy, and also at Disney, from the 1930 and well into the 50s weren't making them specifically for kids - they were supposed to be fun for everyone, and they were.
This notion that cartoons are just for children apparently started with "Saturday morning" type TV in the 50s or 60s or later.
Lars Vermundsberget wrote:The people who made the animated shorts with Bugs and Daffy, and also at Disney, from the 1930 and well into the 50s weren't making them specifically for kids - they were supposed to be fun for everyone, and they were.
This notion that cartoons are just for children apparently started with "Saturday morning" type TV in the 50s or 60s or later.
Lars, just curious but did you have this same thing happen in Norway? From what I understand the cartoons that were made back in the 1920s - 1940s here in the USA were made to be shown in theaters in between feature movies and therefore were really marketed towards adults (thus all the adult references in them to famous movie stars, etc.) and then I guess like you say somehow because of television, they became thought of as "just for kids." Did this happen in Norway as well? Are cartoons viewed as being only for kids there and has it always been that way?
