As the years go by, we tend to see some things that we used to not even blink about in a brighter light and look at it more negatively.
For example, we all used to think that when we were kid that being an adult was going to be this big huge party all the time and that we were gonna do whatever we wanted right?
Yep, you all thought it. At least for a second you did. It also seemed that years ago, the companies that people “trusted” in the media and entertainment industries tended to sneak some really hateful stuff in under our noses.
Take Disney. Yeah, I said Disney. Now, nevermind the stuff that we have come to find out in terms of how they operate as a business publicly. I am talking about stuff that they hid good and deep in their movies and television shows.
All you need to do is take one look at Disney Plus to see that there are some things that they probably took a look at and realized that it wasn’t the message that they needed to be sending out.
I mean, look at when the WWE moved their tape library to streaming on Peacock. There were moments in the broadcast history of WWE that they edited straight out of shows to show that an incident that happened decades before no longer reflected the company values.
Which begs the question, does leaving something into a movie also reflect the company’s values?
Take the case of the Disney movie Blank Check. This movie was another pedestrian step in the long journey of the kid power movies of the 1990s.
In the film, a kid basically commits bank fraud by somehow getting a bank to cash a check for a million dollars.
Never mind the logistical failures on the part of the bank that should have kept this whole damned movie from happening; it’s not the plot inconsistencies that are the problem. It is something that happens at the end.
Near the end of the movie, a female FBI agent gives the main character, an ELEVEN YEAR OLD BOY named Kevin a kiss that was definitely uncomfortable to watch back when the movie came out and revolting to watch now; telling him to call her in about ten years.
Hold the phone, does this mean that this FBI agent in her thirties was sexually attracted to this CHILD?
I mean, how in the age of all the Me Too stuff does Disney not pick up on the fact that maybe this is not the message that they should be sending out to people. Unless it is the message they want to send out to people….
