A failure of creativity

[avram]

I’ve read that bunch of right-wing idiots have decided that The Incredibles is some kind of political metaphor for, I dunno, the Bush administration’s Iraq policy, or the restraints that right-wingers imagine liberals are placing on them. So I figured I’d write up a bit about how all of Pixar’s movies have been current-events political metaphors only, damn, I can’t think of anything.

I feel like I did back when I tried to synopsize the NATO Charter as a series of excerpts from television theme songs, but ran out of gas after only coming up with Article 5: The theme from Bonanaza (“If anyone fights any one of us, he's gonna fight with me”).

Hey, wait! The theme from Cheers could work for Article 2!

Comments

[sdelmonte]

This matches the idea in some circles that this film - which I haven't seen yet - actually a piece of right -wing propaganda. It doesn't help, though, that a week before it opened, the NY Times arts section had an article saying that the film was built on midwestern family values (which Brad Bird seemed to deny in that very same article).

It must be a popular film if everyone is tripping over thmeselves to claim it for thier own uses. A similar thing happened when Buffy was being used a metaphor for everything late in its run.