Comments on: Movies and the Family–Where Have the Clean Movies Gone?

By: valeriesteimle

valeriesteimle — Tue, 06 May 2014 13:26:44 +0000

In reply to Jeff Drake. You bring out a good point, Jeff... Yes- I wonder too what Disney's point was but it has supported the idea of love conquers all. I actually wrote similar pieces for my newspaper columns in the 1990's using other uplifting movies so they are out there. Just not enough.

By: Jeff Drake

Jeff Drake — Tue, 06 May 2014 02:26:42 +0000

It’s funny that this whole article should be based on the success of *Frozen*, a movie that has been so popularly lambasted for its surreptitious championing of homosexuality and anarchy. Its message—“I was born this way, so it must be okay to act on it”—would have been fine, had Elsa remained a villain (as in both the script’s first draft and the fairy tale on which the movie was loosely based). As is, it’s certainly a situation where not all layers of meaning are positive.

I enjoyed *Frozen* for what it is: an uplifting movie in the midst of so many no-so-uplifting movies. But I still wonder what Disney was trying to say by it. Goodness knows they’ve tainted the Muppets by turning them into spokes-characters for marriage redefinition. Was *Frozen* really meant to be the same?

By: valeriesteimle

valeriesteimle — Sat, 03 May 2014 21:04:42 +0000

In reply to Diane Jortner. Thank you for your comment. It is a challenge for those who make movies to keep it interesting and clean. Maybe we will see more of that.

By: Diane Jortner

Diane Jortner — Sat, 03 May 2014 16:36:30 +0000

Your post hits right at the core of my thoughts lately. I think the only remedy if for those of us who know better, to get out and produce more Decent art in whatever form we can. Write, act, sing, draw and direct more of the “good report:”stuff. Then support it though our dollars.