I recently watched the movie ‘Ron’s Gone Wrong’ (By pirating obviously) as I was bored. With the main plot aside, there is an elderly woman who is the protagonist’s grandmother. The amount of anti-communist propaganda the Disney writers put in is amusing. We start off with the children throwing darts at a picture of Stalin, and later she says something about how they needed to be on a waiting list in order to get food. There is definitely more, but I don’t want to watch it again.
tdlr: Disney still upholds Walt’s beliefs
Replace Stalin with Gorbachev and it’d be accurate.
I pretty much dropped consuming entertainment produced by large American companies entirely at this point. I look back at the days when I was a 12 year old obsessed with playing Call of Duty with much cringe and regret and I’m just thankful I managed to breakout and become aware of cultural hegemony.
Well… What do you expect from DISNEY lol
I could only get about 30 minutes into the film because I was annoyed by that. It’s the only film I can remember that isn’t intentionally political (satire, etc.) but makes the same political joke ad nauseum every chance it can. If the political comment had been progressive in any way, you can bet more people would have been complaining about it. Because it’s anticommunist, your post is the only thing I can find where someone sees it at all.
I think we’ll see more of these type of ‘kids movies’ as the US loses its title of global hegemon and loses relevance internationally
I was disturbed to see the Girl Meets World episode where they teach a horribly inaccurate version of communism, and I was just bewildered they’d do that in a kids show. It’s pretty interesting how kids shows will tackle big issues like “communism is when you’re forced to be the same”, but not “the Nazis murdered millions of people for being born different”. Really shows what’s more important to Californian artists.
Still, some shows ain’t afraid to fight fascism, but they’re usually on streaming services, not TV.
