Comments on: What’s so Adult About it? http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2007/11/19/whats-so-adult-about-it/ Musings on Animation and stuff Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:31:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU by: Jon Anderson http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2007/11/19/whats-so-adult-about-it/#comment-28687 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:14:12 +0000 http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2007/11/19/whats-so-adult-about-it/#comment-28687 niffiwan, u commie bastard! americans children are way smarter than commies assholes. point number one: US animations are childish most of the time, but they are, in may ways, great animations, with emotion and reflection. like Ratatouille. i've seen commies animations, and they arent all that great. independent american animation is much more sophisticated than any commie bastard could ever understand. "bla bla bla, the tree and the cat, made at kienauchfillm, bla bla bla, im fucked by a commie bastard every fucking day, and i like that..." u motherfucker niffiwan, u commie bastard! americans children are way smarter than commies assholes. point number one: US animations are childish most of the time, but they are, in may ways, great animations, with emotion and reflection. like Ratatouille. i’ve seen commies animations, and they arent all that great. independent american animation is much more sophisticated than any commie bastard could ever understand.

“bla bla bla, the tree and the cat, made at kienauchfillm, bla bla bla, im fucked by a commie bastard every fucking day, and i like that…”

u motherfucker

]]> by: Niffiwan http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2007/11/19/whats-so-adult-about-it/#comment-671 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:10:56 +0000 http://animationpimp.animationblogspot.com/2007/11/19/whats-so-adult-about-it/#comment-671 Most of what is called "adult animation" today isn't actually geared toward adults but toward horny teenagers and frat boys. Its main attributes are raunchiness and swear words. A wiser understanding of the world (the true mark of an adult, I think) is not even on the agenda. Ralph Bakshi, too, was "adult" more in that first sense. His "adultness" was a novelty rather than a fully-thought-out artistic decision (or at least it seems that way, and it was advertised that way). Oddly enough, filmmakers in communist countries seem to have had an easier time in making mature works. I should also note that there is more to making a mature work than "criticizing the struggles and brutality of Soviet society". Although THAT was frowned upon, in other ways filmmakers were often allowed to assume that their audience had some sophistication. What is more, a film was often quite acceptable for children and yet deep enough for an adult. One of my favourite examples of this is "The Tree and the Cat", made at Kievnauchfilm in 1983: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zh3C-D9KpQ There is no reason that children should be fed junk food, either. Most of what is called “adult animation” today isn’t actually geared toward adults but toward horny teenagers and frat boys. Its main attributes are raunchiness and swear words. A wiser understanding of the world (the true mark of an adult, I think) is not even on the agenda.

Ralph Bakshi, too, was “adult” more in that first sense. His “adultness” was a novelty rather than a fully-thought-out artistic decision (or at least it seems that way, and it was advertised that way).

Oddly enough, filmmakers in communist countries seem to have had an easier time in making mature works. I should also note that there is more to making a mature work than “criticizing the struggles and brutality of Soviet society”. Although THAT was frowned upon, in other ways filmmakers were often allowed to assume that their audience had some sophistication. What is more, a film was often quite acceptable for children and yet deep enough for an adult. One of my favourite examples of this is “The Tree and the Cat”, made at Kievnauchfilm in 1983:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zh3C-D9KpQ

There is no reason that children should be fed junk food, either.

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