Madagascar
Music: Hans Zimmer - Born Free
Book: Matt Ridley - The Agile Gene
OMG Hans Zimmer why didnt you make this track LONGER?
Oh, that romantic allure of the free wild, the sweetness of that simple friendship that never loses itself. I don’t know about you but I find Madagascar a very sentimental show.
Now the typical response you might have toward such a show is hey, it’s a cartoon, how deep can it get. How deep are you, then, to pass off such a mindless comment that betrays the shallow mindset you have regarding certain things. How deep are you, too, if all you saw in the cartoon was a cartoon, a display of visual and not emotional artistry. Take it from me, there are parts in there that are truly touching.
I’ve watched it twice already, Im going for a third. Takers welcome.
Book: Matt Ridley - The Agile Gene
OMG Hans Zimmer why didnt you make this track LONGER?
Oh, that romantic allure of the free wild, the sweetness of that simple friendship that never loses itself. I don’t know about you but I find Madagascar a very sentimental show.
Now the typical response you might have toward such a show is hey, it’s a cartoon, how deep can it get. How deep are you, then, to pass off such a mindless comment that betrays the shallow mindset you have regarding certain things. How deep are you, too, if all you saw in the cartoon was a cartoon, a display of visual and not emotional artistry. Take it from me, there are parts in there that are truly touching.
I’ve watched it twice already, Im going for a third. Takers welcome.
6 Comments:
I haven't watched it, if you want to watch it again tell me.
-Strider-
i've seen madagascar. yeah i do acknowledge that deep friendship and sentimentality are featured in the show but maybe they could have developed it a little further. The solution to their predicament was erm..too simplistic? Anyway i like that scene (alex and falling slabs of steaks) they copied from the American Beauty (falling petals of roses!) teehee...
You can't make a movie to please everyone. They have an intented audience so they are working towards it.
Light and easy going with deep meanings behind it.
Eh, plz la...i uds u wil hav such feelings towards them...but hav u ever tot about it. i tink they wil juz finish each other off durin lunch time, in typical 'law of de jungle' manner...
-Fei
Well thats the whole point isnt it, the price of freedom.
As an aside note how the zebra refused to pay that price when he went to look for the lion when the ship came back-- to him friendship holds greater value.
For me the tragedy, or sentimental part of the show struck me when I realised how, in all this pursuit for what you want you have to give up other things you also want--wouldnt it just be so perfect if they could have just returned to nature without ruining the status quo? But no, that cant be because of their very natures they were protected from in the zoo. Their friendship was bred in artificiality, and it struck a certain chord in me when that becomes greater than nature.
And sometimes, just sometimes, it isnt as important to find out whether you are black with white stripes or white with black stripes as it is to enjoy the sanitized life you have in an enclosure.
But I was also thinking..if I were the zebra and if I had gotten eaten by the lion I would still have died a happy death, because I would have gotten to eat seaweed and see billions of helicopters in the sky and prance about in the wild like I should have been doing for the past ten years of my life. Just a personal preference.
Anyway I think the penguins very cute.
Yes those penguins are cute :D
I wish they had featured the dolphins more though. I like dolphins.
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