Friday, April 11, 2008

Donald Duck

Donald duck and disney are great outlets for propaganda, but even better to show different perspectives of what is happening in the war and the psychology behind the war without showing the side of death. We already know that war brings death, therefore with Disney productions I feel that since it is mainly for kids it has to be highly psychological because how else do you reach a viewer in such a complex subject of how wars start, and as adults watching this we pick up on the same overall meanings plus more for the fact that we have been exposed to more. I mean of course as adults we pick up on all of the sexual connotations that disney throws in like the palm trees going up as hitler rides off on the horse with his new german princess and the final line saying" that she will saddle up on him" . Then the overall connotation to the book mein kampf, and also the seen of the rabbit getting eaten by the wolf, again all highly psychological, but at the same time highly intellectual and propagandistic. Disney is great!

2 comments:

Matt Redlin said...

I agree that it was a very intelligent way to portray what was going on, but also creepy.

Dawn Frey said...

It was a little disconcerting to hear "Disney" music with that sort of..ominous stormtrooper undertone. Gave me a little cognitive dissonance after years of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and The Lion King!