Alice and Wonderland came out this pass weekend. Is this like another attempt to highjack the old story for a new more racy one? I, for one, felt like someone in charge had smoked dope when I saw the psychedelic colors and way out looks of our new groth-like Alice and crew. The Wallstreet Journal even had a few cents to say about the new Alice. Joe Morgenstern of the Wallstreet Journal wrote in the article, ‘Alice’: Half of a Wonderland, “It's more gothic than Victorian and slightly tinctured with danger..”.
According to the LA Weekly’s, March 5-11th 2010 issue, Karina Longworth wrote an article, Alice in Chains Tim Burton in La-La Land. According to the article Disney formed a partnership with Hot Topic of all people. According to the Wall Street Journal, Disney is trying to capitalize on the “Twilight and New Moon” teenage girl thing. Do these people have any common sense and have they ever been in Hot Topic?! Apparently not!
In my opinion, Disney sold out. The thing about these kinds of movies that highjack young children stories for adult themes is that kids think the movie is for them. I did not see big warnings in the ads for inform parents. According to the article, Should Kids See ‘Alice in Wonderland’ on the Momlogicwebsite,”We're definitely not in Disneyland anymore.”
(http://open.salon.com/blog/momlogic/2010/03/08/should_kids_see_alice_in_wonderland)
Hollywood needs to stop playing around with children books and stories without big warnings on the front end. On the Momlogic website the reviewer wrote regarding her 10 year daughter, “My daughter started fidgeting -- and I grew restless -- as the film droned on in the middle, only to pick up during the climactic final battle.” How uncomfortable. It’s our job to protect our kids from this climate of graphic images and grown up ideas. My three children (now 21, 19 and 16) did not watch anything on television after 8pm when they were growing up. They watched very little to no television growing up. What TV they did watch, I viewed then videotaped them for the weekends. Later, my children expressed how they now appreciated not having television as an option and that it forced them to find other things to do for entertainment and enjoyment.
Today, media is bad enough, young people are constantly bombarded with images they are not prepared to process. According to the National Institute on Media and the Family “..61% of children’s television programs contain violence and only 4% have an anti-violence theme.” Just this week while watching the Oscars a commercial came on for an ABC television series called “V” (http://abc.go.com/watch/v/240273?CID=google_sem_1). Watch at your own risk. During the commercial slashing occurs to a man’s head! My family flinched at the sight of a character looking into a man skull! This is a decision someone in the media made for viewers to watch. It’s not the media’s job to protect our children. I think over the years the media has made that very clear. The job belongs to us, the community. Every citizen is obligated to help our future by keeping over sexed, mature themed and violent material from our children as long as we can. This gives good parenting an opportunity to lay the appropriate foundation so when the time is right our children can make the right decision
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