Lately some movies I've seen have been more pro-vegan than I remember movies I've seen in the past being.
The New Star Wars movie that just came out had several scenes, some obvious and others less so which related to ethical treatment of animals. Another movie, (which I watched specifically because I am vegan), was Okja, and obviously, if you've seen it, it has a lot of parallels to how we raise/kill animals for food.
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Chewbaka unable to eat a bird he killed, freeing the animals used for racing, and the snow foxes being shown to embody interests fleeing the empire when they land on the base.
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Have you seen any other movies or shows which reflect society's increasing level of awareness of animals?
Movies that are conscious of animal life having value
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Re: Movies that are conscious of animal life having value
Just thinking on it, several animated movies from my childhood featured animals as the main characters.
Maybe some of those writers were intentionally giving animals characteristics that made them more ..sentient... for a reason.
Maybe some of those writers were intentionally giving animals characteristics that made them more ..sentient... for a reason.
Alcohol may have been a factor.
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Re: Movies that are conscious of animal life having value
Yes, come to think of it there were quite a few movies about animals. I just seem to also be catching connections to the connection between food and animals within otherwise unrelated movies.
I just saw a bit of Moana, the new Disney movie, and there's a scene where she says "that's good pork", and then her pet pig looks at her with kind of sad eyes and she fumbles to apologize. I mean, I guess its meant to be a joke, but to me the implications are pretty obvious at the same time lol... I wonder if I'd notice it if I weren't already thinking along these lines, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PGyy4IRytI
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Re: Movies that are conscious of animal life having value
Perhaps scenes like this are "planting the seed". It's a non-confrontational way to suggest maybe persons should think about where there food comes from, without the SHAME! tactics that some prefer. I'm remembering The Little Mermaid and the scene where the cook is trying to stuff Sebastian, so maybe Disney has some writers with Vegan/Vegetarian leanings..
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Re: Movies that are conscious of animal life having value
I've noticed that too. It makes me feel like we're on the verge of a cultural shift in how we view animal agriculture
There's also the chicken. She's against cooking him when some old man in the village wants to (he has a name too... hay hay or something), and then Maui wants to eat him but then sort of changes his mind and comes to appreciate the chicken as a non-food being by the end.Deva wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:02 am I just saw a bit of Moana, the new Disney movie, and there's a scene where she says "that's good pork", and then her pet pig looks at her with kind of sad eyes and she fumbles to apologize. I mean, I guess its meant to be a joke, but to me the implications are pretty obvious at the same time lol... I wonder if I'd notice it if I weren't already thinking along these lines, though.
ModVegan did a video on the new Trolls movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDuqhRUyPRg
I saw the parallels too.