06-23-2004, 06:29 PM
The posts by all of you keep getting better and more interesting. In C S Lewis's " The Last Battle " The 7th Narnia book, there is an ape that finds a lion skin. C S Lewis was dealing with the British PC crowd back in the 50s. The character of the ape was his parody of them._________" You don't know what freedom is! Real freedom is doing what I tell you to do! "_________If I remember that is about what the ape tells the animals of Narnia. He wanted to buy collars and kennels and chains and whips. If he was a parody of the British PC people, he was a pretty good one.__________I just saw today that an American company has bought the rights to Kodomo no Omocha! I feel sorry for the U S voice actress that has to dub Sana's voice. She will probably lose her voice the same way the girl who did Excel lost her voice and had to drop out.________I talked with a woman that owns a small animation company up in Canada. She told us of the trouble she ran into with the censors. She had a storyboard of a little girl walkining into a door that was unexpectedly opened by another child. She bumps her nose and falls back on her rump.________The censors wouldn't allow this. They explained she could not depict anything a child might immitate. For instance, little Billy watches it and thinks that was funny. He decides to open a door so little Tommy walks into it and bumps his nose.__________The censors forced her to do new storyboards. She had half a dozen stories like that.________Another fellow told of how him and 2 other artists came up with a submission for a series they called " Little Red Riding Hood Ninja." He said no one wanted to deal with a little girl knocking off the wolves. That was 10 years ago. Maybe Cartoon Network would have given them a hearing if they were still around.