Popplewell has given up on Narnia and has moved on to indoor grass scenes. Now I wonder about good and evil all over again.
Popplewell has given up on Narnia and has moved on to indoor grass scenes. Now I wonder about good and evil all over again.
Could anyone tell what does this has to do with philosophy, please?
You needn't. Disney replaced Lewis four decades ago as the authoritative source of moral definitions.Popplewell has given up on Narnia and has moved on to indoor grass scenes. Now I wonder about good and evil all over again.
You needn't. Disney replaced Lewis four decades ago as the authoritative source of moral definitions.
In case you haven't been keeping up, the New Rules are simple:
- Animals will always tell who is Evil -- especially young or vegetarian animals like rabbits and fauns. Bluebirds and butterflies are also especially astute, as are brightly-coloured fish. Mature predators however, are unreliable guides.
- Anything done with big eyes is never Evil, though your every deed be motivated by envy, greed, gluttony, wrath, sloth or hubris. Owls and squid from the Marianas Trench are beatifiable.
- Lust however, is always Evil. Beware the bonobo chimp!
- Anyone sitting on the grass in the open is Good. Evil people slink and never sit on the grass -- unless they're waiting to tempt a Good person. Watch the bluebirds and butterflies if you're in doubt. Or if the subject is nowhere near a meadow, dunk him in a tank of tropical fish.
- The very beautiful and the very ugly are generally Good. The unkempt however, are either Evil or Stupid. Again, if his academic transcript is unavailable and it's just a small matter like a bow-tie askew, consign him to the Fish-tank of Truth.
But the beauty of any Hollywood GnE system is that you never really have to age past 8. George Lucas for instance, is still entitled to free bus travel to and from school.I hope this doesn't hold for goodnevilists over the age of 8
If your beta-readers read more widely, they'd know that it's impossible to perpetrate any evil act while dressed in a mohair sweater. Conversely though, it's impossible to do anything good while attired in a strait-jacket and hockey-mask. Wash dishes and they'll shatter. Help an old lady across the road and she'll run under a truck. Hannibal Lecter was just trying to return a pen, and Jason was just trying to read the gas-meter and look what happened there. If only they'd put Hannibal in an angora cable-knit before they strapped him to the removalist's dolly... And whatever cutlery you gave him, I still say that Jason wouldn't have hurt a fly dressed in an ermine stole...my topoi of anything hairy must be reasonably good and anything that looks nice in a sweater might be very good...seem to have confused several of my beta readers
I honest to god have no idea what this thread is about.
But that's a pretty picture.
But the beauty of any Hollywood GnE system is that you never really have to age past 8. George Lucas for instance, is still entitled to free bus travel to and from school.
If your beta-readers read more widely, they'd know that it's impossible to perpetrate any evil act while dressed in a mohair sweater. Conversely though, it's impossible to do anything good while attired in a strait-jacket and hockey-mask. Wash dishes and they'll shatter. Help an old lady across the road and she'll run under a truck. Hannibal Lecter was just trying to return a pen, and Jason was just trying to read the gas-meter and look what happened there. If only they'd put Hannibal in an angora cable-knit before they strapped him to the removalist's dolly... And whatever cutlery you gave him, I still say that Jason wouldn't have hurt a fly dressed in an ermine stole...
Look Simba, it's the circle of life.
Or Angora. And Tim Burton worked as an "animator" for Disney. Oh and here is Johnny Depp as Ed Wood in a Tim Burton movie
http://www.timburtoncollective.com/articles/ew9.html