"Peanuts" Teaser; Movie Coming out November 2015 in 3D

Hand2HandKing said:

 
was there always a black kid or was that supposed to be pigpen? 

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Putting In Work said:

No kids yet though how am I going to look rolling up to see it with the wife

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psk2310 said:

Shoot before our 10 year old was born, my wife & I went to see all the first Pixar movies...

Looking forward to this flick.

In our household, The Peanuts Halloween, Thanksgiving, & the Christmas shows always get played numerous times during that particular holiday.

The Vince Guaraldi Peanuts Christmas soundtrack is a holiday staple too. Get's played at least a 100 or so times between now & New Year's...

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ArrowCollarMan said:

 

Hand2HandKing said:

 
was there always a black kid or was that supposed to be pigpen? 

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 There was a four-panel strip in a Peanuts Treasury I read when I was about 15, and in it Franklin expresses a desire to play for the NHL. Peppermint Patty immediately squashes that dream with a final panel comment along the lines of "come on, Franklin, how many black players are there in the NHL?" Which I didn't actually get the point of. I mean, true: Yep. Trenchant to point out? Not in this case.
But, at 15 I thought I might have missed what Schulz was trying to say, and I wrote ol' Chuck. I got a letter back on Snoopy stationery, from One Snoopy Place, hand typed, in which he berated me for calling him a "racist" (I'd actually said the strip could be perceived that way, but maybe he could explain it to me better) and said I'd rushed to judgment, and there wasn't anything racist at all in pointing out that there were no black players in the NHL.

The thing is, there wasn't anything funny about pointing it out either.

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 Two immediate items of note:

1. Linus Van Pelt, acting in his customary role as spiritual leader, is sitting at the head of the table.
2. Franklin, the sole African-American member of the Peanuts ensemble, is sitting all by himself on one side of the table.
3. 
   The scene in question is, in fact, somewhat questionable itself: the numbers of chairs and servings fluctuate throughout, giving the meal a disorientating Kubrickian quality. This produces in the scene a sense of unease and tension which reflects the viewers’ discomfort at the casual racism on display. Indeed, Franklin is seated in the malicious beach chair, which humiliatingly places him at an eye level below that of the others.
   
   Though this segregation is not limited to racial issues only: Marcie, though eccentric and possessing of an ambiguous sexuality, is caucasian enough to be allowed to remain close to the rest, but is still seated at the end towards the left side of the table. Linus chooses to seat Marcie as far away from himself as possible, separated from the larger group by the dog. Indeed, the beagle is deemed a more fit companion than any heterodox humans. (Though, perhaps Snoopy is allowed to sit with the elite in due respect for his cooking prowess. It is also noted that Snoopy, in an act of defiant compassion, serves Marcie and Franklin first.) Furthermore, to extrapolate, the only characters exempted which could reasonably join the table next are the obsessive-compulsive Schroeder, the filthy Pig Pen, or the unloved and sadistic Lucy, who, if arriving late, would be forced to sit in one of the chairs next to Franklin and Marcie. Thus, the entire left side of the table would be relegated to odd, unhygienic misfits and belligerent, racial outcasts.
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   The characters are not evil: Peppermint Patty shows genuine remorse for embarrassing and bullying Charlie Brown, and Linus is often a beacon of compassion and temperance. But the point is made: the virus of casual discrimination is insidious and unaware, and can manifest itself at an early age.

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