Saturday, 19 March 2011

Children In Movies

I am enraged now, time to blog.
We all know the popular saying, never work with children or animals. Well, in part it is true, it is wether the child or animal is trained for the work, and whether it completely ruins the outcome. I am going to, of course concentrate on children in movies, because they do well, it is just the setting. Home Alone was a great film, Matilda, an iconic film, and the first Harry Potter, and what ties these films together is the content, they are family films, to snuggle up with and laugh or be captured in the ensuing plot, with the children being witty. Whereas, in horror films or thrillers, such as Pirannah, or Pitch Black, or other films with children related to the main character in some way, the child seems to be THE most important thing in the universe, nothing else matters, if the child needs to rest, we all rest even if there are a ton of aliens threatening to kill everyone, or the child completely messes up, and gets 3 characters killed, and then they get told not to do it again. A mosre recent example of this stupidity is the film Battle:Los Angeles, I saw the trailer and was innediately turned off the idea, becauce I heard the words "We have 2 civillians and 3 children", now in any horror with kids in, it is rare that they die, because people sacrifice themselves for the child, 3 will just mean slaughter. I love kids, I really do, but they are so frequent in Hollywood Blockbusters that they are annoying, it makes you want to stop having kids, so that they can't appear in any more, getting in trouble and, oops, killing nearly all the minority groups in the film in one go. So I propose, we make films where either, children die every time they mess up and get people killed, to teach the modern generation of children as well, that karma will get you sooner or later, or that there are films with just children as the leads, and at least one of them has to die, just so it keeps the little crazy person in my head happy.

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