#brave little toaster
Other People: This *insert movie/video game/tv show etc.* has a lot of dark themes in it. Kids won’t be able to handle it
Me: *side eyes Brave Little Toaster*…I think they’ll be fine.
*side eyes watership down*
Oh hey, @davidrussell323and@cameoamalthea. We had a conversation about that once…
Yeah, like you can argue watership down wasn’t meant for little kids, the Brave Little Toaster was for like little little kids and had a lot of death and near death and accepting death and suidical themes. Like WTF Brave Little Toaster
Actually it’s oddly the other way around.
The book Watership Down wasn’t really written for anyone in particular however the stories were created as car trip stories the author told to his little girls. I’ve read a good chunk of the book (got busy and put it down halfway through) it’s not that bad and I would have no issues reading it to someone 7 and up (though if you’re older I think you’ll get more out of it). Yeah there’s some frick-up crap in there (mainly in the form of death and near death) but I’ve always found with books that one’s imagination can downplay some of the more horrifying factors. Not to mention rabbit folk tales are scattered throughout the book as more lighthearted contrast. It’s kind of like how if you think about Roald Dahl stories they’re fricked up but the way he writes them makes them less horrifying.
The movie however, I don’t know who that was made for. Visually seeing some of the frick up stuff on top of frick up visuals they added to up play the fricked-up parts (field of blood anyone) and you got a movie that would probably cause at least some kids to have nightmares.There was controversy upon it’s release as it was given a U rating meaning 4 and up. A lot of people disagreed with that.
I personally don’t think it’s necessarily for adults but I don’t think I would show it to someone younger than 12.The Brave Little Toaster book on the other hand was made for kids. Although this quote should be taken into account
The story first appeared as a novella in the August 1980 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.[1] Although appearing in a general circulation magazine, the story was written in the style of a children’s fable.
Disch said that he was unable to publish the story as a children’s book at first, because publishers thought the concept of talking appliances was too “far-fetched”,
The book did end up appealing to a lot of adults though
The movie on the other other hand might have been made with adults in mind
Though it is sometimes thought that the film was not released in cinemas because it failed to find a distributor,[12] in reality arthouse film distributor Skouras Pictures took on the distributing rights for the theatrical release, and was going to do evening screenings, noting it was more for college and young adult than kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_Little_Toaster#Release_and_home_media
I say might because I’m not entirely sure if this was the general consensus of the creative team.
If this is correct, I personally think is stupid cause it’s a movie about an animated toaster. Of course kids are going to be more drawn to it than adults are. That being said as a kid a lot of the death themes flew right over my head. Thinking about it, this movie is kind of similar to Watership Down in that everything is trying to kill them or at least could lead to their deaths.
In a lot of cases, it depends on how you frame the darker themes. You’d be surprised what you can get away with just by using metaphors.
Or by being Alex Hirsch, in which case you can put taxidermy heads vomiting blood on Disney XD (and later Disney Channel). To this day I wonder how that got past the censors.
But yeah, I find it strange that the gory rabbit movie which is “in your face” with the disturbing visuals was aimed at kids, whereas the cute talking-toaster movie which is less blunt about it was aimed at adults. How the heck does that happen?
Oooh. So pretty!
I want marks like this. I imagine I’ll have to be a brave little toaster and handle lots of stingy warm-up before the caning even starts. And then handle someone winding up and going hard on my ass. Restraints and a gag will probably be in order, even if we do it at a playspace.
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