'Astro Boy': The Latest in Line of Left-Leaning Animated Films? - Inside Movies: "Crude posters of Lenin and Trotsky adorn the threadbare walls of an office in a desolate part of town, and a group of outcast revolutionaries hatch a scheme to overthrow the ruling powers and bring equality and a classless society to mankind. The beginning of an Eisenstein film? Bunuel? Renoir?"
UPDATE: Here's the link to the Astro Boy World Premiere in Tokyo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maDpNEoE2DU
2 weeks ago
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I wonder if this guy ever saw Tezuka's METROPOLIS?
What the hell?
Oh man, the comments for that article are gold. In-freakin'-sane.
Thanks for the laughs, these folks are looking a little too deeply into it I'd say!
The other thought that crossed my mind: aside from the comedy aspect, aren't the robots rebelling and unionizing in this? In which case the iconography serves a strictly emblematic role within the confines of the film, rather than as a propagandistic one for those viewing the film.
Watch or read the Blue Knight stories. Politically they are very interesting as they were written during the height of the Communist/student protests in Japan. And, SPOILER, Atom sacrifices himself to save both the robots and humans from destruction.
I mean, in the end Atom is and always will be a hero to everybody. That's the way I look at it.
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