Scenes that are more dark themed due attempted kid friendliness
Idea is that when you make a show aimed from kid to adult, you attempt to downplay certain themes but from an adult point of view they become quite dark and/or creepy, etc.
Legend of Korra, the Earth Queen gets suffocated due the criminal water bender creates and maintains a bubble around her head. It's later confirmed that she died and didn't get imprisoned or anything like that. Instead of simply killing her more regular way that made more sense, you essentially suffocate a person for minutes until they die.
Oh and Disney, all those screwed up ways their villains die to "downplay" those scenes for kids.
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When I first saw that scene, I was surprised on how dark it was and how dangerous Airbending can be if the Bender are willing to kill.
You know, the first thing that went through my mind when I saw the title for this thread was Avatar/Legend of Korra, both shows have some pretty dark scenes despite being intended for kids.
One of the darkest for me would have to be when Katara learns bloodbending for the first time. From how its described to how we see and hear it as it plays out is very eery, I was surprised they let something like this be shown (I'm glad they did, but still, think of the children and all that bullshit). And Korra steps it up from there, from Noatak and Tarrlok's murder suicide, to the girl getting electrocuted, that's some pretty mature and dark stuff, which makes me appreciate these shows more and more.
I thought those are not even PG content.
The point of this thread is pretty much that the content is dark but the kid doesn't understand it so they don't notice.
However instead of stabbing a villain to make them die, they make some kind of funny death machine that kid can enjoy but adult understand that it's pretty F-up.
Scratches head I struggled to enjoy kids films as a kid. I ended up enjoying the ones which were obviously and inherently more serious to ever notice such things as I often avoided Disney films. The Secret of Nimh, The Last Unicorn, Watership Down, etc.
Though I do remember scenes from say Aladdin in which they were about to chop the hand of the Princess off.
Why do you think the story was for kids? I would argue that even the more lighthearted Last Airbender was more like Japanese anime and creators targeted older generations as well, while Korra was even more that with darker mood and mature themes. I pretty much consider the two series an example of how Japanese culture and anime style also influences the world entertainment and culture, just as USA's Hollywood does.
Errm, because even reviewers call it that.
Not that I agree with that classification necessarily unless they refer to teenagers.
A lot of reviewers never saw (many, if any) anime and are thus unable to compare the genres and styles
Their drawing style is definitely interesting.
They combine anime style with westernized "avoid still frames" approach.
Easier way to put it, it's like anime but they put way more effort to their "shots." While actual Japanese anime stuff love their looping and still scenes etc to fill up run-time.
I accidentally gave you my vote but you can keep it... Who designed this layout?
Anyway, yeah that hand was pretty much saved by a logic of it being aimed at kids. If you know rating of the stuff you're going to watch, you can pretty accurately call that no limbs will fly.
The Last Airbender is a kids' series, Korra is for older kids. Both are good shows that anyone can enjoy.
true that about trying to avoid drawing additional scenes, movements
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Not only their villains but also some of their their main characters die very badly, I watched lion king when I was 4-5 years old and it traumatized me I also find Disney's dumbo and bambi very depressing for young kids But the thing that I can't really understand is this :
http://animatedfilmreviews.filminspector.com/p/blog-page_31.html
I'm pretty sure 99% of people don't even notice these but disney filmmakers just don't put these in their movies for no reason!