Chicken Little is Neoliberal Propaganda
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- This film cracked my fragile eggshell mind.
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description tags: Chicken Little (2005), Disney, neoliberalism, theory, video essay, explained, analysis, review
0:00 Intro + Disclaimers
1:28 The History of Chicken Little
3:37 Neoliberalism
9:07 Analysis - Krátké a kreslené filmy
I'm so tired of the argument "It's for children." We should be extra critical of media for children since they don't have the intellectual tools to properly dissect what they're experiencing.
Bro… it’s literally for children! A child is getting nothing but it’s fun from this entertainment. Stop treating kids like adults, theirs not observing information from cartoons as adults do and they do not make false or biased political thesis on cartoons.
@@Just_shush_now For most children, the entertainment that they are presented with is quite literally one of the only sources of information they have to formulate a perception about the world. Everything from your sense of ethics and morals, biases and assumptions, even perceived universal truths were influenced at a young age by the media you consumed. The minds of children are information sponges. Just because *you* think they’re too stupid to comprehend what their seeing doesn’t mean that aligns with reality. *You are not immune to propoganda.*
@@raggedymuffinz sure but that propaganda must be discernible by kids not even this youtubers could consistently paint his narrative. It’s also strange how this guy is trying to pain not being a loser as a bade thing.
@@Just_shush_now okay so your argument is that kids wont pick up what they see on tv you're just obviously wrong lmao
@@schnoz2372 I guess I got lucky, the chicken didn’t make me a neoliberal.
So they... Lobotomized Foxy Loxy? Lobotomized a young woman in 1940s attire so that she would be an ideal mate for a man considered beneficial to society?
They looked at the Steford Wives and didn't see the horror in that or believed their own lies if "It's just for kids, it won't matter"
Even worse: Film even suggest the choice to turn her back to her normal self, but she has become the girl of someone that's desirable to society, therefore, her worth as a girly girl is more important than her role as a model citizen. Movie's very fucked up
mind altering magic is DEEP in our history. No wonder half my cable channels have anti-Turkey and anti-Danish ads!?
Not sure if this qualifies as lobotomy level (lobotomy results in permanent loss of all autonomy, agency and decision capabilities.). But yeah. Basically she is brain damaged.
Imagine watching this whole video and actually becoming emotionally invested.
Foxy getting her brain overwritten and becoming a love interest was so disturbing, who's idea was this?
Yeah no even as a kid this bothered me despite disliking her...its weird
yeah this unsettled me when I saw it too
Well that's what happens in real life. Have you ever seen a girl obsessed with a guy. It's like their brain is overwritten. That's why they blame men for what they do
I mean, I guess brainwashing her is too much, but does anyone even like Foxy? She's been nothing but an jerkass through two thirds of the movie
@@jasongibbs3713 Yeah this is just slightly different from a teen girl getting a silly crush in junior high. Like just a little bit.
The version of the fable you told is not the one I grew up with. In the one I know chicken little gets everyone in a panic and the last person the tell is a fox, who urges them to hide in his burrow so the sky won't fall on them. Once they're all inside the fox traps them inside and eats them.
The moral then is twofold, don't get swept up in a mass panic, and beware of people who will take advantage of a mass panic for their own ends. Which I feel are actually pretty good morals
Same, I was kind of surprised that they just told a king, who helps them out
yeah the og story is actually a useful fable
Huh. In the version I grew up with, they meet the fox, who almost tricks them and eats them, but then the king who happened to be nearby has his dogs chase him off, and then he gives Chicken Little an umbrella so acorns won't hit her head when she walks through the forest anymore.
@@Wwhdduendjdhhfmwosdn love how much that happens in real life
@@ohno6325 lol you mean never 😭
The Foxy Loxy feminization was so disturbing to me even as a child. I hated that part, although I couldn’t explain it when I was younger that part was always deeply disturbing to me.
Also the fact that people preferred her that way carries pretty sexist implications since she was a tomboyish/sporty girl, but I’m probably overthinking it
I think it was because she was obnoxious and became nice after the aliens fried her brain.
@@thatboyandhismusic88 I thought she was meant to be a bully
@@funlover163 yeah all these people saying she's a feminist icon probably forgot that she was just a female bully
@@thatboyandhismusic88 The thing is that she wasn't just brainwashed into being a nicer person, yeah she was privileged and part of the problem, but there was nothing wrong with her being maculine or being succesful on her own without the need of a man, just that she was an asshole, the fact that people start to like her when she was literally brainwashed against her will into a desirable partner by misogynistic standards to the point she was denied the possibility of coming back to her former self is really fucked up.
Something I just realized: Chicken Little is an outcast because he made an embarrassing mistake, Runt is because he's fat, Abby is because she's ugly, and Fish is because he's weird I assume. But Foxy and Goosey are popular kids, yet Foxy has braces and Goosey has a speech impediment or something. Those are two major things children will bully others over. Were Foxy and Goosey once outcasts because of their own flaws and became bullies as a result? And they're not really popular so much as the other children are just afraid of getting beaten up by them and so cater to them?
dude this comment blew my mind
This is interesting. I doubt the Chicken Little writers thought of all that, though.
asking the real questions
I think fish is ostracized more because he's mute, rather than just being odd
It's because Foxy has great physical aptitude, making her useful in that society, and Goosey punishes other outcasts and supports Foxy, which ultimately makes her useful too.
This movie would've probably gotten better reception if it aired on adultswim and was marketed as a satire comedy
I do not believe that it even works as a satire.
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 yeah, if only it didn't sincerely believe its own messed up morals. Then it could've worked as satire.
@@AD-dg3zz I do not believe that it really believes that stuff. Nobody believes in the vision of perfection. Plenty of people believe in their obligation to believe in perfection, however.
I don't know the satire is unintentional, adult swim viewers be like wow this is a outrageous troll
No it’s owned by Disney
Foxy Loxy's feminization weirded me out as a kid, but I forgot that restoring her personality was possible. Damn, that's so messed up. ☹️
I guess I didn't notice she was feminized. I thought she was just turned into a manic pixie musical girl
@@OdaKa same
It also makes runt look really horrible since he was the one who decided to not change back her personality.
@@OdaKa same
but it's because English wasn't my first language and we don't have a word that directly translates to feminization 😂
"what is wrong with you?" well, first thing I watched chicken little as a kid,second I was really angry and sad after watching chicken little and seeing other people analise it makes me feel vindicated in my feeling that the dad was a jerk
There’s a few deleted scene that make him look less shitty. Like a scene where he is cooking food and consoling Chicken Little.
Got me on the first half,
@@liviwaslost Honestly it would have just made me more angry at him.
Because my father, who is just as emotionally and mentally absive uses food as a slap on bandaid
And even uses it to punish and reward me per how he feels...
@@elvingearmasterirma7241lol
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Jesus man...
I love that a consequence of lazy, poorly thought out writing is that some day, someone will do a video about all the ways your poor storytelling aligns nearly perfectly with culturally destructive and socially oppressive political ideologies. I've seen a similar thing happen with the emoji movie also being a neoliberal hellscape. And cars 2 secretly being pro-eugenics.
It makes a lot of sense really. If in this context being lazy or a lack of thought in writing leads the writers to base large parts of their narratives on assumptions, systems and norms of reality. That often means theyre unconsciously reproducing and reinforcing those traits in their media. Its interesting to look at stuff from this lens and see what writers and film makers take for granted about reality. So things like there will always be some kind of authority and law, mirrored by random generic breakers of the law. Or if you wanna get real freaky, an evil race of foreigners. They take things like capitalist society and treat them as if its just the natural order of things and those rules will apply even in a fantasy context. Sorry for the massive rant, its just an immensely interesting and sometimes depressing topic. To think people either cant imagine a world without capitalism or are invested in it enough to not care about whatever shit you shove in your kids films because youre chasing profit, it all ends the same way.
i saw the cars one, too. very good topic
Let’s not even mention that one superhero high school movie that indirectly endorsed eugenics 💀
Art cant ve divorced from the material conditions it was created in. When someone doesn’t have an ideology they assume the one from the ruling class which shows up consciously and unconsciously in the art created. Your biases will show in your art which is how you can get a legitimate enough read.
i do belive it is not a coincidence that it aligns but just a logical thing. if it was made in society that valued murder, writers would have no trouble writing in gory murder. if society thinks women better girly to the point of brainwashing -- there is no trouble with that in plot. and so forth
your analysis of the denial of access and daily segregation in the structure of the city itself for chicken little brought a tear to my eye. as someone who has experienced that and saw many good friends experience that, had a similar relationship with my own parents and, as a kid, watched this movie believing that if i just worked hard enough things would be better, i felt seen. we should definitely analyze things for children, media is a big component of moral compass.
Yeah that's why America no longer has a moral compass. Especially the females
@@jasongibbs3713 ........... yikes
omfg bro are you kidding me
@@shyguy85no
@Miles Doyle ratio
I think this film helped to reinforce the burgeoning blooms of my personal insecurities. God I related so much to that little chicken. It literally is just a showcase of the trauma that disabled people go through just trying to exist in a world that refuses to make us ANY accommodation. To this day I struggle with an ingrained second nature of people pleasing. Why should I feel immense guilt over asking something of someone? It isn’t remotely healthy or logical.
No accommodations? Is that what you experience?
@@OdaKa Yes. There's very token gestures here and there, but nothing remotely on the level that people with disabilities actually need; the things they actually need are inordinately expensive (look up how much a comfortable wheelchair costs, seriously), and society as a whole is structured around screwing them over and erasing them. Hell, look up the shit people have to go through to get Disability payments, and the way they're structured to keep the disabled poor by making independence from them too big of a financial risk. It's *bad*.
@@OdaKa In Britain I had to take my local council to court to 'prove' my right to an education. It took YEARS to start my education beyond a primary school level. The world is very much built to fuck over disabled people.
Because you are attached to the idea that most people are good. They aren't. Basic honesty is one of the rarest traits you could find in people. Loyalty? Ever hang around liberals? All about "tolerance" till you get in their circles, then you see them doing nothing but talk shit behind each other's backs all day. Kindness? Sure, if they can profit from it. Tell those same liberals that there might be hope for people with mental illness - that it might be possible, even good, to get better. Then you get all the "muh doubting muh lived experience!1!", because if they accept the idea of getting better, then the sick ones have to ask themselves why they haven't tried to get better, and the bystanders can't profit from your protected status by loudly proclaiming their support. The truth is most people are opportunistic rats. You probably are too. You're not kind, you're scared. "Disabled" how? You got bullied in school and now live in fear? What do you think hatred is for? A natural mechanism to move you forward in spite of negative emotions. Don't think yourself better than negativity. That kind of thinking is for children. Most people are shit, and they'll loudly declare how little of a fuck they give about you until you punish them. Then they get all offended. Of course. Anything to have power over you. You will never please anyone, because when people are pleased, they just want more. There's never an end to it. Don't bother looking for it. Life is suffering. You will suffer until you die. Spoiler alert.
@@screwgoogle4993 all of that applies to conservatives as well in a way
It's funny you mention the lemmings joke at 33:37
Disney had, actually, in the 1958 nature film White Wilderness, popularized and tricked viewers into thinking lemmings threw themselves off cliffs for whatever reason. when in reality it was the film crew
I find it really funny that Disney apparently couldn't leave the movie as horrible as it was, they had to throw in a tasteless joke that specifically reinforced the myth that covered up their animal abuse
I remember we were shown White Wilderness in the 6th grade and were told about the lemming thing, I remember thinking wtf
norm of the north
I thought you meant the film crew threw themselves off the cliffs 🤣🤣
This is the most I've ever been able to comprehend learning about neo liberalism and it's from a video on chicken little
Same. That’s how they gethca
Except it’s not even close to correct. This kid is so uninformed and ignorant, I wouldn’t even know where to begin tearing apart his analysis. I can’t believe this is how young people are being educated on the world. I’m almost at a loss for words. Absolutely painful.
tell me you're terminally online without telling me
Murrica, wendigoon did a great job going over all the politics
Same!
Watching someone seriously discuss the themes and worldbuilding of Chicken Little is 10 times funnier than the movie itself.
With regards to the aliens:
Functionally, I think they serve as a distraction from the societal critique of the story. By moving from the realist problems of bullying, school and baseball to the sci fi framing the movie can get away with ignoring its own critiques of the system. It can have Chicken Little succeed in an arena where his limitations aren't relevant, while also gaining the kudos for representing societal problems (which are never addressed) and gaining the relatability of Chicken Little's situation. It's a similar trick to what it's doing with the wide range of animals in the school, or using Abby as a sensible character while also engaging in fairly misogynist writing around Foxy and Abby.
If I needed to compare it to a real world situation maybe war or global warming, big catastrophic events that render undesirable people suddenly valuable (Alan Turing might be a good example here) but obviously the fit is ad hoc, because the purpose of these aliens is to break the world of the story, so that the writers don't have to deal with solving the problems they've introduced.
And we know what happened to Turing the minute the war ended. Ghoulish shit.
You'll notice, too, that Marvel movies (and comics!) do the exact same thing. Harry Potter did it. A lot of beloved franchises have a marked tendency to do this, and it's never not infuriating every single time they do it.
Same as how in Naruto all societal problems of the ninja world are swept under the rug because focus was on a alien that wanted to rule it all and got defeated by the underdog turned chosen one, who wants to retain the status quo only telling everyone to be a little nicer.
Not to critique the interpretation, but honestly think the writers worked backwards. Like chicken little story is about some who thinks the sky is falling the core of this movie is creating a scenario where the sky is literally falling to turn the fable on its head and everything was built backwards from there.
Like okay what if the sky was actually falling?
it could be a fake sky tile.
Where would that come from?
I know aliens.
And then on from there.
@@islandboy9381 what happens when you combine lazy writing and you want to milk you franchise even more..., damn I hate Boruto and those stupid aliens :c
Wow true
The fox being lobotomied was very freaky
A pig made for screaming and mostly fat jokes
I always despised how mean-spirited this movie is, thank you for pointing it out
i always liked for that reason i understood it was bad but it had the same effect of those old racist cartoons disney made the sheer outrageous levels of wtf were amazing
Same it really disturbed me as a kid
the racism did suck tho
@@dobs8737 ._.?
@@GayAndDog basically my humer is heavily affected by shock/dark humor
Geez. As a small autistic child who got constantly berated and minimized by my father, I LOVED this movie and now I think there was more to that than I realized. I always related to Chicken Little and I thought that it was written to be that way lol. It’s all kinda dark when I think about it. Anyways I really like this video as a fellow neoliberalism/capitalism hater lol
God, the fact that I actually loved it as a child too ... yeah same. Down to the autism too.
Same there
Lol so i am not the only one. Chicken Little is like me on a movie XD that's why i love it probably
As an autistic lad who was lucky enough to have fairly accepting parents, I can still relate cause lots of other people certainly were not.
i always related to fish out of water more
It's crazy how different my view on this moving was from yours. Because the town was mostly shown to be a bunch of idiots, I took the message of the movie as " do not worry about societal acceptance, no matter how ostracized you are by society, keep believing in yourself because your life has as much value as you believe it has". Foxy felt like a mirror to chicken little where she succeeded in being popular but didn't follow any kind of moral behavior because she'd be rewarded by society regardless. She was then punished for putting faith in society as when she needed people's help the most (aka her brain turned to mush) the people left her to die because they never cared about her in the first place, they only cared about having a champion. Ironically, this pro-capitalist movie turned me even more against the system because, as a kid, I started looking at anyone who disagreed with me and tried to ostracize me as a bunch of idiots like the town folks.
Most commies get their beliefs from hollywood movies so I am not surprised.
I have to add: notice how the second movie Chicken Little and his friends are watching is NOT any more truthful than the first "Crazy Little Chicken" movie. Because the truth was NEVER the point. The truth was never important. What's important is being popular = being important to society
I used to watch this movie all the time as a kid but looking back at it, this is one of the weirdest movies in terms of plot
I have no idea what they were on while making this but goddamn wtf
When I first watched Chicken Little, I always hated Buck Cluck. His constant neglect to CL really hits too close to home and has ruined the movie for me.
The final scene where he says he's sorry that he ever felt that his love had to be earned rings hollow, because throughout the movie, he only loved his son after he became a baseball star.
If they still wanted to keep that theme, they should've made Buck take the hostility by his son and comfort him that despite what everyone says, he's still great and should achieve his dream. The dilemma should be that CL wanted to prove his worth, so that the hate his father receives stops cause it's clearly taking a toll on him.
Imagine if Chicken Little lost by Cluck supported him anyways. Even that alone would make for a much better “redemption” of his character.
What sucks is… in early storyboards, I think he does take the shit for his son. They left that part out intentionally. I think they were trying to go for this father that sucks going for a redemption at the end, but just made him suck.
there's literally a scene of CL confronting his father in the movie but go off
This movie is waaay more deep than what I thought. The amount of layers of awfulness this movie has makes it the more intresting. Disney will never make a movie like this ever again.
I’ll take a hilariously and insultingly bad movie over a mediocre one cause at least the former is funny
@@enzoaraya4796 I would choose that too
It’s like an onion. Each layer makes me cry in pain more.
there arent layers here bro this is just some schizo mouthing off big buzzwords like they mean something
@@shyguy85 why would anyone listen someone who uses an ableist slur and insults to get their point across? If you are going to criticize then you should list why it’s not deep.
Fun fact: in a disney documentary called white wilderness, the filmmakers created the myth that lemmings commit mass suicide by pushing lemmings off a cliff. Lemmings never commit mass suicide in nature. So it's honestly creepy that they joke about lemming suicide in this movie.
The whole time you were explaining the plot it seemed to me that the this film was a deconstruction of the failings of neoliberal capitalism but then by the time you got to the third act and nothing was actually meaningfully changed I was like “oh.”
"yeah, that."
I mean...Feels kind of like being trapped in the capitalistic cycle to me.
@@ZeonTwilight yeah but there’s no criticism of it by the end, the way it’s presented suggests the message is neoliberalism is good if enough people like you
@@jqsm1neS *Glances uncomfortably towards the number of really crappy politicians with checkered pasts and general disinterest in helping society at large still having an incredible amount of support*
I mean, I think there's no criticism of it because the movie is ultimately supportive of that mindset. Because America is a pretty flawed country that venerates a pull yourself up by your bootstraps, exceptionalism or bust mentality if you're not a member of a privlidged group. I think the ending is sort of delightful in it's horribleness. In the way that even our protagonists, who've all the experience to know that the system is pretty screwed up, are contented once they are finally accepted by society.
perfect blend of shitpost and actual genuine talking points
i have nostalgia for chicken little (saw it a billion times as a kid and loved the soundtrack) and tbh, as a ND kid with an emotionally distant immigrant father I related to chicken little a lot
FUCK buck cluck tho lmao
Saaaaame. Like at first I was like "oh this movie is great, these kids are outcasts and deal with parental problems like me and they beat the odds,yay!" And then looking back it's just...yiiiikes.
Eh, they tried.
Mostly unrelated detail I noticed: Chicken Little's principal sounds exactly like the principal from A Goofy Movie. You know, the one who intentionally exaggerated the situation that got Max in trouble, making Goofy genuinely worry that his son was going to end up doing heinous things in the future that would land him "in the electric chair"! If this is the same VA, it's kind of interesting that Disney basically got him to play the exact same type of principal twice!
A Goofy Movie does all of the themes of Chicken Little a million times better without the weird neoliberal bootlicking and it's about fuckin Goofy
@@islandboy9381 Yep! Basically!
What a hell of a thing to be typecast as
Dog principal who exaggerates children's screw ups
Wallace Shawn plays a lot of pain-in-the-neck characters like that. He was Bob's jerk boss in "The Incredibles."
is he the guy that voices Rex? and Eustace in the Courage fog special?
To be fair, this movie was made by the biggest mega -corporation ever so I kinda believe you lmao
Ah, Micheal Eisner, the Disney CEO who somehow failed in every aspect possible and nearly let the megacompany go down under.
Defunctland's arch-nemesis
Bro I never realized how creepy and existentially terrifying the whole Foxy Loxy thing was as a kid but holy shit that’s messed up… wtf was this movie
as an undiagnosed autistic kid, this movie was oddly... uncomfortable? at some points. as a diagnosed autistic adult who is unable to work [and has cptsd largely thx to neolib rot], it's so many levels of *weird* to look back on
cool that they rendered all those individual feathers tho, cutting-edge stuff at the time and prob set the stage for rapunzel's hair
As the weird kid, it felt comforting to see someone in my position
@@kaitlynp5823 yeah chicken little himself was a comfort to me for sure
Moreso that he had a clique of weird friends.
Easier to not feel the sting of thinking yourself a 'loser' when you're with other misfits and can try to talk about this stuff.
As long time athlete in the US player soccer you mentioned the cycle of tying to create “the next big thing” or “be known for winning” and honestly the brutal extent that coaches can sometimes go to in attempt of that goal regardless of the damage this cycle can cause to their own players. Being autistic as well as left me as more of an outcast when I got older and my coach only cared about my performance and even berated me when I would cry or show emotion, I wish more people knew about how much emotional abuse can come from competitive youth sports
at first i wasn't really seeing your point but like after the baseball scene and penny scene my mind is changed i never realized how disturbing this movie actually is
I absolutely love this concept. It doesn’t matter if the creators intentionally made this movie a social critique (which they probably didn’t) , anything that is made in neoliberal society is going to exhibit its traits, it’s just that it’s so normalised that we don’t even notice anything wrong. This concept reminds me of the scene in “They live” where the guy gets the ability to see propaganda behind everyday things when he puts on magic sunglasses. I hope you make more stuff like this.
Like when the edibles kick in and you discuss the weirdest shit with your friends. It's the best thing ever
It makes me think of how there were people who, when the plot was explained to them, didn't understand that it was meant to read as horrific.
Edit: In fact, this is where the line "we all sell out every day" comes from.
The Foundation for Economic Education did an interesting Out of Frame episode on They Live.
What happened to foxy was so disturbing to me as a kid, just the idea of taking someone and completely erasing not only what makes them "Them" but also taking away any competency they have. Purely so they're more "Acceptable" and less of a threat (Ie: Their own person). It was the one part of the movie I outright hated as a kid.
Anyways I feminize people now, probably unrelated.
Or low key it was just a truth serum
I mean, don't knock it 'til you try it. Feminine virtues are still virtues, even if they mostly come off as 'weird' from this bearded person's current sense of fashions and sensibilities; the same one who took nearly three tries to finish typing this comment...
...So, I guess, what it is I'm trying to say is, thanks for reclaiming the Q, but I think what I'm really out here looking for is an upside-down M or L... and I apologize again for rambling. Opening up can be difficult, especially from one who's, erm... 'Not very easy.'
oh my god chicken little is an actual fairy tale not a Disney original??? incredible. i never knew this! fantastic video friend.
Can you do more content about neoliberal propaganda in movies and tv series please?
Litteraly every movie that comes out now
You are asking him to cover every american piece of media ever made
Basically Hollywood in a nutshell:')
he would have to cover like every movie made in the west at this point 😭
"neoliberal" being defined as capitalism in this very video is an example. commie fucks always love to blame what enables them to exist in the first place. and by the way, it's not "neoliberalism", it's marxism and gullible liberals who only ever came to their "beliefs" when the government shoved it down their soft skulls before they could intellectually defend themselves. That's why everything is "nazi nazi nazi" now. That's exactly what was shoved into the heads of kids for generations, and now it's bearing fruit. A mindless populace whose thoughts could be switched off with the utterance of key phrases.
“it’s a children’s film” my brother in christ it’s a family film
Ideally, a family film.
(A moment of silence for those who don't have, or who haven't found their 'family' to watch this with them.)
This movie put me off so hard as a kid. I was the weird one who didn't conform, so it felt so weird like... I had to wait for my chance to do something huge, to be rewritten and remembered as something better. Fucked me up emotionally.
'Because I've got a plan'
Chicken Little is the quiet kid confirmed.
Cliff reaches into his backpack and extracts: _his trusty Survival Manual._
This is such a well-produced, well-written, well-edited video - can't wait for you to blow up!
omg I thought I was radicalized by Chicken Run but maybe it was Chicken Little all along
The lessons I learned from watching this as a kid are:
This world sucks.
Even though those you should rely on might not, you’ll still be able to find friend who have your back.
Aliens exist.
Even when everyone is trying to tell you that you’re wrong, it doesn’t mean that you are.
Don’t prematurely judge people or situations.
Politicians are puppets.
Some people are better at certain things than others and that’s okay as long as everyone uses the skills they have to do their best.
Just because you’re different, doesn’t mean you’re incapable. (And if you’re different and capable, you’re stronger than most.)
Newspapers make surprisingly fashionable shorts.
Anyways, apologies for any typos I may have made. I’m tired and just overall dyslexic so bare with me here. Anyways, yeah, goodnight.
No typos I would notice until the very end.
"Bear" with me.
@@normanclatcher okay, thanks.
@@squirrelthegamer8483...I think you might've misunderstood my friend from earlier: 'bear' with him.
Broo i remember watching chicken little like 10 times a week😭
this is a painfully underrated video and channel
this is literally the funniest video i have seen in months. it has also filled me with a profound sense of dread.
I can see the horror of this movie, but for me it has always been the norm i was treated in life so i just loved it, felt like it gets me
Looking back it's pretty sad that I loved Chicken Little as a kid partially because I found him relatable.
I don't think it does even relatability right when the movie actively makes you feel bad for relating to it, thats just me tho
I clicked on this video for the funnies but I didn't realize how many values I inherited from this film until it was pointed out
Aliens might not play into the capitalism themes but I mean the reference to war of the worlds is obviously playing to the theme of public panic mob mentality shit.
As the story goes Orson Wells did a war of the worlds and everybody panicked And then people didn't like him, of course that's just the magazine headline story, it's not really what happened.
I remember the scene where he has the piece of the sky in his bedroom scared the shit out of me when I was like 7 I don't know why
Child character freaking out, screaming, and hiding something. Your impression was valid.
S C R E A M I N G at this entire dissection. you're gonna be a video-er to follow.
39:36 AAAHHH I never noticed the female alien has long lashes 🙄 gotta make sure nobody thinks they might be gayliens
an alien having eyelashes isn't attacking you for being gay you dork
I forgot about this movie because I watched it so long ago. It was only recently that I watched someone reviewing it, and a lot of the things he brought up were really thought provoking. For instance; this entire city is bullying one kid.
........yeah.
I have watched this when I was a little child 😭 and I am not even American
This movie taught me to be like everyone else or I would suffer.
This movie taught me to appreciate the value of suffering in a social sense.
While it not necessarily ought to be sought, it produces values of understanding and empathy.
Incidentally, Disney almost made a Chicken Little clone, it was Zootopia. In its earliest draft, Nick Wilde the fox character was written to an outcast, due to immaturity and not being a model predator, and Judy Hopps the rabbit character was written in nearly an identical way. As a result, the lore written for Zootopia made living there a living hell for Nick and Judy, very similar Chicken Little, they were bullied, ostracised, and forced to adapt to their harsh reality. It's stunning Disney near made Zootopia as mean-spirited as Chicken Little, which is why the film was rewritten halfway through its production, and became the version we saw in the cinema. What I find interesting about this behind the scenes saga, is that fact Disney nearly blundered into the same mistakes, because this is the sort of people they are use to hiring, minds deeply imbedded with neoliberalism, to the point of insanity and myopia, that gave them a narrow view of their world, limited to what was acceptable to the powers that be, so when it comes to neoliberalism, Disney is its greatest propagandist.
STOP TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT MY PROPAGANDA!!!!!!!
“It’s just for kids” yes that’s why it’s a huge fucking problem
My favorite part of the movie was the porcupine that said “yo.”
I think this is a worthwhile argument, but consider, further, mayhaps: They didn't know what they were doing and what they were supposed to do after a bunch of Disney execs forced some neoliberal changes and thus everything became an absolute mess
Wisecrack should hire you.
I'm taking that as a compliment lmao!
White man has been here.
“How could you tell?”
Video essay on children’s works and its supposed ties to politics
I remember I watched that movie as a kid many times but my brain, somehow, completely erased every part of the movie after the baseball game. As a kid I always stopped paying attention after that part and in my mind the movie just ended right here and there. Hearing that it turned out to be an alien invasion is so weird, it's so out of place I would have thought I remembered it. In retrospect I think that movie helped young bullied me as the message of the movie in my head was "society will praise you for menial things, don't work for society's approval because it's shallow, conditional and everchanging". I think the fact my parents were always supportive no matter what made it easier
I think the original moral of Chicken little was: don't panic
This and Rudolph has conditioned me to believe that if youre born different, your respect has to be won, and that nobody will want you to succeed.
Rudolph was a reject who couldnt get any adoration from even his dad, or Santa, or any of his peers. If there wasnt a foggy Christmas Eve, Rudolph's different traits wouldnt have been exploited, therefore he would be rejected again. If anything, Chicken Little got validated by the end, which is more than could be said for the reindeer XD
my general take on economics/ politics is that we are not self-sufficient. we rely on each other and other countries to live our lives. I go to work but, who built the building my office is in? I get paid but, who made the money? I use the money to buy vegies but who grew them? The farmer grew the vegies but the truck driver drove them to the store. I live in an apartment but i did not build it. I use power supplied from other peoples hard work and genius minds. If we want a totally free market then we need to be largely self-sufficient.
If one countrys economy tanks, so do others. we are united whether we like it or not.
so why should we tell pple they dont deserve certain things if they didnt "work hard enough?"
y should my neighbor not get childcare, healthcare, school, food, a place to live, just because they failed someone elses game?
we all benefit from a system where we r connected so we should just act like it. stop telling pple to fend for themself because its no longer survival of the fittest. we can all help so y r only a few pple doing it?
Spot on.
You should read more books on economics
This is an idea that can only form if you've lived in a city your whole life
@@homelessalcoholic2716 u dont use currency? Electricity? Water? Gas? A car?
Very few pple can say they r totally disconnected and considering ur on CZcams I doubt ur one of the few.
Ur part of a society that needs each other to function, we should act like it...
Yum, democracy.
Buck Cluck is the worst father ever holy
Prayge
@meeptop At 37:00 you could argue it is similar to how in World War 2 women performing traditionally masculine tasks such as manufacturing was viewed as necessary for war time production efforts to maintain our Anglo/Western hegemony but after the war, (in this case, after Alien Invasion and the rise of a true male hero) women were expected to return to ‘traditional’ submissive, supplemental and more nurturing/caretaking roles. Thus, the strong female alpha here is rendered obsolete when the crisis of the movie is concluded and therefore she reassumes her “God-given”, societally predetermined role.
Would that I could simply find the mythical 'Rosie the Riveter.'
I expected a shitpost, still got one, but a very well structured and written one.
Something that always bugged me was that the animals are watching Raiders of the Lost Ark. Not an animal version of Raiders. The real Raiders.
How did they get that? Are live action human movies their equivalent of our animated animal movies? How do they know what Humans look like? Did the animals over throw Mankind and create a society based off of Man? Is Raiders itself an artifact from the distant Human past?
This is crazy... CRAZY AMAZING! Such awesome work as always. Thank you.
Me: Wow society is doomed
Me at age 6: Haha funny chicken
Me at age 27: Cool, cool. :)
I would say propaganda is especially effective on children so in the case of children’s media its especially important to analyze the implications
Wow. The more exposure I get to other people's versions of stories, the more I realize mine were grim dark versions.... In the version of chicken little I grew up with, the last character they meet on the way to tell the king is a fox. Who eats everyone in the parade and it ends with "and the king never knew the sky was falling".
I hadn't realized how much I need this kind of content in my life.
I knew I loved this film for a fucking reason as a young autistic
bro the way foxy loxy ended up always confused the hell out of me
how are you everywhere lmao
"One Little Slip" by Barenaked Ladies was buried so deep in my memory that it was honestly a trip just to hear it again. This movie was my shit when I was 4
This is the movie that planted in me the very specific fear of being replaced by someone else completely different, and everyone knowing but not caring.
Changeling moment.
Not the bimbofication of foxy
This movie came out when i was a kid and for some reason it was my absolute favorite, I re-watched it over and over again- I can now see why I grew up so fucked
This movie could've been so good if they had bothered to think outside their own box and add some layers.
Same thing happened with harry potter. I mean seriously, someone explain to me why the house elves were never freed and why no one canonically gives a shit?
This video is like watching Second Thought & NakeyJakey doing a collab. 🔥🔥🔥
Just stumbled on your channel today and so far your content is excellent. I'm looking forward to getting into the rest. Thanks for your hard work and top quality analysis. I'm excited to get in on the journey. Your channel is going to go gangbusters 👌👏👏👏
Fish out of water was the best part of this movie. But the aliens had such a cool design. They where quite spooky to small me.
This is absolutely fucking unhinged, thank you for your service
Ngl the intro gave me the same energy as alex bale’s theory videos , you will now gain a new subscriber
6:45 I just realised your background music is himiko kikuchi! I just love her music so much!
This guy's left wing progressive bias is so strong in the first 6 min of this video that even though I am curious about how chicken little is messed up I don't really want to watch him talk about it
Same
I'm invested.
@@normanclatcher haha
@@gregoryford2532 good point
This guy is so underrated wtf. Insane effort
"I may not have a phd even by Kanye definition" killed me
About 10 minutes through watching this, absolutely loving the chaotic energy and you've definitely owned a sub. I would like to nitpick and say neoliberalism _does_ entail some form of a welfare state (albeit usually a pretty weak one), so it's not entirely laissez-faire. But again that's just nitpicking, excited to see more of your content!!
Isn't the parodic and satiric narrative around the capitalistic townsfolk indication that the creators of the movie are anti-neoliberalism? When the aliens came and the world was truly in danger, the sheep capitalists did not take it seriously. Maybe you could relate it to the climate crisis. And none of the townspeople could save the day because they were too satisfied with maintaining the status quo? Isn't the movie then the opposite of what neoliberals want?
On the other hand, it maybe is extremely capitalist that Chicken Little, an individual, had to fix all the problems by himself. That's liberalism right there if I ever saw any. None of the big money leaders chose to do anything but the small person had to save the world? In that regard it IS neoliberal propaganda.
Also Buck Cluck had to come to take care of his own son, taking responsibility and going against gender roles. He acknowledges that he was emotionally distant and that he was wrong and supports his son, finally, when the world is ending. It might be idealistic but what's wrong with an unrealistic happy ending sometimes?
I just found this channel and seeing someone who kinda looks like Evan peters ranting about politics and the film chicken little brings peace to my little soul. Can’t wait to channel binge.
bonus brownie points for the use of behind the mask for background music at the start ;)
I was always so disturbed when that happened to foxy as a kid because her whole personality is gone
damn actually sad for foxy loxy, i didnt remember that part wth :((
I'm only about one and a half minute in to the video but just wanted to drop some quick props to the production
The freaking rustboro music in the bg sent me I was still playing emerald when I first saw this movie in theatres I'm personally attacked
Only with the title and the tumbnail, i knew this is gold