I was very upset about the duck. It made me feel sad, he was swallowed in one. I love ducks.
shareUnrelated to the movie, but related to ducks (and not sad either!):
The odd couple: http://petoftheday.com/archive/2008/January/29.html
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Duck (sort of) attacks rabbit: http://petoftheday.com/archive/2008/January/09.html
Enjoy! :)
Were this a typical Hollywood offering the duck would have been some how pulled alive from the wolf, because we know Hollywood has a soft heart to go with its soft head.
The duck and the crow were very adorable and enjoyable characters. I thoroughly enjoyed this film and and hoping to find it available on DVD at some point.
The other nominated short animations were also quite good, though Mme Tutli-Putli was a bit on the odd side.
Tutli-Putli was based on Witkacy's novel and Witkacy was definately "on the odd side." (He was sort of a genius)
Witkacy (Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz) was outstanding polish artist and writer.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936790/
It's bad enough the wolf was let go, so don't put all the PC blame on Hollywood. It has crossed over into the UK as well. But a great film nevertheless...
shareI was happy to find that this short is available on DVD called "A Collection of 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films".
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/A_Collection_of_2007_Academy_Award_Nominated_Short_Films/70094841
I kept thinking the duck would be pulled out alive at some point but it didn't, guess I have a soft head too
shareyes, perhaps a bit sad. but the crow survives, and that's nice.
shareI felt bad for the duck,too! I am an adult and had stumbled upon Peter and the Wolf (on our PBS station)while channel surfing last night. Felt compelled to watch! So...I am sitting there going, "run little duck, run"! I love ducks,too! I must say that I was totally shocked that the wolf got him at all,much less in one quick swallow! So,here I was sitting there with my mouth hanging open going "Oh my gosh!" I couldn't believe that happened...I think I probably had the same look as Peter did!
shareThe scene of the wolf catching and swallowing Duck, while the poor thing shrieks in horror, was traumatizing to ME, let alone to any children watching; I just don't think I would allow my grandkids to watch this, although the rest of it was very good. The producer/director said that the original ending ("and if you listen very carefully, you can hear the Duck quacking away inside the wolf, because in his haste, he had swallowed her---alive") was discarded as it would be "too gruesome" for children to imagine the pitiful duck inside the wolf's stomach, waiting to be digested (gasp!). Instead, Duck presumably dies. Personally, I like the renditions where Duck comes out of hiding at the end.
shareHeaven forbid we depict nature in its nasty, brutish reality, eh? Probably why people think their pets are "children".
shareWell, we don't have to throw it in their little faces, do we, during a "children's" presentation? If you want brutal nature, let them watch the National Geographic (emphasis on "graphic") Channel or Animal Planet. Is that better?
sharePeter and the Wolf is not inherently a "childrens" presentation- you may have been thrown off by the use of animation. Sergi Prokofiev's musical composition of 1936 was indeed intended for his son, but it is, after all, a classical composition and the medium of stop-animation should not be assumed to be content for children. I suspect that those educated in 1936 within Europe and the Soviet Union would not be prone to the folly of anthropomorphism.
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Maybe they were trying to make the point that the wolf was just hungry and doing what came naturally. Maybe Peter's realization of that was what made him let the wolf go, even though he had lost his friend the duck.
I used to have chickens, and my uncle's stupid dog killed two of them and injured a third who died a day later, but I realize she was only acting on the kill instinct built into all members of the canis family. She's still an idiot dog though and my uncle is a horrible disciplinarian. Our dog was trained at a very young age that he was not allowed to touch the chickens. Even though he killed one when he was very young, he still managed to learn what we expected of him.
I agree, the duck dying was so sad, it did haunt me a bit after watching the movie, but it is real life and so I let my two young kids watch it last night (we rented it).
I loved this film. What I was wondering was why there was a fence with a lock on it? Why did the grandfather have a locked wall next to the woods? Was this supposed to be set during a war?
Was the crow's wing broken at the beginning and then healed by the end of the day?
That's what I thought but my husband wasn't so sure.
The kids loved it. I figure it's not any worse than the stuff in Tom and Jerry (a very violent cartoon from my day).
The nasty, brutish reality is that when Peter opens the cart to let him out, the wolf mauls him to death. This is just a PC turd of a production that gives a liberal minded rewrite to a classic story...
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Please define "liberal minded."
shareYour grandchildren do not need to be babied the way you think and they won't appreciate it any more than Peter appreciated his grandfather's "protection". Ever read Grimm's Fairy Tales? That ought to tell you how in stronger days it was understood how children needed to be taught, not sheltered. Now few people have any self-reliance, because they find reality "too traumatizing".
shareI was so sad too :( Even got bit teary. The worst part was that the duck made actual duck sounds...well duckling sounds but that's just as bad. I am glad he let the wolf go though, that would have made me feel worse.
It's the reality of the world alright, doesn't mean I have to like it.
I know it's supposed to be a duck but it looked more like a goose to me...
Anyway I think children can handle the demise of a puppet duck/goose.
Reality continues to ruin my life. ~ Calvin
LOL, I couldn't. I grabbed my mom's hand and started crying.
And I'm not even a child. I'm 19.
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I was also sad for the duck, such an innocent.
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I agree, but I'd also argue that the Duck doesn't actually die during the film- at the end if you listen carefully you can still hear it quacking from inside the Wolf. Maybe it was saved at a later point )that's what I'm hoping :) ) But I guess that it emphasizes the idea that animation doesn't have to be child-oriented 100% of the time.
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