Smurf Snuff Film!?!?!?!

[BrooklynKnight]

When I saw the title thread I thought it was talking about the Robot Chicken clip..

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Robot Chicken took on the Smurfs? Must've missed that one...


And they showed part of it on our local news, talking about it and the impact it's had with regards to UNICEF. It was ok. But then, I'm sure it was all chopped up to make it PC for the American audience....

 

[StupidSmurf]

When I saw the title thread I thought it was talking about the Robot Chicken clip..

Excellent. In that case, my work here is done!

 

[der_kluge]

They showed a few scenese of this on the news here tonight. Very bizarre. It showed bombs dropping from the air, and destroying the smurf village, and some bombs landing directly on some of the smurfs, leaving piles of dead smurf bodies. In the end, a lone smurf baby was crying.

It was actually not as funny as it sounds. It had this weird 40's American-propaganda-esque feel to it, especially the scene of the bombs falling, and the coloring was a bit off. The shades were all of darker hues than what the cartoon used. So, it had a more grim feel to it.

Odd.

 

[the Jester]

I find this quite intriguing and want to see it, and (but?) I hate the smurfs.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

:\ Sick.

 

[StupidSmurf]

It IS amazing what sort of allowable license is present when a "good cause" is brought into the mix. "Teach kids violence is wrong?...OK, let's make a small cartoon which, if not for the message it's trying to put forth, would trigger protests, boycotts, censorship, etc. But oh no, it's being used to show the horrors of war to kids, so it's ok."

Riiiiiiiight.

I think they should also "redo" Bambi, and show a few hollow-point bullets rip through Bambi's mother's skull, spraying nearby trees, bushes, and furry animals with shards of bone and huge wet red droplets of deer blood. You know, just to show that hunting is evil and stuff.

"I'm StupidSmurf, Raging Moderate, and I approve this message."

 

[wingsandsword]

UNICEF says response has been so strong that the short could soon be seen in Europe, Latin America and Australia with the stipulations that it must air after 7 p.m. local time, it can only be aired with information explaining the clip, and it cannot be put on the Internet. There are no current plans to broadcast the clip in the U.S.

Yeah, right.

It'll be pirated on the P2P networks minutes after it airs, and it'll propagate based largely on the controversy & publicity.

Is UNICEF going to sue people around the world for viewing their propaganda outside of Europe? Is it worth their time and effort, it's not like the RIAA waging a "Hearts & Minds" war to scare people into not pirating music, it would be effort expended for little gain. They'll send C&D letters to web sites that put it up (especially any mainstream media sites or anything high profile), but P2P is likely to sail right under the radar.

Much like the celebrities who go to Japan to film ads they'd never dare to do in the US, but they find their way onto the internet anyway, really restricting a media to one geographic region is not really practical nowadays. A decade ago, maybe, but now, hype (and childhood nostalgia for the Smurfs combined with a "WTF" factor) may well fuel it being handed around as a net fad (also expect stills or clips of it to be incorporated into weird net humor, message board posts, and icons & avatars).