Smurfs in a Disquieting Film

What were they THINKING?!

Published on October 14, 2005 By singrdave In Movies & TV & Books

Oh my goodness... check this out.

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Ummm, yikes. Here's an excerpt from the press release and article, the British paper the Telegraph:

"The short film pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol around their familiar village of mushroom- shaped houses until, without warning, bombs begin to rain from the sky.

Tiny Smurfs scatter and run in vain from the whistling bombs, before being felled by blast waves and fiery explosions. The final scene shows a scorched and tattered Baby Smurf sobbing inconsolably, surrounded by prone Smurfs.

The final frame bears the message: 'Don't let war affect the lives of children.' (emphasis added)"

Anyone think they didn't do any focus group testing or target market analysis? I'll do you one better: the filmmakers thought it would so the world some good to see dead Smurfs strewn across the burning ground... "It is intended as the keystone of a fund-raising drive by Unicef's Belgian arm, to raise £70,000 for the rehabilitation of former child soldiers in Burundi." (emphasis added)

Comments

ParaTed2k

on Oct 14, 2005

Deja Vu!!! Link

Or shoud we just shake hands and see that "SMTA" ;~D

Gargamel

on Oct 14, 2005

The only good smurf is a dead, bloodly smurf.

singrdave

on Oct 15, 2005

Oh all right, ParaTed2k, my bad. I did not do my due diligence.
It was late and I was tired.

Spc Nobody Special

on Oct 15, 2005

Heh heh......smurfin' wicked.

Reminds me of the commercial that knocked Goldwater out of the presidential campaign. Little girl in a field counting petals as she pulls them off of flowers, then you start hearing a countdown, and at zero you see a nuclear mushroom reflected in her eyes.
Pure melodramatic sensationalism, but they say it was a major influence in the election.

Rightwinger

on Oct 15, 2005

What did Gargamel know, and when did he know it?

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