Re: A Rogue By Any Other Name

Have you seen Rango?

Johne Cook
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Peter Chattaway <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmMXXUOn6P5/[email protected]
> wrote:

> Just for the record, I rather like this film myself and didn't find it
> "dreary" at all.
>
> - - -
>
> http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/264951/rogue-any-other-name-mark-steyn
>
> April 17, 2011 4:33 P.M.
> By Mark Steyn
>
> Yesterday I took the kids to see Rio, a dreary and formulaic film from the
> makers of Ice Age. As the title suggests, it’s set in Rio de Janeiro,
> Brazil, and features all the local tourist stops – Corcovado, Carnaval –
> while lumbering through a lame plot about a couple of rare macaws trying to
> shake off the bad guys with the help of various toucans, red-crested
> cardinals, etc.
>
> Afterwards, my kids asked why, in a story whose dramatis personae were
> otherwise Brazilian, the evil bird was a cockatoo with a sneering English
> accent called Nigel, and I tried to explain that the more society tiptoes
> around on multiculti eggshells, the more the English, as the sole remaining
> acceptable stereotype, have a hammerlock on perfidy and duplicity. Who else
> would you expect to be decimating the rare species of the Brazilian rain
> forest? Pedro the cockatoo? Lashawn the cockatoo? Ahmed the cockatoo? Whoa,
> don’t go there. I didn’t check the credits but I wouldn’t be surprised to
> find that Nigel was voiced by Tony Hayward, the former BP chief exec forced
> (in a cautionary tale of the futility of attempting to mitigate the
> stereotype) to live out the company’s pitiful marketing slogan and explore a
> career “beyond petroleum”.
>
> As David Cameron likes to say, pretty much everything wrong with the world
> is Nigel’s fault. If Hollywood ever does make a movie about the Iranian
> nuclear program, you can bet the Twelfth Imam will turn out to be called
> Nigel.
>
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