why is POTC allowed but SOS is not?

[thrax]

here me out...

when jack arrives at port royal in 'black pearl' the dock master walks up to him, at his side is a small black boy. being that it's the 1700's it's assumed that this boy is a slave. so my question is why does disney allow this movie to show slavery and be shown, while in SOS the charcters are freed slaves and it's not shown?

this is something thats been on my mind for a while

[Soulquarian]

Ok, now you're not even trying...

[Coheteboy]

What's SOS???


(only kidding)

[Goofy Daddy]

1st...I didn't ASSume the kid was a slave. If you did ok, but don't further assume everyone else did.

2nd...I don't see PotC "showing" slavery except that ONE scene, and I refer to you to #1 in regards to that.

3rd...SotS wasn't "vaulted" as far as I know for "showing slavery" but because some of the actual subject matter (the "tar baby" is a prime example) could be concidered offensive.

4th...hasn't this all been discussed in MANY other threads? Don't use PotC as an excuse to drag it up yet again.

[flynnibus]

ignoring there were slaves at the time would be like sticking your head in the sand and trying to erase history

[Puppet_Master]

Oh my God, more of this stuff. I never see such a worry about this things here XDD
Wowww, you people really care about sucha things.

But the racial issue became so popular these days in Mice chat, I wonder why... XD

But I have to say something again.

What on earth is SOS? By the way

And Why on Earth people think the little black boy is an slave?? XDD


I never in my life saw it that way, I see people like that every day and they are not slaves at all.

Life is that way here, perhaps different from what you know, for a big percentage of population, and there are poor people (of any color if you care so much about skin color) and children has to work that way.

So perhaps for you we are all " slaves " or something XDDDDDDDD

[flynnibus]

SOS = someone's short hand for Song of the South (the movie)

[Goofy Daddy]

Oh my God, more of this stuff. I never see such a worry about this things here XDD
Wowww, you people really care about sucha things.

But the racial issue became so popular these days in Mice chat, I wonder why... XD

But I have to say something again.

What on earth is SOS? By the way

And Why on Earth people think the little black boy is an slave?? XDD


I never in my life saw it that way, I see people like that every day and they are not slaves at all.

Life is that way here, perhaps different from what you know, for a big percentage of population, and there are poor people (of any color if you care so much about skin color) and children has to work that way.

So perhaps for you we are all " slaves " or something XDDDDDDDD

Yes how silly of us to care about history, especially the more unfortunate parts of history...no need to learn from it or anything (dripping sarcasm)

I do agree in the PotC movie I didn't see that child as a slave. There was indeed slavery at that time but, especially in the Caribbean, being black did not automatically mean "slave." The kid could have been a servant, and apprentice, some kid who worked the docks for coin, who knows.

SoS is that persons abbreviation for the movie Song of the SOuth which has been vaulted by Disney because some consider parts of it "insensative" to African Americans due to part of it's content. It's been discussed here many times very meticulously.

[Tui]

This thread sucks.

Anyway, that kid was a local and the filmmakers thought it would be cool to put him in the movie.

So, sue them for doing something cool for the kid.

yeesh.

[MissChristine]

Again....really.

Song of the South and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl are two entirely different and separate entities, and the issues they address in each are done so in a way that is highly converse from the other. Watch Song of the South, and then after watching that, view PotC again. There really isn't anything to get your feathers ruffled up over.

[Goofy Daddy]

Again....really.

Song of the South and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl are two entirely different and separate entities, and the issues they address in each are done so in a way that is highly converse from the other. Watch Song of the South, and then after watching that, view PotC again. There really isn't anything to get your feathers ruffled up over.

Agreed.

[thrax]

why is this thread still going on?

please as the regretful starter of this thread let it die!

this topic seemed like a good idea in my head but i'm sorry that i ever thought it would be good typed up so please let it die!

[Goofy Daddy]

why is this thread still going on?

please as the regretful starter of this thread let it die!

this topic seemed like a good idea in my head but i'm sorry that i ever thought it would be good typed up so please let it die!

That would be a good B-movie..."The Thread That Wouldn't Die!!"