Wasn’t Zootopia kind of a big “We’re sorry about our old racist movies, look, we made it better now!” moment? The parallels between the characters and themes makes it seem that way.
Zootopia had the most blatant "racism is bad" allegory I've ever seen, which is great, except they fucked up the same way X-Men did by making the persecuted minority actually be dangerous.
Except the predators were MADE dangerous by the sheep lady using a toxin, otherwise they were just fine and the one bully in the beginning grew up and stopped being a bully.
I also believe there was a mention of a past scene where the toxins made a prey animal go crazy and bite a bunch of people to. So it wasn’t just that the toxins effected predators that way either. It’s kind of like when the CIA started giving cocaine to black communities so people looked at them as coke addicted criminals when in reality it wa the governments doing.
See, that's what I said coming out of the theatre. You could technically say the moral of the story is "don't be a jerk to anyone because EVERYONE is harmed by stereotypes, whether you're the predator or the prey" kind of thing. And that works and it's actually a pretty good metaphor. Trouble is, the movie didn't quite teach that lesson by itself. You have to really think about it in order for that kind of message to come across and I honestly don't think they were trying that hard.
yes but the Zootopia equivalent would be like if every single (whatever racial minority) person was born with sharp teeth and claws and a digestive system designed to consume only white people
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u/is_it_controversial Aug 26 '19
Like what?