PL>
PL> USA Today's opinion page had a letter from a parent who considered it 
too
PL> dark, and in places too violent." (quoting is from memory).  She also
PL> seemed to say that her children enjoyed it, but if she had seen it first,
PL> she wouldn't have let them see it at all.
This woman was obviously a person who has never read the book or even seen 
he
classic movie version.  Compared to the book, it was very much a "Disney"
treatment... it was not at all dark or violent (compared to the book), at
least it was more like the movie version where at least Quasimodo lives at 
he
end (in the book he dies).
Many parents these days are not all that bright.  Movies become a 
babysitter"
(I will be 28 on July 22nd... and I remember many times where I would get bus
fare, movie fare... and take the walk up a mile and a half to the bus stop...
to get me out of the way for a few hours).  With ratings not meaning much
these days, with "acceptable limits" of sex and violence in a PG film, it
should not be beyond reason to expect the same thing out of a G film,
especially one of very well known subject matter as The Hunchback of Notre
Dame.  I just wish more parents would find out what their children were
watching before giving them the movie money... or taking them to the theatre.
Jurasic Park and Schindler's List were also very dark films of mature subject
matter... and it is amazing how many kids were in there with parents that 
ere
upset because of the level of "refered violence" as well as some real
violence.  Anyone who would have read a single review of such films would 
ave
known what to expect.  This same thing happened to Forrest Gump... in a 
umber
of "Christian" Newspapers... I saw reviews of how EVIL the film was.  How
shocked the parents were when they took their kids to see it, or they rented
it for the first time.
The thing that really urks me is the parents who RENT or BUY a video, and 
ive
it to their kids.  Without taking the time to reviewing the tape themselves
before they watch it with their kids... or turn their kids loose on the tape.
I guess that is what happens in a society where TV is viewed as a 
babysitter"
and where kids on average spend more time in front of the BOOB TUBE than 
oing
their homework.
Oh well,
John Tatum -- Retired Exec. Director -- CADMEI
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