In recent weeks, Vice President Dan Quayle has been hammering away at the nation`s ”cultural elite”-those decision-makers in the television, movie and publishing industry who generally look down on traditional family values. The other day we read a movie review of the Disney classic ”Pinocchio” that perfectly illustrates what Quayle has been talking about.
The reviewer, a film critic for a large daily, lauded the technical brilliance of the 1940 movie, but expressed reservations about its ”darker” side. ”`Pinocchio` rigidly enforces the finger-wagging behavioral codes of the `40s: Good boys don`t tell lies. Good boys go to school. Good boys resist temptation and listen to their consciences. Even more disturbingly,” the reviewer went on, is the sense of foreboding and evil that pervades much of the film. Later on, the reviewer refers to the film as ”a classic, a first-rate piece of animation, as well as a catalog of `40s prejudices.”
. . . If believing in honesty, dependability, self-control and a clean conscience are considered ”prejudices,” than maybe we need more prejudice.
