> > Disney movies are there to teach little moral lessons and tell a good story, which is not always bad. And besides, when making kid movies, like "The Little Mermaid", you can't leave in all the gory details. I haven't read the original story of the mermaid for a while, but I believe she has to kill the Prince in the end, and so she stabs him at the end. In some versions, she opts to kill herself instead of the prince. either way, it's gory and unpleasant.
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> I don't object to stories with little moral lessons. However, I do feel that modern moral tales largely restrict themselves to the simplistic PC moral that "if you're a nice person you'll live happily ever after". Yes, fine, very nice, but I think I can see a flaw in that argument, which is called "reality". Children aren't stupid. Escapism is great too, but it doesn't always need to be sanitised into feelgood mush just so people won't be exposed to Unpleasantness.

I, too, am not against having your movie/show have an message written inside the story.

I just can't stand it when it's made all TOO obvious that there's a moral, and then you get a little sermon at the END of the movie/show. That's less like sending a message to your audience and more like drilling it into their skulls...especially if the moral is misleading, like the "nice guys finish first" thing you were talking about.

Not to mention you pretty much KNOW what the message is before the movie/show is half over, and you're not encouraged to question the plot afterward.

Sometimes, you're just better off watching something brainless in the way of morals.

Adam "Big Brother is watching you, all your thoughts are belong to us" Bomb