Peter Rabbit film accused of 'food bullying' as rabbits pelt allergic man with blackberries - Sensationalist Headlines

[URL]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/11/peter-rabbit-film-accused-food-bullying-rabbits-pelt-allergic/[/URL] [QUOTE] A new Peter Rabbit film starring James Cordon is at the centre of a “food bullying” row over a scene in which a gang of rabbits pelt blackberries at a man they know is allergic to them. Several groups representing allergy sufferers have called for a boycott of the film, warning that it is “grossly offensive” and makes light of a potentially fatal condition. Parents of children with food allergies have also expressed disgust at the scene and the message it send to young viewers. A petition calling on Sony Pictures to apologise has attracted more than 4,000 supporters after the Global Anaphylaxis Awareness and Inclusivity group (Globalaai) said the film "mocks the seriousness of allergic disease and is heartbreakingly disrespectful to the families of those that have lost loved ones to anaphylaxis." In Peter Rabbit, released next month, the rabbits’ arch nemesis Mr McGregor has died and his nephew Tom takes charge of the vegetable patch with a renewed vigour and disdain for the “vermin”. In one scene, the rabbits, who have already learned that he is allergic to blackberries, pelt him with the fruit, firing one into his mouth. Tom reportedly collapses to the ground, choking and turning red before stabbing himself in the leg with an EpiPen. The scene, which is not in the trailer but has been alluded to in reviews, prompted the hashtag #boycottpeterrabbit on social media. One campaigners said: "Food allergies are serious and require awareness, education, and respect." Another said the scene was "utterly dangerous and moronic," adding: "This could genuinely kill." The Kids with Food Allergies Foundation, an American group, posted a Facebook warning to parents about the "allergy jokes”. It said: “Making light of this condition hurts our members because it encourages the public not to take the risk of allergic reactions seriously, and this cavalier attitude may make them act in ways that could put an allergic person in danger.” [/QUOTE]

Now that film sounds like an utter piece of shit and that entire scene must be cringe incarnate to watch, but I fail to see how it would encourage anyone to take allergies not seriously when the scene ends in anaphylactic shock. You'd think that would make it pretty obvious that allergies can get nasty as fuck.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;53123864]Now that film sounds like an utter piece of shit and that entire scene must be cringe incarnate to watch, but I fail to see how it would encourage anyone to take allergies not seriously when the scene ends in anaphylactic shock. You'd think that would make it pretty obvious that allergies can get nasty as fuck.[/QUOTE] You would be real surprised.

Opinion on such matters sure changed, i remember watching Totally Spies where Jerry also had some kind of allergic reaction to a certain kind of cupcake and they sometimes tease Jerry with it, thought it was pretty funny :s:

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;53123864]Now that film sounds like an utter piece of shit and that entire scene must be cringe incarnate to watch, but I fail to see how it would encourage anyone to take allergies not seriously when the scene ends in anaphylactic shock. You'd think that would make it pretty obvious that allergies can get nasty as fuck.[/QUOTE] It is a movie aimed at small children, they are not really going to know the full context and implications of what is going on, as far as they are aware they are watching the wacky cartoon rabbit making the mean bad guy pull funny faces. If it leaves a negative impression it will either lead to teasing of another kid with allergies or at worse they think "Oh hey wouldn't it be funny if we made Tim pull funny faces like that?" and try to trigger one and not really know it could kill them. Now I am not saying that this movie is magically going to turn the kids watching it into arse holes to their friends and class mates who have allergies but it still dosn't serve as a good role model either way.

I'm so sick of people getting outraged at such asinine shit, and news sites reporting on them.

[quote]In one scene, the rabbits, who have already learned that he is allergic to blackberries, pelt him with the fruit, firing one into his mouth. Tom reportedly collapses to the ground, choking and turning red before stabbing himself in the leg with an EpiPen.[/quote] What the actual fuck, that is not something to show to kids

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;53123923]What the actual fuck, that is not something to show to kids[/QUOTE] At first I thought it was gonna be something dumb and eyerolling, but holy shit. These rabbits are literally trying to kill the guy.

That shit is pretty grim for a children's show.

Peter Rabbit was a mischief maker, so obviously the natural next step is to make him an attempted murderer thanks Sony how the hell is their film production still in business lmao

I think a large part of what they're trying to do is Looney Tunes-esque danger where the characters would regularly try to blow each other up or send each other off of a cliff. The issue is, they're doing partly live action and realistic looking characters so the regular attempts at their lives are a little TOO realistic and ends up being more disturbing than anything lol. Like you have to have it one way or the other. If you're gonna go for realism, don't make them try to like kill each other and then market it to kids. That's a little wild.

[QUOTE=Hogie bear;53123903]I'm so sick of people getting outraged at such asinine shit, and news sites reporting on them.[/QUOTE] There's a large and distinct difference between being "asinine" and "literally laughing at someone with a serious allergy that requires an Epipen" (which I will mention also requires INSTANTLY contacting the emergency services, it's not some sort of cure-all for allergies). [editline]11th February 2018[/editline] I haven't seen what the film ends with, but this just sounds like revenge. That's NOT something you should be teaching children is okay, especially not "if someone is trying to kill you, you're allowed to kill them".

[QUOTE=Hogie bear;53123903]I'm so sick of people getting outraged at such asinine shit, and news sites reporting on them.[/QUOTE] I was about to call it an obnoxious bullshit thing to complain about, assuming it was some fringe group of loonatics that was complaining but the fact that he's allergic and has a reaction is actually kinda dark to show in a kids film

[quote]Sony Animation Studios[/quote] So guys that brought you The Emoji Movie and The Star, the story of Jesus' birth from the perspective of Joseph's talking donkey, made a controversial decision within the film.

[QUOTE=TheCactusman;53124059]There's a large and distinct difference between being "asinine" and "literally laughing at someone with a serious allergy that requires an Epipen" (which I will mention also requires INSTANTLY contacting the emergency services, it's not some sort of cure-all for allergies). [editline]11th February 2018[/editline] I haven't seen what the film ends with, but this just sounds like revenge. That's NOT something you should be teaching children is okay, especially not "if someone is trying to kill you, you're allowed to kill them".[/QUOTE] To be fair it's basic slapstick comedy and it's been done for a really long ass time. It seems awfully dark to show an epipen and whatnot but you seem to give this film an awful lot of credit if you're willing to assume it's going to teach anyone anything. Like, nobody came out of watching old Looney Tunes cartoons thinking they can shoot someone in the face and get away with it. Quality of the film aside (it seems to be garbage), claiming that slapstick comedy teaches the wrong lessons is a comical overexaggeration in of itself.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;53124105] It seems awfully dark to show an epipen and whatnot but you seem to give this film an awful lot of credit if you're willing to assume it's going to teach anyone anything. Like, nobody came out of watching old Looney Tunes cartoons thinking they can shoot someone in the face and get away with it.[/QUOTE] please see: [QUOTE=Pascall;53123996]I think a large part of what they're trying to do is Looney Tunes-esque danger where the characters would regularly try to blow each other up or send each other off of a cliff. The issue is, they're doing partly live action and realistic looking characters so the regular attempts at their lives are a little TOO realistic and ends up being more disturbing than anything lol. Like you have to have it one way or the other. If you're gonna go for realism, don't make them try to like kill each other and then market it to kids. That's a little wild.[/QUOTE] it's one thing to see Elmer Fudd blast Daffy's bill so hard it swings around his head. it's another thing entirely to show something that's a very every day occurrence that can lead to death i dunno about you but when i was a kid i definitely got inspired by the stuff that happened in movies i saw, granted i didn't pick up any negative behavior, but a child that is already a bully or probe to abusing his peers might pick up on the allergy reaction = funny thing i mean for fucks sake, we had multiple incidences of teenagers dropping rocks off the interstate last year, one of which resulted in a death. kids are stupid. I'm not saying they picked that up from a movie, but they learned how to make a stupid decision that causes bodily harm from somewhere

im normally against people getting offended by little things in media but really, a kids film that downplays allergies could be a serious danger.

Hopefully they take the whole allergy thing seriously in the movie, they can potentially turn it around and actually kinda show kids how serious shock is the films not out yet, so they might remove it or play it serious

[QUOTE=LZTYBRN;53124123]i mean for fucks sake, we had multiple incidences of teenagers dropping rocks off the interstate last year, one of which resulted in a death. kids are stupid. I'm not saying they picked that up from a movie, but they learned how to make a stupid decision that causes bodily harm from somewhere[/QUOTE] Maybe kids have a bad understanding of danger because they're kids, not because media teaches them to ignore danger. It's kind of a repeated observable phenomenon that anything young will tend to overlook danger and harm, human or not.

[QUOTE=J!NX;53124126]Hopefully they take the whole allergy thing seriously in the movie, they can potentially turn it around and actually kinda show kids how serious shock is the films not out yet, so they might remove it or play it serious[/QUOTE] At this point I don't think they can remove it, it dosn't sound like just a joke that has been taken the wrong way like the leper joke from 'The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists' movie from a few years back that they just re-edited, sounds like it is part of another bigger scene.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;53124105]To be fair it's basic slapstick comedy and it's been done for a really long ass time. It seems awfully dark to show an epipen and whatnot but you seem to give this film an awful lot of credit if you're willing to assume it's going to teach anyone anything. Like, nobody came out of watching old Looney Tunes cartoons thinking they can shoot someone in the face and get away with it. Quality of the film aside (it seems to be garbage), claiming that slapstick comedy teaches the wrong lessons is a comical overexaggeration in of itself.[/QUOTE] The old Looney Tunes cartoons where aimed at adults though and not kids.

[QUOTE=Amakir;53124145]The old Looney Tunes cartoons where aimed at adults though and not kids.[/QUOTE] that's like saying the Simpsons is aimed at adults. while technically true, tons of kids still watch and enjoy it

[QUOTE=LZTYBRN;53124155]that's like saying the Simpsons is aimed at adults. while technically true, tons of kids still watch and enjoy it[/QUOTE] Tons of kids watch and enjoy way worse stuff than the Simpsons and Looney Toons. Point is that while kids can watch and enjoy stuff like that it's not necessarily aimed at them.

[QUOTE=Amakir;53124159]Tons of kids watch and enjoy way worse stuff than the Simpsons and Looney Toons. Point is that while kids can watch and enjoy stuff like that it's not necessarily aimed at them.[/QUOTE] I do not understand how you would ever come to the conclusion that looney tunes is not aimed at children, or is specifically aimed at adults.

[QUOTE=Amakir;53124145]The old Looney Tunes cartoons where aimed at adults though and not kids.[/QUOTE] The old Looney Toons are also ridiculously over the top

I knew a kid in the third grade who had to change classrooms because kids always tried to feed him peanuts. I'm all for violent slapstick and dark humor but there are some things you seriously should not have in a kids movie.

I know it's not really an important matter, but it's irking me a bit - It's not Looney Toons, it's Looney [B]Tunes[/B] The cartoons started off as animations to go along and promote jingles and music. The slapstick comedy and extended animation for children came a decade or two after it began, when the creators realized how popular the characters and animations were on their own.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;53124584]I know it's not really an important matter, but it's irking me a bit - It's not Looney Toons, it's Looney [B]Tunes[/B] The cartoons started off as animations to go along and promote jingles and music. The slapstick comedy and extended animation for children came a decade or two after it began, when the creators realized how popular the characters and animations were on their own.[/QUOTE] I.. I never realized that :mindblown:

[QUOTE=Pie_Tony;53123969]At first I thought it was gonna be something dumb and eyerolling, but holy shit. These rabbits are literally trying to kill the guy.[/QUOTE] A prominent scene I keep seeing in the commercials is them basically electrifying the guy's door. He taps it, gets electrocuted, and then flung and slammed pretty hard into a wall a good distance away. Some commercials cut to Peter Rabbit smirking. Others just show him touching a different door and getting zap-slammed into a wall violently again.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;53123923]What the actual fuck, that is not something to show to kids[/QUOTE] Sounds like someone has never seen Watership Down.