One word, big movie. Kinda brilliant. I like it, anyway. Though I do think it's a bit presumptuous of Disney to adopt the word "Earth" for their movie, as if they are trying to sum up "Earth" within the frame of one tiny movie that follows the lives of three different species of animals around the whole planet to stand for all creatures great and small. This, I suppose, asks a question about the meaning of movies to us folks. How much does a movie about something shape our perception of that real life thing? Do we think Planet Earth can be summed up in "Earth"? Probably not. But it just seems like now that word is owned by Disney and their 2-hour interpretation of it, do you know what I mean? Some of that word's power is held within Disney's movie now. How much of our perception of Vietnam is shaped by movies, of warfare, of romance, of what it is to die, anything? This may be an old question but an interesting one.
Thanks Walt.
