{"id":176,"date":"2008-07-06T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=176"},"modified":"2020-07-25T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T00:01:00","slug":"frank-rich-on-wall-e-well-worth-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stager.tv\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Frank Rich on Wall-E &#8212; Well worth reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Time&#8217;s op-ed columnist and former theatre critic, Frank Rich, wrote a terrific review of the new Pixar hit film, Wall-E.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indeed, sitting among rapt children mostly under 12, I felt as if I\u2019d stepped through a looking glass. This movie seemed more realistically in touch with what troubles America this year than either the substance or the players of the political food fight beyond the multiplex\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n<p>While the real-life grown-ups on TV were again rebooting Vietnam, the kids at \u201cWall-E\u201d were in deep contemplation of a world in peril \u2014 and of the future that is theirs to make what they will of it. Compare any 10 minutes of the movie with 10 minutes of any cable-news channel, and you\u2019ll soon be asking: Exactly who are the adults in our country and who are the cartoon characters? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rich makes connections between Wall-e and the current presidential campaign as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For me, Mr. Obama showed signs of jumping the shark two weeks back, when he appeared at a podium affixed with his own pompous faux-presidential seal. It could have been a Pixar sight gag. In fact, it is a gag in \u201cWall-E,\u201d where, in a flashback, we see that the original do-nothing chief executive of Buy N Large (prone to pronouncements like \u201cstay the course\u201d) boasted his own ersatz presidential podium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not yet seen the film, but Rich&#8217;s column, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/06\/opinion\/06rich.html?_r=2&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">Wall-E for President<\/a>, is worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Time&#8217;s op-ed columnist and former theatre critic, Frank Rich, wrote a terrific review of the new Pixar hit film, Wall-E. 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