Babe (was Crying)

[Craig Clark]

Chris Karatnytsky wrote:
 
 >      Do I have a fiendish desire to start a flame war over Babe?
 >      Diana York Blaine writes:
 >      >I haven't even seen _Babe_ out of fear that it's similarly 
 >      >devastating...
 >      Then deedle sez:
 >      >Not even.  However, I did get all misty at the very excellent end - 
 >      >but they were tears of quaint happiness.  You'll love it.
 >      Babe, surely, must be the most-watched vid in the Pynchon household. 
 >       (It being about pigs and all.)
 >      I beg to differ, though, that there weren't some wrenching moments 
 >      seen therein.  Remember the pigs getting herded off into the 
 >      knacker's truck at the beginning?  (Sorry, Diana.)  This scene sets 
 >      up, quite literally, Babe's raison d'etre.
 >      Incredulous at the earnestness with which the above was written,
 >      Chris
 >      A-and, so how come there were more posts about Starbucks than any 
 >      GRGR to date, you slackers?
 
I haven't seen _Babe_, but I do notice that Disney have just put out 
a video about a cute pig called _Gordy_. I can't help thinking 
they're sinking to the same level as the foax who recently released, 
on the SA market at least, a series of animated videos: _Pocahontas_, 
_Aladdin_, _Beauty and the Beast_, _The Little Mermaid_, _The Lion 
King_, etc., all very lovingly packaged to look like other videos with 
similar titles but bearing a tiny piece of small print at the back 
which sez something like "Of course, this isn't the Disney version of 
the film which you enjoyed so much but we're sure you'll like this 
version just as much". All of this seems rather relevant to the issue 
of the behaviour of multinational capitalist corporations which is a 
major theme of _GR_ IMHO. Speaking of which, I have identified a 
third S African tentacle of the Starbucks/Steers Burgers/Blockbuster 
Video cosnpiracy: Debonair Pizza. You foax got this one over there?

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"