[HN Gopher] The complicated man who made 'Rudolph'
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The complicated man who made 'Rudolph'
Author : zdw
Score : 62 points
Date : 2022-12-12 13:52 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| pugworthy wrote:
| All jokes aside, I have to wonder if Tadahito Mochinaga pondered
| at all the story and characters through the lens of his own
| political beliefs.
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| First, there's the obvious "Red" part of the film's title
| character, which one might see as amusing or ironic given the
| term was used in the west for communists.
|
| Or in any way did he look at the story line of Santa's whole
| socioeconomic model centering around both pseudo (slave?) labor
| of the elves, combined with the socialist "toys for all" message
| of Santa. Should the workers rise up, or accept that their labor
| allows for socialism (of toys to children) to flourish?
| [deleted]
| drewcoo wrote:
| Bah! Gene Autry made Rudolph [1]. He was a singing cowboy who
| also made science fiction crossover serials [2], so I suppose
| that's complicated.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-
| Nosed_Reindeer...
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| [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Empire
| dartmoose wrote:
| Who knows how far back the chain of inspiration and influence
| goes, but Robert Lewis May's book predates Gene Autry [1]. The
| wiki link you shared actually mentions the inspiration for Gene
| was a children's book.
|
| [1] https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2011/12/rudolph-red-nosed-
| re...
| jjulius wrote:
| >The wiki link you shared actually mentions the inspiration
| for Gene was a children's book.
|
| And even mentions May, specifically:
|
| >In 1939, Marks' brother-in-law, Robert L. May, created the
| character Rudolph as an assignment for Montgomery Ward, and
| Marks decided to adapt the story of Rudolph into a song.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Johnny Marks (who worked on the stop-motion show) was credited
| with writing the Autry song (and his brother-in-law created the
| character itself).
| vanderZwan wrote:
| It's an animation blog. With context it's obvious the blog is
| going to discuss the "Rudolph" animation, not the song, since
| the latter has no place on such a blog.
| [deleted]
| snickerbockers wrote:
| Does this mean it qualifies as anime?
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