bloody smurfs
October 11, 2005 @ 6:25 pmA UNICEF public service ad (raising funds to help child soldiers in Burundi) to be aired in Belgium soon causes some controversy.
DJPR’s favorite line from the article: “We wanted something that was real war — Smurfs losing arms, or a Smurf losing a head — but they said no.'’
I haven’t had enough coffee yet to decide what to think. Child soldier rehabilitation = good. Smurfs = good. The message of the ad = confusing (note, the smurfs are not featured as child soldiers, they’re happily dancing around a fire (hmmm, how romantically African). child soldiers don’t usually happily dance around fire and then die from a bomb dropped from an airplane. it’s a little bit more complicated out there [a more informed and thought-through post on child soldiers and the Western response might come in the future]. i wonder if dead smurfs are enough to ease Belgian conscience re: colonialism.)
Watch the Belgian news bit (which includes the ad) here
Wow, lots of people found the blog by searching technorati for ’smurf.’
Comment by CMK — October 12, 2005 @ 7:12 pm
smurfs are pretty popular these days. must be because of their communist background. my favorite thing about the smurfs personally is a comment i once heard about what their sex life must be like, having only one smurfette…
Comment by theslovak — October 12, 2005 @ 7:21 pm
Smurfette?
I’d hit that.
According to Family Guy, she’d smurfed a guy in the smurfing parking lot. She’s one freaky smurf.
Comment by MisterDarcy — October 12, 2005 @ 7:36 pm