>Hello Fern, Daughter of mine, you know that runt pig I was going to kill, but instead I had you raise it and love it and cradle and sing to it for the past few months? yeah I'm selling it to my brother in law, who will most likely butcher it for ham hocks and bacon. He was kind of an asshole, huh?
>>152590249bet he didn't even give her the money he made off selling Wilbur
>>152590249pigs are food, not friends.
>>152590300whats a food vs whats a friend is a personal choice,.
>>152590249gave it a watch again, so how does Fern know Charlotte's name?
>>152590396she can understand the animals when they talk. it's never explained why or how.childlike wonder, I guess
>>152590396Fern is the one who named her Charlotte in the first place.
>>152590466was that in the book? it wasn't in the movie
>>152590249>he was an assholeIt wasnt a petting zoo.
>>152590249Did he offer the pig to her as a pet?
>>152590550he was going to kill it for being a run, she begged him not to, and he went "well fine, you raise it then"and she did
>>152590342sounds like something food would say.but seriously I'm quite fond of this movie...I think its one of the all time most underrated animated films. most kids movies are lucky to have maybe a fraction of it's soul.every voice actor is literally perfectly castevery song is catchy and or beautiful in it's own right.it's excellently paced and knows when to inject levity and when to be serious. It is to me as beautiful a piece of idyllic American art as a Dale Nichols painting.
>>152590249She's a farm hand. She'd have to face this dilemma sooner rather than later.
>>152590249Be honest: how many of you had your fetish awakening to Templeton at the fair grounds?
I never understood the logic of Wilbur being spared over the "some pig" message. It's odd that the reaction was>Wow, I suppose that really is some pigand not>Holy shit, a literate spider
>>152591176iirc the wife was like "we have no ordinary spider!" and the farmer went "nuh uh thats a normal spider, clearly the pig is special!"
>>152590300Pork is bad for you, glutton.
>cute singing spider devotes her life to saving yours only to die herself, and there was nothing you could have done differently to save her, because that's just the nature of being a spiderI don't think I would ever fully recover
>>152591176Man could've made thousands off of a literate spider instead makes hundreds off of an average pig.
>>152590285>bet he didn't even give her the money he made off selling WilburDid Fern make anything off Wilbur? That's kinda skeevy actually.
EB White hated this movie and regretted giving Hanna Barbera the rights.
>>152592379The book's death of Charlotte was a tear jerker. Last thing she ever did was wave at Wilbur
>>152591176Sounds to me like one of those things you see and then don't ever talk about again.
>>152590300humans are food, not friends.
>>152593888>EB White hated this movieWhat would he think of this?
>>152594197This movie doesn't even follow the plot of the book, so he'd probably be livid. At least the Charlotte's Web movie mostly follows that book's plot.
>>152594245>Movie has Stuart just being a talking mouse>In the book, he's some weird genetic abomination
>>152591176I never watched the movie version, but from what I remember of the book everyone thought it was a message from god. They assumed that he wrote the message in the web, not Charlotte.
>>152590300It gets a little hard to eat pigs, and even cows, after seeing how adorably close they can be as pets. But then the truth sets in, without humans in the food chain, they would either be dismembered by much less gracious predators, or overtax the ecosystem by exploding in population
>>152590582>but seriously I'm quite fond of this movie...I think its one of the all time most underrated animated films. I quite enjoyed this film when I watched it for the first time last year but my only complaint is that there are entirely too many songs. I’m not even someone who hates musicals or song sequences in movies, it just felt like every 8 minutes off so everything got derailed for a musical number. And most of them were the type of musical number that doesn’t contribute anything meaningful to the film.
>>152595482yeah they could have cut out like two or three of the songs, honestly
>>152590300They are both actually, much like cows.You don't love that pig if you can't fry it or grill it.
>>152590911my fetish awakening was with Charlotte craved creature women ever since.
>>152595080>overtax the ecosystem by exploding in populationYou're ignorant. Excess population leads to not enough food, many individuals die -- the system corrects itself. That is, it would correct itself if it was a natural process. There's nothing natural about farming, it's man-made.
>>152590249What do you think pigs are used for?
>>152590249>He was kind of an asshole, huh?This was how farm adults were. As much shit as we give baby boomers, their parents could be worse. Guys like this would often end up being the best solders in ww2 because they had such apathy towards death.People have this romantic idea of american rural towns and farmers but plenty of the inhabitants are really apathetic about life and treating other's well
>>152596821For me, besides women with blue eyes, it's women with deep voices and motherly like attitudes, like her.
>>152597440>he doesn't know about the ant-made farms
>>152597465get outta here phonefag
>>152597461My experience on tells me that it's fucking white women.
>>152597440>the system corrects itselfDepends on the animal.Take deer for example. Some deer will not leave the area of their birth. They will turn an area to mud and death if they over populate. They will eat every blade of grass and even start stripping trees of bark. The population doesnt drop back to a normal size. It will shrink to 20, 10 and zero percent of its normal size. I think they found the same with mouse city. It eventually shrank to a size smaller than the starting population, even with unlimited food
>>152597806>I think they found the same with mouse city. It eventually shrank to a size smaller than the starting population, even with unlimited food>Many [female rats] were unable to carry the pregnancy to full term or to survive delivery of their litters if they did. An even greater number, after successfully giving birth, fell short in their maternal functions. Among the males the behavior disturbances ranged from sexual deviation to cannibalism and from frenetic overactivity to a pathological withdrawal from which individuals would emerge to eat, drink and move about only when other members of the community were asleep. The social organization of the animals showed equal disruption. >Following his earlier experiments with rats, Calhoun later created his "Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice" in 1968: a 101-by-101-inch (260 cm × 260 cm) cage for mice with food and water replenished to support any increase in population, which took his experimental approach to its limits. In his most famous experiment in the series, "Universe 25", population peaked at 2,200 mice even though the habitat was built to tolerate a total population of 4000. Having reached a level of high population density, the mice began exhibiting a variety of abnormal, often destructive behaviors, including refusal to engage in courtship, and females abandoning their young. By the 600th day, the population was on its way to extinction. Though physically able to reproduce, the mice had lost the social skills required to mate.We're living in Mouse Utopia.
