{"id":1576,"date":"2012-11-18T23:16:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T03:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2015-07-11T05:25:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T09:25:31","slug":"some-thoughts-on-wreck-it-ralph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on Wreck-It Ralph"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not a review, just some thoughts. A few SPOILERS<\/strong> below, so don\u2019t read if you plan on watching the movie and don\u2019t want spoilers.<\/p>\n

I saw Disney\u2019s latest animated feature Wreck-It Ralph<\/em> today. I was expecting good things from all the positive reviews I had heard about it.<\/p>\n

But…<\/p>\n

Perhaps I\u2019m overanalyzing it (a favorite pastime of mine), but I didn\u2019t quite connect with the story. I suppose what didn\u2019t quite work for me was that the \u201cbe who you are\u201d theme didn\u2019t quite fit the main character\u2019s real problem. That is, the main character\u2019s problem wasn\u2019t about accepting \u201cwho he was\u201d; rather, it was about other<\/em> characters not realizing that he wasn\u2019t the same person as his \u201cgame character.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the film, the other characters in his game (\u201cFix-it Felix\u201d) treat him like dirt. Why? I have no idea. My best guess is that they believe he really wants to wreck everything just because he\u2019s the villain, when really he just wants what all the characters want: to be loved and accepted as an equal. He doesn\u2019t wreck things after the game is over, after all. He doesn\u2019t go around trying to kill people. Wrecking isn\u2019t what he wants to do in and of itself; it\u2019s what he has to do as part of the game.<\/p>\n

So, to me, it seems like the problem of the story centers around the other<\/em> characters in Ralph\u2019s game not understanding that Ralph is actually a nice guy who is simply \u201cplaying\u201d the villain for the sake of the game. And yet it\u2019s Ralph who, as the main character, has to go on an adventure to learn… to learn what? To \u201caccept\u201d who he is? To learn who he is? But that<\/em> was never really the problem to begin with! The problem was that other people were treating him like dirt.<\/p>\n

And then, at the end of the film, they come to love him. Problem solved. Why do they love him at the end of the film? How did he prove himself? Why did he ever have to prove himself to begin with?<\/p>\n

All that said, it was<\/em> a fun movie. Wonderful animation, wonderful look and feel, wonderful use of 3D, wonderful references written in graffiti, and wonderful pixelations.\u00a0 I just had trouble understanding the overall theme.<\/p>\n

Also, have you noticed that, similar to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?<\/em> and Toy Story<\/em>, Disney can somehow get a bunch of other franchises to participate in their movie, even while they\u2019re actually just helping Disney build their own franchise, with Disney\u2019s original characters at the center? Clever Disney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not a review, just some thoughts. A few SPOILERS below, so don\u2019t read if you plan on watching the movie and don\u2019t want spoilers. I saw Disney\u2019s latest animated feature Wreck-It Ralph today. I was expecting good things from all the positive reviews I had heard about it. But… Perhaps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[99],"tags":[622],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-pq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}