Artist objects to Kung Fu Panda

Me as a little kid:
"Mommy, why how come some people are full of crap?"

Because seriously, This is stupid. I hope Dreamworks doesn't apologize. I want to see how the artist will react to that!
 
I think that artists took those details in a bit too personally, nice obserbvancy though, I didn't know that Po had green eyes. Whats wrong with his father being a different animal?
 
I wonder what is wrong with some people these days. I am sure that 99.99999% of the people in the world could care less if a panda has green eyes and a duck for a father.
 
To be fair, there are a lot of other people who are puzzled how Po can have a duck for a father. I remember more than a few reviewers in American papers who asked the same thing, although I think they were doing it with an ironic wink.

I believe this fellow was the artist who held up the debut of Kung Fu Panda in Sichuan province in the wake of the earthquake (mentioned here, here, and here on the News), but the government eventually realized he was full of crap and released the movie anyway to great success and fanfare. The ones asking, "How come Americans are the ones taking Chinese symbols and making new, good movies out of them instead of Chinese people doing it?" are far outweighing this guy complaining about it. The answer would seem to be self-evident to me, and it probably is to everybody in China except for the people whose fault it is and who have a vested interest in keeping it that way.

Still, the artist has a right to be wrong about things like this.

-- Ed
 
His reasons for protesting the film are weak, to be honest. I didn't know that Po had green eyes either, but that doesn't make the film bad. What he was talking about with the evil green eyes sounds more like superstition. As for the duck being his father, that is kind of weird. But I do recall that there have been different kinds of animals having children in other animated movies. I know Shrek did that, but i think that there were other cases of that as well.
 
Pandas are not Chinese people. Pandas are animals native to China. Chinese people are Chinese people. I'm a Chinese person, the black and white bear at the zoo isn't. No Chinese person thinks they're descended from Pandas, just like how no Chinese person thinks they're descended from ducks. However, that artist is under the impression that his fellow countrymen are that stupid. I'm insulted at his assumption. And green eyes as evil? Since when? In what iconography? Not in Western Art. Hell, not even in Chinese art. In traditional Chinese art, a slew of supernatural characters, both good and evil, have green eyes. I think this guy is just trying to start something.:yawn: He should focus on his own art more.
 
Okay, the fact that green eyes aren't considered evil in China, definitely show that this guy's a nut.

He's a Chinese artist version of Jack Thompson.
 
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