Hooray To Walt Disney's "Chicken Little"

It has been 5 whole days now since my last blog. You can be assured many things have happened and I haven't even begun blogging them all. Nor do I think I can put all thoughts down on paper or even finish blogging them.

It was with wide-eyed amazement as I read of "renditions" and Europe and America colluding in turning a deaf ear to episodes of "renditions". Just in case you think this is the rendition of Tina Turner's "What's love got to do with it", it isn't. It is like if you had a citation, you could either be elated or anxious.

Never had I thought that a simple outright purchase of a private property could be as fraught with untold dangers as James Bond manoeuvring his espionage-ridden steps through a cobweb of Mata Haris (this is the stage name of the double agent cum exotic dancer Magaretha Zelle, accused by the French of being a German spy and executed by firing squad).

Yes, if the feminists do not already know, the corset was invented by Catherine, Queen and consort to King Henri II of France. Corsets are underwear worn by women and stiffened by whalebones to squeeze their waistlines and push up their breasts. Women , it seems, have over the ages, contorted their bodies and breasts with all manner of contraptions. The brassiere was also invented by a woman, a New York socialite to be exact, with a patent to prove its status as a world's first.

Underwear is not just the briefs, knickers or panties we have come to associate with today. It means just as its literal linguistic interpretation says it is - a layer of wear under another layer of wear. A corset or brassiere would qualify just as well.

Now why would women invent stuff they torture themselves wearing? How much more wussy can one get?

Away from my digression and back to my blog on property. As I said before, property hunters "caveat emptor" .To top it all, there are advalorem and nominal duties payable for every conveyance and transfer of a property. And let us be very clear who and what are "mortgages", "mortgage money", "mortgagor" and "mortgagee". Ah. Legal terms, mutatis mutandis.

The only respite I had over the past few days was an excursion to watch Walt Disney's "Chicken Little". If you don't already know, Walt Disney is that creative and artistic genius half of a pair of the Disney brothers. Roy is the other more business savvy and shrewd financier half. Walt Disney produced animated epics such as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".

Film studios then had artists and artistes drawing out frame by frame the story board of the movie. Now into the 21st century and with technological advancements in computer graphics, animated movies have never enjoyed a more renaissant Renaissance than it ever did.

Watching "Chicken Little" made me realise that the animation, in terms of the movements and facial expressions of the anthropomorphic characters, are not as realistic or life-like as they used to be in the hey days of Walt Disney's art production.

Not withstanding, the script is as good as any can be. This movie had a good dose of the past, present and the future. Baseball, an all-time favourite American sport, a mistaken attack by outer-space aliens and many hit American songs of the past such as Gloria Gaynor's "I will survive" .

Walt Disney has managed to carve out unique personalities out of his every animal character. Each has his foibles, strengths and stand-out X-factor. It isn't difficult to identify them with people we encounter daily in the real world.

The story is fast-paced, funny and totally in sync with our current Information Age. This is parodied in the scene where Chicken Little's father received hatemail on his gleaming laptop, each growing with intensity untill it finally announced that the mailbox is full.

The movie embodied every good , old-fashioned American and universal value like love, belief in oneself, self-esteem, family ties, friendship, women's roles (like the admonition the invading alien husband got by his more reasonable and thinking wife - there, this is one role I sincerely pray for women of today to play), peer pressure and sportsmanship. Some things which we may have forgotten now and which we should still hold fast and dear.

Despite its age and history going back all the way to 1923, it has continually made itself relevant in the modern era, with its hard-to-die-away evergreens.

It made me laugh throughout the movie and made me feel young again, just as I was when I was a little kid watching Walt Disney's classics. Walt Disney had always had good morals and values attached to his storylines, so unlike the genre nowadays of Japanes animes and manga, high-tech and sometimes mindless . "Transformers" could be an instance.

Even Marvel and DC cartoons have their equally moral coda to impart. Spiderman, Batman, Superman and X-men. The triumph of good over evil.

As I sat and listened to the peals of gleeful children's laughter at every turn of the antics of the anthropo-zoo-morphic characters, that surely attests to Disney's ominpresent appeal and success.

Hooray to Walt Disney on its 82nd year and may it continue to churn out the great and memorable classics it always had!