History Anvilicious / Film

* Anyone who watched ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' without realizing that the [[AnAesop Aesop]] of the story is "keep moving forward" clearly wasn't paying attention. It is repeated over and over again both directly and thematically.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zombillenium]]'': The movie, like the comics, does not shy away from its pro-labor stance. The entrance of the ghost train even displays a massive stained glass window of zombie miners with the line "[[Creator/KarlMarx Zombies of the world, unite]]".

** His first critical success, ''Film/{{Salvador}}'', sets the tone for the rest of his career: the underlying message that UsefulNotes/ElSalvador during TheEighties was ruled by a bunch of right-wing brutal fanatics that the US Government should not have supported is not particularly subtle, nor is expressed in a subdued way.

* Before the 2000s ''Film/{{Left Behind|2000}}'' series, which is certainly Anvilicious, there was a terrible miniseries in TheSeventies or so released on video titled ''A Thief in the Night''. It had a theme song "I Wish We'd All Been Ready," by Larry Norman with the lyrics, "There's no time to change your mind, the Son has come... and you've been left behind!" The videos were about all of the horrible things that would happen to non-Christians at the end of the world. It was like having your TV grab you by the face and scream, "You're going to die horribly, and then you're going to Hell! Repent! Repent!" On the plus side, it doesn't gloat about those sent to hell like its contemporary does.

* Anyone who watched ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' obviously wasn't paying attention as the plot, CharacterDevelopment the characters undergo and the relationship between Belle and Beast are obviously supposed to send the message, "TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside" or "Don't judge a book by it's cover".

* ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld'' has a particularly bad example. At one point in the film, Carmen tells the new spy kids "A spy is more than his gadgets." Later, the boy is trying to punch open a door with his gadgets. But when they fail to do the trick, he sits there with an upset and puzzled expression on his face, then his face lights up like he saw he was getting 50 Christmas presents and he yells out "A SPY IS MORE THAN HIS GADGETS!" He proceeds to think of a new way to get through, without any gadgets. Way to be subtle.

* Before the 2000s ''Film/{{Left Behind|2000}}'' series, which is certainly Anvilicious, there was a terrible miniseries in the 1970's or so released on video titled ''A Thief in the Night''. It had a theme song "I Wish We'd All Been Ready," by Larry Norman with the lyrics, "There's no time to change your mind, the Son has come... and you've been left behind!" The videos were about all of the horrible things that would happen to non-Christians at the end of the world. It was like having your TV grab you by the face and scream, "You're going to die horribly, and then you're going to Hell! Repent! Repent!" On the plus side, it doesn't gloat about those sent to hell like its contemporary does.

* D. W. Griffith. Anyone who has taken film school and been forced to watch his films, from ''Film/BrokenBlossoms'' to ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}'', knows that the father of modern cinema was not exactly a master of subtlety.

* UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} films in general tend to bring over their various messages (parental tyranny is bad, true love is best thing ever, fight for freedom, Brits are awful...) by tacking them to a brightly-colored anvil and dropping that into a huge dance routine.

* ''Film/TheCraftLegacy'''s aesops are generally unsubtle (though for some viewers this worked okay, such as with Timmy's storyline), but the message about toxic masculinity gets particularly heavy-handed: the BigBad is revealed to be a [[StrawMisogynist blatantly]] [[HeManWomanHater misogynistic]] [[spoiler: warlock]] who [[spoiler: leads a 'men's rights' cult]], [[spoiler:murders a bisexual boy just for being 'weak' and 'unmanly']], rants about men being the 'natural' rulers of women and appears to have no motivation beyond being an evil woman-hater, while the young women opposing him are consistently portrayed as heroic and righteous; even when they think they've screwed up by [[spoiler: inadvertently causing someone to commit suicide via a spell gone awry]], it later turns out it was actually the villain's fault and they quickly make up.

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* Almost every movie ever made that includes drug use, with two exceptions: stoner movies (for obvious reasons), and ''Film/AScannerDarkly'', which demonizes the war on drugs more than drugs themselves.
** At the end of both the book and movie versions of a ''Literature/AScannerDarkly'' a list of all the author's friends who died or were brain damaged by drug use is included. This is also the implied fate of most of the characters in the story. The users aren't [[{{Demonization}} demonized]] but an anvil is definitely dropped about hard drugs and the user lifestyle.

* The 2012 film adaptation of Creator/DrSeuss' ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lorax|2012}}'' frequently takes the original book's anti-corporate, pro-environment message to an extreme, beat-the-viewer-around-the-head-with-it extent, especially in the numerous musical numbers. This is in stark contrast to [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax1972 the '70s animated special]], which had an intentional StrawmanHasAPoint from the Once-ler, when he asked "What about all the people who work here? What would they do if I closed shop?" Even the titular Lorax can't provide a good answer.

** ''Film/{{Do the Right Thing}}'' has the entire cast look directly into the camera and scream, "Wake UP!"

** ''Film/BlacKkKlansman'': After depicting real life events of the 1970s, the film ends on a montage directly paralleling Ku Klux Klan rhetoric of the 1970s with 2010s-era Alt-Right rhetoric, including footage of the infamous Unite the Right rally.