Gerald Zosewater
#2: Dec 5th 2010 at 1:47:51 AM
It doesn't matter if it's animated or live-action. They all represent characters that we put on our imagination caps for and pretend are real for the purposes of the story.
Ruining everything forever.
So that's what this does
#3: Dec 5th 2010 at 5:43:58 AM
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That.
When you watch a live action film with an actor pretending to get shot and fall down, you know he's pretending but you still react emotionally.
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
#4: Dec 5th 2010 at 8:47:47 AM
Understanding Comics argues that we naturally empathize with simply drawn characters because our mental images of ourselves are more crude than our images of other people.
edited 5th Dec '10 8:48:25 AM by feotakahari
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
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This troper is always curious about how an animated movie or cartoon or even a non-human (animal, alien, thing like the brave little toaster, etc) can affect our emotions despite not adhering to a real life scenario or phenomenon. Who else felt like shedding tears for Simba after his father dies saving him, indescribable horror at Frollo's genocidal efforts towards the Gypsies, unbelievable hatred when Lotso betrayed the toy gang in Toy Story 3, or happiness when Wall-e regained his personality after Eve kissed him?