Discussion BrokenAesop / AnimatedFilms

• Rumble should have its own broken Aesop page because the film handles its Be Yourself Aesop so badly that several moments in the film completely undermine the Aesop. It also seems to be teaching the moral about hero worship with use of the Broken Pedastal trope with Tentacular and Rayburn Senior yet the film never explains why Steve wanted to distance himself from his father, making this Aesop about hero worship a Clueless Aesop as the film treats both Jimbo Coyle and Rayburn Senior like angelic gods who should be worshipped and looked at heavenly.

• FernGully has an incredibly anvilicious environmental aesop. Too bad, then, that the bad guys polluting and destroying the rainforest are stopped by the fairies living in it. So the aesop becomes less "help the rainforest, it can't help itself" and more "don't worry about it, the fairies can take care of themselves". Another issue with the fairies is that they're in the movie just to add an element of human interest to the story. The first problem with this is that it's implying that actual rainforests, where such creatures do not exist, aren't worth the attention of conservation. What's worse, though, is that the fairies live in a society based upon human ideals, which doesn't gel with the film's intended aesop that Humans Are Cthulhu—though arguably that aesop deserved to be broken.

I know this may sound a bit condescending, but doesn't this so called "Broken Aesop" come more along the lines of a sense of symbolism, in the sense that it's up to all of us who have the know-how to protect the environment the way it's supposed to be protected?