WTF?!?!?! Smurfs get bombed!

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Yeah you heard me right. Smurfs get bombed. Specifically, it's a 40 sec. or so clip of the Smurf village getting bombed. It's in German. There are claims that it's UNICEF's attempt to show the ravages of war... but I think it's just gonna traumatize a bunch of kids kinda like inserting a penis in a kids movie a la Fight Club.

Linkie here.

[quote name='BoingBoing Article']Sunday, October 9, 2005

UNICEF bombs the Smurfs

UNICEF has produced a short Smurfs movie in which the Smurf village is bombed into rubble, leaving behind dead and dying Smurfs in a scene reminiscent of an Hieronymus Bosch painting. The video is part of a public education campaign on the ravages of war.

The short film pulls no punches. It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol around their familiar village of mushroom- shaped houses until, without warning, bombs begin to rain from the sky.

Tiny Smurfs scatter and run in vain from the whistling bombs, before being felled by blast waves and fiery explosions. The final scene shows a scorched and tattered Baby Smurf sobbing inconsolably, surrounded by prone Smurfs.
The final frame bears the message: "Don't let war affect the lives of children..."
"We wanted something that was real war - Smurfs losing arms, or a Smurf losing a head -but they said no."[/QUOTE]
 
My guess? Garamel (sp?) sez Papa Smurf was secretly developing WMDs with Brainy's help but I'm sure the true reason was that Garamel wanted to control the Smurfberry supply.
 
[quote name='SpottedNigel']first off, for whatever reason, that was a slideshow. Second, i think I'm Traumatized, fuck the kids...[/QUOTE]

The images are taken from a booklet, I don't know where the sound effects came from.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']The images are taken from a booklet, I don't know where the sound effects came from.[/QUOTE]

Actually, I've been led to believe that it's not a slideshow but in fact a standard movie clip that was captured at a very low fps hence the slideshow effect.
 
[quote name='jaykrue']Actually, I've been led to believe that it's not a slideshow but in fact a standard movie clip that was captured at a very low fps hence the slideshow effect.[/QUOTE]

In the vid you can see someone holding up a booklet, but maybe they did both. I have no idea.
 
[quote name='ZeroSupporT']Leave it to those crazy germans, up next genocide of the Teletubbies.[/QUOTE]

That shouldn't be too hard, theres only four of them. It barely counts as a serial killing like that. (4 kills makes anyone a serial killer)
 
I like it - it's too easy to pickup a paper, read about "20 dead, 6 wounded, and a civilian casualties" but it's another to see a poor farmer holding his dead daughter whose legs have been blown off. It's why I watch foreign newscasts - they aren't afraid to show the true ravages of war, and are never as antiseptic as the videogame war depiction that Puritan American TV viewers demand from the FCC.

As for the Peyo family granting the rights to use the smurfs in this way - you need to understand that there is also a political component to the Smurfs (basically they can be seen as communist propoganda - although I also see themes of pacifism and -oddly enough- paganism) - which was countered, of course, by the old 80s GI Joe (the REAL American hero)

YVAN EHT NIOJ kids!
 
Did the company that owns the copyright to the Smurfs approved of this? This is too twisted...
 
Hahah i remember some stop-animation smurfs cartoon about a smurf killer i think it was on mad tv or that robochicken show thats after family guy. it was a parody of that movie seven and was pretty damn funny. This reminds me of that.
 
On an unrelated note, I remember when the Smurfs Game was on Colecovision. There was this bug in this game where you can remove Smurfettes dress.
 
Ha ha. I really don't see why everyone thinks it's disturbing. Maybe because it was ubiquitous when we were younger? It's been a sick fancy of mine (for a while) to see those smug blue bastards get their uppance. Thank you Deutschland!
 
[quote name='Backlash']What?[/QUOTE]

Tyler Durden worked t a movie theater as a projectionist. He would take a single frame of hardcore porn and splice it randomly into a kids movie. That wasy, it would be something you COULD see for 1/24th (...or some fraction close to that) of a second but would be so passing it would only make you think you were insane for thinking of such a thing.
 
[quote name='Backlash']What?[/QUOTE]

*Gasp* Someone hasn't seen required material #12 for becoming a man: Fight Club. :lol: Otherwise, you'd know what I was talkin' about.;)

[quote name='SpottedNigel']Tyler Durden worked t a movie theater as a projectionist. He would take a single frame of hardcore porn and splice it randomly into a kids movie. That wasy, it would be something you COULD see for 1/24th (...or some fraction close to that) of a second but would be so passing it would only make you think you were insane for thinking of such a thing.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that's it. SpottedNigel obviously passed the test. :lol: The best part was seeing all the kids cry at the same time. :rofl:
 
[quote name='jaykrue']*Gasp* Someone hasn't seen required material #12 for becoming a man: Fight Club. :lol: Otherwise, you'd know what I was talkin' about.;)[/QUOTE]

Actually, it's only required material for posting on the internets or listening to limp bizkit ;)

Great movie though
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']Them Smurfs got SMURFED![/QUOTE]

T'was a preemptive strike, my boy. We all knew those evil Smurfs would get us one day if we didn't get them first. :D
 
This calls for one of the best Toyfare Theaters EVAR!

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[quote name='chakan']two decent videos here:

http://www.wtsp.com/entertainment/entertainment_article.aspx?storyid=19890[/QUOTE]
So far, the only place I've seen the full commercial is in MSNBC's article.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9662883/

This is just...wrong. It gets the message across, though I wish they'd found another way to do it.

Edit: This link may be a better choice if you want to see the ad.

Something even scarier than the ad itself? This:
...Belgian viewers, already shocked, can be thankful the ad agency didn't get its way. They wanted to make a an R-rated gorefest complete with severed limbs and decapitated bodies.
Click to expand...
 
It's Dutch btw, not German (might have been mentioned earlier, sorry if it is). The Dutch are weirder than the Germans, as we all know, so this is not THAT surprising eh?
 
[quote name='Admiral Ackbar']This calls for one of the best Toyfare Theaters EVAR!
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OMG I step away for a few days and come back to find this! :rofl:
Edit: I'm talking about Ackbar's comic strip, not the video.
 
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