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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 21 2010, 07:26:03 PM (4,289 Views) | |
| Ducky123 | Jul 9 2013, 04:12:56 AM Post #21 |
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I personally don't believe in this rumor... It sound too unrealistic to me and I doubt I would've liked the Land Before Time anyway. |
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| Blais_13 | Jul 18 2013, 11:53:48 AM Post #22 |
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To me it sounds quiet possible to be something behind this.The movie was dark,and there are the things alredy mentioned in this topic,so this is at least an interesting interpretation of the ending if nothing is behind the rumor at all.I think the ending is happy anyway,becose they were in a better place,dead or alive.Of course we have the very solid proofs in the forms of sequels that the gang survived it.
More unrealistic than talking dinosaurs,and straight standing t-rexes?
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| Littlefoot3897 | Jul 20 2013, 01:34:13 AM Post #23 |
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Maybe we'll all live together someday
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you sir dont know about the deleted scenes do you? originally lbt was suppose to be like this -finds rock that looks like long neck -cera little foot -gang split -littlefoot cries and sees his mother -mother shows him the great valley -littlefoot decides to go back to look for his friends -littlefoot saves friends -sharptooth killed -shows his friends the great valley if this rumor was true, littlefoot died then and came back to get his friends? Don Bluth also thought this rumor was nuts and was never intending that |
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| Blais_13 | Jul 21 2013, 07:37:44 AM Post #24 |
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Aren't they first actually decline other endings before making those scenes?:p Anyway,it doesn't matters,becose if what you say is true about Bluth,then it's false.So what?The movie ended with them alive?We alredy knew that in the first place.Somebody just came up with this idea then,but I still find it interesting. |
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| Malte279 | Jul 21 2013, 01:44:16 PM Post #25 |
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I'm a historian. I MUST be like that!
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Did he? When and where did he write so? |
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| Petrie85 | Jul 22 2013, 09:45:49 AM Post #26 |
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Yeah I'd like to know this information as well. |
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| Almaron | Aug 9 2013, 05:37:23 PM Post #27 |
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Don Bluth also thought this rumor was nuts and was never intending that
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| Littlefoot3897 | Aug 25 2013, 03:33:55 PM Post #28 |
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Maybe we'll all live together someday
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| Phantom | Sep 1 2013, 11:31:14 AM Post #29 |
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I, for one, would have preferred the death ending. It's just more poetic and junk. |
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| jansenov | Sep 1 2013, 12:32:45 PM Post #30 |
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^You mean junk as in overused? Poetic and junk. Now that's a combination I haven't heard before. |
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| Phantom | Sep 1 2013, 12:36:07 PM Post #31 |
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Because I'm a potato!
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Junk as a replacement for stuff. |
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| Almaron | Sep 5 2013, 06:56:17 PM Post #32 |
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Well, there was a Wild Mass Guessing - essentially a strange theory - on TvTropes a while back which suggested that even if not identified as such, it was still happening in the film; all the characters were dead, and the Great Valley was their afterlife. The page is down at the moment, but I think I saved the article to use with a story I never wrote. Let me check... Yup, I did;
Of course, people pointed out the major flaw with this theory...
Another person suggested you could view the film as an analogy for religion:
Certainly interesting, both of them - although I don't seriously think either of these would have been intended by the film-makers. As mentioned elsewhere, I wanted to use both of these concepts to make a LBT fic that would take place thousands of years after the events of the films, showing what happened to the last dinosaurs during the K-T event. Think LBT I, but with characters seemingly dying every few chapters (only to realise they were already dead to begin with at the end), and a spectral member of the GOF taking Rooter's place in the story. However, the fic became a jumbled mess of concepts, so I abandoned it. |
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| Ducky123 | Sep 6 2013, 07:16:18 AM Post #33 |
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Those are some interesting yet controversial ideas. The first one seems to fit at first but, as you pointed out, some facts show this theory can't be right. At least not completely. The Littlefoot as a Christian theory is pure nonsence in my view though. Sadly you abandomed it Sounds like a good idea at least though
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| jansenov | Sep 6 2013, 12:43:26 PM Post #34 |
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And don't forget the similarities between Jesus' and Littlefoot's birth. ![]() But seriously, there are two other possibilities as well: a) the movie-makers touched upon Christian concepts while being unaware of touching upon them, or b) merely used tropes that were introduced into animation by Walt Disney, who himself might have touched upon Christian themes knowingly or unknowingly (by some things I read before, it was very much knowingly, but I can't remember the source so this might be speculation) Our culture shapes the way in which we think, even if we are unaware of it or openly deny it. For example, when Auguste Comte, the founder of positivism, wanted to replace Christianity with the "religion of humanity", he went so far as to introduce three pillars of religion (Altruism, Order, Progress), seven sacraments, hymns, prayers, and even a calendar. It was essentially Christianity without God or Christ. Or take Friedrich Engels and communism, with its "fall of humanity" (the end of primitive communism of first human societies), its martyrs (fallen revolutionaries), its saints (personality cults of various communist leaders), and the achievement of true communism (the Thousand Year Kingdom after the second coming of Christ). Even some contemporary atheists, like Ray Kurzweil, can be included in this category, with their view of history as unstoppable nad unconditional technological progress that will end in the Technological Singularity, where AI moves so beyond human intelligence that the world becomes unrecognizable to human beings. Yet any of these people would be deeply offended if you called them Christian copycats, but that's what they essentially were. So, I wouldn't completely exclude any Christian influence on Bluth and co. |
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Sounds like a good idea at least though

1:58 PM Jul 11