The Enviro-Too !: Film Analysis

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“We're the planeteers, you can be one too! ‘Cause saving our planet is the thing to do, looting and polluting is not the way, hear what Captain Planet has to say: "THE POWER IS YOURS!!”; “But life is sustainable now. Look at this plant. Green and growing. It’s living proof he was wrong.” These quotes are from an eco-toon and films that critics or people have a problem with. The main problem, that I see, is that these enviro-toons or films, Captain Planet, Wall-E and The Lorax, use propaganda or publicity. These shows are being criticized for using propaganda for bringing their point of view about the environment and the earth’s health across. They say that the words in the toons are over dramatic and that they should stop putting fear in the people, making them think that the world is in a bad shape. But there are other people who think there was no wrong in using propaganda for these shows, because, the environment have improve since theses toons have been shown. Despite critical reception, publicity is good in environmental cartoons; because it has influenced people’s opinions on making the earth more sustainable to live in.
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In the Lorax the message to me is that you shouldn’t let business ruin the environment to money purposes and you are the only one who can change how the environment is being used. "The environment, according to Dr. Seuss, is something we all share, and we should be able to aspire to be something like the Lorax, where you care, because I know for me, when you talk about trees, no matter where you are, what time of the day, you're always surrounded or within two feet of something made from a tree. (Seuss’ Story) Which is like I said only you have the power to change things. This also further proves that over exaggerated themes in eco-toons are not bad. But the next I am going to discuss is how The Lorax had an effect on the audience or

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