Iranian TV: “Chicken Run” a Zionist Plot
This is too good:
Following are excerpts from an Iranian documentary on Hollywood cinema, focusing on the movie “Chicken Run.” The documentary aired on IRINN on May 29, 2008:
“Traces of Zionism in World Cinema”
Presenter: Movies into which huge amounts of money are poured, in an effort to turn Zionist themes into entertainment, include movies created for children and youth. Animation films produced since the 1990′s joined other film genres in becoming a tool for Zionist propaganda. Sometimes this is achieved by using falsified biblical narratives, like in the case of “The Prince of Egypt.” Other times, it is achieved in a very subtly, crafty, and indirect manner, like in the film “Chicken Run.”
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Dr. Majid Shah-Hosseini, an Iranian film critic: Many films from the 1960′s and the 1970′s indirectly convey the notion that the Jews were oppressed. This is conveyed through the themes of distance from the motherland, and the search for one’s mother, who symbolizes the motherland. These messages were gradually introduced into animation and children’s films.
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Sayyid Abu-Alhassan Allawi Tabatabai, an Iranian film critic: These people never make a film without a premeditated motive.
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Two emotional themes can be identified in children’s films, especially animations. One is the lost mother, and the other is the lost land. There is also the lost dog… These three themes frequently appear in animations produced since the 1970′s.
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Presenter: Even though “Chicken Run” is a sort of fantasy about an animal farm, on a deeper level it depicts the Zionists’ favorite themes, which appear in many of the visual dramas of the 20th century. The recreation of a kind of genocide, using visual elements reminiscent of Nazi Germany death camps – an idea linked to the religious themes of a savior and immigration to a promised land – serves a propaganda machine, whose goal it is to depict itself as a symbol for the oppressed and for those who suffer.
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Dr. Majid Shah-Hosseini: In “Chicken Run,” for example, you find allusions to the Holocaust, to concentration camps, and to the concept of awaiting a hero or a savior. It portrays efforts to escape a predetermined fate – the death of all those who lived in that camp, who are depicted as chickens. Eventually, a kind of Noah’s Ark is built – in this case, it is a flying ship – which is used for their escape.
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Presenter: Unfortunately, Zionist notions can be detected in children’s movies, from the days of Walt Disney and to TV animation films. The Zionists’ exclusive investments in group specializing in children’s films, such as DreamWorks in the 1990′s, and the appearance of various works like “Chicken Run,” which employed magnificent techniques, were part of their premeditated plan to cover the blood stains soiling the clothes of the occupiers of the lands of Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
Produced by the IRINN Science, Culture, and Arts Group
MEMRI video clip here.
For those who haven’t seen “Chicken Run“, it is spoofing the many American films about Nazi POW camps, specifically The Great Escape.
But perhaps Mel Gibson would disagree….
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The Islamic Republic, a never-ending self-parody.
The buffoons would just be a pathetic farce if they weren’t so deadly serious about building the Bomb.
The movie isn’t really “spoofing” “The Great Escape”; it’s more of a humorous tribute. The makers of “Chicken Run” are great admirers of “The Great Escape.” (As am I.)
But how splendid it would be if it were a Zionist plot! Maybe then our American kids would get at least some of the truth.
Alas, I fear not.
To be honest, I also did not make the connection with a POW-camp but indeed some different camp. Because of the plan to destroy the chickens.
The connotations of a concentration camp setting in Chicken Run was a topic of discussion when the movie originally was released.
Arg! What’s with this text editor? Any way to provide an option to disable it altogether?
I think Chicken run is an evil Iranian plot to drive me out of my mind by being made to sit through it 9 times by annoying pre-school nephews.
Then again I also think stop motion is too technoligically advanced for them so maybe not.