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xaq_the_aereonFor reasons I've completely blanked on, my mind got wrapped around Rock-A-Doodle, a Don Bluth film that involves a non-toon human kid who gets turned into a cartoon cat (because reasons?) and, more pertinently, a rooster who made the sun rise at the farm he lived at with a very lively song and dance number every morning.
One day, the sun started to rise before he'd started singing. The whole farm called him out as a fraud and forced him to leave. As he's leaving, the sun, noticing its poultryesque alarm clock hadn't gone off, went back down...and stayed down, leaving the whole farm at the mercy of a sinister, carnivorous group of owls. Meanwhile, the rooster takes his musical talents and gets becomes a famous singer, getting caught up in all the glitz, glamour, and utter hell of show business. The kid-turned-cat winds up at the farm, finds out what's going on, and tries to make his way to the city to bring the rooster back. On the way the owls try to kill him, with one believing he'd succeeded by dropping him in an "adequate pipe" to drown...except it was an aquaduct pipe that went straight into town. Oops.
Anyway, long story short, the rooster returns, crows the dawn, wakes the sun up, the owls (who are morbidly photophobic to the point that flashlights had been keeping them at bay for days) either fly away in terror or die (I forget which, being a Don Bluth film it could very well be the latter), and the kid-turned-kitten apparently succumbs to wounds or something that the owls had given him for bringing the rooster back...at which point he turns back into a non-cartoon human kid.
Oh, and at some point in the movie the kitten showed a dog how to tie his shoelaces, which only became pertinent because it led to the song that played during the credits...also I'm pretty sure his "over around under and through" method doesn't actually work, but it's been about 3 years since I wore a pair of shoes with laces so what the hell do I know.
ANYWAY, ON TO THE POINT I WAS GETTING AT.
At the end of the movie everyone's happy to have the rooster back, big musical number, and all that...but two things stuck out in my mind as I was driving out to the grocery store:
1) Seeing as the sun went back down before he even got off the damned farm, you'd think ONE of them would realize OH SHIT WE WERE WRONG YOU'RE NOT A FRAUD OH GOD PLEASE COME BACK or something.
2) Considering how quickly they all excommunicated him once it appeared he was a fraud and how they skipped straight to celebrating when he made the sun rise again (I don't recall any kind of apologies or shows of thanks for him being back that were related to HIM BEING BACK), it's pretty clear to me that they were not the kinds of friends that rooster needed. They only wanted him around for his usefulness. Self-serving assholes, the lot of them.
...
Anyway, yeah, this is the kind of shit my brain does when I don't have anything keeping it occupied for extended periods of time. If I could build up frequent flyer miles with it I'm pretty sure I'd be able to go anywhere in the world, anytime I wanted for the rest of my life, free of charge.
One day, the sun started to rise before he'd started singing. The whole farm called him out as a fraud and forced him to leave. As he's leaving, the sun, noticing its poultryesque alarm clock hadn't gone off, went back down...and stayed down, leaving the whole farm at the mercy of a sinister, carnivorous group of owls. Meanwhile, the rooster takes his musical talents and gets becomes a famous singer, getting caught up in all the glitz, glamour, and utter hell of show business. The kid-turned-cat winds up at the farm, finds out what's going on, and tries to make his way to the city to bring the rooster back. On the way the owls try to kill him, with one believing he'd succeeded by dropping him in an "adequate pipe" to drown...except it was an aquaduct pipe that went straight into town. Oops.
Anyway, long story short, the rooster returns, crows the dawn, wakes the sun up, the owls (who are morbidly photophobic to the point that flashlights had been keeping them at bay for days) either fly away in terror or die (I forget which, being a Don Bluth film it could very well be the latter), and the kid-turned-kitten apparently succumbs to wounds or something that the owls had given him for bringing the rooster back...at which point he turns back into a non-cartoon human kid.
Oh, and at some point in the movie the kitten showed a dog how to tie his shoelaces, which only became pertinent because it led to the song that played during the credits...also I'm pretty sure his "over around under and through" method doesn't actually work, but it's been about 3 years since I wore a pair of shoes with laces so what the hell do I know.
ANYWAY, ON TO THE POINT I WAS GETTING AT.
At the end of the movie everyone's happy to have the rooster back, big musical number, and all that...but two things stuck out in my mind as I was driving out to the grocery store:
1) Seeing as the sun went back down before he even got off the damned farm, you'd think ONE of them would realize OH SHIT WE WERE WRONG YOU'RE NOT A FRAUD OH GOD PLEASE COME BACK or something.
2) Considering how quickly they all excommunicated him once it appeared he was a fraud and how they skipped straight to celebrating when he made the sun rise again (I don't recall any kind of apologies or shows of thanks for him being back that were related to HIM BEING BACK), it's pretty clear to me that they were not the kinds of friends that rooster needed. They only wanted him around for his usefulness. Self-serving assholes, the lot of them.
...
Anyway, yeah, this is the kind of shit my brain does when I don't have anything keeping it occupied for extended periods of time. If I could build up frequent flyer miles with it I'm pretty sure I'd be able to go anywhere in the world, anytime I wanted for the rest of my life, free of charge.