MY OUTCAST ENTERTAINMENT PICKS

ANIMATED FILM MUSIC TELEVISON BOOKS 

WHY?
I can hear some skeptics out there saying, "So what. What's the big deal about entertainment? Movies are just made up fiction. The outcast always wins in the end, but the real world sucks. Nobody cares."  

It may seem like you can't win, but winning doesn't mean becoming mister or miss popularity. Winning can be just knowing that you are perfect just the way you are and finding good friends who appreciate you. You are worth being liked for who you are. Don't let anyone tell you different.

As for nobody caring, you're wrong. Even made up fiction means a lot, because the artists that made the stories up had to care. Artists and writers don't create things they don't care about. We put a lot of ourselves in our stories.

Real people with feelings just like yours made up the fiction. And we make these stories to appeal to everyone's better nature. People like stories about the underdog because everyone has felt that way at least once. You're not as alone as you might think. Sometimes you just have to look harder for the people who care, but they're there.



Disney Animated Features and Music
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
The character of Quazimodo bears features that have a strong resemblance to real life people with downs syndrome. And I can recall some with this condition walking with hunched posture. And though their features can be strangely different, they can be very endearing and look adorable. Disney did a wonderful job in capturing the feeling in his face and voice by Tom Hulce in both part 1 and 2.
Part 1 had especially good music with Lyrics we can relate to.
"GOD HELP THE OUTCASTS"
makes a beautiful point of Jesus suffering ridicule as an outcast like us.
"OUT THERE"
shows an intense desire to be one of the crowd just like everyone else.
"HEAVEN'S LIGHT"
is about the desire for love when you don't feel you look good enough for it to happen to you.
"Mulan"
From a legend in China she's a young girl that is more independant and opinionated than her culture allows a woman to be, making her an outcast that needs to find her way and feel that she's worth something. It's primarily about not comprimising yourself to fit in, and staying true to who you are.
The best song coming from this film keeps those sentiments.
"REFLECTION"
was redone for the end credits by Christina Aguilera.

Feature Film
"She's All That"
A senior girl is a social outcast that only makes the changes she wants to for herself without loosing her personality, and shows the school she was never as undatable as everyone thought.

Popular Music
Smash Mouth Lyricist GREG CAMP
"SHOES 'N' HATS"
"Everyone cares cuz the hat that he wears is on the wrong way."
"They're just beating eachother at BEing eachother...anything strange is wrong." This song depicts how individuality is shun and cool fashion is just copying eachother.
"THE IN SET"
"The bond may be big, but it ain't deep if you dig, on the in set."
 This one depicts how superficial it is to have friends who only care how popular you are. Truthfully, a few REAL friends beat out a crowd of followers.

Television
"Star Trek" seriesSome of the best plots from the various Star Trek episodes are when characters that aren't regarded as typical life forms, because they are not flesh and blood, have to prove that humanity is more than skin deep;and that feeling emotions is all that's required to be real. Like in the case of Data the android on the Next Generation series and the holographic Doctor on the Voyager series. The star trek series all take place in the ideal future where differences are overlooked and all beings are judged by their humanity."Little House On The Prarie" series
One of my favorites is when laura as a child befriends a young girl named Inga who was born with one leg shorter than the other. She's not really picked on but most of the kids think nothing of excluding her from the games they all play. The more I thought about it the more episodes of Little House with this relatable kind of content I could recall. Tell us about any you know. Little House is still aired on KBYU at 6pm mountain or on cable as well as on DVD.

Books
"HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHEONIX"
This book shows some of the heaviest ridicule and is completely left out of the movie.
I fell in love with the JK Rowling books. Harry Potter is very much an outcast. With his aunt and Uncle in the human world he's a cinderella frowned on and force to keep his head down. In the wizard world where he has friends and considers them real family he's a different kind of outcast. Sometimes he's admired, but he's often misunderstood except by the few closest to him. He's a tragic kind of hero who endures a lot of pain and suffering and manages to cope through it all. The movies leave a lot of the depth of Harry out.

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITES THAT ALL US OUTCASTS CAN RELATE TO?


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