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A Charlie Brown Christmas is the greatest work of popular culture in the mid twentieth century, and maybe ever since:
1. Art direction is lovely
2. Voice acting is endearingly stilted
3. Directly addresses depression
4. Directly addresses secularism and commercialism
1. Art direction is lovely
2. Voice acting is endearingly stilted
3. Directly addresses depression
4. Directly addresses secularism and commercialism
5. Long reading straight from Scripture
6. Best Christmas album in existence
6. Best Christmas album in existence
7. Generally poor production quality that strongly contributes to a feeling of authenticity.
I suspect that it’s nearly impossible to create a work with all those qualities today. You could hit a few points, but I doubt all.
I suspect that it’s nearly impossible to create a work with all those qualities today. You could hit a few points, but I doubt all.
What I mean is that if they used a contemporary intellectual property and made a Christmas special, they couldn’t help but try to make it cute and wink winky and fundamentally about the IP’s brand.
On #4, the best part is how it shows the way commodification of Christmas is a force of secularization.
It also captures the tremendous cultural and market pressure towards secularization. Recognizing Christmas, or Advent, for the sacred season it is requires concerted effort.
Finally, Holden Caulfield is Charlie Brown as a teenager. Down to the deer hunter hat. https://twitter.com/thealannoble/status/1326606732844527624
