On top of creating dozens of Disney classics, they also produce wonderfully comical short films that give their audience a greater purpose in just five minutes. Wilbert Plijnaar, an employee at Disney and director of "How To Hook Up Your Home Theater" featuring the popular cartoon character of Goofy. Plijnaar in a span of four minutes ridicules the American obsession with new technology and makes mockery of the complexity of setting it up. Through this short film the main character, Goofy, feels the urgency to get a new television set in which he does but struggles in setting it up. The unknown narrator takes the viewers step by step of the process of getting a television: going to the "high tech wonderland", aka the store ; waiting several days impatiently for this TV to come; finally dealing with the inevitable fury and rage that comes with all instructions. Now, from the intended audience perspective, children, this short is simply a comical clip of Goofy simply being...goofy, when in reality Plijnaar presents the readers with an extreme amounts of sarcastic tone, humor, and satire. The narrator states in his overly happy saracastic voice, "A convenient trip to the neighborhood electronic boutique will fulfill all the average consumers needs" as many are aware that most trips are NOT convenient. With his sarcastic tone his makes mockery of the unhealthy need that people have for the newest products, as it is not a necessity to have the newest technology, like society makes it be.
Sunday, November 15, 2015
TOW #9- How to Hook Up Your Home Theather by Wilbert Plijnaar
The very famous Walt Disney Company is a leading diversified international family entertainment enterprise, known for many classic movies including Mulan, Cinderella, Bambi and many more that we all know and laugh that simply makes us burst into tears out of laughter. Disney captures the amazing and magical stories behind fairy-tales, folklores, and fables to turn them into whimsical, humorous movies that light up your home.
On top of creating dozens of Disney classics, they also produce wonderfully comical short films that give their audience a greater purpose in just five minutes. Wilbert Plijnaar, an employee at Disney and director of "How To Hook Up Your Home Theater" featuring the popular cartoon character of Goofy. Plijnaar in a span of four minutes ridicules the American obsession with new technology and makes mockery of the complexity of setting it up. Through this short film the main character, Goofy, feels the urgency to get a new television set in which he does but struggles in setting it up. The unknown narrator takes the viewers step by step of the process of getting a television: going to the "high tech wonderland", aka the store ; waiting several days impatiently for this TV to come; finally dealing with the inevitable fury and rage that comes with all instructions. Now, from the intended audience perspective, children, this short is simply a comical clip of Goofy simply being...goofy, when in reality Plijnaar presents the readers with an extreme amounts of sarcastic tone, humor, and satire. The narrator states in his overly happy saracastic voice, "A convenient trip to the neighborhood electronic boutique will fulfill all the average consumers needs" as many are aware that most trips are NOT convenient. With his sarcastic tone his makes mockery of the unhealthy need that people have for the newest products, as it is not a necessity to have the newest technology, like society makes it be.
Plijnaar seizes the materialistic ways, when it comes to technology at least, of people in hopes to get people to notice the addiction. Almost all of us have wanted that "new" product. Plijnaar manages to take a humorist approach on letting his audience know that technology shouldn't control as much as it does.
On top of creating dozens of Disney classics, they also produce wonderfully comical short films that give their audience a greater purpose in just five minutes. Wilbert Plijnaar, an employee at Disney and director of "How To Hook Up Your Home Theater" featuring the popular cartoon character of Goofy. Plijnaar in a span of four minutes ridicules the American obsession with new technology and makes mockery of the complexity of setting it up. Through this short film the main character, Goofy, feels the urgency to get a new television set in which he does but struggles in setting it up. The unknown narrator takes the viewers step by step of the process of getting a television: going to the "high tech wonderland", aka the store ; waiting several days impatiently for this TV to come; finally dealing with the inevitable fury and rage that comes with all instructions. Now, from the intended audience perspective, children, this short is simply a comical clip of Goofy simply being...goofy, when in reality Plijnaar presents the readers with an extreme amounts of sarcastic tone, humor, and satire. The narrator states in his overly happy saracastic voice, "A convenient trip to the neighborhood electronic boutique will fulfill all the average consumers needs" as many are aware that most trips are NOT convenient. With his sarcastic tone his makes mockery of the unhealthy need that people have for the newest products, as it is not a necessity to have the newest technology, like society makes it be.
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