{"id":984,"date":"2008-03-11T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/pro-lifers-crash-the-horton-premiere\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T02:45:00","slug":"pro-lifers-crash-the-horton-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/pro-lifers-crash-the-horton-premiere.html","title":{"rendered":"Pro-lifers crash the Horton premiere?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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This<\/a> is for those who thought pro-lifers were going out on a limb by trying to claim Juno<\/a><\/i> and Knocked Up<\/a><\/i> as their own:<\/span><\/p>\n

A kid-friendly movie doesn\u2019t need to be \u201cHarry Potter\u201d to draw protesters.<\/p>\n

At least that\u2019s the lesson from the \u201cHorton Hears a Who<\/a>\u201d premiere.<\/p>\n

Ove the years, the signature line from Fox\u2019s upcoming \u201cHorton\u201d has been used \u2014 to the anger and dismay of Theodore Geisel, or Dr. Seuss \u2014 as a rallying cry for the pro-life movement. The line, \u201cA person\u2019s a person, no matter how small,\u201d has been adopted by right-to-lifers as a kind of slogan \u2014 even though in the context of the book it has nothing to do with abortion, and Geisel even threatened to sue over its use.<\/p>\n

Fox\u2019s Saturday\u2019s premiere at Westwood\u2019s Mann Village for its Blue Sky-produced \u201cHorton\u201d showed that the phrase continues to generate controversy, and offered the odd spectacle of a politically charged moment at a family-friendly affair.<\/p>\n

A small group of pro-life protesters, some with red tape over their mouths, turned out to the event, chanting the \u201cA person\u2019s a person\u201d line (in the the book it refers not to a child but to a speck of dust that contrains a micro-universe on the back of Horton, the elephant main character). . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

People were chanting through red tape?<\/p>\n

In any case, just imagine how things might have gone if this film had been an adaptation of Horton Hatches the Egg<\/a><\/i> (1942).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is for those who thought pro-lifers were going out on a limb by trying to claim Juno and Knocked Up as their own: A kid-friendly movie doesn\u2019t need to be \u201cHarry Potter\u201d to draw protesters. At least that\u2019s the lesson from the \u201cHorton Hears a Who\u201d premiere. 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