The Ring of Bright Water
A little while back I posted the link to a cute video of two otters holding hands (click HERE to see that video) and talked about a really sad Disney movie that I had seen as a child in which the Otter was killed… Apparently I was not the only one out there who remembers that movie.
The following in an excerpt from:
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How did you become a storyteller? Well, that was happening for me all along. That was another escape from my household. I remember specifically, I went to a Disney movie called Ring of Bright Water. I don’t know how old I would have been, probably about 8 or so. It was about river otters. And at the end, these river otters got killed by a farmer–Disney was in his show-the-kids-how-it-really-is phase–and then the baby river otters came out, and you were supposed to feel better, but I didn’t feel better at all. And I sat in the theater and sobbed, and they had to call my parents to come and get me, and the whole thing was a big ordeal. Anyway, I went home, and I rewrote Ring of Bright Water so that the farmer got killed with a shovel and the river otters lived happily ever after. The entire article can be read HERE.
I found the trailer for the movie (Isn’t Youtube great!) and it is posted below!
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvop3ayFwBA]
Now here is the awful scene where Mij the Otter meeds a bad end… Notice how happy go lucky the scene is leading up to it, no indication of the carnage to come. I should note that whoever posted this video of the end of Mij the otter edited the video to show the Whacking over and over, I can only assume they were one of the many people who haven’t been able to let go of Mij the otter.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrUICg_Cvy4]
Sigh…
