For ages I’ve been trying to piece together a 3-part post about something Beatles-related, but I keep getting stalled. Being stuck for other ideas at the moment, I’ll follow up on my Colbert post about bullfighting. In 1952, animator Chuck Jones directed Bully for Bugs (released 1953).
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Jones discusses this cartoon in Chuck Reducks (1996), his second volume of memoirs. He comments that, “Before I went to the Mexico City bullfight, my sympathies were with the bull, but then I saw a slender little man saunter out into the ring, and [after seeing the bull] immediately changed my opinion.” I wonder if Jones stayed through to the gory end of the bull? When I was in Saudi Arabia on business 20 years ago, I was invited to witness a public beheading. I declined, and I would do the same if invited to see a bullfight, for the same reason — it’s a blood sport.
Disney won a 1938 Oscar for Ferdinand the Bull. This cartoon makes the case that bullfighting might come to an end, but only if the bulls stopped charging the matadors, and instead stopped to smell the flowers.
The video player has the original American version of the cartoon, and one in Spanish.
