Things to come

This is going to be a blog full of intermittent entries. There's a lot to write about, but I don't have a lot of time to do it right now.

For now, I'll try to make at least one entry per week. Please bookmark abd return often.

Bees and the Bee Movie (2007)

In Jerry Seinfeld's Bee Movie, he presents a view of the inside of a beehive. The life in the beehive is seen as a male patriarchy - the only female with a speaking part in the movie is Jerry's mother. The "pollen jocks" - who leave the hive to get pollen and nectar from the flowers, are all male, and depicted as romantic, tough, "fighter pilot" types.


What should have been depicted?

Well, the bee society is a matriarchal society. There's a female queen, and all of the workers - including the "pollen jocks" are female. There are thousands of female workers, and only a few hundred male drones. The drones do nothing except service the queen, and they all die shortly after she lays her eggs.

In the end of the movie, all the plants are dying because the bees haven't been pollinating them. Jerry's solution is to drop pollen all over them, and wham! They're all full of color again! Within seconds! Of course, it would take several months for new flowers to grow...

This movie is topical, however. Honeybees have been much in the news in 2007, as they are dying out due to a mysterious illness...and it is bees that pollinate the flowers and the fruit trees. If they die out...life as we know it will change drastically.

Plumas County News: Bad News For Bees

What is Movie Education Undone

It's been known since probably the beginning of movie-making that the creators of films use "dramatic license" to move a story along.

However, that can sometimes be lost on later movie generations, or on kids who think that what they're watching has got to be the way it really is.

Therefore, in Movie Education Undone, I'll comment on all of the distortions and untruths that are in certain movies.

This will be an intermittent blog, hopefully at least twice a week.