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Lanning on how the movie ET inspired Oddworld, his goal with the project
Coming from a CVG interview with Lorne Lanning...
"I remember the subtle propaganda of Spielberg's ET, where the students have to dissect a frog in class. There's a history of that, of desensitisation, in the American system. A child doesn't learn anything by cutting open a frog - what he learns is to not care about killing. What he did beautifully is that, because the kids have got ET at home, they start associating these lifeforms with a certain perspective, so they set all the frogs free. That's a huge propaganda moment, a huge anti-Western public education moment.
Neuroscientists, marine biologists. We got big problems. Some of them are obvious and some are not. But what we've got to do is make a collective attempt to see what's really going on rather than being comfortable with our armchair version that's getting beamed to us through televisions and newspapers. That's getting us deeper in trouble and not helping at all. We need to start taking more responsibility and let the bad guys get away with less.
So what I wanted to do was to create content that would help kids who were lost, like me. I was really lost, I was just overwhelmed by it. And if you talk to kids today, they're very overwhelmed by it. You go to the extremes, you go talk to the gangs, Crips and Bloods and stuff, none of them expect to live past thirty."
Full interview here
"I remember the subtle propaganda of Spielberg's ET, where the students have to dissect a frog in class. There's a history of that, of desensitisation, in the American system. A child doesn't learn anything by cutting open a frog - what he learns is to not care about killing. What he did beautifully is that, because the kids have got ET at home, they start associating these lifeforms with a certain perspective, so they set all the frogs free. That's a huge propaganda moment, a huge anti-Western public education moment.
Neuroscientists, marine biologists. We got big problems. Some of them are obvious and some are not. But what we've got to do is make a collective attempt to see what's really going on rather than being comfortable with our armchair version that's getting beamed to us through televisions and newspapers. That's getting us deeper in trouble and not helping at all. We need to start taking more responsibility and let the bad guys get away with less.
So what I wanted to do was to create content that would help kids who were lost, like me. I was really lost, I was just overwhelmed by it. And if you talk to kids today, they're very overwhelmed by it. You go to the extremes, you go talk to the gangs, Crips and Bloods and stuff, none of them expect to live past thirty."