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...more than 60 years. In this "classic," an innocent creature, often an orphan (1942's Bambi, 1999's Tarzan), is abandoned in the wilderness, adopted by a sympathetic guardian (sometimes of another species), and acquires a wise and funny sidekick who guides him through adolescent trials to heroic manhood. Typically, these conclude in combat with an older male representing traditional ways...
...funny you mention that because that film wasn't an influence on this particular film, but it was one of the favorite films of my young manhood and it was a delightful film when it came out. This film was influenced really by two things - first, the Lubic kind of film because he's my favorite comic film director and also by Jackie Gleason. I'm such a great fan of the Honeymooners...
...first thing people ask is "Can you get me some?" (Everybody, even the women.) Maybe that's not so surprising. If there is such a thing as a bodily substance more fabled than blood, it's testosterone, the hormone that we understand and misunderstand as the essence of manhood. Testosterone has been offered as the symbolic (and sometimes literal) explanation for all the glories and infamies of men, for why they start street fights and civil wars, for why they channel surf, explore, prevail, sleep around, drive too fast, plunder, bellow, joust, plot corporate takeovers and paint their bare torsos...
...Vietnam, as a matter-of-fact, was a turning point in Americana as far as manhood was concerned. According to Wolfe, this stomp across the sea initiated the widespread suppression of manliness. "We have the example of the elite young men dodging the draft," Wolfe observes. The efforts of America's top warriors went into avoiding combat rather than embracing it. These men and their apologists had to destroy the ideal of the male fighter to justify saving their own skin. Manliness never disappeared, but popular culture stopped celebrating it, says the author of A Man in Full. Warrior images...
...Athletics, and maybe investment banking and real-estate speculation, have emerged as manhood's final frontiers, even as the WNBA comes knocking. After all, says Wolfe, "there is something a little [pause] luxurious about women commanding in the army. I mean, when you've got these big strapping men with deltoids and pects [and they aren't commanding], I guess you don't really need them." Modern feminists, cringe...