A Boy Named Charlie Brown

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A Boy Named Charlie Brown is a 1969 animated film, produced by Cinema Center Films, distributed by National General Pictures, and directed by Bill Meléndez, it is the first feature film based on the Peanuts comic strip. It was also the final time that Peter Robbins voiced the character of Charlie Brown (Robbins had voiced the role for all the Peanuts television specials up to that point, starting with the debut of the specials, 1965's A Charlie Brown Christmas). Charlie Brown's first Little League baseball game of the season approaches, and he eagerly goes to the ball field; the game starts, and the team loses the first game of the summer season. Charlie Brown walks home musing that they always lose the first and last games of the season - and all the ones in between. Later on that day, Linus shows up at the front porch of the house and tries to cheer Charlie Brown up, stating that people learn more from losing than from winning. "I guess that makes me the smartest person in the whole. …

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A Boy Named Charlie Brown

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  • Dr Eggnog Dr Eggnog
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    7 years ago
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    You ever weird yourself out? I just realized that I find A Boy Named Charlie Brown darker than The Shining.
  • Dr Eggnog Dr Eggnog
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    7 years ago
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    "A sad story is not necessarily a tragedy when in writing. Tragedy involves the downfall or failure of the main character. This again, does not mean that they die—the tragedy can lie in the failure to achieve something they have worked for through the whole story. The build-up to such a thing and the eventual failure is what the tragedy is."
    So this movie is like the exact definition of a tragedy.
  • Dr Eggnog Dr Eggnog
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    8 years ago
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    What a depressing children's movie. Charlie Brown is basically the poster child for emo, a person who has little confidence and fails at everything and wishes he could stop having hope so that his hopes wouldn't have to be crushed all the time. A spelling bee story is as generic as it gets, except for the lack of a happy ending. Charlie wishes he could stay in bed the rest of his life (what kid hasn't?), but hope sadly finds him again, and he leaves the house and finds a spot of happiness and confidence only to have it crushed again. Such is the life of an emo kid. (P.S. I like the animation and songs and some of the humor.)
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