A Good Reason To Blog About......

Last week I went for a media literacy awareness campaign at the Public Complains Commission (PPC) for the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) as a part their ambassadors. They call us Media Ambassadors.
P.S

These people are so nice, usually I am meant to go to the NYSC secretariat for Editorial CDS meetings but I and a group of 16 other people where taken from this CDS to help the NFVCB with their awareness campaign. Back to the point point because this point is not the major point😆

I like working with NFVCB learn a lot about their work like for example how to censor a movie (For real for real).

Furthermore, they give us refreshments everytime. I mean it even if we don't work we still get fed🙆. I can't believe they thought I'd ditch them (I was absent from meetings for a while (when I was at camp- check out 'while I was away') and I didn't take permission. I came back to meet weird stares🙈) Like why would I ever leave you? Like who and what ?

As it stands now y'all are doing a better job than my bed. Free food and good movies! (because many have been screened and censored). I'll sleep when I am dead!

Now back to the main point.
While we at the PPC yesterday, one of my supervisors whilst giving a speech about why parents should be cautious about what they children watch including cartoons- why? because they has been a case of a child who broke his leg because thought he could fly like superman?!

I wasn't going to say anything or rather I was trying not say anything. God help me! I was going to leave that there with no extras.
So I'll just leave a hint *in whispers* child negligence y'all. 😆 

Whilst giving this speech he brought up Tom and Jerry. I was like oh no! He didn't!
That's my fav (using an abbreviation to stress exaggeration. In plain English I really love this cartoon) cartoon in the whole world. He talked about how it encourages violence and how there's a study or something of that sort that beliefs Tom and Jerry is to blame for the rise of Isis!

It's real y'all!   

I was like that's a travesty I grew up on this cartoon. In my opinion after the early Disney cartoons, Hanna Barbera is the next on my list of timeless pieces. I know there's Warner Bros, Don Bluth, Dream works *to an extent*. The reason why.... Tom and Jerry is a work of art. It was ahead of it's time when it came out. Basically, both Warner Bros and Disney had similar animals in the pioneer cartoons. Rabbit/Mouse, Duck/Duck as main characters... (which where all around the same decades). 

Hanna Barbera came up with this cat and mouse dynamic that was so real apart from the fact that they could stand on 2 feet...LOL

My favourite clip from Tom and Jerry. My brother calls it 'the bum bum walk'. I call it 'the bum bum walk of fear'.😂😂😂

What makes me love the cartoon is the display of relatable human emotions.
Like if Tom was going through pain (Like he always was). You could relate to the immediate pained look in his eyes, his entire facial expression and most especially his paradoxal anguish sounding and laughable scream of pain. Or when he was surprised/shocked the way he'd hug himself and widen his eyes right on cue... Like the director just screamed action. 

So much attention to detail.

I'll slow my roll! LOL! I really love this cartoon. I thank my supervisor though this blogpost was long overdue. He was right on time with his statement. You can expect more from where this came from!

I wish Tom and Jerry.... Had its own version of That's All Folks!