Vegans in movies
I've spoken before about the lack of good female characters in films and even made a list of female friendly films and even touched on issues with asian male characters in films but not about the lack of good vegan characters. Probably because they are so rare and the few characters do exist are either quite militant, very wacky and well just not positive. It's hard enough to find good vegetarian characters in films let alone vegan ones.
Mr T and I watched the year of the dog, not knowing that one of the characters is vegan and the main character played by Molly Shannon actually decides to become vegan quite early in the film. We were both sitting there getting excited that veganism was being shown in a positive light and while the characters were slightly weird they were great compared to other movies. I mentioned to Mr T there must be a negative turn, and unfortunately I was right. The main character become very unhinged: she almost takes her young neice to a factory farm, she adopts and keeps 15 dogs inside her house, she forges cheques out to animal rights types organisations and then she breaks into her neighbours house and comes after him with a knife. The movie did kind of redeem itself a little in the last 1 minute in which the main character decides that animal rights/animals is what she loves and that she is going to follow it and seems to be slightly healthier. It was however really disappointing especially considering the director Michael White is vegan. What were you thinking Michael White?
Has anyone ever seen a film (non animal rights one) with positive vegan character/s?
I've spoken before about the lack of good female characters in films and even made a list of female friendly films and even touched on issues with asian male characters in films but not about the lack of good vegan characters. Probably because they are so rare and the few characters do exist are either quite militant, very wacky and well just not positive. It's hard enough to find good vegetarian characters in films let alone vegan ones.
Mr T and I watched the year of the dog, not knowing that one of the characters is vegan and the main character played by Molly Shannon actually decides to become vegan quite early in the film. We were both sitting there getting excited that veganism was being shown in a positive light and while the characters were slightly weird they were great compared to other movies. I mentioned to Mr T there must be a negative turn, and unfortunately I was right. The main character become very unhinged: she almost takes her young neice to a factory farm, she adopts and keeps 15 dogs inside her house, she forges cheques out to animal rights types organisations and then she breaks into her neighbours house and comes after him with a knife. The movie did kind of redeem itself a little in the last 1 minute in which the main character decides that animal rights/animals is what she loves and that she is going to follow it and seems to be slightly healthier. It was however really disappointing especially considering the director Michael White is vegan. What were you thinking Michael White?
Has anyone ever seen a film (non animal rights one) with positive vegan character/s?
I've spoken before about the lack of good female characters in films and even made a list of female friendly films and even touched on issues with asian male characters in films but not about the lack of good vegan characters. Probably because they are so rare and the few characters do exist are either quite militant, very wacky and well just not positive. It's hard enough to find good vegetarian characters in films let alone vegan ones.
Mr T and I watched the year of the dog, not knowing that one of the characters is vegan and the main character played by Molly Shannon actually decides to become vegan quite early in the film. We were both sitting there getting excited that veganism was being shown in a positive light and while the characters were slightly weird they were great compared to other movies. I mentioned to Mr T there must be a negative turn, and unfortunately I was right. The main character become very unhinged: she almost takes her young neice to a factory farm, she adopts and keeps 15 dogs inside her house, she forges cheques out to animal rights types organisations and then she breaks into her neighbours house and comes after him with a knife. The movie did kind of redeem itself a little in the last 1 minute in which the main character decides that animal rights/animals is what she loves and that she is going to follow it and seems to be slightly healthier. It was however really disappointing especially considering the director Michael White is vegan. What were you thinking Michael White?
Has anyone ever seen a film (non animal rights one) with positive vegan character/s?
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