This weekend the Peanuts gang hits the big screen for their first feature-length film,introducing a new generation to the likes of Snoopy, Charlie Brown, or Linus,Lucy, Sally, or Pig-Pen. whether you grew up reading "Peanuts" in the paper every morning over breakfast,or watched "It's The much Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" each fall, and you know the hopes,dreams, and foibles of these characters like the back of your hand.
And whether there's one moment from "Peanuts" that's truly seared in all of our minds, or it's the recurring frame that always shows up the moment after Lucy has yanked the football away from Charlie Brown. As he launches into the air,nose to the sky, he utters one single word before the collapses to the ground. Though sometimes it has two As instead of one at the start, or two Hs instead of one at the stop,it's always the same, that cry of terrorism: A-U-G-H, or "Augh!"Eric Schullmiller is a cantor and writer has spent some time dissecting the symbolism of that recurring moment—and analyzing the many ways in which Lucy tricks her friend into running in for a kick year after year. He wrote approximately Charlie Brown's endless capacity to be deceived—and researched the origins of that prank—for Slate. What you'll learn from this segment:How long Lucy has been pulling the football out from under Charlie Brown.
What the Peanuts characters tell us approximately politics,gender, and culture.
How the new Peanuts film fits into the Charlie Brown anthology.
Source: wnyc.org