Just to clarify, this is about the rate of movies that include death vs. movies without any death, not the body count. Anyways, in comparison of the death rates in 45 top children's animated films with 90 adult films that were box-office winners for the same years, a researcher in Ottawa discovered that [http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/family-child/Children+films+have+higher+death+rates+than+adult/10658289/story.html]:
[ul]
[li]Major characters are 2.5 times more likely to die in children's animated films compared to dramatic films for adults;[/li]
[li]Where a death occurs, it's 2.8 times more likely to be a murder in children's animated films; and[/li]
[li]The victim is five times more likely to be a parent in children's films.[/li]
[/ul]
Seems that adults don't like to deal much with death in their movies, but animation studios like Disney loves to include it as part of the plot in their movies. Just think about it: Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo, Frozen, the Lion King... all of these have memorable death scenes (a good character, an evil character, or even both).
What do you think? Is it funny, shocking or you just don't care? (personally I think it's funny)
EDIT: Link fixed
EDIT 2: Here is a link [http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7184] to the study itself.
[ul]
[li]Major characters are 2.5 times more likely to die in children's animated films compared to dramatic films for adults;[/li]
[li]Where a death occurs, it's 2.8 times more likely to be a murder in children's animated films; and[/li]
[li]The victim is five times more likely to be a parent in children's films.[/li]
[/ul]
Seems that adults don't like to deal much with death in their movies, but animation studios like Disney loves to include it as part of the plot in their movies. Just think about it: Bambi, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Finding Nemo, Frozen, the Lion King... all of these have memorable death scenes (a good character, an evil character, or even both).
What do you think? Is it funny, shocking or you just don't care? (personally I think it's funny)
EDIT: Link fixed
EDIT 2: Here is a link [http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7184] to the study itself.