Informative Messages In The Movie 'Hey Arnold'

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Recommended: Television/movies do not have good influence on teenagers

Jetaune Hall
Hey Arnold!: The Movie
25 March 2014
Messages in the Movie Section
A. Positive Messages
1. Preserving historical neighborhoods and small businesses
2. Be Brave
3. Look on the bright side of life even if things aren’t going your way
B. Informative Messages
1. Religious people pray
2. A neighborhood is a community of people within a town or city
3. Belts come in different colors
C. Misinformative Messages
1. All old things are great
2. Life is just a bowl of cherries
3. You could paint the house with vanishing cream, then it would be invisible.
D. Negative Messages
1. If you destroy others property it will prevent them from doing something you don’t want them to do
2. You can get away with lying
3. Its ok to call people names
Brief Synopsis & Message Discussion Section
In the 2002 animated film Hey Arnold!; The Movie that is based on the Nickelodeon Hey Arnold! Animated television series, Arnold and Gerald are walking towards Arnold’s house as they hear a bunch of commotion going on between their neighbors. They soon find out that Scheck the CEO of a real estate company called FutureTech Industries is planning to turn Arnold’s neighborhood into a shopping mall. The news broadcast also announces that this plan has already been approved by the mayor which means everyone has to sell their houses to FutureTech Industries in order for the mall to be built. Many of the neighbors don’t agree with this plan so they to sign a petition asking the major to stop this plan. Later on that night Helga finds out that her father Big Bob is working with FutureTech Industries in order to build him a bigger beeper store in the new mall. Helga then brings it to her father’s attention that this plan is going to cause the neighbors grea...

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...a informative message. These two messages are what makes for a good children’s movie when it comes demonstrating how to be a good citizen. In the article Exploring Neighborhood Effects on Health and Life Satisfaction: Disentangling Neighborhood Racial Density and Neighborhood Income related to a positive message from the movie, because in the movie the plot is about preserving historical neighborhoods and small businesses and this study can relate to how depending on what neighborhood you live in can affect you as a person. In the article “You can do it!”: The role of parental encouragement of bravery in child anxiety treatment related to another positive message because in the movie Arnold was being a brave kid and trying to save his neighborhood from being destroyed. Overall the movie had a lot of positive messages in the movie that will make for better children.

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