I'm not really sure what you want, Petrie15. Should all animal movies squeeze in a reptile or two to avoid speciesism, even if including a reptile adds nothing to the story/makes no sense? Should animal movies have as many groups of animals as possible shoehorned in, even at the cost of plot, just to appeal to even the smallest minority?
As Truttle pointed out, there are already big movies that have included reptiles in their lineup. Rango is a good example, as it features a few reptilian characters, including one as the designated hero and two who play antagonistic roles. And of course, that's just one of several examples.
I gave Sing as an example because it was a movie that was more inclusive, showed more species, but you decide to ignore it anyway. So I'm starting to wonder if being more inclusive is really what you want, or if you're just trying to find more reasons to complain. It has been explained to you more than once why a movie would cut material, and your responses seem to only nitpick at said decisions in order to try to find ways that they could have "done things differently".
Yes, things could have been done differently. This is something that can be said about every story. There's literally limitless ways a story could be done differently. But in the end, final decisions have to be made, and not everyone is going to be satisfied with the final product. You're not happy with Zootopia's decision to cut reptiles? Well okay. That's fine. That's your opinion.
But you should be careful about making assumptions. Unless you can find an actual quote from the people involved with the movie, your statement of them excluding reptiles being a statement against people who like those animals is nothing more than a wild guess. There may have been several reasons, but it being because of speciesism and a middle finger to reptile lovers is likely not one of the reasons. Cutting a material out is not a statement against anything. Sometimes material has to be cut. And for Zootopia, cutting out reptiles was something they felt they had to do.
There are people disappointed in this decison. It's not just you. But no movie can please everyone. It didn't matter what Zootopia did in regards with animal species; there would always be someone to complain about things in the movie. So the only thing that Zootopia and other movies can do is just make the decisions they feel are best for the movie and hope for the best.
All of you seem to be completely ignoring the fact that(and I repeat for like 5-th time already) that this movie is promoted like a world where HUMANS never existed, and that it's an animal world. But pretty much nobody mentiones that it's an inclomplete animal world, as far as I know, not even explained in the movie where are reptiles and other classes. Moreover, in one of commercials to it on Disney channel they said that this movie has ALL animal species.Very true, very. One more confirmnation that they don't want other classes to even exist. Plot reasons? I descrived in message above how easily it could have been done with other classes.
Simplicity? Chilcren will think the movie is too complex for them if there would be reptiles in it? No, it makes no sense.
And I already said, Rango is a bad example, because it also features reptile villains. I'm not saying the creators of Rango dislike reptiles in general, but I was saying in my first messages that creators either ignore reptiles OR make them villains. Or do you think I sent that link "Reptiles are abhorrent" for nothing?
And like I said - I'm ignoring Sing because it's not the topic here. I';m not saying there are absolutely no cartoons with reptiles in them, I'm saying that most of cartoons either ignore rpetiles or make them villains, lucikly, more neutral reptiels appear in cartoons nowdays, but one of top animation companies - Disney is still doing their thing with it.
Are yout out of your mind? no creators would openly say "we did it because we only like mammals" of course it would summon a lot of negativity, instead they always try to evade the truth. But the way they answer these questions - makes me thing again and again that they mainly did it because mammals are more appealing.
Oh which reminds me, in a new Lion king series one of characters said "Why are crocodiles always so violent?" while there were lions, rhinos and hippos around him. And that with crocodiles generally being less violent predators, certanly better than lions at it(who sometimes do terrible things in real life).
Why did I come here? I came here to find some support. As an animal protector, who was the first in this city to start protecting reptiles, who were mostly ignored in terms of animal protection, as a huge reptile fan sicne childhood I was lookign for support and agreement from fellow reptile fans, because of how unfair Disney made that movie, but I was wrong about this society. I would even leave GOF right now, but it would be unfair to people who may agree with me but simply didn't see this topic and my messages.
