Animals in Popular Culture - Final Project
Should Panda Stay in the Wild or Stay in the Zoo? Have you ever seen a real-life panda? What are your views about wild pandas? I believe most of you have heard of or watched the movie Kung Fu Panda before. In this blog, I hope to examine the portrayal of pandas in popular cultures such as movies and documentaries. Let's take a look at how the movie, Kung Fu Panda 2, the documentary, Life of Rare Panda, and BBC Scotland news portray pandas, and how panda diplomacy in China affects the life of pandas. Panda in popular cultures The portrayal of the panda, Po in the Kung Fu Panda series is cute, clumsy, and loves to eat. Yet, he is belligerent. The portrayal in this movie outlined the general view of pandas in media production. However, does the portrayal really reflect how pandas behave in the real world? If you think that pandas eat everything and are chased by many predators, you might be wrong. Indeed, pandas do not eat everything but bamboo. For some reason, pandas o...