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The Weird Prescience of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”

MEDIA Posted: August 7, 2014 10:59 pm

“Of course, no parent walked out of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with their wound-up eight-year-old and thought, ‘That really captured our collective fear of being mugged by teenagers. Radical!’ But viewed today, it’s striking how much the [1990 film] encapsulated contemporary attitudes about delinquency and violence, and showed weird prescience about the decade to come.”

MEDIA Published: 08.06.14

Read the story in The Atlantic Published: 08.06.14

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