Now that I've got a little girl who is old enough to ask for them (and
who has a few cousins of various ages), I'm becoming much more familiar
with Disney animated features.[1]
I have some observations.
Sleeping Beauty's parents could have saved themselves a lot of trouble
if they'd just invited Maleficent to the christening. Think about it.
Evil sorceress. Can magically appear in the middle of your gathering,
uninvited, and curse your baby daughter. Why snub her?
Cinderella, in all likelihood, would've poisoned her step mother,
both stepsisters, and probably the cat, a long, long time ago.
Sleeping death? Really? If you're going to go to the trouble of
disguising yourself as an old hag, and you've got Snow White at
your mercy, why not just kill her? Wasn't that what you wanted
the huntsman to do in the first place?
Dumbo, if made today, would be very, very different. No crows,
for instance. And probably no pink elephants.
Hercules is an abomination.
Just some observations.
[1] Before I get any warnings about the effect of TV on toddlers,
I feel I should point out that just because she asks, doesn't mean
she gets to watch something. I think that maybe once in the last
week have we turned on the TV in the evening, and we watched "It's
the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", which is much better than I
remembered.
This kid has a serious fixation on pumpkins. Ever since we went
to a pumpkin patch to pick out our Halloween pumkpin, she's been
asking to go back. When we drive past anythink that looks even
remotely like a pumpkin patch, she starts laughing and clapping,
and saying, "yaaaaay punkin patch, yaaaay, yaaaaay, punkin patch!"
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Gene Sullivan :: curiousgene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:: http://curiousgene.com
Go away. Go fight evil on aisle 12.
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