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Like many huge corporations (think “Wal-Mart” or “McDonald's”), there has been story after story about the poor treatment of employees. As one employee, an ex “cast member” recounts: “I worked there [at Disneyworld] for over five years. I finally woke up to the fact that the place was a cult. And the pay was crap.
2. Disney has also had a track record of profiting from the use of child labor and of violating human rights for the sake of making money. (Please see some of the stories in my "links" section below....)
3. Disney sucks up public domain material but doesn't contribute anything.
Many of Disney's most successful movies and attractions were based upon
public domain fairy-tales (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and
the Seven Dwarves, etc.) but if anyone tries to do anything that is even
remotely similar to previous Disney work or if anyone tries to parody Disney,
then the Disney company unleashes its lawyer hoards.
I'm a big anime fan and I believe that one of the reasons that anime isn't taken as seriously in America as it is in another countries is because of Disney's domination of the animation market in the United States. When people think of animation, they think of Disney. Disney promotes the attitude that animation should be sanitized and “kid-friendly.” It's all formulaic plots and bright colors that has been dumbed down with ridiculous singing animals and predictable happy endings. In many stories retold by Disney such as Felix Salten's Bambi (Go read the book, trust me – it's much better than the saccharine crap put out by Disney. It reminds me of Richard Adams's Watership Down), they have watered down the content to the point where the movie that you get bears little or no similarity to the artist's original vision. The same goes for Victor Hugo's the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Other movies (such as Pocahontas) contain glaring historical inaccuracies. If you want to tell a story about a historical figure, that's fine, but you should bear some responsibility in telling the story accurately out of respect for the people and/or events that you are depicting. If the real story is too bloody or isn't interesting enough for audiences at it is, then either go find another story to tell or don't name it after the historical figure or event if you're going to change so many things where the end product ends up being a completely different story. |
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LINKS: here are some other websites that may be of interest to you:
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