Why Disney, you ask? Here's why...
I used to be a fan. I own the Lion King,
The Little Mermaid, Fantasia, and
Robin Hood. However, my whole childhood, I
had fears about my mother dying. Why? Bambi
(although it was one of the better Disney
flicks--partly because it's old), Lion King,
The Fox and the Hound, The Jungle
Book, Snow White, Cinderella (both
reasons why I was also very wary of my stepmother
when my dad remarried--I was surprised to learn that
stepmothers can be very nice)...and others. However,
I still like Alice in Wonderland, the older
films--they were good then. The company was fresh
then. Okay, they weren't original, but I can forgive
them that.
Inaccuracies
Mulan
Mulan could NEVER have saved China--she wouldn't
have even been able to walk without a cane. Why? For
centuries in China, small feet were considered
beautiful. When a girl was about 5, mothers would
take their feet, soak them in hot water, and massage
the toes under the foot, until the foot was about
half its size. Then the feet would be bound in
satin. Toes would fall off, and if the satin ribbons
were ever taken off, the circulation in the foot
would have caused extreme pain. So women couldn't
run, dance, walk a lot, or walk at all without a
cane. And Mulan being a princess or whatever she was
(I didn't see the movie) would definitely have had
this done to be married off.
The Little Mermaid
The little bitch died. She turned into sea foam. It
hurt her to walk. Another thing, if Eric had found
Ariel, he (in real life, being a prince) would have
cast her away. She was a scruffmuffin. ANOTHER
thing, it took place in the Caspian Sea, which is in
Russia. What kind of names are Eric and Ariel? Also,
I went to see that movie when I was eight with my
parents. Do you know how awkward it is to sit
through a cartoon in a movie theatre at age 8 with
your parents when you're staring at breasts bigger
than your head?
Beauty and the Beast
Beast isn't supposed to turn into a handsome prince.
The point is that looks are only skin deep, not,
"Under the ugly skin there might be a hadsome prince
who was made ugly by a witch for some sin he
comitted." In the fairy tale, Beauty had to live
with this beast because her father had snuck into
the Beast's garden to pick a rose. The Beast was
mad. The Beast wanted the man's most beautiful
daughter. That's how the story goes...
Aladdin
Jasmine shows an awful lot of skin. Wouldn't she be
considered a whore and undesireable?
Pocahontas
Have any of you ever heard that song by Jill Sobule
that goes, "Margaret, back in junior high...Margaret
developed first..."? Pocahontas was 12. Ever notice
how when she dives from that huge waterfall, she
doesn't kill herself, and her breasts don't fall
out? How could she run like that without a sports
bra anyway? John Smith kissing her? How indecent!
John would be, like, 40, she was 12. Pocahontas
didn't love Smith. Courtesy my history book:
"[Smith] had been kidnapped in December 1607 and
subjected to a mock execution by the Indian
chieftain Powhatan, whose daughter Pocahontas had
'saved' Smith by dramatically interposing her head
between his and the war clubs of his captors. The
symbolism of this ritual was apparently intended to
impress Smith with Powhatan's power and with the
Indians' desire for peaceful relations with the
Virginians."* In addition: I live in 1998 in a very
modern community, in a modern society. How come her
legs are smoother than mine?
Hercules
He killed his family in an insane rage. He wasn't a
good guy. The only way he could get off scot-free
were by doing some favors. I didn't see the movie so
I can't talk about what else was incorrect, but I
know they're there.
I could go on and on about how we're being force-fed
Disney, and we're going to accept it, the sheep we
are, we're going to let them come into our homes,
infiltrate our brains with their sick messages,
take our money, while we sit there, glassy-eyed,
drooling, with apple sauce drippng from our lips. I
easgerly await the day with Disney and Microsoft
go head-to-head. Haha, won't that be the day, when
the two dictators clash in power, only to see the
destruction of their own evil empires? Disney not
only controls our media, distorts our news, owns our
lives, but it also takes away our democratic rights.
What use are our votes, our petty cares, when our
lobbyists can't possibly go up against Disney's?
Usually, I am a moderate in consumer issues, but
this time I have to side with Ralph Nader. This
issue doesn't just concern Disney. It concerns every
huge corporation who feed upon our apathy and
insecurity for self-promotion.
