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Things I Never Expected to See in a Disney Movie

posted 16 years ago by Eumenides_0
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I was amazed at this movie. It was so contrary to everything I expect from a Disney movie, I was in awe watching it. I certainly never expected to see in a Disney movie:

- The Devil, demons and the spirit of the dead
- Topless, seductive women
- A T-Rex killing a dinossaur
- The Dinossaur extinction
- Mickey Mouse killing someone with an axe (even if it was just a broom)

Why doesn't Disney make more movies like this?

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

[–] theyuffie 16 years ago

Cool

[–] Szabu 16 years ago

Because today there is all this political correctness and children safety *beep*

[–] rug_burn82 16 years ago

What Link said. I also never understood what's so obscene about a pair of breasts. We feed our babies with those.

[–] steylvol 15 years ago

Most parent are more upset by their children being exposed (hehe) to nudity than violence. Strange, ain't it...

Can I keep you...

[–] CharlieTrix_Material-Boy 15 years ago

americans as a whole have become a DEEPLY disturbed, shallow, overly politically correct, fame chasing, superficial society.
seriously, we are F#CKED UP.

but we'll live......

[–] ValkyrieOakenshield74 14 years ago

I was amazed at this movie. It was so contrary to everything I expect from a Disney movie, I was in awe watching it. I certainly never expected to see in a Disney movie:

- The Devil, demons and the spirit of the dead
- Topless, seductive women
- A T-Rex killing a dinossaur
- The Dinossaur extinction
- Mickey Mouse killing someone with an axe (even if it was just a broom)

Why doesn't Disney make more movies like this?

Becoz no one, at least sane and decent people, not the perverts gathered on internet, are not interested in watching the same *beep* crap they see EVERYWHERE ELSE, in Disney movies.

Dude, topless women, you have the whole world to see tits, what to come here and pretend to watch tits on Disney movies too XD

And I say you are worse than the few raw things Fantasía show. To me its a master piece but IMDB topics and perverts really makes it to look bad.

Because today there is all this political correctness and children safety *beep*

No, thats not *beep* it´s called "Trying to make this world a better place to live in", its called "evolution", its called "moral" and "education".
You know? Some of us, and I say the big part of people on the planet want to live in a decent world. Of course, you are not one of us.

Do you recognize my voice...?

[–] Szabu 14 years ago

A decent world where children are protected from such horrific, scary, violent films such as The Lion King, Aladdin, Hunchback and Snow White?

Where a white and a black man can't have an argument (completely unrelated of their race) without everyone thinking about racism?

Where if a child sees boobs or hears a swear world, their mom would cry that the child's life is totally and irreversably ruined?

Where movies like Dumbo and Song of the South are banned because they remind us about the past when the society had its problems?

Where you can't cricicize any Jewish person for any reason, or you are called a Nazi?

If that's a decent world, then yeah, I'm definitely not one of you.

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[–] Xcalat3 15 years ago

Mickey Mouse killing someone with an axe (even if it was just a broom)

that scared me as a kid

When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

[–] saralynn1357 15 years ago

Interesting... I never found that part scary as a kid (and I got scared of a LOT of things). My thought is that I always conceptualized the broom as an "it," a piece of machinery gone haywire. Mickey was just frustrated and wanted to madness to stop!

But with you, you probably identified the broom as an actual being (a reasonable assessment as well), and however annoying/intrusive a person/animal is, that is no excuse to murder them with an axe, so to see Mickey doing that in that context I could see why you would be frightened!

So the real question is... what does it say about us as people, that you saw the more human side of the broom while I continued to view it as an object, even when it became animated and endowed with a will of its own? For me, I think it was easier to continue viewing it as an object because its actions were harmful and obtrusive. Also it didn't have a face, or eyes (such as the enchanted objects in Beauty and the Beast). If, on the other hand, it had developed a more benevolent "personality," however, I think I would have been more greatly saddened to see Mickey Mouse killing it so brutally.

[–] wrinkledlion 15 years ago

People always talk about Disney like he's the ultimate wholesome movie-maker, but that's really not true... I mean, do you actually remember Bambi? Everyone remembers it for being cute and fuzzy, but they forget just how *beep* brutal it is.

[–] trisp 15 years ago

Did you see Princess and the Frog? The main villain kills off (of all things) one of the comic relief characters in the movie. Dude! They don't kill off Jiminy, Timon, Meeko, or Sebastian, and they wait till that movie to kill off a sidekick.

"HOPSCOTCH!"

[–] clive-ihd 14 years ago

Fantasia is an adults' film. That's why you see all these things that you wouldn't find on other Disney films.

Why didn't Disney make more films like this? Partly because it wasn't a big hit at the time. This was largely because of the War and in fact during the middle and early forties Disney stopped making feature length cartoons.

They did attempt to make another film like Fantasia called Fantasia 2000. It was mediocre.

And going back to Bambi. One of the most memorable scenes in Bambi is his mother getting shot.

[–] saralynn1357 14 years ago

I don't think it is specifically an adults' film, I've loved it ever since I first saw it as a small child (and I used to dance to / act out a lot of it with friends-- so much fun!) I think it was geared toward a general audience base, as was Snow White and several other animated features of the time.

[–] TJenkins602 14 years ago

Disney did not make a lot more movies like "Fantasia." However, if you are talking about movies with "objectionable content." They can be found in surprisingly a lot of disney films.

Films with Objectionable Content (Even on DVD)

The Lion King (a little blood here and there)
Hunchback of Notre Dame (on screen deaths)

There are many more films. A lot of disneys other animated films have just a general dark tone which is unsettling even without the gory bits. Some of the films have been edited and sanitized for its later releases.

Disney did almost release an R rated animated film (speculation). The film is called The Black Cauldron. A lot of scenes have been cut from the film to grant a more kid-friendly PG rating.

Some of the scenes that are reported to have been cut are as follows.

A shot of Princess Eilonwy with ripped garments

Taran's escape from the castle is a little more gruesome

An extra shot of the cauldron born emerging (which can be seen on one of the older trailers for the film upon its initial release)

One of the men getting dissolved by the mist. (There are some cells that actually show parts of this shot)
Another man getting attacked gruesomely by the cauldron born.

The part where the men get pounced on by the caudron born is very infamous due to the fact that it leaves a very noticable jump in the soundtrack. There is another jump in the soundtrack that is not as noticable when the cauldon born first emerge.

The scenes have not been released to this day. However, The general dark tone of the film and one little shot of blood is what earned the film a PG rating.

The film is treated like one of the black sheep of the disney family.

[–] slayintheilluminati 14 years ago

you really dont know *beep* about Walt Disney do you...
the evilminded *beep*

[–] flyer333555 14 years ago

Slay,

Your is the typicall ignorant response. You do not know anything, so you end up insulting...