Subject: Re: [FFML] Disney (read it first before sending hate mail)
From: Stephan Bennett
Date: 8/10/1996, 5:26 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

Harold C.Hayes wrote:

OK. OK. OK.

JUST LISTEN!

I need to comment about something that is very important to all anime
fans: WALT DISNEY STUDIOS.

I not completely sure, but I have the impression that many anmie fans
don't like Disney because they only put out "kid stuff".  Well I need to
rectify some prejudices.

I is NOT that Disney didn't TRY!  On JUly 24th, 1985, Disney release "The
Blak Cauldron".  This movie had a a hard core "fantasy novel" plot.  It
was really an adult movie.  It feature zombies, death nights and really
frightining special effect that were state of the art at the time.  This
movie scared children.  Disney set itself up for disaster.  The adults
just could grasp it and the kidies were just plain scared.  The movie
bombed.

Disney Imediatly went back to kids stuff to make up for lossos.  Their
next was "The Great Mouse Detective".



"The Black Cauldron" bombed because they aimed for a kid audience, yet scripted 
an adult movie.



HOWEVER!  Disney has started to make more subtle move tword adult focus.
 Did you notice that the female have gotten SEXIER since " The Little
Mermaid"?  (BTW, I'm GLAD they changed the ending.  I read the original
ending and it sucked)  Also, The female eyes have gotten LARGER, giving
them an anime appeal.  With " The Hunchback of Notre Dame", Disney take
another leap in our direction.

Even though, the movie is "kid modified" (e.g. No blood shown), the movie
still has a remarkable amount of material for older vewiers.  There is
adult material place in the movie in such a way that it will go right
over childrens heards.  Here is a list of
not-usually-seen-in-Disney-materials from the movie:

Multiple men getting kicked in the nuts.

Woman getting her face bashed to death in cold blood.

Religious setting

a sentual dance (she keeps her clothes on, though[phooey], but she does
spin around a pole!)

LUST as a major plot point

The guy does NOT get the girl (some other guy does)

Granted, they do force a happy ending.  But then again, the ending to the
original was very very very depressing.

The film also feature computor assisted crowd and "zooming".  Not to
mention special fire effects that gave me goosebumps!  It also sports a
musical score that would make Andrew Loyld Wbber jealous!

Even tough I can't be cartain, I'm open to the possibillity  that Disney
may not be our enemy, but a friend who is trapped by big-movie-bussiness
and is not completely free.  Major motion picture do NOT like to risks
more bombs.

This is Ironic coming from me because untill I saw "Hunchback", I was an
"Anti-Disney" otaku.  I went in not paying my own way and with a closed
mind and left applauding.



My major beef with "The Hunchback" and other Disney animated movies is not that they 
don't use adult scenarios.  Disney's had these types of moments for a long time now.  My 
major disappiontment with Disney (when it comes to adaptations and their major movies) 
is how they feel they're one step removed from God when it comes to rewriting them.  Far 
as I can tell, most folks have not griped at Disney because they didn't have nut-kicking 
or sex.  The gripe has been with the stories themselves where Disnay has, on many an 
occasion, shown little regard.

The closest Disney has gotten thus far was "Gargoyles".  This was a show with immence 
potential. It had mature plots, insanely good writing (I knew the head writer/editor), 
realistic characters, great animation, music score, voice actors, and The Company (tm) 
FUBARed until it was unrecognizable by the end of the second season.  

What now, you might ask?  "The Adventures of Goliath" on ABC Saturday mornings is what 
this show will be reduced to this fall.

In terms of maturity.  In terms of being "not as bad as we thought."  Disney's got a 
loooooong way to go.



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