. I am just find it all a bit too nice
It is hard to explaine, maybe I am just a cynic but I find them overly twee. It is also the whole trademark disney thing. "Disney's hunchback of notredame" or "Disney's snow white" as though they wrote those stories. I do appreciate the impact disney has had on entertainment and film making but they do tend to mangle things. I am just find it all a bit too nice
I worked on Disney show once as well, years back and they are utter perfectionists and work their people REALLY hard. Now sometimes this is what is needed but it seemed to go too far imo.
I just don't like the films much but they have certainly been influential and bought enjoyment to millions. I think there is just something which annoys me. Each to their own though
Ah.. I assure you though, they're not as nice as they seem, if you pay attention closely. Aladdin indirectly called a man an ass. "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" implies Nala and Simba had sex.. and then there's the subtly gay characters. Even with this I admit Disney's lighter than what I normally like, but it's nice to be able to watch and be entertained by something "softer" every so often. In my opinion, focusing on nihilism and excess cynicism is unhealthy. There's enough of that junk out there when you're not looking for it.
I took a unit on social context at University. I wrote an essay about racism and Orientalism in Disney films for my exam. Aladdin and Aristocrats being just two out of many examples.
Of course, everything is more politically correct today than it was when those films were made.
This is so off-topic that I forgot what thread we were in. Apologies.
Ah, Disney and racism.. I still get miffed when people bring up Jafar. He looks nothing like how I see an Arabic man, his face is much too long and thin. Aladdin was originally going to be a child but they made him a teen because they didn't want his mother in the picture anymore. And since he became a teen, they decided to make him attractive [not intentionally trying to add "white features"].
Lion King and the older movies don't have many excuses though..
Ah, Disney and racism..
Lion King and the older movies don't have many excuses though..
Walt Disney's racism has deep roots:
This may be, but Walt Disney's anti-semitic views are well documented.
Have any of you written - or read - stories in which there's a disabled character whom some readers (even yourself) would consider not really disabled not on the basis of "it doesn't impair them enough" but because that perticular condition isn't seen as a real disability (as in, "that doesn't count")?
I'm probably not asking this question clearly enough... Say, for example, you've got a character who's around 85 years old (or whatever the equivalent is for "advanced old age" for that character's species) and has bad arthritis (or similar) in his/her/its legs (limbs used for locomotion). Since this is often considered a normal part of growing old in our society here-and-now, would it be considered "not a real disability" for a fictional character? And does that matter? If "it depends," how/when/why does it?
For that matter, what is the motivation for writing a story in which one or more characters is disabled? Is it to make a point about disabilities in general? Is it because that particular character needs some kind of impairment to move their personal growth through the story? Is it something to make the character more interesting/less like other characters?
I've seen the "it doesn't count" approach regarding Tyrion Lannister.
I've started writing short essays on disabilities and using them in RPG games without excluding the character from action. So far, I've covered cerebral palsy and hearing impairment.
Speaking of, any such characters in fantasy fiction?
For that matter, what is the motivation for writing a story in which one or more characters is disabled? Is it to make a point about disabilities in general? Is it because that particular character needs some kind of impairment to move their personal growth through the story? Is it something to make the character more interesting/less like other characters?