The Disney Corporation...

We are here to discuss the corporation, Disney. We are here to discuss the largest name in the children's entertainment industry. We are here to discuss the corporation that has completely mastered every level of the media, in the entire world. It is usually not surprising that when corporations get this big, so overwhelmingly large, that there was –is- some shady tactics involved. Maybe, however, it is inevitable for corporations to get that large, for them to become so unstoppable. So powerful. Becoming completely schizophrenic entities, without any moral values, when compared to the human psychology. But Disney, especially, has despicable tactics for marketing. The first and most prominent, and, so frustratingly obvious yet notorious, grievance of the Disney Corporation is the traumatizing of the child in regards to the losing of the child's parents. This can be said of almost ANY Disney movie picked at random. The first (of many) examples I will conjure is one of the films to which I hate the most, "the lion king". Let me give you some quotes from the movie: "Banzai: We gotta finish the job. Shenzi: Well, he's as good as dead out there anyway. And IF he comes back, we'll kill him. Banzai: [calling out to Simba] Yeah! You hear that? If you ever come back, we'll kill ya!" Ah…and who could forget this lovable scene: "Scar: Simba, Simba. Please. Please have mercy. I beg you. Adult Simba: You don't deserve to live. Scar: But, Simba, I am family. It's the hyenas who are the real enemy. It was their fault. It was their idea! Adult Simba: Why should I believe you? Everything you ever told me was a lie. Scar: What are you going to do? You wouldn't kill your old Uncle...?" And… "Scar: Oh where have I seen this before? Oooh, yes, this is exactly the way your father looked before he died. And here's my little secret... I killed Mufasa!" Sounds like great material for a rated G movie, doesn't it? Honestly, the only reason they can get away with this is because they are colorful cartoon animals. But I state that in essence, the child sees the lions as people and relates with the lions, because they talk and act like people. It is deeply wrong to have a children's movie about an adult trying to kill the main character child. It is very, very wrong to have a story line about an uncle murdering the father of a child, and then trying to murder the child, after blaming the child for the death of his own father. That traumatizes the child on a deep level. Watch this, or as much as you can take: http://www.youtube.com... Tell me that isn't traumatizing. The whole story of the Lion King revolves around the murder of the child's father. His father is murdered savagely, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE KID LION. If I told you there was a movie about a child watching his father THRPWN OFF OF A CLIFF AND TRAMPLED by stampeding animals, and it was rated G, you would gasp in horror, but then when I explained that it was animated, and about animals and by Disney, most people would let it slide. Almost every single Disney movie at least has the lack of parental presence, the past death of a parent, or the death of a parent during the movie. It is full fot hese subliminal messages, such as the prince of the forest telling innocent little bambi: "Your mother can't be with you anymore" What message does that give the kid? And who could forget when, in the pirates of the Caribbean 2, a father is reluctantly forced to whip his son's back into a bloody mess. You will refute by saying that this movie was pg13, but it is quit3e obvious that the movie was targeted for young audiences, just look at this: http://www.biblio.com... Somehow, I doubt people over the age of 13 are going to enjoy coloring books very much, so it is obvious that Disney is TRYING TO SHOW IMAGES OF FATHERS WHIPPING THERE OWN CHILDREN . Another one of the best exaomples is "tarzan" in which the child watches both parents eaten by a cheetah. Some gorillas adopt him, but tarzan strives for the the acceptance of his gorilla dad. And JUST AS SOON as the gorilla dad accepts tarzan as his son…get this…THE GORILLA DAD IS SHOT AND KILLED IN FRONT OF HIM. Disney has a very strict formula for their movies, and they couldn't POSSIBLY allow the movie to end with tarzan having a father…even if just a gorilla….that's sick. Also, "finding nemo", and that is pretty self-explanatory, the whole plot revolves around the separation and grief as a dad and son are seemingly hopelessly sperated. But…at leats they let the dad live…unlike the mother (they hate mothers the most) who was eaten by a shark as soon as the movie started. The father got it easy…in comparison…but it is so obvious what it is about when watching the nemo movie, that it makes me want to throw up. They recycled the plot of finding nemo with another movie about lions, but I forgot what it was called. But when the same, horrible, plot is used in parallel, two times, the pattern is especially obvious. After my younger cousin saw "The Tigger Movie", he was playing games where he said "I'm gonna go find my real family!" to his parents, in imitation of the beloved tigger. How, then, can you deny that it passes subliminal messages? Below is a list of characters that have been orphaned Aladdin (Aladdin) – orphaned and homeless; petty crimes for food and shelter • Annie (Annie) – orphan adopted by rich single dad • Ariel (The Little Mermaid) – dead mother, rebellious teen who runs away to be with a man • Aristocats – Marie, Berlioz and Toulouse – three kittens raised by a single mother • Bambi (Bambi) – raised by single mother who is murdered, has never met his absent father • Belle (Beauty and the Beast) – dead mother, raised by single father • Cinderella (Cinderella) – dead mother, raised by abusive Stepmother and neglectful, absent father • Dumbo (Dumbo)– raised by a stigmatized, depressed single mother • Elliot (Pete's Dragon) – orphaned, runaway from abusive foster parents, adopted by single mother • Hercules (Hurcules) – son of gods transracially adopted by humans • Lilo (Lilo and Stitch)– orphaned, raised by older sister • Mowgli (The Jungle Book)– orphaned, raised by 2-male heads of household (bear and panther) • Mulan (Mulan) – cross-dressing teen girl with intact, multi-generational family unit • Nemo (Finding Nemo) – dead mother, raised by single overprotective father • Oliver (Oliver & Company) – orphaned kitten transracially adopted by rich girl • Peter Pan (Peter Pan) – orphaned, troublemaker and gang leader of Lost Boys • Penny (The Rescuers) – orphaned girl kidnapped from orphanage • Pinocchio (Pinocchio) – wooden toy adopted by aged creator Gepetto • Pochahontas (Pocahontas) – dead mother, raised by single father • Quasimoto (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) – physically disabled male adopted by evil church minister Frollo • Simba (The Lion King) – father murdered by uncle, raised by 2-male heads of household (meerkat and warthog) • Sleeping Beauty (Sleeping Beauty) – parents transferred custody to 3 fairies • Snow White (Snow White & the 7 dwarves) – dead mother, raised by abusive Stepmother and neglectful father • Tarzan (Tarzan)– orphaned, transracially adopted by gorilla family That is not even CLOSE to all, either, the actual list, which I can't find, is much bigger. From the evidence I have provided, to all people reading this, I ask you to re-think the Disney corporation. How can parents take their children to the movie theaters to see these movies about people's parents being murdered? Does that not seem a tad strange? The children then grow up to show their children Disney movies, and the process goes on, unimpeded, and not enough people are stopping and saying: "Hey, wait a minute. That's not right." The psychological ease of a child is extremely important. Don't let disney ruin it. -Harla