The Disney Corporation...

"you talked a lot about the villain in the Lion King (his name's Scar). Now this movie was intended for adults" Twas' not intended for adults, it is rated G. I will assume that that was a mistake. "But in a kid's movie, I am expecting black and white. I expect the villain to be cruel and heartless and I expect him to die." Sure, there would be conflict…but the children should not be shown this nightmarish, intense, hatred…and children don't "Expect" people to "die", their lives are free of such alien things as death. The characters should face conflicts to overcome…but not conflicts such as there parents murdered in extremely gruesome was. "It isn't graphic. All you see are flames and silhouettes, or someone closing their eyes." The kids are not clueless of what is going on…it is still the same message…it has the same exact subliminal effect. It makes little difference for the children…who have positively magnificent imaginations. I have observed small children become very concerned with such scenes. It does not makes VERY little difference between seeing the death and seeing the shadow…and hearing the screaming agony of death…as a living entity is eaten alive by hyenas. They may not be psychologists, but there sub-conscious brain definitely picks up on this, though they may not immediately, consciously, think about it. "The difference between PG-13 and R movies is often not how a character dies, but if that death is shown." Very true…but the lion king is NOT pg-13…its rated G. 2 year olds even watch it. "This one's good, that one's bad, things are bad, now things are good. A four year old is not sitting their reading into the levels of the characters; if they're smiling than they're happy and that's good." Are you kidding? You can not justify putting these horrible scenes in a movie, simply because the ending is "happy". It does not go away…there subconscious mind keeps it there…it lingers. You can not relieve those feelings so fast. Disney movies are meant to be traumatic…and that feeling is a lot stronger than any sense of happiness that the bad guy was murdered. (on a sidenote, though this is slightly irrelevant...what if they don't see the ending?) "When I said ‘something bad', I didn't mean that the movie is going to mirror their life" Yes and Disney movies are far worse than any real life experience (99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the time) and therefore, it can not help kids in the real world…it only gives them nightmares in the real world. It does not help them…it hurts them. It makes them feel detached from their parents. "Again, too literal! I doubt strongly a kid's going to see their father die before their 5, but they might before their 50." Yes, and 50 year olds can probably watch Disney movies with no psychological effect. But, once more…the lion king is rated G. 2 year olds watch the lion king…and they should have no concern of the death of their parents…so it will only scare them. "Now, a person's tragedies might not be as traumatic as these characters', but a child watching these movies is not experiencing the tragedy for themselves, so it is not as traumatic to them." Take it form someone who spends every day with several small children, that small children are EXTREMELY absorbent…their minds are at an age to soak up anything and everything…so when they watch a character, to which they greatly relate…and think of as real…it is traumatic…I never claimed that it is as traumatic as real life…but it is still traumatic. "It's real. And even though the stories I read might make me angry and upset, I don't think any of them traumatized me because they were part of a different world. Serious trauma and pain is something that has to be experienced personally to fully understand it, and the vast majority of little kids haven't, they won't be disturbed by it." NO…it is not real…it is a nightmare more than reality…in reality, 2 year olds don't need to concern themselves with wars, slavery, or homicidal lunatics throwing their father off of a cliff in hatred, to have the father trampled by stampeding animals…and dying in an extremely gruesome way. "There's too big of a distance between Aladdin being an orphan and a toddler demanding toys." HA! You used Aladdin as an extremely soft example. Regardless of Disney's purpose, it is still traumatic…I have been speculating on the purpose for a while…the most plausible is that it is for their own commercial appeal. And once more, for weeks after my cousin saw the tigger movie, he was shouting that he "was gonna go find his real family"…so do you really think that there is no effect on the child's mentality? Once more…kids absorb everything…there minds are extremely receptive. So it is very unhealthy and insensitive for Disney to make these movies to have traumatic subliminal messages. Disney is a heartless machine to make money…like most corporations that reach such sizes. "In fact, in some small ways it was better, because the movies were intelligent and funny enough to keep my parents from hating them, and I remember my Dad being able to imitate the characters' voices and acting out skits with my action figures." Did he imitate a father reluctantly forced to whip his son's back into a bloody mess, as punishment? That sounds like so much fun, doesn't it? Did he imitate an infant watching a cheetah eat his parents alive? Did he imitate full grown adults attempting to murder little children in hatred…nearly killing them in horrible ways? Disney would be alright…if only they did not impose the nightmare-ish traumatic, subliminal messages on little children. So…please answer me: Why do you not care or ignore the fact that almost every single recent Disney movie, has a plot that mainly circulates around the idea of being hopelessy distant from parents? Would it not seem obvious that they are trying to exercise the point of being detached from parents?