The Evil Of Disney

[poliphilo]

I'm told that Werner von Braun- the scientist who built rockets for Hitler (slave labour was involved) and later for NASA, also designed rides for Disney.

I love it. A life that links the Third Reich, the Space Race and Disneyland deserves to be novelized- deserves to be turned into the biggest of block-buster movies.

I've always hated Disney. The way his factory turned all those great children's stories into formulaic, sentimental kiddie-feed. Pah!

Note the word "hate". Not "dislike". This an affair of the passions and not so far removed from love. The animation in those early films- Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo- leaves me gasping with admiration.

And I have a weird, twisted regard (as you may have guessed) for Mary Poppins and its companion-piece, the under-rated Bed-knobs and Broomsticks.

That Disney magic- an evil spell cast across children's entertainment for more than half a century, so that rivals felt they had no choice but to attempt to do the same thing only worse: how glad I am- how very, very glad- that Pixar has escaped from its shadow!

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[silent-mouse.livejournal.com]

I never liked Disney's Winnie the Pooh as well. But I was raised watching the russian animation movie Winnie the Pooh - where Winnie the Pooh looked like this or like this. Now of course it looks strange to me - the colors are not as vivid as in Disney movies, but still worth looking at. Here's IMDB record for it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211729/ , but I'm not sure it was transalated to English.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Gosh- I never know there was a Russian Pooh.

Ain't he cute!