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Yeah like Snow White and Alice In Wonderland and Hunchback Of Notre Dam are all dark, dark stories. Credit to Hunchback for retaining a lot of that darkness and the religious themes in the movie

 

It's so weird to see this stuff as adults. That ring around the rosey song is about the Balck Plague.

 

In the original Little Mermaid Ariel dissolves into the sea

 

Yep yep. Snow White is murdered for "sleeping" with 7 little men.

Sleeping Beauty has some dark shit too. I love it. They're borderline gothic stories adapted into children's animated movies.

 

Also regarding nursery rhymes, it's interesting that Humpty Dumpty is never referred to as an egg, it's implied that when he fell he cracked his head open, but we all remember him being an egg.

 

Being an English Major I find all of this stuff so fascinating. How people take these dark stories and shift them, or how they write these incredibly dour nursery rhymes that we all know but have disturbing implications.

 

I was reading an article about that yesterday!

 

Yeah we talked about it in a literature class. My professor said "how many of you have heard the story of the egg, Humpty Dumpty?" And we all raised our hands. He then tells us "where does it say he's an egg" and I was like whoa holy shit.

Supposedly it's written about an English kings brother I think? Who fell off a castle wall and his head cracked open and his brain spilt out. The Kings men tried to save him but couldn't. It's a really sad story.

 

My parents are making the three hour trip to an IKEA because that's the only one that's close. I'm a bit sad I couldn't go because I have a fantasy football draft.

 

I'm so happy football is back.

 

Hate when people put words in my mouth or purposefully dumb down and misrepresent what I say. It seems intentionally condescending and it's frustrating.

 

This Manadonese one family knocks on the door of the other family and asks for their daughter to marry the son tradition that is playing out in front of me is so patriarchal.

 

Hunchback is so not appropriate for kids, I can't believe I saw that shit when I was 5

 

I loved hunchback of notre dame as a kid. Esmeralda and jasmine from aladdin were my fave disney characters

 

the big realization after watching Disney movies as an adult for me is that Ariel and Simba are both assholes

 

I was Jasmine for Halloween when I was 7 or 8.

 

v problematic

 

How was Simba an asshole? He was just a kid.

 

Zazu is a nice person just doing his job and Simba is all haha your job is worthless I own you, yeah admittedly he's a kid, I just relate a lot to Zazu and Sebastian now

 

I personally like that so many people love "Hakuna Matata" as a mantra, even though one of the points of the movie is that it's a terrible mantra.

 

I still cry almost every time I watch the lion king tbh

 

when I watched it I was just with my mom because I guess my dad was working and when Mufasa spoiler alerted I apparently started crying and asking where's daddy, I also apparently walked out crying the second the Beast showed up in Beauty and the Beast

 

Free Willy scared the shit out of me when I saw it the 1st time.

 

Don't think its necessary to spoiler alert Lion King heh.

 

Snape kills Mufasa, who of course is actually Luke Skywalker's father.