Disney movies based on serious dark stories
Disney movies are big companies in Hollywood, precisely because audiences know exactly what they are getting. Do you want to sing, dancing animals? You know it! Want year after year of continuous disappointment Star Wars Suites? You have it too! Do you want a troubling and morally complex story featuring murder, mutilation, public hangings, and troubling racist tropes? Well, you have Tha-! um ... Wait, what?
Although there is probably very little out there that has associated the mouse house with a clearly disturbing tariff, the truth is that there should be way, many more of them. Since Walt Disney first picked up an old battered copy of Cinderella, read the scene where the ugly sisters-in-law hack off parts of their own feet to fit them into the glass slipper, and say "you know what?" That would make a Awesome children's movie, "Disney movies have been borrow their plots from some seriously dark places. You've probably heard before fan favorites like Little Mermaid are based on disturbing originals. You probably have not heard that this description could apply to almost any Disney classic.
1 Everyone in our lady's hunchback dies horribly
Disney le bossu de notre-Dame est un film de famille sur les gargouilles de chant et comment Hollywood ne peut pas laisser un mec laid obtenir la jeune fille, même dans son propre film. Notre Dame de Paris, de Victor Hugo, est un tome français du XIXe siècle sur la façon dont les monstres peuvent se cacher à l'intérieur de nous tous. Si cette phrase vous fait vous demander comment quelqu'un pourrait faire une animation de bien-être de lui, vous n'êtes pas le seul. Disney largué la plupart du roman quand ils ont apporté à l'écran en 1996. Bien joué, aussi. Le livre d'Hugo est cauchemardesque.
Commençons par Esmeralda. Dans Disney Take, elle est la forte volonté ethnique stéréotype qui vole le cœur de Quasimodo avant d'épouser un autre homme. Dans le roman, c'est la pauvre gitane qui attaque Quasimodo, et qui finit l'histoire pendue publiquement pour un meurtre qu'elle n'a pas commis. Wow, c'est... différent? OK, alors que diriez-vous du capitaine Phoebus, qui commence le film comme un personnage moralement ambigu avant de devenir un héros à part entière. Eh bien, il commence le livre comme un coureur de jupons moralement ambiguë et finit par refuser de sauver Esmeralda de la potence parce que sa mort signifie qu'il sera en mesure de commencer à baiser son cousin.
Enfin, il y a Quasimodo, qui finit le film accepté par la société parisienne malgré sa laideur. Dans le livre, il disparaît après avoir tué son père substitut, seulement pour que son cadavre soit déterré des décennies plus tard, s'accrochant pathétiquement à celui d'Esmeralda. Oh, et il se fait torturer sur le rack pendant deux heures plus tôt dans l'histoire, parce que bien sûr qu'il le fait.
2 Pinocchio kills Jiminy cricket
The story of a puppet who wants to be a real boy, Pinocchio has both charmed generations of children who identify with his naughty protagonist and traumatized generations more with this super-screwed-up scene where kids begin to turn into donkeys. If Walt Disney made an entirely faithful adaptation of Carlo Collodi's 1881 Italian novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, he would have traumatized many adults, too. Forget the growth of an unexpected pair of donkey ears, the original Pinocchio features the puppet killing his own best friend.
It's not an accident or anything, it's just a murder. You've probably seen the Disney movie and know cricket as the grumpy but ultimately wise mentor of the capricious puppet. Well, in Collodi's version, this wisdom does not have time to appear. As Britannica explains, hardly cricket has entered the narrative that Pinocchio kills him with a hammer.
If you think it's bad, Hoo-Boy, you underestimate how twisted Collodi's imagination was. Pinocchio in the book is a price jerk. He steals the Geppetto wig. He laughs mockingly in the old man's face. It is perhaps not surprising that Chapter XV ends with a group of assassins lynching him from a tree. The last line shows the last breath leaving Pinocchio's throat and puppet apparently dying. Of course, he is finally saved in the next chapter, but there are still things you probably should not put in a children's novel, and the lynching of the main character is one of them.
3 Oliver and Company's breathtakingly anti-Semitic origins
Usually, any Disney movie made from a book ends up becoming the definitive version (see: Everything else in this article). This is not the case with Oliver and Company, a 1988 movie that took Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and turned all the characters into cats and dogs. Well, almost everyone. The naughty Bill Sikes is always human, just like the adorable rascal. All this brings us to the problem with Dickens' original story. In the novel, he is less "naughty adorable" than he is "bad Jewish stereotype" (via the telegraph).
Ever wondered why he was obsessed with money? Or actually kidnap children? This is because these are two things pagan society thought he knew about Jews in the early nineteenth century, with them being in league with the devil. Then Dickens' second novel is full of descriptions designed to make the sound as Jewish and diabolical as possible. He has a huge nose, tangled red hair, long black nails, and fangs that are like "a dog or a rat." Or Dickens' shyness on Mr. Smith's legacy. The only other Jew to appear in the book is described as "younger than him, but almost as base and disgusting in appearance."
"But it was a different time!" The most depressing corners of the Internet Cry, "surely everyone was basically racist at the time?" Ha, if only. When the book was first serialized in 1837, it prompted readers to complain about its anti-Semitism.
4 The fox and the dog: gassing puppies and rabies
1981, the fox and the dog is best known for having an anticipated credit for Tim Burton and being a moral confusion. Come the end of the movie, Fox Tod and copper dog may have proven that they can still be friends in a society that does not want them to be, but they are also keeping their distance and not actually acting as friends to all. There is no moral ambiguity in Daniel P. Mannix's original novel. As far as Mannix seems concerned, the only possible message is the nature is horrible, everything dies, and the death of gassing of baby animals is a totally legitimate subject for a children's book (via Tor).
In the book, Copper and Tod are not old friends. The only connection they have is that Tod has managed to get the copper dog-killer chief killed after luring him in front of a train, and now the copper and his master have vowed revenge. All the rest of the book is just two of them trying to kill Tod. Tod alternately escapes and seduces Vixens, and many animals die of the wicked dead.
It's a book in which the occasional murder is just how everyone rolls. In two separate sections, Tod imbues a Vixen, which gives birth to little ones. Both times, the copper follows these Cubs and his master gauze them to death in their sets. At the end of the book, everyone just has a little rage. Who said that the film can never be as good as the book?
5 Tarzan really doesn't like black people
It could be a minor film in Disney's canon, but in 1999 Tarzan is mostly merry good fun. Featuring both a serious action, and one of the darkest dead on the screen of a villain in the Studio's story (Clayton hangs unintentionally), Tarzan is exactly the sort of classic fare almost nobody could oppose. A good reason for this could be that the film owes more to the countless other Tarzan and Jane adaptations over the years than Edgar Rice's original Burroughs stories. Burroughs wrote in 1912, when American race relations were at their nadir. As a result, Tarzan of the monkeys often feels like he is coming straight from the Alt-right.
ThoughtCo describes the most reprehensible moments. Tarzan's biological father is called a member of "The Higher White Races." thanks to his questionable Kickass genetics, Tarzan himself is like a Superman designed by Joseph Goebbels. Her Capa cities are derived from her white skin as naturally as the bunk bed. The few black Africans who surface in the novel are described as "Wild Negroes" with "bestial faces. Meanwhile, the white guy living wild in their forest still manages to look dashing handsome, despite being bred by animals.
There is also the way Tarzan continues to kill these Africans. Of course, he has a reason, in that one tribe killed his mother-ape adopter, but, as PS Mag points out, the kind of collective punishment he dishes is strangely similar to Leopold II's contemporary actions in Congo. Not really family, huh?
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6 The jungle book: Beats Savage for screwing up
The jungle book is one of those movies that already causes Disney headaches, since many people think King Louie is a kind of racist stereotype. Yet that does not mean at least not casual viewer will go back to Rudyard Kipling original stories and be surprised that they are less than PC. In fact, they would probably be more surprised by the amount of physical violence that Mowgli suffers. Far from being easy-going mentors, the versions of Baloo's book and baGheera beat Mowgli's devil every time he screwed up.
The guard has the details. Kipling was not just a hack that has romantic Indian jungle. (He did well in romanticism colonialism, but that's another story.) He was a guy who was born in the British Raj in Mumbai, and he knew how much wilderness on the subcontinent was. So he brought all this into his series of jungle books. When Mowgli does not swing properly from a few vines, he gets a beating for his efforts. When he disappoints Baloo, he gets "as severe a beat as you might want to avoid." Get out the haunting descriptions of nature, and the jungle book is basically a story of animals lining up whale Outta Tar a poor kid.
7 Bambi is basically the dead scene mom repeated ad nauseam
1942 Bambi is notorious for killing the title person's mother in a disturbing way that "I cried when Bambi's mother died" is basically the Go-to statement for people who want to prove that they have a soul . Readers of Felix Salten's original 1923 book laughed at such sentimentality. The world of salt paintings is rough. So hard that death is almost banal. Far from being a friendly children's book, Bambi: a life in the woods is a non-stop account of all the miserable ways everything can die.
As Tor explains, there is not a single entity in the Austrian countryside that we do not see in its final agony. During the winter scenes, we get extended descriptions of hungry fur-bearing animals, perhaps based on Salten's own experiences of growing up hungry. During the spring scenes, we get hunting animals that eat other live animals. In the summer, men come with weapons and pull half of the cast iron to death. And in the fall, Salten takes the time of his unstoppable slaughter to explore what goes through the spirit of a leaf as he does with it and dies.
If it sounds depressing, you do not know half. There is an argument that Bambi is Salten's allegory for Jewish persecution at the beginning of the twentieth century (via the Jewish Review) and that hunters are ruthless pagans, while the deadly fox is Rising fascism that would soon devour half from Europe. No wonder Disney dropped Hitler-Fox in favor of a talking rabbit.
8 Mary Bubbins is in fact an educator of hell
It is said that P.L. through absolutely hated the 1964 Disney adaptation of his novel. Julie Andrews: Mary Poppins was too sweet, too kind and too classy. She was exactly the opposite of the rude-around-the-edge working class baking through had envisioned. Not that Disney would have ever made a literal representation on the screen of the magical nanny through. The original Mary Poppins is an elemental and pagan spirit with a sadistic vein so wide that it would make Mr. Banks shove his pants.
This harsher version of Poppins is there right back when she arrives at the children's home. While the movie floated down gracefully on an umbrella, the book threw it against the front door during a terrifying, elemental storm (via the Guardian). Travers also gives him the social skills of Sheldon Cooper, writing that she "never wastes the time to be nice," and having her constantly at the speed of the kids to get out of the line. Of course, all the magic is still there, but it is pulled through with a series of darkness. When one of the children disobeys him, Poppins turns the spawn of evil into an image on a plate (via Britannica).
Like Poppins, his family is even worse. One of his cousins is a pagan snake god who loves to eat himself and gives the nanny the questionable gift of his own shed skin on his birthday. Is there anyone reading this not hoping Disney is doing a faithful adaptation right now?
9 Peter Pan is only the biggest moron
In 1953, Disney introduced the filmgoing world to Peter Pan, the mischievous boy who whipped Wendy far to the imaginary land. At that time, the literary world had already known Peter for 50 years, beginning with J.M. Barrie 1904 playing Peter and Wendy and his 1911 new adaptation. They also knew he was not just mischievous. Peter penned by Barrie went beyond wickedness and into a sort of transcendent space of saccade. Put simply, the original Peter Pan was a Schmuck.
Examples of Peter's behavior fundamentally all boil down to Peter acting as a psychopath while Wendy appears as her helpless Enabler. On the original flight to the imaginary, little Michael falls asleep, only for Peter to repeatedly drop him out of the sky. The text is quite specific as Peter treats all of this as a game. Wendy has to continue begging him to come down and catch the baby before he crashes, and it's clear Peter could get bored and let Michael die at any time. Then there are Peter's activities in the imagination. Aside from killing the Indians, he fights, he also likes to change sides from mid-battle and fight the lost boys just for kicks. It's even a little understatement that Peter occasinoally killed lost boys to clear up the flock.
But the biggest difference comes when Wendy and company decide to go home. In the movie, they wake up in their beds to discover just one night has passed. In the book, it's been months and their parents are half heartbroken.
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