need to point out that not one of these characters’ movies took place in modern times. They were in a world without flushing toilets. To have an independent, strong woman in one of these movies would not fit the zeitgeist. Perhaps one day Disney will do Joan of Arc and the kids can sing along, “I’m burning in the rain, just burning in the rain. Jasmine and Ariel both fought against their roles to some extent, albeit they fought their way right into a man’s arms. They’re
offer subtitled foreign movies, and some other companies with smaller territorial coverage. The Platform for the Language has organized a boycott in front of the Disney store in the Illa Diagonal for 12:30 this afternoon due to the lack of response to the petition that the multinational corporation dub its movies into Catalan. The Platform for the Language launched a massive letter-writing campaign to the president of Buenavista International, Mr. Kaplan, who responded offering a meeting with
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company is sticking to their official line --that their people never heard of Kimba before The Lion King was released-- even in the face of logic and evidence. As Robin Pen pointed out (in the essay referenced above), if we were to take their statement at face value, it actually means they were stupid and irresponsible. But more than that, many examples say just the opposite of the Disney statement. On July 19, 1993, Roy E. Disney referred to the central character in The Lion King as "Kimba".
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a little netiquette. Again, the links within are almost certainly defunct. connection), where people could submit all sorts of Disney questions that were then delivered to one of us for answering. is an email that defined a set of policies for ourselves. As Walt once said>: "We can be sure of only one thing: every grown-up once was a child. Now when we make a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but of that fine, unspoiled spot deep down in everyone of
these characters and move on. Look, we are in the middle of a transition all across the entertainment industry. To read into this entire story motives that made sense ten years ago is shallow thinking. I could write a book about what is happening and why. But, the bottom line of the story is this: every single model, and every single idea of planning that we have relied upon or reacted to in the past especially in the motion picture industry no longer exists. There are too many wild card factors–and
that already existed and made it their own, within the original framework. Brunner consider characters like Wendy, or Mulan. or more modern disney female roles, like in pixar movies. Pixar's stories tend to be brand new and not recycled. So, females characters aren't held down by their pre-feminist/ woman's suffrage beginnings. There are no fairy tales about someone getting a job, working hard for twenty years and buying the company. There are no fairy tales about marrying your school sweetheart
business with this site many times. Exactly!!! By tech standards, their content should be free, giving it a valuation closer to zero. >Exactly!!! By tech standards, their content should be free, giving it a valuation closer to zero. Marvel and Disney never drank Richard Stallman’s kool-aid and thus retained their sense of value. Yeah, I’m surprised there isn’t any mention of say Marvel’s digital strategy (they recently released their first comic on iTunes) versus