disney swipes from classic literature

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little mermaid = splash

who can forget the classic novel "splash"

freaky friday = to the lighthouse

Jungle Book = Heart of Darkness

aladdin = the sheltering sky

fantasia - les miserables

i wanna see fantasia again cuz when i saw it as a kid i felt SO ripped off.

hey guys its really easy to make jokes you know whats harder actually thinking of real examples of this

b-b-b-but beauty and the beast is a brothers grim fairytale

Freaky Friday the movie was actually based on Freaky Friday the book, written by Mary Rodgers, pub 1972. It's actually shockingly great, I never saw the movie(s) but had written off the book as some kind of fluff/trash, and I got mine when it turned out to have a great, wry, modern feel. Recommend, thumbs-up!

and if yr trying to tell me splash aint classic lit'rature then i dunno know what to say. RIP JOHN CANDY.

ORANGE WHIP?

0RANGE WHIP?

Tarzan is classic literature to me, and the Disney animation was actually more faithful to the original books than most of the live action Tarzan films.

I have the Freaky Friday book AND the Foxes book too!

Aladdin seemed to borrow either from Thief of Bagdad or a large bag of cocaine.

Lilo & Stitch = Stranger In a Strange Land

large bag of cocaine.

robin williams, no doubt

Monsters Inc = Leigh Hunts' classic Ahh! Real Monsters

serious answer: '50s fred macmurray classic "the shaggy dog" is based on some old medieval novel i believe

i like how "the jungle book" is basically a piss-take on the (v. v. serious) original story.

lion king has some prince hal/henry v stuff going on too.

lion king = dune = henry iv

young prince learns to be the great king by growing up among the rejects of his society. it can't be that hal is the 1st instance of this idea, but i don't know where it came from earlier

Guys I was serious about Lilo & Stitch! Friendly alien with great powers makes human friend, although I guess L&S's 3rd act or whatever didn't have big hippy orgies.

makes human friend but their powers are dangerous oh no!...I meant to say.

Yeah, I'm with cutty. I don't get this thread.

Isn't Beauty and the Beast based on...Beauty and the Beast?

Also Aladdin, The Little Mermaid and the Jungle Book? Cinderella? Sleeping Beauty? These ARE classic literature, are they not? Wasn't Lion King the first Disney animated feature NOT to be based on classic lit? (Yeah, except it was totally Hamlet)

Hmm, above post came across more humourless than anticipated.

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It is unsafe to be a parent in a Disney movie. They die right and left. It's almost as dangerous as being the young soldier who shows off a picture of his sweetheart in a combat flick. Dead inside of ten minutes, tops.

townspeople at the end of beauty and the beast: frankenstein (the movie)

Yeah. Cocteau's 'Beauty and the Beast' is very influenced by the '31 Frankenstein, and in turn the Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' owes lots of it's style to Cocteau's.

Actually, a Disney 'Frankenstein' might be pretty interesting...

there's an early Tim Burton short that he made for disney called "Frankenweenie" where a young Victor brings back his dog, with Shelly Duvall, Daniel Stern and a 13-year-old Sofia Coppola. Disney thought it was too disturbing for kids and fired him as an animator. But Burton being Burton, it's actually kind of cute. I think he's remaking it as a full-length. Once a twee-goth...

The original novel Bambi is being retranslated into English so that it’s more true to the original as a parable against antisemitism?