Dark Disney

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• anyonefortennis Posts: 111,858

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  02/02/14 - 18:34 #2

  lizm wrote: »

  http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a546742/maleficent-lana-del-rey-sings-once-upon-a-dream-in-new-trailer.html
  
  What happened to Disney? This is a bit dark for small kids:o

  
  There's always been darkness in Disney films and cartoons. Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Bambi, Dumbo, Pinocchio, The Lion King 101 Dalmatians and many others.

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• Johnny Clay Posts: 5,328

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  02/02/14 - 18:48 #3

  ^ True, it's nothing new.
  
  Disney's live action output went noticeably darker in the late seventies onwards: The Black Hole, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Watcher in the Woods, Tron etc.
  
  Box-office returns weren't that great, IIRC. But Disney continued to explore less kiddie-minded fayre with the formation of their Touchstone Pictures offshoot, which proved very successful.

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• lizm Posts: 989

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  02/02/14 - 19:38 #4

  Yes... there is a lot of dark in Disney films but I suppose I was shocked by the horns and 'there is evil everywhere...' comments with such dark imagery. It's more blatant especially in such a short trailer.

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• LudwigVonDrake Posts: 12,836

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  02/02/14 - 20:35 #5

  Disney has never been a "small kids" company, they have always set out to entertain the family, and more so in recent years (as mentioned above) through Touchstone Pictures and their acquisitions of Marvel and LucasFilm.
  
  There's more to the company than a few "cartoons".

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• Aneechik Posts: 20,208

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  02/02/14 - 23:35 #6

  Kids like scary things. We always forget that as adults.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 11,482

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  02/02/14 - 23:59 #7

  Kids hate adults fighting, we tend to forget that too.

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• David Waine Posts: 3,413

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  03/02/14 - 00:33 #8

  Maleficent is a retelling of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' (1959) and Angelina Jolie is made up to look like Maleficent in that film - complete with horns. Like many of Disney's best films, it is based on a fairy tale. If we, as adults, re-read the fairy tales we loved as children, we might be surprised to discover just how horrific they are.

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• D. Morgan Posts: 4,166

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  03/02/14 - 02:46 #9

  Kids much prefer to be scared than bored.
  
  I remember my absolute fascination with Sleeping Beauty and 101 Dalmatians because I was terrified of Maleficent and Cruella.

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• lizm Posts: 989

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  03/02/14 - 02:58 #10

  LudwigVonDrake wrote: »

  Disney has never been a "small kids" company, they have always set out to entertain the family, and more so in recent years (as mentioned above) through Touchstone Pictures and their acquisitions of Marvel and LucasFilm.
  
  There's more to the company than a few "cartoons".

  
  Fair enough but parents do tend to take small kids to see the new Disney movies...

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 7,488

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  03/02/14 - 03:24 #11

  Disney dropped Guillermo del Toro's Double Dare You imprint, so I doubt it'll be too scary...

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• Johnny Clay Posts: 5,328

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  03/02/14 - 04:11 #12

  lizm wrote: »

  Fair enough but parents do tend to take small kids to see the new Disney movies...

  Which is why the trailers and other promo material have to make clear what they're in for.
  
  After that, it's down to the parents.

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• dodrade Posts: 23,845

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  03/02/14 - 05:32 #13

  Return to Oz is pretty dark, especially compared to the Judy Garland film.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,387

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  04/02/14 - 04:57 #14

  dodrade wrote: »

  Return to Oz is pretty dark, especially compared to the Judy Garland film.

  But it's a bloody good film. As a kid (even now) I prefered Return to Oz to Wizard of Oz. ^_^
  
  Everyone always forgets The Black Cauldron, which is a very dark Disney movie -- which I also loved as a child (and still do!).
  
  As other people have said, there's a darkness to most Disney movies, but kids tend to love it. My boyfriend's brother has adored Nightmare Before Christmas since he was 5.

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