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To: little jeremiah
I always hated Pinocchio as a child, couldn’t read the book (started) and didn’t watch it. Gave me creeps, just like Alice in Wonderland.

I disliked both of those myself. Looking back, a lot of Disney stuff was creepy to me even as a kid. I have cut Walt a lot of slack over the years, but not too much any more because I don't think he could have been totally clueless about his minions at the "Magic Kingdom."

594 posted on 07/18/2020 7:34:54 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: niteowl77
I disliked both of those myself. Looking back, a lot of Disney stuff was creepy to me even as a kid. I have cut Walt a lot of slack over the years, but not too much any more because I don't think he could have been totally clueless about his minions at the "Magic Kingdom."

Even the old Disney was pretty weird. There was a lot of stuff that was from European paganism in his movies.

Bambi was one of the early movies that preached the "man is evil, nature is wonderful" mantra. Notice the owl, who is a natural predator of rabbits, was friends with Thumper. There were no natural predators in Bambi.

Pollyanna opened with a naked ten year old boy swinging into a creek.

Lots of references to sexualized underaged girls in Peter Pan, particularly the mermaid lagoon.

601 posted on 07/18/2020 7:58:50 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: niteowl77

A couple of months ago I ran into a 10 minute youtube on the creepy background of Walt Disney and the whole thing. I never could find it again. Very well researched. Alwasy weird.

When I was a child I watched Mouseketeers etc and once I threw up afterwards, I was about 5. After that I hated m.mouse. Ha!


643 posted on 07/18/2020 9:39:40 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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