[Billthedrill]

The problem started with the "re-imagined for Today's Audience" nonsense that permeated the writing rooms and directorial salons of Hollywood over the last decade or so. "Today's audience" apparently consisted strictly of the purple-haired nose-ringed denizens of campus political correctitude writing for, to, and about themselves. Unfortunately they don't number enough to fill a single theater. Noise isn't substance and talk isn't cash.

What is most apparent is that nobody in the creative chain at Disney had the faintest idea of what the original meant both to the audiences of the time (what was happening in Europe in 1937/8 was really most disturbing) or to audiences since. It had to be changed - why? - because certain people - who? - thought they could do better. That has to register as the apotheosis of bloated egos and enshrined ignorance that typifies the degeneration of Western culture through which we are currently suffering. Keep your old DVD's of the original is my advice, before they are made a crime to possess.

[nopardons]

Perhaps the parents of these morons NEVER read them fairy tales when they were little.