Is / Was Dumbo secretly gay?
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Posted on 10/24/2022 11:09:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
One of the better, indeed perhaps even the only good, Disney live-action remakes was Tim Burton’s Dumbo. It largely stuck to the story, wasn’t particularly woke, wasn’t filmed in Xinjiang (where the concentration camps are) like Mulan. No wonder stock holders are crushing the company; with all those bad movies, who would still want to hold its stock?!
In any case, fans who loved Tim Burton’s “Dumbo” will be sorely disappointed if they were hoping for a sequel, or even just another Disney movie from him. Done with the company and calling it a “horrible big circus,” Burton is gone, taking his skill and leaving.
Such is what IndieWire recently reported about Burton and his decision to leave, saying:
Speaking at the Lumière Festival in Lyon after receiving the Prix Lumière, Burton revealed that the 2019 film likely marked the end of his long-running creative relationship with Disney (via Deadline). He began his film career as an animator at Disney before Warner Bros. hired him to make his live-action directorial debut on “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure.” He returned to work with Disney on films like “Ed Wood,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Frankenweenie,” and most recently, “Dumbo.”
Burton believes that the entertainment landscape has shifted to the point where it no longer makes sense for him to collaborate with the entertainment giant. He explained that his experience working on “Dumbo” made him realize that Disney had gotten too big for him.
Relating his experience at Disney to the In Burton’s words:
“My history is that I started out ther. I was hired and fired like several times throughout my career there. The thing about ‘Dumbo,’ is that’s why I think my days with Disney are done, I realized that I was Dumbo, that I was working in this horrible big circus and I needed to escape. That movie is quite autobiographical at a certain level.”
Burton also spoke about his 1989 “Batman” movie and how it set many of the tropes used by today’s Batman movies, particularly the darkness of the film, which now feels “lighthearted” compared to contemporary Batman movies. In his words:
“It did feel very exciting to be at the beginning of all of it. It’s amazing how much it hasn’t really changed in a sense – the tortured superhero, weird costumes – but for me, at the time it was very exciting. It felt new.
“The thing that is funny about it now is, people go ‘What do you think of the new ‘Batman?’’ and I start laughing and crying because I go back to a time capsule, where pretty much every day the studios were saying, ‘It’s too dark, it’s too dark’. Now it looks like a lighthearted romp.”
It’s too bad for woke Disney that Burton is leaving, he was one of the company’s better filmmakers. But perhaps he’ll take his talents somewhere less woke and have the opportunity to produce films people want to watch rather than have a once-great company try to push him into making gross, woke movies.
I don't think this is Burton's way of secretly criticizing their wokeness.
So many horrible bug circuses these days. So little time....
agreed
I didn’t notice any direct critism of ‘Disney’s wokeness’ either. It looks like Burton was saying Disney is stuck using the same basic formulas to create drama and tension that he begn using many years ago. Now it all seems to homogenized.
I didn’t notice any direct critism of ‘Disney’s wokeness’ either. It looks like Burton was saying Disney is stuck using the same basic formulas to create drama and tension that he begn using many years ago. Now it all seems to homogenized.
Maybe, but the live action Dumbo still ditched the jive talking black crows...
Haven’t been there since 2017-—we used to go twice a year every year. Also, we had the Disney bank card, shopped online at Disney, etc——like I said, we haven’t given them a penny since that time and won’t go back unless they change and apologize and pay reparations!
Don’t let your grandchildren anywhere close to anything Disney.
What, you mean She-Hulk wasn’t a big success?
What I noticed was that much of the charm had been replaced by concrete in order to manage longer lines, e.g. no more funny gravestones to look at while waiting in line for the Haunted Mansion.
The only good thing was that they started serving beer, so I was able to take the edge off a bit of waiting in long lines... which was replaced by my anger at how expensive the beer was!
The headline is so misleading. I didn’t get the idea Burton was leaving because Disney is too woke.
Dumb headline
Wait...they took out the funny gravestones at the haunted house? Seriously!! That was one of the things I looked forward to-—”Here lies Fred, a big old rock on his head”.
Is / Was Dumbo secretly gay?
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A congress of woke MBAs (monkey reference) can do that to a business.
I didn't know he was part of the Disney studio system. Glad he left them!
"Big Fish" was so bizarre and funny."
His filmography says he was an animator on Tron back in 1982, before his directorial debut in Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
He "acted" in "Men in Black 3" as the alien on TV Monitors. Kind of like the Alfred Hitchcock cameos in all of his movies.
My all time favorite is the "Pull the String" music video with the spooky theremin from "Ed Wood," starting Lisa Marie as "Vampira." Good gosh, she is such an amazing dancer and SO sexy in that video (she was a professional dancer and studied ballet for eight years). She was also the Martian Girl in "Mars Attacks."
I’m glad woke Disney is getting punished, but as with pro sports, I don’t really care what happens to the industry.
There are profoundly important institutions on the verge of ruination by the Left - Freedom of Speech, Truth in Education, Equal Justice under the Law, Fair Elections, Border Security - to name just a few.
The fate of the Entertainment industries should be the least of our concerns.
In fact, the most destructive trend in the entertainment industries today is not their perverse influence on society, which is alarming, but rather the wholly undue importance placed on them in the first place.
By placing so much importance on sports and entertainment, we have stupidly appointed hundreds of empty-headed clowns as opinion leaders, and role models for our children.
We literally have confused, thrice divorced (or more) sexually perverted movie actors regularly giving relationship advice on talk shows. We literally have drug-addicts giving fitness tips. We literally have bi-polar narcissists giving mental health advice. We literally have people lecturing us about self-acceptance who have had so much plastic surgery that they are unrecognizable.
And when these celebrities speak, people applaud. It’s nuts.
I live 2 hours from dw........I wouldn’t go there if it was a week free pass, hotel room and limo to and from.........NOPE.
Burton’s Batman: The film was directed by Tim Burton and stars Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough, and Jack Palance. The film takes place early in the title character ‘s war on crime and depicts his conflict with his archenemy The Joker.
Box office: $411.6 million
Budget: $48 million
Music by: Danny Elfman
Produced by: Jon Peters, Peter Guber
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