Posted on 02/15/2023 8:10:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
The Hundred Acre Wood has seen some pretty unsettling things over the years. A honey jar shortage. Rather blustery days. The omnipresent threat of a Heffalump.
But in “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey,” a new microbudget R-rated horror film, Pooh wades into far darker territory than even Eeyore could have ever imagined. After 95 years of saying things like “A hug is always the right size,” Pooh — newly freed from copyright — is now violently terrorizing a remote house of young women.
Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Eeyore and Christopher Robin all became public domain on Jan. 1 last year when the copyright on A.A. Milne’s 1926 book, “Winnie-the-Pooh,” with illustrations by E.H. Shepard, expired. Just a year later, Pooh and Piglet can now be found on a murderous rampage in nationwide movie theaters — a head-spinning development that’s happened faster than a bear could say “Oh, bother.”
In the next 10 years, some of the most iconic characters in pop culture — including Bugs Bunny, Batman and Superman — will pass into public domain, or at least their most early incarnations. Some elements of Pooh are still off-limits, like his red shirt, since they apply to later interpretations. Tigger, who debuted in 1928’s “The House at Pooh Corner,” isn’t public until 2024.
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Because perverts can never leave any good thing unsoiled.
I am pretty sure that democrats reincarnate back and forth as hordes of locusts
when do the Disney classic characters become available?
Micky Goofy Donald etc
< shrug >
Learn to live with it. People do all sorts of stuff to Shakespeare. Check out “American McGee’s” take on Alice in Wonderland. They even tried to turn Jesus into a “superstar”.
Open season on Mickey starts very soon.
Or the awful, horrible things Peter Jackson did to “The Hobbit”.
Or the awful, horrible things Peter Jackson did to “The Hobbit”.
Or the awful, horrible things Peter Jackson did to “The Hobbit”.
Dragging it out into three movies was his first sin ...
South Park's cigar-smoking, cussing, violent, totally corrupt Hollywood magnate Mickey Mouse is epic and 100% accurate. It's probably why Disney didn't sue them.
Peter Jackson actually got permission from the Tolkien estate to do those things though. Well, he may not have gotten permission for each individual transgression, but he did get permission to do his adaptations.
Well, Disney didn’t sue them because they would have lost. Satire is a protected use.
Disney suing them would have just been lawfare, but the South Park guys and Comedy Central (and whichever conglomerate owns them) are big enough that Disney can’t intimidate them just by threatening a lawsuit.
DANG!
Ya but the movie was still great fun! Very....inventive.
Can’t wait for Steamboat Willy to enter the public domain and Disney loses control, but I am sure they have already paid off enough DC crook to assure that will never happen.
Eeyore is not in this movie. When Christopher Robin goes off to college the Pooh characters become feral because there is no one to feed them. Subsequently they chow down on Eeyore. His tombstone is in the movie.
(The reason is the rights to his character have not became available in the public domain)
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