Posted on 07/07/2023 7:52:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How do you fix Disney, a company that seems hell-bent on destroying billions of dollars worth of intellectual property from The Little Mermaid to Indiana Jones?
Following Walt Disney’s untimely death in 1966, the company bearing his name entered a long creative and quality slump. Disney even lost direction, badly trying to outdo Star Wars with The Black Hole and producing “edgier” fare like The Devil And Max Devlin. By the late ’80s, though, the company got back to Walt’s roots in classic animation with The Little Mermaid, beginning a decade-plus creative renaissance.
Then the bean counters took over and cash-flush Disney started gobbling up other people’s creative content — Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel Comics — instead of creating more of their own.
“Who cares about the quality? Just keep the content coming,” became the new attitude. I couldn’t begin to count how many Marvel series are streaming on the money-losing Disney+ service, but I can tell you that only two of the entire lot were worth watching. The damage done to Star Wars is so serious that a new movie hasn’t begun production in six years. An unbearably smug young woman — the heroine! — punches out 80-year-old Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie, projected to lose at least $200 million. Nobody knows any longer what a Pixar movie is supposed to be, including the management at Pixar.
The rot, it stinks.
Even worse, two-time (and current) CEO Bob Iger introduced wokeness to Disney’s brand, in effect gutting all those golden geese.
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I’m not sure they want to be fixed.
Disney needs to go out of business completely.
best thing to do is just kill it.
What would they do with one of those and why would someone like that work for them. Disney isn’t in that business any more.
I was thinking in terms of a 50kt nuke.
“An unbearably smug young woman — the heroine!”
That seems to be a recurring theme with Disney. I’ve stopped watching the Marvel movies due in part to the obnoxiously woke female characters.
They probably don't even think they're broken in the first place.
The problem is not a lack of creativity, it’s a lack of Objective Moral Values vs Subjective, redefine good and evil.....
Every show they have now has to make Evil Good, and Good Evil. It’s what they do.
Dig out the archive and replay the Wide World of Color/Disney Movie Shorts (maybe replace Walt’s intro with current star but do not do WOKE) Re-establish Disney as clean, patriotic entertainment.
Chopak was a left wing disaster for Disney, who has been going downhill for decades. Iger has removed many of the woke internal workings but not nearly enough.
Walt Disney was a staunch conservative- one of the strongest during his time. If there was a Tea Party in the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, Walt would’ve been the face of it. When LBJ gave Walt the Medal of Freedom, Walt wore a Barry Goldwater pin on his lapel,
Its a great idea but i doubt they even consider someone as Conservative as Walt Disney.
Lot of stories of Walt not being the good guy everyone thinks he was.
They should add an otter character. Otters are much cuter than mice.
Look at otters playing basketball - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDvT-UlULCc
They probably think they are being creative with all this wokeness!
Former Bud Light Vice President Alissa Heinerscheid is available… she’ll fit right in.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, has always been good advice.
Unfortunately, Disney doesn’t see that they are broken. They are though. Much like Bud Light, and every other woke organization. They’re all broken because of their wokeness.
First bring back Mr Disney’s labor intensive & expensive, but well worth it hand drawn cell animation.
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