Thursday, February 03, 2005
Disney
What does the face of evil look like? Does it look like Adolf Hitler? Saddam Hussein? Or perhaps Nathan Bedford Forrest?
The real answer is far more sinister. To see the true face of evil, click here.
The Walt Disney Company? The embodiment of all that is evil? I'm kidding, right?
No, I'm not. Here's why.
The Walt Disney Company exists for one reason and one reason only: to make a buck. Contrary to what their PR department would have you believe, the company is not dedicated to "producing unparalleled entertainment experiences based on its rich legacy of quality creative content and exceptional storytelling." It's true that the entertainment "experiences" made by Disney are unparalleled, but only in terms of sheer crappiness. And anyone who actually believes Disney is committed to "quality creative content" and "exceptional storytelling" has never seen such masterpieces as The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea. For that matter Disney "classics" like Snow White and Cinderella are nothing more than cutesified folk tales that have been adulterated beyond recognition via the addition of anthropomorphic forest animals and painful musical numbers.
Not only are these movies bad, they have a horrible influence on kids. Disney characters are shallow and are guaranteed to conform to race and gender stereotypes. The average Disney heroine is self-centered, vapid, and weak, and her only only goal in life is to get the man. The hero's only goal is to get the girl, which I guess is pretty close to real life but still is not a good role model for kids. I guess that's what they like to call the "magic" of Disney: the magic of turning literary classics into shit and shit into gold.
The quality of a Disney film counts for nothing as long as it has the Disney name and characters you can sell. Before the movie comes out comes the hype: trailers, billboards, soft drink promotions. By the time the film itself actually appears in theaters, the Disney mind control machine will have every kid in the audience clamoring to see it. The sole point of the Disney movie is to sell Disney merchandise. Every time you watch a Disney movie you're assaulted with ads for everything from the Disney Princess Fantasy Castle to the 101 Dalmatians computer game. When kids see the ads they're going to be pleading with their parents for all the merchandise they saw on the magical TV screen, and eventually the parents will be forced to comply. Meanwhile, Disney's profits mount higher and higher. And after the last precious drop of cash has been wrung from the movie come the sequels and spinoffs, which are just as good as you'd expect and available only on video.
Disney is about making money, not about providing entertainment. Next time you're watching a "DisneyDVD" and your kid is begging for all the crappy made-in-China merchandise Disney can fling at you in exchange for lots of your money, just think about what the Walt Disney Company really stands for. When you come to the obvious conclusion, I won't say I told you so.
The real answer is far more sinister. To see the true face of evil, click here.
The Walt Disney Company? The embodiment of all that is evil? I'm kidding, right?
No, I'm not. Here's why.
The Walt Disney Company exists for one reason and one reason only: to make a buck. Contrary to what their PR department would have you believe, the company is not dedicated to "producing unparalleled entertainment experiences based on its rich legacy of quality creative content and exceptional storytelling." It's true that the entertainment "experiences" made by Disney are unparalleled, but only in terms of sheer crappiness. And anyone who actually believes Disney is committed to "quality creative content" and "exceptional storytelling" has never seen such masterpieces as The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea. For that matter Disney "classics" like Snow White and Cinderella are nothing more than cutesified folk tales that have been adulterated beyond recognition via the addition of anthropomorphic forest animals and painful musical numbers.
Not only are these movies bad, they have a horrible influence on kids. Disney characters are shallow and are guaranteed to conform to race and gender stereotypes. The average Disney heroine is self-centered, vapid, and weak, and her only only goal in life is to get the man. The hero's only goal is to get the girl, which I guess is pretty close to real life but still is not a good role model for kids. I guess that's what they like to call the "magic" of Disney: the magic of turning literary classics into shit and shit into gold.
The quality of a Disney film counts for nothing as long as it has the Disney name and characters you can sell. Before the movie comes out comes the hype: trailers, billboards, soft drink promotions. By the time the film itself actually appears in theaters, the Disney mind control machine will have every kid in the audience clamoring to see it. The sole point of the Disney movie is to sell Disney merchandise. Every time you watch a Disney movie you're assaulted with ads for everything from the Disney Princess Fantasy Castle to the 101 Dalmatians computer game. When kids see the ads they're going to be pleading with their parents for all the merchandise they saw on the magical TV screen, and eventually the parents will be forced to comply. Meanwhile, Disney's profits mount higher and higher. And after the last precious drop of cash has been wrung from the movie come the sequels and spinoffs, which are just as good as you'd expect and available only on video.
Disney is about making money, not about providing entertainment. Next time you're watching a "DisneyDVD" and your kid is begging for all the crappy made-in-China merchandise Disney can fling at you in exchange for lots of your money, just think about what the Walt Disney Company really stands for. When you come to the obvious conclusion, I won't say I told you so.
# posted by Ben @ 6:45 AM 
