Disney

[Doreen Rich]

Everything "Disney" was better when Walt was alive. His was the 
imagination behind all of the truly classic Disney cartoons & movies. 
He would probably be appalled at the newer cartoons & movies that are 
being turned out in *his* name, now. He probably would have liked 
Lion King, though.

Doreen, who also grew up on Disney and loved Donald Duck to pieces! 
(never did like that rat, though)



--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Ebony Elizabeth Thomas" <ebonyink at h...> 
wrote:
> TGMO, everyone!  (TGMO=Thank God Monday's Over...)
> 
> Scott wrote:
> 
> >Most of you are also completely anti-Disney, but I did grow up on
> >their animated movies as my main source of cinematic enertainment,
> >and I don't think I'm worse for the wear. I'm also not your typical
> >example, I mean how many other 11-12 year olds saw the animated
> >"Hunchback of Notre Dame" (which was horrid) and then went on to 
read
> >Victor Hugo's classic. (Confession: I didn't read the WHOLE thing
> >but...)
> 
> I'm a Disney fanatic!  One of America's best twentieth-centuty 
> contributions, IMO... I mean, as a kid I thought Orlando, FL was 
Paradise.  
> I don't mind my fairy tales being sugar-coated from time to time.  
I even 
> liked Pocahontas a little bit (puts fingers in ears to stopper 
screams from 
> horrified listies) because I took it as pure fiction.  I wouldn't 
dare show 
> it to a social studies class during a lesson on the colonial 
period, of 
> course...
> 
> My favorite "old school" Disney movies have got to be Sleeping 
Beauty 
> (Maleficent!  The Three Fairies!) and the Three Caballeros ("who 
says so?  
> We say so!").  My favorite new Disney movies are Aladdin and Mulan 
(yes, I 
> *know* that neither does justice to the original legend... begone, 
thou 
> purists!  ;-))  And my favorite live-action Disney is Summer Magic 
with 
> Hayley Mills... I know all the songs in that one.
> 
> Now, my sisters would say Bedknobs and Broomsticks, or Mary Poppins-
-they 
> love any movie with magic.  (Yes, they both can't wait for the 
Harry Potter 
> movie--neither are leisure readers like me, but it "looks real 
> interesting".)  The three of us choose Nickleodeon, Disney, and the 
Cartoon 
> Network or family-oriented movies over R-rated flicks and HBO when 
we're all 
> over my mom's house.  At ages 17, 20, and 23... our extended family 
teases 
> us because of this, but we don't care.  Besides, our younger 
cousins and 
> neighborhood kids love for us to babysit.
> 
> So don't apologize for your Disney upbringing, Scott!  I'm sure not 
going 
> to.  :-)
> 
> Random thought:  The Disney Channel used to have *much* better 
programming 
> when it first premiered in the 80's.
> 
> --Ebony (who apologizes for the gush--she just happened to be 
listening to 
> her "Classic Disney" boxed set when she opened Scott's post!)