{"id":20348,"date":"2014-04-23T20:25:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T01:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/?p=20348"},"modified":"2014-04-20T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T01:30:07","slug":"disneys-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/disneys-dark-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney\u2019s Dark Side and Maleficent"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve previously shared with you a list of not widely known Disney short films<\/a> and animations that are unlike what you would expect or at least\u2026 well, weird. But the weirdness stems from originating somewhere into the past while the things they addressed have considerably changed in the meantime.<\/p>\n

What we want to talk about today is a different trend in Disney movies that seems to be ongoing and growing: Disney is getting darker, it seems. Some see this as something to be concerned about, since the movies are meant for children, while others are enthusiastically embracing the change, arguing that the Disney movies haven\u2019t been solely for children for a long time now.<\/p>\n

Disney\u2019s Dark Side<\/h2>\n

First of all, let us all take a moment to remember Bambi (1941). After witnessing his mother killed by the hunter, Bambi cries and just wanders through the forest, in the snow, calling for his mother, until he runs into his dad. The dad then says: \u201cYour mother can\u2019t be with you anymore\u201d. The end. Bambi is literally the go-to nickname nowadays when one wishes to call someone a sad, sad, sad face. The countless pop culture references to the heart-breaking deer all speak of how kind of horrible the movie was. And that was only the beginning. Disney didn\u2019t stop there, oh no it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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How about The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)? Sure, it\u2019s based on one hell of a book that included many cruel and sad scenes in the first place, but Disney managed to not tone it down as much as one would expect from a company producing children\u2019s movies. The beginning of the movie features Frollo killing Quasimodo\u2019s mother in a pool of blood and attempting to drown him in a well like \u201cthe demon\u201d that he is. How lovely, right?<\/p>\n

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But nothing is quite as depressing as Up (2009): in the 4 minutes opening the film, a couple falls in love, marries, dreams of children and adventures and travelling together, only to have their hopes crushed by miscarriage and heartbreak, followed by the wife\u2019s illness and dying. If that\u2019s not enough to plant the seeds of commitment issues in the new generation, I don\u2019t know what is.<\/p>\n

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Maleficent: A Masterpiece of Darker Disney<\/h2>\n

Maleficent seems to be a masterpiece to crown Disney\u2019s dark side developed so far. Watch the trailer and it\u2019s almost guaranteed to make you look forward to it if you haven\u2019t seen it already. Even if you\u2019re not usually into Disney movies so much, there are still two compelling reasons to watch it: Angelina Jolie and Lana del Rey. One cannot think of a voice more suitable to accompany Jolie\u2019s face and the eerie beauty of Maleficent\u2019s background story.<\/p>\n

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The original song of Disney\u2019s original Maleficent version is actually a cover of Tchaikovsky\u2019s main theme of the Sleeping Beauty ballet. Probably all former kids that were Disney fans knew it, but the words and the tune seemed a bit silly ever since we grew up. Well, thanks to the gorgeously darkened Lana del Rey intense cover, not any more. I\u2019ve known this song to melt even people who weren\u2019t Lana del Rey fans, previously. Now that\u2019s a really cool way to show off Disney\u2019s dark side; listen to it a couple of times and you\u2019ll probably find it strangely intense and haunting and addictive.<\/p>\n

Exploring slightly darker themes like a villain\u2019s background story or making said villain more complex by showing what drove them to become who they are isn\u2019t the onset of an ambiguous moral compass for Disney, as critics claim, but merely a more realistic approach to the complexity of human character. Since simple black-and-white stories were kind of boring, we should hope to see more of Disney\u2019s dark side, especially if it comes with lovely goth aesthetics and more Lana del Rey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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