08/12/2009 - Walt Disney

[FireAza]

I had actually noticed this years ago: nearly all of the famous Disney films (The Lion King isn't based on a fairy tale, but it still doesn't count because it's a knock-off of Kimba the White Lion ) are not original stories! I guess the man was more about the technical proficiency of his animation than story-crafting. But yeah, I guess this makes him one of history's earliest fanfic writers

[Sorinev]

Nice. Brilliant.

[sorakirei]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Just what I needed this morning.

[darcerin]

Beat him Liz, beat him with all you've got!

This made me truly giggle, and I'll have a smile on my face for the rest of the day with that line.

[Pseudowolf]

(The Lion King isn't based on a fairy tale, but it still doesn't count because it's a knock-off of Kimba the White Lion )

I've never seen Kimba so I can't speak to that, but I always felt The Lion King was loosely based on Hamlet.

[Laharl]

Yes, Simba's based on Kimba.

And I've never thought about it. Walt Disney is just the world's most successful fanfic writer.

I'll never see the world the same way again.

[Brent Sienna]

Yes, Simba's based on HAMLET. Maybe Kimba was based on it as well, but it's definitely Hamlet that was one of the sources for The Lion King... and Kimba was another.

And I've never seen it that way, but I'm afraid your dear hubby's right.

Disney's a fanfic writer.

Dagnabbit! Double-Post is... unneccessarily double.

Delete please!

[Brent Sienna]

Yes, Simba's based on HAMLET. Maybe Kimba was based on it as well, but it's definitely Hamlet that was one of the sources for The Lion King... and Kimba was another.

And I've never seen it that way, but I'm afraid your dear hubby's right.

Disney's a fanfic writer.

Now I'm waiting for "Walt Disney's Perry Copper and the Sorceress' Tome"

[Suntop_Kinseeker]

Greg I love the punchline!!!! I hope she does beat you down. How dare you call Walt Disney a Fanfic writer it is like calling Miyzaki-sama a tracer. Disney did use some Grimm but he used other stories, like the so famous Kimba/Simba (Kimba the White Lion/Lion King) I'd say more of a movie maker of the poems/stories and something is ALWAYS lost in translation. I'd call Walt Disney a translator.

In the ORIGINAL Black Cauldron the winged demonesses had no bikinis but thanks to those wonderful parent groups who force their crap about "Oh put bikinis on those women they will hurt our kids! Our kids are so fragile that they will be forever broken if they saw DRAWEN BOOBS! I hate parent groups I mean IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT THEN DON'T BUY IT!

[bagheadinc]

Don't fanfic writers use the pre-existing characters and/or universe to make a separate story? Disney films don't extend the stories, they rewrite them. Disney films aren't fanfics, they're remakes.

[adciv]

That has been done with fanfics as well. Some take the existing characters and make alternate universes.

Oh yes, don't forget Hans Christen Anderson's, The Little Mermaid.

[StruckingFuggle]

Oh yes, don't forget Hans Christen Anderson's, The Little Mermaid.

What the hell is that second comma there for? o.O

[Mae Dean]

Specifically to, annoy you.

[JermCool]

Who gives a fuck about an Oxford Comma?

[StruckingFuggle]

The oxford comma is the comma placed at the end of a list of multiple items, such as when you're told to pick up milk, butter, and eggs. So why're you asking who gives a fuck about something that's not even under discussion?