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My Top 5 Female Disney Characters
This is not me procrastinating, honest. I was just doing more research for the next post and realised there are some rather cool female Disney characters that don’t get shouted about all that often....
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Tarzan vs. Tarzan of the Apes
Set in the early 20th Century, Disney’s Tarzan is the story of a man who is raised by apes in the wilds of Africa and discovered by his own kind years later. Cue the “nature versus nurture” argument,...
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My Top 5 Disney Scores
I don’t know much about music, but I know what I like, and there are several Disney scores that have stuck in my mind long after the film has finished. Unfortunately, these pieces usually get shafted...
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame vs. Notre-Dame de Paris
The 1996 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame saw Disney take more than a few risks with their storytelling. Featuring darker adult topics such as religious genocide and lust, it also toed the line with...
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Disney Play Cupid: 7 Couples They Had to Clean Up
You’d be hard pushed to find a Disney film without a spot of romance, but is the same true of their original stories? The short answer is yes, but that doesn’t mean that they have the same outcome, or...
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Tangled vs. Rapunzel
Our first foray into CGI Disney, Tangled is based on the tale of Rapunzel, the girl with the long golden hair who uses it as a ladder to let people into her tower. Interestingly, the DVD box says the...
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Disney vs. Nature #1: Brother Bear
It’s not just the source text that requires Disney to tweak their stories, either for the sake of cinema, or to avoid reducing their average audience to a quivering mess of tears and denial. Mother...
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Disney vs. Nature #2: Dinosaur
Long ago, on an untouched Earth, giant lizard-like animals walked, grazed and hunted in their millions. Can you imagine a more awesome sight? Disney couldn’t, hence their first non-Pixar CGI project:...
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Pocahontas vs. The Story of Pocahontas
Given the liberties Disney have taken with some of their stories, most audiences will take their films with a pinch of salt. However, if it’s based on the life of a real person, the resulting taste...
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Five Characters Disney Took to the Dark Side
Disney’s recent acquisition of Lucasfilm (and subsequent demolition of Lucas Arts, boo!) has reminded me that they can be just as adept at ramping up the evil as covering their characters in glitter...
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My Top 5 Male Disney Characters
I haven’t posted in this section for a while, so I thought I would add my undoubtedly long-awaited list of favourite male characters. I should probably say from the outset that I don’t have a thing for...
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Disney vs. Nature #3: The Lion King
With Prince George continuing the Circle of Life here in jolly old England, what better time to revisit The Lion King, until recently the highest grossing Disney film of all time and the first without...
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The Fox and the Hound vs. The Fox and the Hound
It’s rather apt that Disney’s The Fox and the Hound and Daniel P. Mannix’s The Fox and the Hound are about as compatible as, um, a real life fox and hound. Part of the reason was good old fashioned...
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My Top 5 Mute Disney Characters
Sometimes the characters that say nothing can be the most compelling. We can only gauge their emotions through their movements, reactions or the musical score, if we can gauge anything about them at...
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Mickey the Merciful: Part One – Who Disney Saved
Some of their characters have surprisingly horrible ends, so Disney don’t always shy away from including darker elements in their films. That said, there are still occasions when they can’t compete...
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Mickey the Merciful…? Part Two – Who Disney Killed Off
Continuing our (my) bout of morbid fascination, let’s now look at some characters who survived the original but were doomed by Disney. Yes, this does actually happen from time to time, as these four...
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The Rescuers vs. Miss Bianca
With its female co-star, female villain and subliminal female nudity, Disney’s The Rescuers saw more ladies get the limelight. Released in 1977, it was a testament to Bernard and Bianca’s prowess. Not...
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My Top 5 Stupidest Disney Secrets
Some Disney characters will do idiotic things for the power of love, their pride (literal or not), or just to keep the story exciting, and this usually involves keeping secrets. They say hindsight is a...
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Disney Play Cupid Again – 4 More Couples They Had to Clean Up
Due to popular demand (read: one request), I’ve once again played matchmaker between Disney couples and the originals. All four dates went terribly, but that’s what you came to see, wasn’t it? #4:...
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Frozen vs. The Snow Queen
Christmas can be full of excitement, snowy landscapes and family bickering. So what better time to look at Disney’s Frozen?(1) Based on The Snow Queen (2), it’s about two sisters forced apart by fear...
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