A Disney Sword and Sorcery Film
Like many of you, I've been hearing a lot about Pixar's upcoming film, Onward about a suburban adventure film with elf fantasy characters. I'm a fantasy fan myself, but I'm not really that into "low fantasy".
Low Fantasy is taking fantastical elements or creating a fantasy world and having it coexist with the modern world. Examples of this include the works of J.K. Rowling and Rick Riordan. I am a fan of these authors and think their books usually make for the best Fanfiction stories because you can take these characters and easily put them into any real world scenario. I've even written a few Harry Potter fanfics which you can check out at Fanfiction.net. I write under the same pen name as the username I have here on wikia.
But aside from tha…
Is there a hidden message in Hercules?
We’ve all talked about how some films contain hidden messages, some positive, some negative. But there is one message in Hercules that I think is woven throughout the story rather well.
There’s a line in The Muppets where Kermit says, “Maybe you don’t need the whole world to love you. Maybe all you really need is one person.”
I think this same line applies to Hercules. Here’s how;
Hercules himself starts out longing for a hero’s welcome when singing, ‘’Go the Distance’’ and he thinks that proving himself a true hero is the way to get it.
Eventually after he arrives in Thebes, defeats the Hydra and many of Hades’s other monsters, he becomes the most famous person in all of Greece, even being made into an action figure. But Zeus tells him that h…
Does the Blue Fairy count as Pinocchio's mother?
I've been watching Pinocchio again, and it got me wondering... since Gepetto carved and made Pinocchio's body and the Blue Fairy brought him to life, should she count as his mother.
I mean, think about it; Gepetto made one half of Pinocchio and thus became his father, the Blue Fairy gave him the other half.
What do you think?
How Maleficent could have been better
For those who don't know, I have a particular dislike for the Maleficent movie. It plays out like a piece of bad FanFiction, conforming to all the typical dumb FanFiction cliches, including character bashing and straying away from the plot to such a ridiculous degree. It goes against everything that defined the Maleficent character, as well as the original Sleeping Beauty, and just panders to those who like villains, including Wicked fans. This doesn't help, because it was ten years after Wicked first came out and it wasn't quite as refreshing anymore.
I only saw it once, when my mother made me take my little sister to see it. Looking back at it again, I think I could have told the story much better.
Here's how I could have told it much bett…
Do Little Kids Really Know Earlier Disney Films That Well?
I just saw this video on YouTube of a couple of little kids opening up the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection Toys from McDonalds. They opened the sets from both 1996 and 1997 and seemed to know most of the characters fine, except for a few.
When they opened the box for AristoCats, they didn't recognize Scat Cat. When they opened the box for Pete's Dragon, they didn't recognize Elliot. When they opened up the Sword in the Stone box, it took a while for them to recognize Merlin.
All of this is understandable,
But...
When they opened the Bambi box, they didn't know Bambi was a male, not a female.
And what drives me mad are two things:
First, when they opened the When they opened the Lion King box, they assumed the figure was Mufasa and not the Adu…