Posted on 11/21/2017 1:22:51 PM PST by ColdOne
Not just Disney. In Bugs Bunny’s early “three bears” (tell me more about my eyes) there appears to be a nudie picture or calendar on the wall.
Actually, to be fair to Lasseter (and I’m not exactly a big fan of him after his stunt with Cars 2 and Brave, not to mention the Technopus incident and him and Iger pretty much shutting down hand drawn animation, Disney’s forte), he’s not nearly as bad compared to the others caught in similar scandals recently. Not that what he did was good, mind you, but at least he’s going for women who are actual adults, not to mention actual women, instead of children or even the same sex, possibly even both. And besides, at least he didn’t make an extremely crass comment about he wouldn’t “know her if she sat on [his] face”, not to mention made an “apology” that was evidently very self-serving and insincere, unlike a certain other Disney animation chairman (*cough**cough*Jeffrey Katzenberg*cough**cough*). Heck, so far as I know, he didn’t even try to photograph upcoming starlets while he was not only naked and spanking his monkey, but also forcing said starlets to watch (I know someone who had to go through that. Luckily, from what she said, the next time her agent suggested she go to that photographer, she didn’t go to him at all, so she at least actually did the smart thing and avoided that photographer the next time.).
Still, very inappropriate stuff and very unbecoming of a family company nonetheless.
Yeah, I don’t really recall much sexual images in Disney. Unless you count Lady and the Tramp, and even there, at least it was actual dogs engaging in it and it was a bit oblique. In fact, probably the only instance of this I can think of was maybe... Hunchback of Notre Dame (which quite frankly it being created was a mistake, and not just because it trashed Catholics even WITH the archbishop being a force of good, but also because the story was flat out inappropriate, and besides which it seemed to double down on inappropriate themes). I guess you could count The Bimbettes and the featherduster maid in Beauty and the Beast, though, especially when they looked a bit too much more beautiful than Belle did.
Ariel doesn’t count, considering that mermaids barely wear much clothes in their standard forms anyways, and besides, if anything, she’s actually a LOT more clothed even in mermaid form than usual art for mermaids (at least she’s wearing a top. If you look at standard art for mermaids, they’re baring all).
Heh, you thought that was dirty? Wait till you see one of the Private Snafu cartoons, there’s a LOT more explicit nudity there, especially female nudity (one of the later cartoons which seemed more like a Bugs Bunny cartoon with Snafu and some Japanese soldier actually had a pretty blatant nudie pic seen among Snafu’s possessions).
I knew someone who was trying to sue Disney for stealing his drawings or ideas or something for Cars. Of course, he wasn’t getting anywhere with big bucks Disney.
This is the first I’ve heard of it. I know there was a lot of complaints about The Lion King apparently ripping off Kimba the White Lion, not to mention the whole mess where Jeffrey Katzenberg plagiarized A Bug’s Life with his DreamWorks film Antz, though.
It never made the news. He is just a little nobody small fries and not worth headlines. He filed against them and they were in talks but that’s as far as it got. He had proof with a video of his cartoon but Disney has big time lawyers.
Think you can direct me to this video?
No, haven’t spoken to him in years and don’t remember his youtube account the video was on.
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