Posted on 07/14/2019 7:28:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Like more or less everyone I know, I have no desire to see a single entertainment company take over the future, dominating what had been a movie industry of multiple entities, each one fighting for their slice of your attention span. Disney, the movie studio so powerful that it ate another movie studio, looks, to many, like it could be that company. The full impact of its absorption of 20th Century Fox has yet to be felt, but now that the smoke has cleared, the mega-corporation that was formed stands before us like an unprecedented colossus, looming over all other studios, maybe over the entertainment business itself.
Yet let’s be clear: It’s not just, or maybe even primarily, the size of the company that is giving people the shakes. It’s the fact that a single film corporation now seems to own everything worth having — at least, in stark capitalistic blockbuster terms. Disney owns Marvel, it owns “Star Wars,” it owns “Avatar,” it owns the fabled animated features that it has been using to mint live-action-remake megahits as if it were printing money. What’s still on the table — “Godzilla”? The shards of “Harry Potter”? [snip]
Viewed according to the logic of 21st-century fantasy culture, Disney doesn’t just suddenly own all the properties. It owns all the mythologies. Long ago, Hollywood was called the Dream Factory. The intimidation factor of the new bulked-up, bursting-with-franchise-moxie Disney is the suspicion that a single company has become the Dream Factory. And the anxiety this has provoked is about something beyond market share. What a lot of people are wondering is: Will Disney now have the power to control our dreams?
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Only if you watch their crap.
Everyone is wondering what franchise will be acquired and ruined next.
Disney - America’s Ministry of Culture.
I don’t watch any of that stupid crap. It’s for brain dead zombies.
I’m not afraid of Disney.
I’m done with Disney, because Disney has become evil, perverted and stupid.
Disney media is rife with suttle sexualization, specifically targetting the innocence of our youth. You don’t have to look far to find extensive compilations of the filth that is “hidden” in plain sight in their movies going back to the beginning. They have a clear agenda and are a major part of the phenomenon coming to light with the Epstein arrest. Evil.
Even when Walt himself was running it, I found it objectionable that he would take classic stories such as Felix Salten's Bambi: A Biography from the Forests or Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio and proceed to make hash of them.
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Long Live Bugs Bunny!
Disgust is not fear.
Exactly
Walt bought the properties so he could put his mark on them. The theme of his park was The Happiest Place on Earth. He took that approach to movies, not realism but fantasy and joy for children.
I simply have nothing to do with them at all.
I’m pretty happy about it.
Disney himself would be repulsed by modern day Disney.
I wonder why author Owen Gleiberman is so worried about the number of studios but not that the entire industry is run by one particular, clannish and highly nepotistic ethno-religious minority?
The Mouse has grown into The Nutria!
Its all programmed entertainment....for long term viewership...real insipid crap aimed at young minds...keep away....
It sounds harmless, but most people now do not live with nature, or agriculture so their knowledge of wildlife, hunters, ETC is straight from Disney with no reality mixed in.
I grew up on a ranch in the forest. I knew about wildlife, I saw it every day. I knew about hunting. I had reality to go with the fantasy. I somehow could process that there were magical mice that helped Cinderella in a movie at the same time my mother was fighting a constant war with real mice that wanted to share our old house.
The one sided view is not really Disney’s fault but it has led to things like reintroducing wolves, harassment of hunters, the list goes on.
I truly loved and still do the magic Disney brought with the fantasy. I knew it wasn’t reality though.
yes, me too. I liked disney for the westerns on sunday night like Crockett and El Feuego Baca. My sister loved the animation.
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