Walt Disney Hated His Mother
When it comes to most Disney animated movies, has anyone else ever noticed the disturbing trend that the mother figures are either portrayed in a negative fashion or are DEAD? I have noticed this for awhile now and it seems to have ALWAYS been like this and still is today. To start, let’s go through some of the early classics:
Cinderella – Mother dead, evil stepmother
Snow White – Ditto
Sleeping Beauty – Ditto
Bambi – Mother shot dead by hunter
Dumbo – Mother chained up and taken away saying she was crazy
Pinocchio – Father, but no mother
Who doesn’t tear up a bit when they watch these classic movie scenes: 😥
Now, the trend continues with some of the newer classics:
Beauty and the Beast – No mother even mentioned
The Little Mermaid – Ditto
Pocahontas – Ditto
Aladdin – Jasmine, ditto, and Aladdin is an orphan
Mulan – Grandmother, but no mother
Finding Nemo – Mother and “siblings” eaten
There are a few exceptions as well. In some cases, the fathers are JUST as easy of a target:
The Lion King – Father killed
Toy Story 1-3 – No father ever mentioned
The Jungle Book – Mogley is orphaned and raised by jungle animals
Tarzan – Ditto
Lilo and Stitch – Orphaned
Pretty messed up when you think about it, isn’t it? I should mention that Lady and the Tramp and 101 Dalmatians feature both parents, human and animal, alive and well, but they truly are in the minority.
So the next time you take your kids to a “nice, family oriented Disney movie” just think about the legacy good ol’ Walt REALLY left behind… and be sure to arrange for some therapy for them afterwards. 😯
Hysterical POV!
Maybe Walt read too much Freud?
Thanks for brightening my day.
I never put it all together like that to observe the trend! Now I’m wondering if Disney had a mother and/or what kind of mother she was.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/waltdisn/mother.asp
This was a fun, although dark, perspective. But it made me go look up Disney’s parents.
He did have a mother who died in 1938 at the age of 70. He felt guilty for her death because he and his brother had bought her a house and while she like the house, she complained of fumes from the furnace. Nobody could find the problem and she ended up dying from asphyxiation because of the fumes. From everything I read she was an enjoyable and well liked person.
Interesting perspective. I had never even though about it even though I’ve seen most of them dozens of times.
As Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty were tales collected by the Brothers Grimm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/article.html
Disney just plagarized them.
As they are the most agregious of the Anti-motherhood themes, I will have to really look at the ones that may actually have been written by Walt Disney.
It really is amazing. I wonder if any studies have been done. There certainly does seem to be a clear pattern. Awesome blog!
*2 Kudos*
I was all ready subscribed! That is some trippy stuff you’ve mentioned regarding the great Walt… For damn sure this guy has been a name that was more well known than perhaps any other to kids of my generation. I have been to both Disney parks, ‘world’ and ‘land’ as a kid and both occasions truly were kinda surreal and magical. On one of the rides that had moved very fast I had vomited and watched either the wind or centrifugal force carry it from its intended projectory of to the ground…. and into the chest of some big adult who never knew the origins of that magically moving vomit stream. I felt like crap about that but was all ready wise enough to keep my trap shut and forego the heartfelt apology in favor of staying alive.
About Walt, the rumor was when I had been in the service, that he had been dishonorably discharged from the Navy. And even back then I could hardly care any less about that. This dude was a giant in his own right and a phenomenal success… beyond the likes of any general or admiral I’ve ever met no matter how many ribbons they wore.