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Bambi Review
Bambi is an adaptation of the much darker book, Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten. How much darker? It’s not grimdark or anything, just a far more realistic take on the survival rate of woodland animals than a movie aimed at young children would ever attempt in the U.S.. Oh, and has the titular main character realize that in order to live a long life, he must live alone. Make of that what you will.
Continue readingDumbo Review
Dumbo is an adaptation of an old book that is strangely no more by Helen Aberson called Dumbo, the Flying Elephant. You can’t really find any evidence of the thing existing prior to Disney’s adaptation except by hearsay and maybe a book cover. It’s really weird.
Continue readingFantasia Review
A fantasia is a free composition. In other words, it is the perfect title for Disney’s third full-length animated feature. And boy, is it full-length — two hours of runtime, everybody!
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Disney’s second major animated motion picture is a loose adaptation on Carlo Colldi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio. And by loose, I mean drastically condensed and overall much lighter than the book. If you want, the book’s in the public domain now and you can read all the messed up stuff Mr. Colldi decided to write about. Fair warning, the book is rather long.
Continue readingSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs Review
Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is one of the most important works in animation. It opened the gateway for there to even be full-length animated films and really helped kickstart Disney into the unreasonably massive corporation it is now. Having said that, it’s not the most beloved of Disney’s repertoire (though it got out better than Pochantus), especially it’s titular princess. I know how I feel about the movie, but let’s see if my feelings have changed since then.
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Revisiting Fiction 