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.
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Dumbo 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.
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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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Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase is the fourth and final installment of the series of Scooby films made before the style changed. These four movies are distinct. The clothes are distinct, the villains are distinct, and art style — though a little varied — is distinct, unique to these four movies alone.
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After Witch’s Ghost, there comes a notable divide in the four movies. A lighter tone that started with this movie and only grew with the next. It is the last time the late Mary Kay Bergman plays Daphne due to her passing in 1999. And, to me, it is the last of the four movies to really feel like a film with Scooby characters rather than just a stretched out episode.
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After the surprising success of Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, Warner Bros. Entertainment started seeing dollar signs in the Scooby-Doo franchise again. And with those dollar signs came increased executive oversight and movies, much more movies.
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Ah, October.
The time of year where obnoxious kids and teenagers bang on your door demanding sweets I don’t have. People won’t shut up about spooky skeletons. And sadistic teenagers and adults scare the life out of people for fun.
So, what do I like about Halloween?
TV.
While I’m not fond of the holiday itself, I do like the Halloween specials that used to air but rarely ever do anymore because big coroporations think they’re above re-running holiday specials. I especially liked Scooby-Doo marathons, so to me October was not Halloween season as much as it was Scooby-Doo season.
And this Scooby-Doo season, I’m going to visit some Scooby movies. Why not continue with the original show or any of its successors? Because I want to talk about Zombie Island. So let’s get started.
Continue readingScooby-Doo, Where Are You: S01E01 – “What A Night For A Fright”
I love Scooby-Doo. I know it doesn’t seem like it considering that I never even knew the day the show aired, let alone that it’s fifty years old, but I love all things Scooby-Doo, even when I probably shouldn’t (like the live-action Scooby-Doo movies).
So, I’m going to try and do something I’ve been thinking about all year, says the author whose been silent for the bulk of said year.
For the Halloween-laden month of October, I plan on visiting at least four Scooby-Doo related things. And I want to start it off with that which started the Scooby-Doo franchise:
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Revisiting Fiction 