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LadyApocalymon · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject:

Well, if I'm allowed to support my opinion... Smile

I agree with you, Hourglass, but I also think that dividing the audience so starkly like that makes Disney movies seem too commercial. Yes, most of them are, but the early 90s Broadway films like Aladdin were made by incredibly talented people on all fronts (animators, voice actors, composers/lyricists) and those people were striving to make movies that would appeal to everyone - not just children. I am reminded of a quotation from the Aladdin DVD, though I cannot remember who said it - one of the animators, I believe.

"People say, 'Oh, you've got the monkey for the kids and the Robin stuff for the adults.' We don't think that way at all. We put in what's funny to us, and hope that it will be funny to other people, too."

As I am pulling that from my memory, it is not word-for-word, but the gist is my main point. Yes, these movies contain no adult language or explicit content; yes, they are animated; and yes, they are marketed towards children - but that does not mean that they are "childish," or in some way inferior to other films.

I'm not saying Disney films aren't for children - obviously, they are! I'm just making the point that they aren't ONLY for children. If they were, most of us wouldn't be here at this board, now would we? Wink

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Hourglass · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject:

Jas · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:52 pm Post subject:

AladdinsGenie · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject:

Well, Pocahontas was a movie that was kid friendly, but was definitely geared towards the older folks. I still look at the movie blankly the whole time unless Flik, Percy and Meeko are on the screen making me laugh. That's a movie where they've got the dog and the raccoon for the kids and the native American and the Englishman stuff for the adults.

I never really watched it when I was younger because a lot of the stuff I see now went over my head and I just didn't get it. I was used to something zany happening and when I didn't see that I didn't watch the movie.

Same thing with HBOND. I just stared at it unless the gargoyles or Djahli was on the screen making me laugh.

I appreciate these movies now that I am older because I am older. But I also appreciate and understand more of Aladdin the older I get as well. When I was 10, I so didn't get why my dad was laughing when Genie said "I thought the earth wasn't supposed to move until their honeymoon?" Now I do

So, I'd say they make a movie for all ages and keep all in mind, but it's just a matter of how much you understand at your age that makes it more enjoyable.

Salukfan · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject:

Personally, I like the movies that seem to be more 'adult' more than the ones that are more 'childish' (I don't like that term, but it's all I could think of)

Beauty and the Beast and Hunchback of Notre Dame are my two favorite features, and both of which are more adultish. BatB is, to be, the best example of Disney going for all ages. The music, plot, etc catch you as a kid, but as an adult, the love story seems...better, I don't know. And "I'm especially good at expactorating" is brilliance. Laughing

HoND obviously has the adult factor. As a kid, I didn't like it- at all. But when I watched it for the first time in years about 2 years ago, I *loved* it. I cried, I laughed, I shunned the gargoyles... and Hellfire is just so awesome.

There is a trend now of more Disney films being "adultish". I'm thinking Atlantis, Treasure Planet, and Brother Bear (the beginning, anyway). I like the trend, myself.
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LadyApocalymon · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject:

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