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For most of us, Disney movies are nostalgic, reminding us of our childhoods and the cozy afternoons we spent surrounded by our loved ones. As we grow up, our perspective changes and we reevaluate some of the things in our lives. However, we usually don’t realize that we’ve got our rose-colored glasses on when it comes to the things that make up the foundations of our childhood.
To give you a new perspective about Disney movies, Bored Panda has collected the most unexpected and unusual insights that people have had about the films, probably while thinking about them while in the shower. So scroll down, upvote the shower thoughts that left an impression on you, and be sure to share with your friends. And let us know in the comments if you’ve had any peculiar or intriguing insights into Disney movies as well.
When you’re all good and done with this list, have a look through our previous posts about the most awesome things Disney employees have ever done, how Disney characters would look if they lived in the modern world, as well as Disney comics that might just ruin your childhood.
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#1
George Digamma 6 years ago
Imagine the depiction of the human race in an alien school book, based on his cartoons.
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Among the slightly disturbing shower thoughts is the theory that because no human beings are shown on the Lion King, the film could be set during any era, like a future where humanity has gone extinct and had to become ruthless and cold-blooded cyborgs to survive. Which is both cool and terrifying at the same time.
Another insight is about how Beauty and the Beast would have to go on a monstrous shopping spree after everyone’s turned back into people (let’s just hope they get a discount at IKEA). Or how about the fact that ‘true love’s kiss’ probably means… well, you know... something that leads to princes and princesses being born 9 months later and new Disney movies being made 18 years after that.
#4
George Digamma 6 years ago (edited)
Plus, Queen is not evil per se. Her country is thriving, there is no war and people do not riot against her. She just wants to eliminate the competition to the throne. Something common in middle ages Europe, where the story is, fictionaly, placed.
#5
There are a lot of dark Disney movie theories floating about the internet. They’re interesting, however, they might ruin your favorite films, so read on at your own peril. Digital Spy writes how one fan theory (one that many of you may have already heard before) is that ‘Aladdin’ takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. All because Genie referred to 3rd-century fashion and mentioned that he’d been stuck in his lamp for 10,000 years. If so, what exactly happened to humanity for everything to change so much?
Another fan theory is that Carl from ‘Up’ (a film that was released by Disney, even if it was produced by Pixar) may have been dead all along, while the kid named Russel is supposedly an angel trying to earn its wings. A third theory is that Anna and Elsa’s parents from ‘Frozen’ weren’t lost at sea, but ended up stuck in the jungle, the mother eventually giving birth to a boy whom we grew to know as Tarzan. Do you think such fan theories have any merit to them? What do you think about the unexpected insights into Disney films? What’s your favorite Disney movie moment? Share your thoughts in the comments.
#12
Mihran Hovnanian 6 years ago
A lot of English nobles moved to france in mid-19th century (that’s why the main road in Cannes is “Promenade des Anglais”)
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#17
Dianna Siever 6 years ago
In the original story, the step sisters hacked off their own toes and heels to try and fit into those slippers. There's a lot messed up about this story, both the Disney version and it's predecessor.
#19
Bracha Friedman 6 years ago
You have to find Maic for yourself, Magic cant be just "Handed to You"!!
#23
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
Speaking from experience, she would not have been able to save China or her back.
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nanashi 6 years ago
it was originated from a folk story, and not one entirely made for kids solely. even so, the concept of censoring certain themes from children is only a recent trend.
Miklós Nagy 6 years ago (edited)
If you read C.G. Jung you know the original story was a fable teaching little girls not starting incestual relationship with their fathers.
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Master Markus 6 years ago
1. It's not b********y. He's not another animal. He's a human who has an animal-like form, but he can still understand and consent and all that. "B********y" isn't considered a problem because of physical differences so much as mental ones. 2. IT'S NOT STOCKHOLM SYNDROME. Watch Lindsay Ellis' video on this issue, she explains it better than I can, but any sympathy for a captor doesn't immediately equal Stockholm Syndrome. 3. Slave labour? What, the servants? They're stuck in the castle, but presumably when they were human they got paid. They don't have many options right now and nobody objects to taking care of the prince.
elfin 6 years ago
The earliest version I know of "Beauty and the Beast" is "Cupid and Psyche," which was written in the second century AD. The main theme of the story is the union of carnal love with spiritual love. Cupid was not a tot with a bow and arrow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid_and_Psyche
Piou 6 years ago
If you analyse most of tales for children, you wouldn't think it is made for them!
Miss Cris 6 years ago
But they are. Here, for example, girls are taught to marry an old ugly man choosen by her fathers. That even if they don't like him at first, they'll get in love with him.
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Anna Salord 6 years ago
My mum used to say "watch the movie, but remember, you can't change a beast into a prince, doesnt matter how hard you try. The same with people". Still following her advice (my dad was a "beast", and my mum had to learn she couldn't change him).
Brittany Honaker 5 years ago
Ok so Beauty and the Beast is not about Stockholm Syndrome the way it works is belle goes to rescue her dad and she finds him at the beasts castle she decided to take her father’s place so he wouldn’t die she put his needs before her own she knew it would be bad but she wanted her father to be spared after that lumiere the candle suggest that belle should be placed in a more comfortable room and from that point she is treated more like a guest instead of a prisoner and belle does not fall in love with the beast while she’s captive she only falls in love with him till she is treated better more like a guest and beast does agree to let her go and he knows she probably will not come back and in the end it’s all happily ever after so I don’t think beauty and the beast is about Stockholm Syndrome more better examples are tangled and the hunchback of notre dame 2 of my favorite movies
Daeris 6 years ago
For the last time! It's not Stockholm Syndrome! Hunchback of Notre Dame, Rapunzel - these are stories about Stockholm Syndrome :D
ReaRae 6 years ago
Dude what, no they aren't. Stockholm Syndrome is falling in love with your captors. How in the heck is Tangled a Stockholm Syndrome story. Bell traded herself for her father and wasn't allowed to leave.
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Diana Eriksson 6 years ago
But he understood when the crab (sebastian?) told him her name was Ariel
#32
Unicornstar 6 years ago
Also Neptune was the brother of Zeus. Zeus was Hercules' father. Neptune was Aries's father. So Hercules and Ariel were cousins.
#33
Lenka Smetanová 6 years ago
well actually... they turned into the existed furniture in the castle, so when the curse was broken the furniture can just retunn on their place
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John Louis 6 years ago
A house with 101 Dalmatians would fill up with Dog excrement pretty quickly. No doubt the neighbors would have complained and they would soon be visited by the police, animal control and the department of social services.
Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
While we don't see it, Roger suggests at the end of the movie that they move out to the country, to what he calls a "Dalmatian Plantation". So they probably weren't all together in the house for very long, and they may have dealt with the faeces in some way that definitely wouldn't have appeared in a kid's movie while they were in the process of relocating.
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jknbt jknbt 6 years ago
hey parents, you need to be careful when you show these disney cartoons to your four and five year old kids. That is when the life script is set in concrete in the subconscious. If they buy in to these old fables or new fables personally as they apply to themselves, for better or worse, they have unknowingly planned out their life script. This can be devastating (read JKNBTJKNBT comments below)... So beware!
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 6 years ago
Guys... is just a post about things u don't usually think or realize about Disney movies, don't turn it into a debate, chill a little...
jknbt jknbt 6 years ago (edited)
if a little girl buys into the Snow White story & makes it her life script, she will be a psychotic adult. 1) there are not trolls out there who's job is to give you free room and board and provide for you through the diamond mine they own. If you expect your husband to provide for you like this as one of your servants, you will be completely unhappy & disappointed. Your husband to be is not your troll who owns a diamond mine and is there to provide the luxuries a diamond mine will buy for you... 2) your husband to be is not prince charming. He is a regular guy with flaws, problems, and needs of his own. If you demand, insist, and require that he be prince charming or rhett butler, or some other dream man who is obsessively in love with you, you will be disappointed to the point of divorce. Don't set yourself up for a fall, girls!... 3) You will have to overcome the burden of your disfunctional home and upbringing. No childhood is flawless and perfect, including yours.
jknbt jknbt 6 years ago (edited)
hey Jeffie... this is basic psychology with precedents that go back to Freud... nothing new to see here except for people like you... do some research online about life scripts set down in a four y.o. brain... if you understand what is going on here, it will explain much of the behaviour of the people you have to deal with (and yourself, by the way)... then you realize that you are dealing with children in adult bodies living out the life script they planned for themselves when they were four years old. All major life decisions are made by four year olds... yep, that's scary...
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to continue my rant, ran out of words, The metaphor of the witch/hag giving White the poison apple is that some mothers are so disfunctional and unhappy themselves they will give the life script signal to their four year old daughters to reject, to turn off, and to ignore their own sexuality. This is the metaphor of White going to sleep. It is her sexuality that goes to sleep. If a prince charming comes along and kisses her, or if she finally comes out of this negative scripting on her own, she will not be an innocent, beautiful teenager anymore. Some women do not wake up out of this negative scripting until after menopause. Then it is too late to have natural born children of your own and the happy home life of a young family with all its challenges, problems, and fun. Wake up, ladies, if your wicked witch of a mother scripted you as a little girl to reject your sexuality and motherhood.... 4) Above all, you are not perfect. Your parents may have raised you to think you are an idol of sinless perfection like Snow White, but you are not. If you really believe you are perfect & can do no wrong, then you will end up blaming everyone and the world for the problems that come out of your own immaturities, flaws, and problems. Nobody is perfect, including you, even if mom and dad raised you to believe you are flawless, sinless, and perfect. Come to terms with the realities of your own wicked sin nature, repent, reform, & grow. We will all be better off for it, and you will not have to divorce your husband after you blame him for all the problems in your marriage and basically everything.... 5) Don't trade in your marriage papers for divorce papers, ladies, if I am describing you here. Go for help. You can grow out of this and overcome your flawed life script. You will ruin your own life in the process of ruining the life of your flawed husband if you blame him for everything and dump him. Nobody is waiting in line to take his place as your husband.
jknbt jknbt 6 years ago
HEY, all you dysfunctional unhappy people out there: I have given you the key to life progress to trade in your unhappy script you gave yourself as a child and to upgrade to a new operating system: a happy, functional, high functioning, gratifying new life script. This doesn't come easy, I will guarantee you. But it is available. Isn't it remarkable the abuse you get when you are trying to help people into a happier and better life? Some people you just can't help, they are married to their cages and chains. Go for help if you want to upgrade your life script to a functional happy one, folks. It is possible.
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Rose the Cook 6 years ago
Most of what are today thought of as children's fairy tales were very different and meant for adults originally. Let children enjoy the current versions without over analyzing them.
Christina Sersif 6 years ago
I wish they would make the real fairy tales how they were originally written. Not kid friendly. Not necessarily happy endings
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
That was kind of how life was then. Brutal. Beauty and the beast is to prepare girls for/romanticize the idea of being married off to a "beast" to pay her father's debt, little mermaid was "be happy with what you have" as the Prince never fell in love with her originally, so yeah the new Disney ending kind of takes away the moral of the story
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Magic567 6 years ago
hey comments section I see that you don't want to move outside of your safe happy world and thats ok but don't ruin it for others let them think what they want. besides kids these days are very inquisitive and thats good to expand theyre minds from beyond what they see so they can question what's put in front of them and what is right to them.
Official_Blink 4 years ago
There was litreally a " that type of scene" in the lion king , and they even made a song about it
Nathalie Langevin 6 years ago
Couldn't appreciate this since all I saw and read was all those stories stolen and ridiculed by Dysney.
bill marsano 6 years ago
So how did all of you hyper-alert moviegoers miss the fact that it was a truly terrible movie?
hungergames 6 years ago
In moana maui sings about how he created the land the sea and the sky but then he moana that his mother threw him into the sea as a baby and gods found him and made him a demigod
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
Maui is in a few Polynesian mythologies. Here he is rather like Zeus, with a mother earth and father sky (ie kronos and gaea) that he forces apart. Then again not as he's a demigod. All mythologies/religions share similar storylines though
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Άρης Παπαδόπουλος 6 years ago
What's the lesson you learnt from the original Red Riding Hood where they kill the wolf by cutting his belly open, placing rocks in it, stiching it and then throwing him off a bridge and into a river to drown?
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John Louis 6 years ago
A house with 101 Dalmatians would fill up with Dog excrement pretty quickly. No doubt the neighbors would have complained and they would soon be visited by the police, animal control and the department of social services.
Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
While we don't see it, Roger suggests at the end of the movie that they move out to the country, to what he calls a "Dalmatian Plantation". So they probably weren't all together in the house for very long, and they may have dealt with the faeces in some way that definitely wouldn't have appeared in a kid's movie while they were in the process of relocating.
Load More Replies... jknbt jknbt 6 years ago
hey parents, you need to be careful when you show these disney cartoons to your four and five year old kids. That is when the life script is set in concrete in the subconscious. If they buy in to these old fables or new fables personally as they apply to themselves, for better or worse, they have unknowingly planned out their life script. This can be devastating (read JKNBTJKNBT comments below)... So beware!
Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 6 years ago
Guys... is just a post about things u don't usually think or realize about Disney movies, don't turn it into a debate, chill a little...
jknbt jknbt 6 years ago (edited)
if a little girl buys into the Snow White story & makes it her life script, she will be a psychotic adult. 1) there are not trolls out there who's job is to give you free room and board and provide for you through the diamond mine they own. If you expect your husband to provide for you like this as one of your servants, you will be completely unhappy & disappointed. Your husband to be is not your troll who owns a diamond mine and is there to provide the luxuries a diamond mine will buy for you... 2) your husband to be is not prince charming. He is a regular guy with flaws, problems, and needs of his own. If you demand, insist, and require that he be prince charming or rhett butler, or some other dream man who is obsessively in love with you, you will be disappointed to the point of divorce. Don't set yourself up for a fall, girls!... 3) You will have to overcome the burden of your disfunctional home and upbringing. No childhood is flawless and perfect, including yours.
jknbt jknbt 6 years ago (edited)
hey Jeffie... this is basic psychology with precedents that go back to Freud... nothing new to see here except for people like you... do some research online about life scripts set down in a four y.o. brain... if you understand what is going on here, it will explain much of the behaviour of the people you have to deal with (and yourself, by the way)... then you realize that you are dealing with children in adult bodies living out the life script they planned for themselves when they were four years old. All major life decisions are made by four year olds... yep, that's scary...
Load More Replies... jknbt jknbt 6 years ago (edited)
to continue my rant, ran out of words, The metaphor of the witch/hag giving White the poison apple is that some mothers are so disfunctional and unhappy themselves they will give the life script signal to their four year old daughters to reject, to turn off, and to ignore their own sexuality. This is the metaphor of White going to sleep. It is her sexuality that goes to sleep. If a prince charming comes along and kisses her, or if she finally comes out of this negative scripting on her own, she will not be an innocent, beautiful teenager anymore. Some women do not wake up out of this negative scripting until after menopause. Then it is too late to have natural born children of your own and the happy home life of a young family with all its challenges, problems, and fun. Wake up, ladies, if your wicked witch of a mother scripted you as a little girl to reject your sexuality and motherhood.... 4) Above all, you are not perfect. Your parents may have raised you to think you are an idol of sinless perfection like Snow White, but you are not. If you really believe you are perfect & can do no wrong, then you will end up blaming everyone and the world for the problems that come out of your own immaturities, flaws, and problems. Nobody is perfect, including you, even if mom and dad raised you to believe you are flawless, sinless, and perfect. Come to terms with the realities of your own wicked sin nature, repent, reform, & grow. We will all be better off for it, and you will not have to divorce your husband after you blame him for all the problems in your marriage and basically everything.... 5) Don't trade in your marriage papers for divorce papers, ladies, if I am describing you here. Go for help. You can grow out of this and overcome your flawed life script. You will ruin your own life in the process of ruining the life of your flawed husband if you blame him for everything and dump him. Nobody is waiting in line to take his place as your husband.
jknbt jknbt 6 years ago
HEY, all you dysfunctional unhappy people out there: I have given you the key to life progress to trade in your unhappy script you gave yourself as a child and to upgrade to a new operating system: a happy, functional, high functioning, gratifying new life script. This doesn't come easy, I will guarantee you. But it is available. Isn't it remarkable the abuse you get when you are trying to help people into a happier and better life? Some people you just can't help, they are married to their cages and chains. Go for help if you want to upgrade your life script to a functional happy one, folks. It is possible.
Load More Replies... Rose the Cook 6 years ago
Most of what are today thought of as children's fairy tales were very different and meant for adults originally. Let children enjoy the current versions without over analyzing them.
Christina Sersif 6 years ago
I wish they would make the real fairy tales how they were originally written. Not kid friendly. Not necessarily happy endings
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
That was kind of how life was then. Brutal. Beauty and the beast is to prepare girls for/romanticize the idea of being married off to a "beast" to pay her father's debt, little mermaid was "be happy with what you have" as the Prince never fell in love with her originally, so yeah the new Disney ending kind of takes away the moral of the story
Load More Replies... Magic567 6 years ago
hey comments section I see that you don't want to move outside of your safe happy world and thats ok but don't ruin it for others let them think what they want. besides kids these days are very inquisitive and thats good to expand theyre minds from beyond what they see so they can question what's put in front of them and what is right to them.
Official_Blink 4 years ago
There was litreally a " that type of scene" in the lion king , and they even made a song about it
Nathalie Langevin 6 years ago
Couldn't appreciate this since all I saw and read was all those stories stolen and ridiculed by Dysney.
bill marsano 6 years ago
So how did all of you hyper-alert moviegoers miss the fact that it was a truly terrible movie?
hungergames 6 years ago
In moana maui sings about how he created the land the sea and the sky but then he moana that his mother threw him into the sea as a baby and gods found him and made him a demigod
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
Maui is in a few Polynesian mythologies. Here he is rather like Zeus, with a mother earth and father sky (ie kronos and gaea) that he forces apart. Then again not as he's a demigod. All mythologies/religions share similar storylines though
Load More Replies... Άρης Παπαδόπουλος 6 years ago
What's the lesson you learnt from the original Red Riding Hood where they kill the wolf by cutting his belly open, placing rocks in it, stiching it and then throwing him off a bridge and into a river to drown?
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