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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Imagine the depiction of the human race in an alien school book, based on his cartoons.
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.
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.
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?
Actually, in the original story he repeatedly rapes her and she later gives birth to twins (while still asleep) She wakes up when one of the babies sucks an enchanted splinter out of her finger. The prince goes back to rape her again and, though surprised to see her awake (and a mother), they fall in love. His wife objects (unsurprisingly) so (psychotically) orders the palace cook to kill and make a pie out of the children, which she serves to her husband. (Spoilers: the cook didn't kill the kids.) Yeah, the original story is pretty dark. https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/origins-disneys-best-loved-characters-13891813
That's actually a variant of Sleeping Beauty called "Sun Moon and Talia."
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Snow White and Sleeping Beauty are two totally different tales.
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Except she wasn't dead, she was just unconscious (still creepy though.).
Check the original story. We'll talk after about inappropriate and disturbing behaviors in Snow White
Snow white choked on the apple, it wasn't poisoned, and she forced the queen to wear shoes with hot coals in them. The original story was pretty dark
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Oh its so much worse what the Price gets up to in the original version! EDIT: Wrong fairy tale, ignore me!
There is mention though in the story that Snow White was 7 years old when the Queen first learned that she was the fairest of them all. We don't know for certain how much time Snow White had spent with the dwarfs either, so for all we know, the prince fell in love with, and married a 7 year old.
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Tangent....half of the "love songs" written during the 70's & 80's are about an older guy chasing a much younger (jail bait) girl.
I don't think the concept of "minor" meant the same in the 1800's.
I once read a theory that he was death. He rode up on his pale horse, gave her the kiss of death and took her to heaven.
It does explain why she's so frightened of him when he first appears, and tries to run away. I actually like this theory. It makes a lot more sense than most Disney theories I've heard. (Such as the one where Dopey is actually Gepetto from Pinocchio. Seriously.)
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Not even kissed the corpse, read the original vision. He took the virginity of a minor corpse.
In the original story they were abandoned little children who worked in mines.
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Coomon marriage age of females before the 1900s was after the female had her first menstrual cycle. Child brides were commonplace + legal. Im glad age of consent is 18+ in most US states.
In the original folk story (before the brothers Grimm censored it) the prince did far more to the body than just kissing it.
You're thinking of Sleeping Beauty. In Snow White, the prince simply wanted to take the corpse home with him. (Who knows why.) The cart carrying her hit a bump in the road and the piece of poisoned apple came out of Snow White's mouth bringing her back to life.
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He is not kidding s corpse. Most people forget that stepmother says the dwarfs will be bury Snow White alive. ALIVE. Watch the movie if not believe in me
The folk tale that it was based on was even worse - he has sex with the corpse of a minor he's just seen. He's a necrophiliac.
I don’t really see it as creepy personally I think it was kind of cute cause the prince loved her and they had met so it’s not stranger danger and Snow White was just unconscious not dead although it looked like she was dead and so for the prince he probably felt bad the he never got to make her his princess and so the kiss was a goodbye kiss sorry I never got to know you better
Bruh, Snow White was 14 when this all happened and the prince was 31. He was a fricken Pedophile.
Not a corpse, it is said in the tale she "fell into a deep sleep".
She's not dead. She's just been mostly dead for 100 years. And didn't age a day during that time.
For the time period she was considered an adult. There is no "teenage" "minor" status once a kid hit about 6-8 back then. Read the book "Kindness of Strangers" about how kids were treated during the middle ages. Chilling.
This kind of marriages still happen in some parts of the world. More chilling.
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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.
A lot of English nobles moved to france in mid-19th century (that’s why the main road in Cannes is “Promenade des Anglais”)
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.
You have to find Maic for yourself, Magic cant be just "Handed to You"!!
Speaking from experience, she would not have been able to save China or her back.
But he understood when the crab (sebastian?) told him her name was Ariel
Also Neptune was the brother of Zeus. Zeus was Hercules' father. Neptune was Aries's father. So Hercules and Ariel were cousins.
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
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.
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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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!
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...
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.
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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I was taken to see "Sleeping Beauty" when it first came out. To this day I don't know why, but I started crying and trying to climb over the seats to get out. I was pretty upset at something, but I have no memory of what. Anyway, I never saw another Disney movie. Zilch. And on my first and last trip to Disneyland I was nervous as all hell the entire time. Not a good day. I guess I'm a Disneyphobic.
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.
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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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.
I wish they would make the real fairy tales how they were originally written. Not kid friendly. Not necessarily happy endings
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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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.
There was litreally a " that type of scene" in the lion king , and they even made a song about it
Couldn't appreciate this since all I saw and read was all those stories stolen and ridiculed by Dysney.
So how did all of you hyper-alert moviegoers miss the fact that it was a truly terrible movie?
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
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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I was lucky to read the uncensored stories of both Christian Anderson and the Grimm brothers as a child. My parents thought it would teach me to see how they are not very different from the stories in the bible. The Disney adaptions are heavily censored and stripped of any real lesson a child could learn.
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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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.
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... 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!
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...
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.
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... I was taken to see "Sleeping Beauty" when it first came out. To this day I don't know why, but I started crying and trying to climb over the seats to get out. I was pretty upset at something, but I have no memory of what. Anyway, I never saw another Disney movie. Zilch. And on my first and last trip to Disneyland I was nervous as all hell the entire time. Not a good day. I guess I'm a Disneyphobic.
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.
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... 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.
I wish they would make the real fairy tales how they were originally written. Not kid friendly. Not necessarily happy endings
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... 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.
There was litreally a " that type of scene" in the lion king , and they even made a song about it
Couldn't appreciate this since all I saw and read was all those stories stolen and ridiculed by Dysney.
So how did all of you hyper-alert moviegoers miss the fact that it was a truly terrible movie?
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
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... I was lucky to read the uncensored stories of both Christian Anderson and the Grimm brothers as a child. My parents thought it would teach me to see how they are not very different from the stories in the bible. The Disney adaptions are heavily censored and stripped of any real lesson a child could learn.
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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