Troubling Things Most Families Never Noticed In Disney Movies
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Troubling Things Most Families Never Noticed In Disney Movies
A lot of Disney movies are filled with things you never noticed. They aren't as family-friendly as most people think. Disney. The name alone is enough to conjure up images of feel-good moments, larger-than-life adventures, and emotional connections between childhood and adulthood. Whether you grew up watching Mickey Mouse cartoons, Ducktales, The Lion King, or love the more modern films like Zootopia, Disney is the brand that has made a name for itself as one of the most family-friendly and lovable brands in the world. Yet Disney has not always been the PG-friendly paradise millions of families around the world gathered around to celebrate and love. However, sometimes the animators and writers at Disney bake some pretty heavy material into their typically family-friendly movies. These hidden jokes and dark moments paint a very different picture for the studios' films, but most of these are too buried for most families to pick up on. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY One Way To Honor Your Parents
via HUGELOL There are so many old cartoons that hide secret messages or disturbing secrets in the Disney company. Short films were a staple of the company for years, focusing on the likes of Mickey Mouse or Clarabelle in classic black and white animated videos, including the infamous "Steamboat Willie". In the 1932 short film The Three Little Pigs, the brothers take shelter in the practical brother's brick house. While they celebrate their victory and play musical instruments, a portrait hangs on the wall showing their father. However, instead of a pig, the portrait shows a length of sausage links, indicating that their father was killed and processed into food for humans. Not only that, but another portrait showed their mother, nursing seven piglets rather than three. This indicates that the brothers are the final survivors of a slaughterhouse and their family became food for humans. So disturbing to think about. A Christmas Line
via TheThings.com Animated movies are not the only kind of movie Disney is known for. From The Shaggy Dog to The Parent Trap, Disney has a well-known history in the world of live-action films as well. They especially have a great handle on holiday films, and Christmas is one of their most popular times of the year to make holiday films. In the film The Santa Clause, Tim Allen's character Scott Calvin is given a phone number by his wife in case she needs to be reached. This number is meant to be for an emergency involving their son, as the couple have since divorced. He jokes with her, "1-800-SPANK-ME? I know that number." However unbeknownst to parents, this was an actual phone line for adults, and several children took it upon themselves to call this number. The line was changed and taken out of the DVD's sold afterwards, but the line remains on VHS copies of the film. The Toy Story Stephen King Connection
In the Disney franchise Toy Story, easter eggs can be found throughout the entire series. However, some really creepy easter eggs can be found that connects it to the world of The Shining by Stephen King. The floor in Sid's house is similar to the floor in the Overlook Hotel, and the number 237 appears several times in the series, referencing the infamous room 237 where the hotel's deadliest spirits/creatures reside. If I'm being honest, Sid in Toy Story does look like a product of Stephen King's imagination. I can almost imagine him being Danny as a teenager, the trauma of the Overlook hotel making him into a monstrous kid with some serious issues. With the film's director being a huge fan of the Kubrick film version of Stephen King's story, it makes sense that he would connect the two properties like that. Innuendos In Toy Story
via Pixar-Planet The innuendos continue in the film series Toy Story. Several innuendos can be found in the series, such as Buzz Lightyear's arousal after Jesse the cowgirl opens Andy's door to let out the dog, which is shown as Buzz's wings popping out suddenly as he stares at her. Another innuendo comes in the form of Woody's catchphrase, "There's a snake in my boot!" The weirdest and most disturbing innuendo is in Sid's room in the first film, in which Woody and Buzz meet Sid's toys, which have been taken apart and put together in strange ways like they are the creations of Victor Frankenstein. One such toy is a fishing rod with a pair of women's legs, which is a sight gag referencing the toy version of a call girl. The Beast Is A Murderer
via Fanpop There is no greater love story in Disney history than that of Belle and the Beast. The story of a handsome prince turned into a monstrous beast and forced to find the humanity and good within himself through a blooming romance with a book-loving woman named Belle is iconic for the Disney company. In the acclaimed film Beauty and the Beast, the film establishes that the staff that worked for the Prince/Beast were all turned into everyday household items. However once the film explores the forbidden area of the castle known as The West Wing, the floors are littered with shattered furniture and decorations. If the mythology holds true, then it is likely that in the Beast's rage he may have inadvertently murdered several members of the staff, killing them in a savage way. Looks Matter
via Fanpop Disney has had an image problem in their previous films. While modern films have worked to be more diverse and culturally aware, one theme that ran through several films was the theme of attractive people are the good guys and hideous characters ended up being the film's antagonist. In Snow White, the evil queen turns herself from a beautiful queen to a hideous witch, which allows her to attempt to murder Snow White. In Beauty and the Beast, the Prince is turned into a monster, and when he sacrifices himself to save Belle, he turns back into a handsome, athletic-looking man. Can non-traditional beauties be heroes, or are they stuck being the joke or villain of the film? Why does the Disney Princess always have to be a super-thin model of a woman, and the Princes thin yet muscular heroes? Hopefully, this stereotype can start to shatter as the company moves forward. Death Takes Gaston
via Hidden Secrets Tumblr In the film Beauty and the Beast, the death of the film's villain Gaston is alluded to but never confirmed or shown. The classical "handsome" brute hopes to marry Belle, but she rebukes his advances and when he learns of the Beast, he gets a mob to lead an attack on the Beast's lair. In the film's final act, he storms the castle, singing "Kill the Beast" and leading an attack on the castle. After he loses a fight to the Beast, he takes a dagger and stabs the beast in the back. The beast reacts by flailing in pain and accidentally knocking Gaston off of the roof, sending him plummeting to the ravine below. While we never see Gaston die or alive but injured, a closer look at his eyes as he falls shows a pair of skulls in his eyes. Did the Reaper come for Gaston in the final moment, or did his life flash before his eyes, allowing him to know that he was wouldn't make it? Hercules Innuendos
via Disney Wiki In the Disney film Hercules, a rather disturbing scene plays out. When Hercules meets Meg, she is being harassed by the River Guardian, a creature that is half man and half horse. Hercules decides that this woman is a damsel in distress and sets out to save her and restore her honor. After Hercules fights him off and saves Meg, the creature is hit in the head with his own horseshoe, which causes him to get a bump on his head. However, the shape of the bump along with his already deformed forehead made the scene look like a part of the male anatomy had emerged on the creature's head, adding to the company's long history of adult-themed innuendos. Whether this was intentional or not is up for debate, but this animation is not uncommon, as several Disney shorts and films have featured this animated bump emerging from the top of a character's head. What Happened To Scar
via Oh My Disney Two movies found themselves connected by one character: Scar. The villain of Disney's Lion King, the monstrous brother of King Mufasa kills his brother, drives hero Simba away as a child and takes over as the evil leader of the Pridelands. When Simba returns and saves his people, Scar dies after his army of hyenas turns on him. Earlier in the film, Mufasa is talking with his adviser Zazu about what to do about Scar and his mischievous ways. Mufasa asks this of Zazu, who states that Scar would make an excellent throw rug. This turns out to be a vision of the future, as in the film Hercules, the throw rug used by Phil to clean his face turns out to be none other than Scar, skinned and used as a decorative piece of furniture. Disturbing to see the lifeless skin of the villain laying around like that. Frozen Jungles
via Business Insider The biggest conspiracy theory and one of the most disturbing things in Disney films has to be the theory that Tarzan is the long-lost brother of Anna and Elsa from Frozen. The film Frozen begins with the parents of Anna and Elsa attempting to help Elsa control her powers, isolating Anna from her sister to protect her and teaching Elsa to hide her powers rather than embrace them. When they are adults, the parents go on a voyage across the sea, and the film suggests that they died at sea during a storm. However, fans and the creators noticed that the parents bore a similar appearance to the parents at the beginning of Tarzan. In that film, the parents escape a burning ship and are marooned on an island. Shortly after building a shelter in the jungle and starting a new life there, the parents are mauled and eaten by a jungle cat. The worst part is that Anna and Elsa's parents had a child that survived all of these horrific events, and grew up to be Tarzan. Will the jungle hero ever reunite with his royal family? The Death Of Clayton
In the acclaimed Disney film Tarzan, the film's main villain is Clayton, an English hunter who wants to capture and sell Tarzan's family and kidnaps Jane and her father, along with Tarzan. However the film's hero Tarzan escapes, and helps fight off the hunter's forces with his gorilla family. After Clayton kills Tarzan's gorilla father, the two fight along the treetops. Soon Clayton falls in an attempt to shoot Tarzan, and finds himself ensnared in vines. While the hunter's demise is never shown on screen but rather hinted at as to not explicitly showcase the death, a hidden look in the background shows Tarzan on the ground, a thunderstorm illuminating the jungle around him and showing a disturbing sight: Clayton's lifeless body hanging from the vines. For a children's film, the sight of the dead body of the villain is incredibly chilling to think about. Ooops Rescuers
via Guff Animators sneaking in adult-themed animations or pictures into their films is not uncommon. In fact, this was something that happened often when animated films were at their most popular. Disney was not immune to this, but this case actually is a result of a distribution center, rather than a disturbed animator. In the film The Rescuers, a secret image was snuck into the film while being distributed to VHS. The image was of a topless woman, snuck in-between frames and leading to 3.4 million copies being recalled. This happened almost immediately after the film's release to VHS, and cost the company quite a bit of money in the long run. Not only that, but parents were very unhappy to see this image in their child's movie, and the backlash from this tampering is the reason why I was surprised when a sequel to the film, The Rescuers Down Under, was released soon after.