Does anyone remember seeing private body parts in the “older” Disney movies that were drawn by hand? You know, Snow White, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Dumbo, etc. I had heard rumors that there were “veiled references” to certain “things” (don’t know what those things were) in the scripts but I never heard of actual drawings that would be considered inappropriate. Anybody know anything?
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Not sure about images in the old movies, but some of them have prominent messages that could cut either way. For example, Peter Pan can be seen as a pure fantasy for kids who don't want to grow up, but it can also be seen (if you're a sicko) as veiled instructions for how to groom kids away from their parents and give them alibis about sneaking away from their homes at night. The original author of the book, James Barrie (?), was well-known as a pedophile. You could describe Alice in Wonderland in much the same way. I don't want to deconstruct them, but it's not hard to do. Some people say Bambi was intended to make kids angry at their fathers who hunted and killed Bambi's mom: I don't really want to believe it, but if you wanted to corrupt a relatively pure society with domestic division, and especially if the society was not ready for feminism, that might be how you would start.
The first thing I noticed as a kid was that every Disney family was dysfunctional, usually the dad's fault. They had a penchant for properties that always pushed boundaries (Barrie and Dodgson and Kipling). Then it became clear that half of them were witch stories too. It went downhill from there.
Kipling? "Captain's Courageous", "If---", "Take Up the White Man's Burden" Kipling? Was he a messed up guy?
Jungle Book; also Just So Stories was messed up and evolutionary; also Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is scheduled for Disney 2027.