![]() |
#21
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
Wasn't The Lion King the first Disney movie not to be based on someone else's original work? Nearly every movie the Disney company has produced has been based on other source material, be it a fairy tale or a previously published book by an independent (non-Disney-affiliated) author. Seems like the blame is being put in the wrong place.
Quote:
In the original book by Dodie Smith, Pongo has a litter of 15 with his mate, Missis. The humans (the Dearlys) call their vet and other dog owners, looking for a possible "foster mother" because Missis doesn't have enough milk. As it happens, one day they find Perdita lying out on a country road, emaciated and abused. She has recently given birth and still has milk left, so she is nursed back to health and then gradually introduced to some of the puppies. There is concern that she and Missis will fight so they're kept separated for some time, but eventually the three adult dogs and 15 puppies get along. (The backstory is that Perdita was treated badly by her original owner and her litter of 8 was sold to Cruella, so she went out looking for them. At the end she is reunited with them.) So there are actually two dog mothers in the original book. |
#22
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
Both his human parents die, but he gets adopted by a gorilla. I don't know if it counts to say he doesn't have a mother--not a human mother, no, but he does have a gorilla mother.
|
#24
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
I used to argue that Tolkien was the King of the Matricides. Most of his characters in Lord of the Rings have dead mamas - including the elves.
But Artemis is right: the motherless hero is an old, old European storybook convention. The apron strings have to be cut before the protagonist can go out adventuring. |
#25
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
The father and Hook are the same (voice) actor in the Disney version, as well.
|
#26
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
No. The Aristocats is one. (I had the Fox and the Hound, too, before edit. Never trust the Internet.)
|
#27
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
Hercules has both god parents and adopted human parents. The people with relatives just seem to hog them from everyone else, don't they?
(And, yes, yes, I know it's terribly innaccurate.) |
#28
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
That's traditional in all versions of "Peter Pan", though. In every play, every movie, he's the same voice/actor. I don't remember the exact metaphor, but it's supposed to be representative of the father trying to pirate Wendy, John and Michael's childhood and make them be "grown up" when they don't want to. Kind of like how Hook tries to ruin the Lost Boys' happiness and childhood.
|
#29
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
Also, Herbie the Love Bug's mother died in an unfortunate collision with a Nazi officer's car in 1940. (It's one of those little-known facts. Not trying to Godwinize or anything.)
|
#30
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
|
#31
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
Actually, the basic story of Lady and the Tramp was original with Joe Grant, a Disney writer. Disney bought the rights to a story by Ward Greene called "Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog," because the character of Tramp was so close to that of Dan (who has a lady dog friend named Miss Patsy)--a pre-emptive strike, in a way. Lady and the Tramp has an original plot, in other words, and is not really based on a pre-existing book. Greene did novelize the script when the movie was made, however.
|
#32
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
I didn't think the Elf mothers died so much as sailed for the Gray Havens.
|
#33
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
"Mother, what do you expect to find in the Gray Havens?"
"Shopping, child. Shopping." |
#34
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
So the Galleria is patterned after the Gray Havens. This explains so much. Except the ice skating rink.
|
#35
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
Quote:
|
#36
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
At the very, very end. It's certainly not another "no parents, therefore free to have adventures" kind of story.
|
#37
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
ETA: I'm not as fuzzy as I think am I! Or something like that.She did sail rather than die. |
#38
|
||||
|
||||
![]() Quote:
![]() |
#39
|
|||
|
|||
![]()
IIRC, most of the pups were the ones rescued from Cruella's fur coat project.
|
#40
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
That's been explained at least once in the thread already.
|
![]() |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|