Disney’s Hercules is a 1997 film bastardising Hercules’ famous trials and adding conflict by changing pretty much everything Hercules ever did and was. Can you tell I’m jaded? For a start, Heracles is his Greek name, and as the other characters in the film are called by their Greek names (Zeus, Hades, Hera, Hephaestus, HermesContinue reading “The Spunkiest Of All: Hercules’ Megara”
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Esmeralda, The Heroine of Smouldering Sensuality
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is Disney’s thirty-fourth animated feature film and focuses on the story of Quasimodo, a hunchbacked and deformed bellringer living in the Notre Dame Cathedral. It’s based (dare I say loosely? The endings are completely different – it’s Disney, after all) on the book by Victor Hugo (who also wrote LesContinue reading “Esmeralda, The Heroine of Smouldering Sensuality”
They Googled WHAT?!
On Twitter I regularly tweet the spam I get here on my blog. I’ve decided to do a post about some of the weird search terms that have led people here as well. Sometimes I just think to myself, ‘They Google WHAT?!’ Perverted Disney – I wish I was making this crap up snow whiteContinue reading “They Googled WHAT?!”
Disney Dissection: The Lion King
I know, I’m clever, right? I ran out of Disney Princesses (official) to talk about. I tried watching Peter Pan to talk about Tinker Bell but her role is so minimal and quite frankly kinda boring that I didn’t feel I could write a post to justify her. I also tried watching Robin Hood toContinue reading “Disney Dissection: The Lion King”
Disney’s Would-Be Princess: Giselle from Enchanted
Enchanted is an interesting film. It was released in 2007, nine years after the last Princess film, Mulan, and marketed as a Princess film… that is, until Disney realised their cartoon Giselle was based on live-action Amy Adam’s looks, and they’d have to pay her to use her likeness as a part of their merchandise.Continue reading “Disney’s Would-Be Princess: Giselle from Enchanted”
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