More post-Eisner, Disney venom!
More post-Eisner, Disney venom!
The below CNN interview got me a little steamed up. Below is a transcript but the other links provide a better reference. I was catching up on the news when the CNN reporter shifted to Disney’s latest animated, cinematic venom, a new cartoon called “The Princess and the Frog”. But yet another Disney cartoon promoting multiculturalism and beyond was not my flashpoint.
I do however fondly remember sitting in the living room with my entire family, gathered around the television set, which was transmitting a signal from an antennae on the top of the house, and watching The Wonderful World of Disney. I know that once innocent, wholesome, family-oriented company was created in the early 1920’s by Walter E. Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney, under the name Walt Disney Productions. I remember watching Mickey Mouse and the entire club, Dumbo, Pinocchio, Bambi, Peter Pan, Snow White, and many more, and my parents never having any concern about it. But that was all pre-Eisner, before Michael Eisner and the Tribe, changed the Disney innocence forever. That was before Disney: The Mouse Betrayed. The post-Eisner Disney that has terminally infected this once innocent, wholesome, family-oriented company, should be well known to all of us as the lethal tool that it is.
That is old news. I was agitated at that realization years ago. What triggered my flashpoint recently was when CNN Entertainment Correspondent, Kareen Wynter, yet another one of CNN’s many black correspondents, started to discuss “The Princess and the Frog” with one of Disney’s animators, yet another one of post-Eisner Disney’s many Jewish employees, Eric Goldberg, the Supervising animator for “The Princess and the Frog”.
With a bit of a snarl and a sarcastic expression, Wynter and Goldberg had the below exchange. I should add that before Goldberg confirmed the politically-correct, multicultural answer to the question posed, Wynter was asking several grade-school aged children essentially the same question and receiving essentially the same response.
(WYNTER): “When it comes to diversity, Disney has come a long way since “Snow White” in the 1930s. Since then, there have been just three ethnic princesses, the Native American Pocahontas, Chinese Mulan, and Arabic Jasmine from Aladdin. The question is, in the fantastic world of fairy tale, does skin color really matter? ”
“(GOLDBERG): It’s about time. I think it’s absolutely about time.”
To be clear, what launched me into my “angry white man” mode is not the fact that Disney came out with another multicultural, miscegenation-promoting cartoon, I expect that and so should every parent concerned about the content of the cartoons their children watch. It is not even the fact that another Brothers Grimm fairytale, in this case “The Frog Prince”, was disgraced by Disney to spread more of its animated, cinematic venom. No, what really pisses me off is when this Black correspondent interviews a Jewish animator and makes everyone watching feel racist if they don’t agree that it is way past time for us to have a Black cartoon princess.
When Wynter, with an image on the screen of the “Snow White” I remember, says with a gleeful cheer “Disney has come a long way since “Snow White” in the 1930s”, that rubs me in a seriously wrong way. Indeed Disney has come a long way! The wrong way! And when the contemporary, multicultural version of Disney royalty is a Black princess courting a nominally White looking, Hispanic sounding, prince, we should all know how far Disney has come and who brought it to this point. I have no doubts.
Washington Post article
“….hand-drawn animation that evokes the most cherished Disney classics, “The Princess and the Frog” effortlessly takes its place in one of cinema’s most-revered canons, managing to be groundbreaking and utterly familiar at the same time. The film’s setting in New Orleans, with its African, European, Caribbean and Native American influences, allows for a gratifyingly diverse mix of ethnicities and hues among its characters…….Most important, Tiana turns out to be not just pretty but competent and self-sufficient…..”The Princess and the Frog” has been a long time coming, but it’s well worth the wait.”
Click here for original CNN transcript
Click here for original Washington Post article
Click here for “The Princess and the Frog” Youtube trailor
Comment from Fenria
Time December 27, 2009 at 3:05 am
“gratifyingly diverse mix of ethnicities and hues among its characters”
I love how it assumes that this is “gratifying”. As if, all over the world, people were just wringing their hands, looking for multicultural “gratification” from Disney.
The multicult has stopped asking if it’s agenda is what people want and has simply started telling them that it’s what they want.