Friday, September 14, 2007

Repackaging Disney

Back in high school, one way my friends and I used to entertain ourselves on slow nights was to raid the Disney movie collection of whatever house we were in and show anyone who hadn't seen them all of the "subliminal" messages in the animated films. Yeah... we were a rowdy bunch. Our favorites included:

Aladdin:
  • Near the beginning of the film, Aladdin's small monkey Apu, while jumping from rock to rock to avoid some menacing lava, pretty discernibly says "Oh Sh*t."
  • During a scene outside of Princess Jasmine's window, Aladdin appears to say "Good teenagers, take off your clothes."

The Lion King:
  • As Simba begins growing weary of his "Hakuna Matata" lifestyle, he retreats to a secluded cliff to reflect. In the plume of dust he kicks up as he lays down, you can kind of make out the word "Sex."
The Little Mermaid:
  • The cover art was a veritable playground of phallic symbols and, according to some, you could also make out the F- word in the splashing water that frames the cover's central picture.
  • During the wedding scene at the end of the film, the Priest performing the ceremony seems to get a large erection.


Good times, eh? So imagine my surprise when my wife and I recently purchased the Special Edition DVD of The Little Mermaid and found that not only had the cover art been completely redone to excise the offending images, the entire scene with the Priest at the end had been cut.

Is this an admission of guilt or has Disney simply decided to clean its house of misperceptions? Think of what other hidden treasures might now gone as well?! Have I been scouring Finding Nemo in vain?!!!!

31 comments:

Anonymous said...

My JEA just got a DVD of Song of the South, which Disney never produced, because it is racist. Anyway, if you don't mind Chinese subtitles during "Zipidee doo dah" then I might be able to burn you a copy.

Alifinale said...

Great, now Emery can never watch the Little Mermaid because the preacher gets an erection. Thanks for ruining one of my favorites.

BTW, I like how in the Aladdin video the genius put on at the end "If you didn't no that..."

Marc said...

BA - Song of the South... Ha. I remember having them show me that in Elementary school. All I remember about it is that damn bluebird on his shoulder though.

Ali - Apparently you missed the part in my post where I talk about how Disney has edited the erection out. Little Mermaid is kosher again.

melbo said...

I'm sure we'll find more in other movies. There'll always be disgruntled artists waiting for an opporunity. I wonder if anyone lost their jobs over those?
And dude, how desperate are we that we're pissed because a cartoon priest isn't getting a boner? If you're really that bummed, Marc, I'll make you a flipbook.

Rebecca W. said...

Don't despair Marc, I'm sure animators will continue to find ways to slip sexual innuendos into their films. They may just have to get more creative. Keep up the "research!"

Marc said...

Melbo - I'll take you up on that flipbook.

Becca - Thanks for the pep talk. I can always count on you.

David - Err... so I typed it out before I found the Youtube video. I'd remembered it being bigger.

Sommer said...

I remember all of those. You also tried to convince me that the Police song, "Don't Stand So Close to Me" was recorded in a cave and you could hear a girl screaming in the background while she was being raped. To this day that song still creeps me out!

King Family said...

This makes me laugh because you were the one who first told me about the Disney corruption. When we bought the Little Mermaid last year I told Seth and felt stupid when the incident didn't happen.

woo said...

Now they just have their actresses posing nude on the interweb... read more in my forthcoming book "Disney and the Slippery Slope".

Marc said...

Somm - I think I probably ruined that song for dozens of people. Your comment made me try searching for any mention of that urban legend and I couldn't come up with anything. Ha.

Blonde Mama (King Family) - Well I hope you feel validated now!

Woo - Is that the one you plan on writing after "How To Drive A Company Into The Ground: A Case Study Of Sony"? Be careful what you say by the way... more than a few of this blog's visitors seem to be raving High School Musical fans.

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Marc -- I found this one website, but that's all:

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