Disney: Is it really for kids?

Disney probably has some subliminal references, but they are everywhere. Supposedly there was a soda ad that had the letters S-E-X on ice cubes in a glass. Some of the Disney references are a bit sketchy. Is "Be Our Guest" one big sex reference? It depends on how you feel and if you're looking for it.

 

Some people think EVERYTHING is a sexual reference. Lighten up.

 

just one more for ya:

At the end of The Little Mermaid, when Ariel and Prince Eric are getting married, the old priest/minister dude has an erection.

I have little sisters... watched a lot of Disney when babysitting them. Picked up on a lot of things that kids usually don't, as I wasn't really a kid anymore.

 

Honestly, I've looked and looked for these references [I've heard of them a BUNCH of times] but I never see or hear any of it..
EXCEPT for the Little Mermaid cover...
I don't know though, maybe I'm naive but I think people just have their minds in the gutter and that's what they hear and see.

This thread reminds me a lot of the backmasking *controversy* in music. Sometimes I think it's just what people hear and see, sort of like the ink blot tests.

 

Oh but Alice in Wonderland, the Disney movie...
I don't think the movie itself hints at drugs, but I remember someone telling me the original writer of the story wrote it while he was on mushrooms or acid...not sure completely how it went.

I LOVE Alice in Wonderland. I always have.
The Mad Hatter rocks

 

It's true. The original Alice in Wonderland was written about a bad acid trip. And come on...there are TONS of drug references in Alice in Wonderland...

The Caterpillar smoked a hookah and said in a sleepy, lazy voice "WHO are YOU?" We all know what gets smoked from a hookah...tobacco right?

(...)Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, `One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.'
`One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?' thought Alice to herself. `Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.
Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question. However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.
`And now which is which?' she said to herself, and nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!
She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.
`Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her. `What CAN all that green stuff be?' said Alice. `And where HAVE my shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how is it I can't see you?' She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the distant green leaves.

Just to name two...specifically in relation to the Caterpillar. Although the same could be argued for the character of the White Rabbit and the Chestire cat. The Mad Hatter wasn't on drugs, because I believe lithium was used in the manufacturing of hats at one time in the UK during which Carroll wrote the novel.

 

Opium was very popular in Lewis Carroll's time, it was considered socially acceptable. The caterpillar had opium in the hookah. Carroll used opium, but "Alice in Wonderland" wasn't based on his experiences. He was slightly autistic, and loved little girls. There was a young girl called Alice Lidell he especially liked. Alice once asked him to tell her a story "with lots of nonsense in it", and when he was done, Alice asked him to write it down. I eventually became "Alice in Wonderland".

 

Acid wasn't even invented when Alice in Wonderland was written.

 

i dont know about acid and alice and wonderland, but i think it could be true.

i read somewhere one time that the disney movies are made to give kids subliminal messages from the government...like the seven dwarves in snow white, they were to put the idea of a democracy into kids heads by how they all worked together and got things done and hoe they were all different and stuff. theres alot more but thats the only one i remember, of course i cant put it in the right words so it sounds kinda stupid but its true. its just another part of our conditioning as a country....

 

I think that every Disney movie sends SOME kind of message to kids...unfortunately it's not always a good message. Look at Cinderella, for instance...the prince would only fall in love with her if she was pretty. Or look at Pocahontas...the Europeans that come in and kill the Native Americans?

Yeah...I don't know...we need some different kinds of fairy tales. Realistic ones.

 

in this flash about urban legends and myths, they showed the word sex in the stars in Alladin, a penis on the cover picture of little mermaid

 

alot of the references in disney films relate to the story of jesus (hard to believe i know), i hadnt noticed until i read the da vinci code by dan brown where it explains about this with alot of examples that actually make sense when you think about it.

 

I love disney movies I have heard that they are required to fill 2 notebooks a week of sketches so bordom and overdoing it is most likely the rebellion of the artists trying to spice things up lol.