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Margo revoils from the idea of doubt and disillusionment pathetically refusing to admit her own failings. Antoine's description of his wife as "a mermaid without a song," is an interesting revelation, but the character is too annoying and neurotic to arouse much sympathy...
What struck me most about "The Lion King" was that of Disney's recent string of blockbuster animated movies, it is the fist which I think will be better received by men than women. "The Lion King," unlike "Beauty and the Beast," "The Little Mermaid," and "Aladdin" has a male protagonist and is not, as the other three films were, essentially a romance. All four movies are, of course, imbued with the overriding, hallmark Disney morality themes of good versus evil, etc. But "The Lion King" is the first to focus on the relationship between a father...
...Their bond carries even beyond death, and Simba's wish to make his father proud is a realistic drive. While the father-child relationship is a common element in Disney tales, this one is somehow much stronger, perhaps because the father is neither overly harsh (a la "The Little Mermaid") nor a bumbling fool ("Beauty and the Beast," "Aladdin...
...modern Disney cartoon feature is an adventure of the spirit -- a guided tour through eruptive emotions. The Little Mermaid plunged briskly into the growing pains of a creature that felt as isolated from the shimmering haut monde as any Afghan peasant or Harlem street kid. Beauty and the Beast took a stroll in the woods with a fellow who needed lessons in the civilizing power of love. The Aladdin carpet ride revealed a whole grownup world of pleasures and perils to a young thief who started out in search of only a quick spin with a pretty princess...
...when the Diz Biz people first thought about retail stores, the notion was anything but a sure thing. To make it work required a happy confluence of factors: a resurgence of appealing films like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast from Disney's cartoon unit, the company's revived marketing savvy under Eisner and the rise of the mall culture. "It's become instinctual for us," says Eisner, "that we do something either really, really big or really, really small. With these stores, we wanted to bring the Disney feeling into a mall environment...