Cruella - Everything Wrong With Disney (8:08) ~ The Critical Drinker

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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Anyone wonder why Disney is making villains the sympathetic heroic protagonists?

  1. Makes us more likely to justify our shitty behaviour in the coming months and years.
  2. Helps us forgive the sellouts in corporate media.
  3. Sympathize with exploitative billionaires and the corporatocracy.
  4. etc. (Now show me yours.)

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Also because the villains just have far more character than their dumb wide eyed heroes.

This is why Frozen was so popular, Elsa was given a tragic villain's arch first and then they changed the ending.

It's just a better story than a spoilt kid learning how to get their own way in everything which is the plot of most modern Disney films.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

LOL, true. Copy, paste, Star Wars = Mary Sue.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

And in Star Wars everyone hated Kylo Ren in the first film then by the third everyone was saying he carried the trilogy. He had pretty much the same arc as Elsa.