Mickey Mouse Monopoly Part 2

(WATCH PART 1)The Walt Disney Company is a powerful force in creating childhood culture all over the world.
Presenting a worldview based on innocence, magic, and fun, its products are endorsed by parents
and teachers, and are enthusiastically embraced by children.
Behind the images of innocence and fantasy, however, is a transnational media corporation
owning media production companies, studios, theme parks, television and radio networks, cable
TV systems, magazines, and internet sites. Disney is now one of the six or seven largest media
corporations that dominate control most of the mass media in the world.
A troubling question concerns the extent to which our view of the world may be skewed by such
a concentration of power in these corporations that mediate images of our world to us, and the
resulting impact on informed participation in our democratic society.
Disney's impact is especially worrisome in view of its role as a major purveyor of the stories that
will be used to construct children's imaginary worlds as well as their notions of the real world.
Mickey Mouse Monopoly is a powerful and effective documentary that owes its power and
effectiveness to its unswerving and persuasive marshalling of evidence and testimony to argue its
case against Disney. It is a good example of a "point of view" documentary, that is, one that does
not purport to present an "objective" or "balanced" overview of all possible points of view
regarding its subject, but rather presents a clear and consistent point of view. Please note,
however, that "point of view" most assuredly does not mean biased or unfair, only that the
creators of and experts in this documentary are honest and straightforward in making clear their
value judgments as they critically examine Disney's power, influence, and responsibility.

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[calypso694]

LOL lumiere is my hero.

[1stbrasscaptain]

"Now you wash the dishes, you tidy up the room, you clean the fireplace, and I'll use the broom." Oh, Snow White you slay me...cannot stop laughing.

[Ginn87]

man if they don't like Disney's version of the little mermaid then they'll hate Han Christan Anderson's version. She dies for the prince in the actual version.

[schadenfreudelolz22]

@misticmaya It couldn't be worse than reality TV, could it? :)

I think this gets to the problem though, its only interesting for girls if the guy is powerful and handsome, and its only interesting for guys if the girl is pretty and submissive. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

While girls are being told they have to be like this to get a guy, boys are being told they have to be the Alpha of the pack in order to get the girl.

[misticmaya]

@schadenfreudelolz22 Oh yes! That'd be rather interesting indeed. Though I fear, if we remove everything like that, we'll have to rewrite the whole story and nobody would be interested in it because it would be too boring ;)

[schadenfreudelolz22]

@misticmaya It would be interesting, but IMHO, losing her voice is a bit more interesting. It prevents communication. But wouldn't it also be interesting if she were to fall in love with a plain stable boy instead of a handsome prince?

[misticmaya]

@schadenfreudelolz22 Offcourse it is, but wouldn't it be interessting to see her become an ugly woman (while keeping her voice) and then try and win her prince over? It has to be something with impact, indeed losing something trivial would be meaningless.

[schadenfreudelolz22]

@misticmaya It is a much more interesting choice for the story that she cannot speak, rather than not be able to play the violin or cello.

[misticmaya]

@TPerky4D I agree with you there, though I think what they mean to say is that Disney has an important influence. Off course there are other influences like your teacher, your peers, your family etc. It's the stereotypes these movies play into, and those stay with you for a long, long time. Mostly unconciously. (Not saying that stereotypes are always bad, but we have them about everything and they operate mostly in the unconsious)

[misticmaya]

@schadenfreudelolz22 True that one has to make a sacrifice, but why not her right arm or something like that? Had the roles been reversed, I highly doubt he (the male Ariel) would have lost his voice.