The primary audience for Disney animated feature films is children. However, the enchanted world of the famous big-eared studios is far from always being innocent. This is evidenced by certain sequences that are as distressing as they are gloomy in the films.
When we talk about Disney, we often think of the many princesses who make up this universe, their animal companions, the beautiful stories full of bravery and good feelings, or even the most emblematic songs.
Disneyhowever, it is not only an enchanting and wonderful world, and certain films deserve to be pinned with the message sensitive souls refrain. The proof by 10 with the examples below.
The whole scenario of Beauty and the Beast
We admit, we are slightly rationalizing fairy tales. The fact remains that if we lean for even a few seconds on the scenario of Beauty and the Beastabsolutely nothing is wrong.
Beautiful is, at first, harassed by the big guy from the village who even ends up trying to send her father to the psychiatric hospital in order to use him as leverage to pressure her into marrying him. Then, she is forced to live with a boorish and angry monster until the end of her days, and who also requires constant good humor and complacency from her. Help!
Children transformed into donkeys in Pinocchio
After Belle's Stockholm syndrome, we move on to another most fabulous subject: child trafficking. This is neither more nor less what the passage from Pleasure Island evokes in the film Pinocchio. Obviously, the story does not stop with this ultra-dark implication.
The feature film takes things even further by showing viewers the transformation of one of the children. Of course, a donkey is cute, big ears are (almost) funny, but Hearing a child scream and beg for help becomes uncomfortable to watch very quickly. After all, they're just kids.
Frollo, ready to commit infanticide
Animated films wrongly have the reputation of being childish. Behind the magic, the princesses and the lucky stars, there are sometimes particularly dark sequences. As evidenced by the opening of the film The Hunchback of Notre Dameduring which Frollo kills Quasimodo's mother in cold blood, claiming it was his fault for running away.
Not content with this first murder, he decides it's better to kill the child she was trying to protect because he's a monster. Obviously, Frollo feels no guilt. Sexist, racist and child killer, he really has it all.
Aurora hypnotized in Sleeping Beauty
At the instance of Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty combines frankly murky intrigues. One scene, in particular, has something to mark spectators, all generations combined.
This is the passage during which Aurore is hypnotized by Maleficent, who guides her step by step towards the distaff which she thinks is mortal. Between the disturbing music, the haggard look of the princess and this green light in this dark setting, everything is there to create unease.
The Evil Queen who wants Snow White's heart
That the Evil Queen wants to kill Snow White because she is younger and more beautiful than her, so be it. We can agree to push this intrigue under the rug. However, she goes up a notch on the creepy scale by insisting on having his heart.
So, not content with demanding that the hunter betray the “little princess”, At the same time, she asks him to rummage through her lifeless body and tear out an organ. Completely normal (no).
The very bad trip from Dumbo
Yes, we know, the pink elephant sequence is very often, if not all the time, cited among the scariest moments in the Disney universe. And rightly so! However, these are not not just these psychedelic figures which are creepy, but the whole context of the scene.
Dumbo is a baby elephant who was taken from his mother and is forced to work for a circus that makes him perform extremely dangerous tricks. While he is simply trying to pass a hiccup, he accidentally ends up drunk. Comes next the bad trip which, as you know, is the epitome of anxiety.
Clayton's death in Tarzan
Have you ever noticed how the deaths in the movie Tarzan are violent? Starting with those of the jungle man's parents, brutally killed by Sabor. A little later in the story, there is mainly that of the character of Clayton, who acts as a human antagonist.
While trying to get rid of vines using a machete, he cuts the wrong one and suffers a dizzying and fatal fall. We then see the shadow of his body hanging in the middle of the jungle. Gloomy as hell.
Mulan condemned faster than her shadow
Oddly, as soon as Mulan's true identity is revealed, the soldiers quickly forget her accomplishments and her courage. She is dragged out of the tent, half undressed and injured, while it snows. And there, as if that were not enough, she is judged and condemned, ready to be killed. When sexism turns everything upside down…
Scar killed by his own hyenas
Let it be said, the violent and manipulative Scar totally deserved the fate reserved for him at the end of the Lion King. He killed his own brother, framed his nephew, and led to the collapse of living conditions in the Land of Lions.
He will then commit an unforgivable mistake: making fun of his only support, the hyenas. The latter do not appreciate his treachery and then throw themselves on him before killing him. A rather disturbing scene, as we feel the hatred of the lion's former henchmen.
Spirit led facilitator
“Are you ready?” » This is the question asked by the spirits while Facilier, antagonist of The Princess and the Frogmust face his final judgment in the absence of settlement of his debt. He is then dragged into the spirit world while giant masks and voodoo dolls accompany him, singing. Facilier desperately tries to hold on to something, afraid of disappearing from the world of the living. We get chills just thinking about it!
