NP Disney related

[Dave Monroe]

Shrek was "subversive" in that "animated multimedia
licensing tie-in blockbuster that takes potshots at
other animated multimedia licensing tie-in
blockbusters" sense, in, perhaps, that Bakhtinian,
carnivalesque sense of licensed symbolic inversion,
replete with the "lower material bodily strata" or
whatever.  Cannes, in the can, on the can, whatever. 
Me, I can do without the fart jokes et al. (cf. The
Phantom Menace, Stuart Little [Charlotte's Web was
flatulence-free; I imagine one could generate
electricty with all the spinning that must be goiing
on in E.B. White's grave], The Spy Who Shagged Me,
Evolution ...).  Rebellion as opposed to revolution. 
I, for one, found that bluebird bit disturbing
(whereas I thought Freddy Got Fingered was hilarious,
and I've been lending around copies of movies like
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, Go Go Second Time Virgin,
Man Bites Dog and Begotten ...), esp. as kids aren't
necessarily going to be in on the in-jokes.  But it
was entertaining, nonetheless, and I'm a sucker for
computer animation ....

--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> 
> > Shrek doesn't just subvert the treacly Disney
> version of fairy tales, it
> > subverts the glorious and mysterious and ennobling
> idea of fairytales
> > themselves.
> >
>
http://www.christianitytoday.com/books/web/2001/may30.html
>
> Sorry, but this sounds like a real funny movie.

> It's in the words "glorious", "mysterious", and 
> "ennobling" that give away the pov of the writer.
> He wants to sell a romantic past to the kids, who 
> are, I hope, not mislead to another war by fairy
> tale stories. It's the Disney-version that lies by
> leaving out the implicit sexual content from the
> Grimm-fairytales.
>

This reminds me, though, remeber all those, single-X
musical porn adaptations of various fairy tales back
in the 70s, maybe early 80s?  Cinderella (which,
knowingly or not,caught the implications of Perrault's
original, widely mistranlated fur slipper ...), Alice
in Wonderland ("Try the box, naturally"; "Oh! ‘Eat
me’. All right ...") ... whatever happened to a sense
of humor, not to mention production values?  Not to
mention musical numbers.  Moulin Rude?  Hm ...

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