{"id":5616,"date":"2016-03-15T11:36:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T11:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=5616"},"modified":"2021-09-17T13:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T12:06:27","slug":"10-disney-movies-that-are-darker-than-you-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/15\/10-disney-movies-that-are-darker-than-you-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Disney movies that are darker than you remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Disney. For nearly 100 years, they\u2019ve been sheltering us from the horrors of the world with tales of princesses, singing animals and happy endings. No matter how bad things get, Disney is there to remind us it\u2019s not <em>all bad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Or so we thought. It turns out Disney movies are full of dark and nasty stuff, the kind of nightmare fuel that not even a chirpy song about love and friendship can counteract. Prepare to have your childhood memories shattered&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4sj1MT05lAA\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Lion King<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>How you remember it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A young lion flees the animal kingdom after his father is murdered by his uncle. He returns to free his friends and take his rightful place as feline monarch with the help of some kooky sidekicks, some happy music and a Yoda-like baboon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it\u2019s actually like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Like all the bits you remember, except way more violent. <em>The Lion King <\/em>is basically a Tarantino movie with animals.<\/p>\n<p>To kick things off, Scar kills Mufasa by digging his claws into his paws and throwing him off a cliff. If Mufasa survived the fall, he would have been crushed by a million hooves instead.<\/p>\n<p>Simba is so traumatised by this event that he runs off, leaving his mother and friends to live under the Scar regime. It doesn\u2019t look like a fun place to live, so we can assume that Simba\u2019s mum and girlfriend live in misery while he\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n<p>The most brutal moment belongs to Simba, however. Thirsty for revenge, he throws his uncle off Pride Rock and lets a group of hyenas tear his uncle limb-from-limb. Cue happy song!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lHiyYSuveJ4\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Black Cauldron <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>How you remember it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That movie where Disney randomly went dark and intense, like a teenager who\u2019s just discovered Marilyn Manson for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it\u2019s actually like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you remember, except worse. <em>The Black Cauldron <\/em>was so dark that it received a *gasp* PG rating, the first Disney film to do so.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not hard to see why, to be honest. The plot is more <em>Evil Dead <\/em>than <em>Pocahontas<\/em>, with a nasty fellow called The Horned King (who looks like a mix of Skeletor and Satan) planning to raise an army of the undead to take over the world. Only a chap called Taran can stop him.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s grim, but not as grim as it could have been. Apparently, Disney had to cut 10 minutes of footage to get it down to a PG, including one scene where a character\u2019s throat is slit and another where someone\u2019s flesh is dissolved from their bones.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CUxAlnYP5aU\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Cinderella<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>How you remember it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A young woman sticks it to her evil stepmother and ugly sisters by bagging Prince Charming, with a little help from her fairy godmother.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it\u2019s actually like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The abuse poor Cinderella is subjected to pre-Prince Charming would have the authorities banging down the door faster than you can say \u201d\u02dcglass slipper\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Cinderella is basically a slave after her father dies, forced into a life of servitude under the rule of a woman who has no qualms about beating her physically and mentally. If it was in the modern day, the evil stepmother\u2019s actions would be headline news.<\/p>\n<p>It clearly has an effect on Cinderella\u2019s mental state too, as she spends most of her days talking to animals. Later, she hallucinates that a fairy godmother comes to help her prepare for a ball and, in a sure sign of madness, leaves the house wearing <em>glass shoes<\/em>. Luckily, it all works out in the end.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tRlzmyveDHE\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Beauty and the Beast<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>How you remember it <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love conquers all when a beautiful girl and a weird lion-bear hybrid transcend the boundaries of appearance and enter into a relationship. There\u2019s talking furniture too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it\u2019s actually like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the moral of <em>Beauty and the Beast <\/em>is lovely, the Beast\u2019s courtship of Belle is dodgy to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>The two meet when Belle agrees to live there in exchange for her father\u2019s freedom. Her father did nothing wrong, by the way; the Beast is just the kind of guy who likes to imprison people who enter his house indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Although she agrees to live with the Beast and eventually falls in love, she\u2019s a hostage by any definition and so their relationship is likely a result of Stockholm Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not like Belle is the only hostage Beast keeps either. His army of conscious cutlery and furniture are capable of thoughts and feelings, yet are forced into a life of servitude under a terrifying master. No matter how you look at it, the Beast is an evil dude.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IuBOvzXqPoY\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>How you remember it <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lovable hunchback saves Paris from an evil villain and gets the girl. There are some cool singing gargoyles too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it\u2019s actually like <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s more or less it, except it\u2019s easy to forget just <em>how <\/em>evil Judge Claude Frollo is. He\u2019s the kind of bloke whose actions would make the Joker wince and wonder if he\u2019s taken it too far.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t even know where to start with this guy. How about killing Quasimodo\u2019s mum on screen? Or planning to drown Quasimodo until he\u2019s caught in the act, then taking a leaf from the Disney Book of Bad Parenting and locking him in a tower?<\/p>\n<p>Did we mention he hates gypsies too? Or that he lusts over Esmeralda, who is quite a lot younger than he is? Or that he burns down half of Paris, presumably killing thousands in the process?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, this guy is messed up.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JcpWXaA2qeg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Toy Story 3<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>How you remember it <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A beautiful tale of nostalgia and growing up, a final farewell to a childhood we\u2019ll never forget and lots and lots of tears. Oh, and Spanish Buzz Lightyear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it\u2019s actually like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Toy Story 3 <\/em>has one of the most dread-inducing scenes of all time, when it looks like our beloved toy friends \u201d\u201c the ones some of us grew up \u201d\u201c will face their demise in the fires of an incinerator.<\/p>\n<p>The scene doesn\u2019t let up until the last minute, with Buzz and Woody\u2019s story seemingly about to end in the most intense and depressing way possible. Thankfully, everything turns out fine. For a minute, though, we were ready to go and live in a cave and cry forever.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qzUJJKDa558\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The Black Hole<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>How you remember it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s big budget attempt to capitalise on the <em>Star Wars <\/em>craze that wasn\u2019t quite as good, but isn\u2019t that bad. It has cute robots in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it\u2019s actually like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t know what was going through Disney\u2019s head when they made <em>The Black Hole<\/em>, because it has more in common with <em>Event Horizon <\/em>than George Lucas\u2019 saga.<\/p>\n<p>Things start off innocently enough when the crew of a ship stumble across another ship at the edge of a black hole. When they board the ship, they find a single captain and a gang of robots.<\/p>\n<p>The captain apparently told his human crew to go home. That\u2019s not true, though: he killed them all and turned them into zombie robots instead. He then goes ahead and kills the main character (who is played by the same chap who played Norman Bates, because why not make the film even more scary?).<\/p>\n<p>The crew eventually venture into the black hole, which turns out to be literal Hell. In short: don\u2019t put this one on when you\u2019re babysitting.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/alIq_wG9FNk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Wall-E<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>How you remember it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A cute little robot tidies up the Earth but discovers the universe with the help of his more advanced girlfriend. There\u2019s no dialogue in the first half and it\u2019s wonderful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it\u2019s actually like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You probably remember <em>Wall-E\u2019s <\/em>nightmarish vision of humanity\u2019s future, but it doesn\u2019t make it any less terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>Humanity has completely trashed the earth and abandoned it. Everything we love, from historical monuments to the cities we live, has been left to rot.<\/p>\n<p>Humanity miraculously escapes to space, where they exist as near-formless blobs capable only of eating and blobbing around in hovering chairs. When adversity strikes, humans are literally useless. It\u2019s like Pixar tried to warn us about something.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pkqzFUhGPJg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Up <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>How you remember it <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A grumpy old bloke and a boy scout go on holiday together, but not in a weird way. They look for Adventure Falls, where said old bloke and his wife (*cue tears*) wanted to visit, and meet a lovable dog and bird on the way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it\u2019s actually like<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first half of <em>Up <\/em>is so good that it\u2019s easy to forget that Carl gets his heart broken <em>twice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The second time is when he meets Charles Muntz, an explorer who happens to be Carl\u2019s hero. He also turns out to be a complete psychopath.<\/p>\n<p>Muntz will do <em>anything <\/em>to get his hands on Kevin the Bird, including trying to shoot Carl, enslaving an army of dogs to do his bidding and trying to murder an innocent child. He\u2019s easily one of Disney\u2019s most despicable villains.<\/p>\n<p>Saddest of all, though, is the moment Carl realises the chap he and his late wife idolised their whole lives is evil incarnate. Poor guy :'(<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to relieve all the terror of Disney movies (as well as all the nice bits, obviously), check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/category\/film-and-tv\/?filter=collections:disney-dvds-and-blu-rays\">our amazing Disney promotion on the musicMagpie Store<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/store\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5210 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SHOP-NOW.png\" alt=\"SHOP NOW\" width=\"299\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Disney. For nearly 100 years, they\u2019ve been sheltering us from the horrors of the world with tales of princesses, singing animals and happy endings. No matter how bad things get, Disney is there to remind us it\u2019s not all bad. Or so we thought. 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