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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
There are others. Disney doesn't do ugly, huh?  |
"Ugly" is about a lot more than someone getting killed in a creative manner.
Ugly is in the why of it, as much as anything else... in Disney movies, heroes kill dragons who are evil, and win the princess. Villains get what's coming to them, and good prevails. Justice is done.
No one would dream of suggesting that the reason Cinderella has a step mother is because her real one took off shortly after she was born (teenagers who get pregnant long before they're ready to be parents sometimes do that), or that the reason she's mistreated is because her father is has taken to drinking far too much every day and no longer notices what happens right under his nose.
No one wonders why the prince in Snow White falls in love with a corpse and wants to take her home, and then kisses said corpse's cold dead lips so passionately it has the same effect as a Heimlich maneuver. (Okay, this one has potential for some serious ugliness, if you start thinking about it.)
But my point is that even when Disney kills off their villains, they do it cleanly, and for all the right reasons. When Ursula was impaled, there was no blood or guts spilling, and we never actually get to see what the hyenas do with Scar. Gaston should have gone *splat*, or at least his head should. Falling from that kind of height does quite a number on a head.
This goes on and on. Violence in Disney is clean and bloodless, and has the rare ability to discriminate and take out only the ones who deserve to die, or at least the ones that need to die in order to follow the fairytale formula of "love conquers all and evil dies in the end".
So I still maintain that Disney doesn't do "ugly". Not real ugly, anyway.