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[Sarah Magdalene]

I was gonna say that it reminded me an awful lot of that too!! They just downplayed the uncle "marrying" the mother.

Ditto here on Hamlet. Borrowed story, yes - but still an excellent film.

[Sarah Magdalene]

LOL..Meghyn loves that bit in the trailer about the bra too. She does this hysterical laugh and squeal and yells.."MAMA HE PUT A BRA ON HIS HEAD(or some variant of that at the top of her lungs) and starts cracking up. Now mind I think it is funny too but I guess 5 yr olds find much more humor in life then us old fogies. LOL

I think that kids in general just love jokes, puns and other things about "naughty parts" and such. Was in Toontown when Belle comes into the princess dressing room in a fit of laughter she been holding back cause a child had said to her, "We saw Donald Duck and he shook his booty for us!"

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Hmm, Turtle talk with Crush does a bit with a swimsuit top....hmmm same joke, different setting?

[CBeilby]

Accually, Lion King is a disney version of Shakespear's Hamlet.

As was Kimba the White Lion.

[BRWombat]

Hmm, Turtle talk with Crush does a bit with a swimsuit top....hmmm same joke, different setting?

If I recall, Stitch does a similar thing in the closing credits of Lilo & Stitch. There's a theme here...

[Syndrome]

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Originally Posted by drcorey
Accually, Lion King is a disney version of Shakespear's Hamlet.

As was Kimba the White Lion.

Yep, Kimba stole Hamlet and Lion King stole the stolen Kimba. :p:
I just love the part in the stars parodied in the Simpsons: "Kimba....I mean Simba...."

(For those not familiar with Kimba, the parent-in-the-stars was in there too.)

[CBeilby]

The worst part about it is that Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Kimba, was such a true fan of Disney that, even when this happened, his estate refused to take any sort of legal action. Frankly, I think it's one of the worst examples of Disney under Eisner and their complete and total disregard of people.

[I LUV Chip]

To speak up as the devil's advocate....hehee I'm good at that. I'm a writer trying desperately to get published and write something that hasn't been done a billion times. It's hard to do. heck...It's darn near impossible to do.

I heard a bestselling author say once...Take out a sheet of paper and write down 9 ideas. Throw them away. Take out another sheet of paper and write down another 9 ideas. Throw them away. Repeat this process 5 more times. On that last time write down 9 more ideas and use the 9th one. Everything else has been used. And if you're lucky that one you use you get published before someone else does.

[felinefan]

Face it, there are basically only a handful of plots, everything in the world is just a retelling of one of those plots. The plot of Romeo and Juliet was well-worn when Shakespeare wrote it, and everything else is just a retelling of all the others. It isn't the plot or idea that needs to be unique, just the way it's done. Even stories based on reality fit into one of those basic plots. I'm sure the basic plot of "Gone with the Wind" is based on something older than the red earth of Tara. ;)

[JugglingFreak]

The worst part about it is that Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Kimba, was such a true fan of Disney that, even when this happened, his estate refused to take any sort of legal action. Frankly, I think it's one of the worst examples of Disney under Eisner and their complete and total disregard of people.

ACtually, that was Katzenberg more than Eisner. Look at his tenure at Dreamworks, with very few exceptions most of his movies (particularly at the start) were rip offs of what Disney was doing and then trying to beat them to the box office with it.