”Share a Disney quote that sums up how you’re feeling right now!”
That’s what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the current administration
I was in Spain last year, and I think it was Saville that a literal Storm Trooper army marched past me on the street. It was a parade, but I’ve been wondering if it was an anti fascism thing.
He sits alone on a giant throne
Pretendin’ he’s the king
A little tyke who’s rather like
A puppet on a string
And he throws an angry tantrum
If he cannot have his way
And then he calls for Mum
While he’s suckin’ his thumb
You see, he doesn’t want to play
Every country
has its ups and downs
Sometimes ups
Outnumber the downs
But not in America
Is anyone surprised that a corporation doesn’t t share the same values as the creatives it hires?
Maybe people who have never worked before might be surprised.
Disney constantly edits old TV shows. Episodes of the Simpsons are slowly being sanitized of “bad” things, for example.
Really? I know they dropped S03E01 because they didn’t like Michael Jackson. The last time I checked, Disney+ still had a scene where Dr. Hibbert explained the “evil gene” that’s shared by both Walt Disney and Hitler.
Most recent old ep I saw that I remember, there was a chloroform store with bottles of chloroform, up close, they each had a scribbled “chloroform” label on them, but they edited and lazily scribbled out the word on the bottles with a slightly different color at that, except for one angle when Homer’s holding a bottle and they didn’t scribble out the edge. Not the best example, just can’t recall others. Scenes are completely cut, edited, removed.
Other shows have similar, there was an American Dad ep from the early seasons on replay now, news headline in the intro credits said a pro-union joke and they just whiteboxed over the headline.
Not that it’s a new concept for them, apparently the original The Santa Clause movie had a 1-800-SPANK-ME joke I recall hearing as a young, that they edited out on the second VHS run of the movie and all subsequent runs.
they probably have problems with family guy now, since most parodies of seth mcfarlane is criticizing disney.
also waffling around with giving ORVILLE another season, since the show contradicts the GOP in everyway, and it gets conservative panties in a wad.
and it gets conservative panties in a wad.
No need to single out Lindsey Graham, I’m sure it upsets all the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” snowflakes.
I watched the Orville and thought it was awesome, I was about to recommend it to my parents then I remembered … That it totally goes against supply side Jesus.
i think pallacki had issues with the series being so inconsistent thats why she left the show, the seasons were too far and few between.
Ironic for a company that recently made Andor.
You might have already heard its praise, but I wanted to add that it’s not just a political thriller, it’s about fascism. More specifically, it’s about the dilemma of doing nothing and pretending everything is fine or doing something even if it means using the tools of your enemy.
Senator Mothma’s speech at the end was creepily relevant, you just need to replace palpatine for another name.
Watching Succession (which is based on the lives of media families like the Murdochs, the Redstones, the Maxwells, and the Sulzbergers) made me realize how little they care about the message their entertainment wing gives.
They will play both sides if it pays off. They don’t care.
I agree. That show was a very good insight into rich people and their mentality.
Even though it was hard to watch at times, it was worth the watch cause of the insight.
They truly live in their own bubble that ensures only like minded people stay there
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In fact the whole point of the show was how ruthless Logan was and that his children were stuck between a rock and a hard place. They could never leave that life cause they are so used to the luxury, although Connor gave a decent try.
They could also never be as ruthless since they had a decent amount of humanity left.
So even with all their money and luxury, they ended up feeling very unfulfilled and like a failure.
Andor was a pacification tool meant to supplicate the weak liberals who refuse to actually, I don’t know, DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE CURRENT REAL LIFE SITUATION. You too can resist, by watching Andor from your couch! Thinking is just as good as doing!
Ok now apply the same kind of criticism to the anti-liberal memes you’re consuming on the internet. Who do those benefit? Who benefits from dividing people?
Where does this stuff originate from? Some millionaire trust fund baby influencers on youtube or twitch? Why is this Hasan guy on the front page of a website owned by Jeff Bezos?
Keep on repeating the bullshit that Jeff Bezos wants you to about liberals being the real enemy. You’re soooo much smarter than everyone else LOL. You’re really “fighting the power” when you consume the content the billionaires want you to consume.
I saw Andor as a blaring, screaming, raging wakeup-call for anyone who thinks that sitting and thinking about doing something is the same as doing something.
Isn’t all of Star Wars about fascism?
Andor is much more about anti-fascism than other Star Wars pieces. But in a more adult and realistic way. That one has to get their hands dirty and give up some ideals.
On the other hand it shows good people meaning good things are still doing bad things simply because they are part of a fascist regime of which they might not even be aware of (because fascism is about manipulation and propaganda).
Yeah I’m not into that kind of thing. Rogue One was weird enough trying to be Saving Private Ryan while having the toys I played with as a kid on the screen. And I find it kinda find it boring when shows spell out what they’re about instead of having a deep subtext so I tend just get annoyed by plot holes since there’s nothing else to think about.
Andor isn’t nearly that straightforward about it. It’s complicated and messy, with self-interested people juxtaposed against the idealists. Most of it is character-centered, soul-sucking spycraft tension like The Lives of Others or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but then also exasperating bureaucracy as in Chernobyl–and Stellan Skarsgard is equally phenomenal in Andor. Your toys aren’t here either; no lightsabers, few scenes with the old droids, very little time in space. Most of the time you need the architecture and the stormtroopers and Imperial dress whites to recognize it as a Star Wars setting.
It’s completely different than any Star Wars screen production before it.
The rest is pretty cartoonish Bad Guys Bad, Good Guys Good.
Andor was way more nouanced.
Further Andor showed the machinery of Fascism from the inside and had various different kinds of people with different levels of commitement and reasons for participating in it.
You could really feel the machinery of Fascism slowly closing its maw on people who were just pro-Obbey-The-Rules rather than pro-Fascism and either coopted them or crushed them. Meanwhile in the rest of Star Wars the Empire was pretty much just is Big Powerful Evil For The Sake Of Evil Guys + Mindless obedient human puppets.
For the Empire side Andor showed people under Fascism, the rest Star Wars just shows the symbology of Fascism (down to the detail that all the members of the Empire are human, never other species) but not the human side of it or the machinery influencing and even forcing them to behave as they do.
Meanwhile in the rest of Star Wars the Empire was pretty much just is Big Powerful Evil For The Sake Of Evil Guys + Mindless obedient human puppets.
If you think Star Wars does it bad - which I’m not entirely disagreeing with you on - dear god never watch Rebel Moon
Single worst piece of scifi I’ve ever seen in my life, and I’ve seen so much scifi. I watched all of Dark Matter for some reason, and Rebel Moon is so much worse. Why did they give the Big Evil Fascist a Fascist Shillelagh? I don’t fuckin know man it’s the worst movie ever.
Slow. Motion. Corn. Harvest
To add to what Aceticon said, Andor also shows the random evil of fascism, where people who just want to live their life and have no motivation to rebel are easily sucked into the insanity and given no chance to live their lives under the radar.
LoL.
Conservatives support the god damned storm troopers too.
Edit: ICE even aims like them too.
why is she wearing mickey mouse ears
She isn’t, it’s her hairpin/crown thing. She always has one on when representing her people in government.
Nope. Mouse ears. I can tell. Because.
Somehow, George knew.
Cause it’s Disney
The article links a screenrecording of the thread, but it’s a Zuck product so to save you a click:
https://ani.social/pictrs/image/5784eb24-5a52-4f75-91bf-3f9fce9de072.mp4
And a catbox for redundancy: https://files.catbox.moe/a0ug4z.mp4
Came to the comments looking for this. Thread MVP.
This is absolutely golden.
Thank you, Threads is a garbage pit.
My dudes I’m high and and am the slow reading what kind of backup is this
Disney are also really shitty at removing any context in their movies. An interesting scene at the beginning of the movie Encanto a flashback references an unknown conflict in Colombia resulting in the death of the grandmother’s husband. What conflict Disney? Who were the bad guys Disney? Further research by an interested viewer will reveal that it was a civil war involving a right wing of rebels backed by the US, rose up against a leftist government.
Encanto isn’t about the conflict, though.
It would seriously break the flow of the story if they took time to explain the geopolitics of the area.
The original comment reads more like: they could’ve used an abstract conflict without specifics allowing to identify it
I would add: maybe that was intentional, also maybe they thought that the US were on the side of good in that case
It’s war, there is no side of good.
right wing propaganda in shows and movies has always been seen favorably and useful for the govt, thats why they allow military to protrayed a certain way.
A monarchy where succession is decided by trial-by-combat though?
remember rudy guiluini said there should be trial by combat.
Is it any worse than the American political system really?
That’s like saying AIDS is not as bad as Cancer.
Fair enough
I’d love to see the cheeto do a trial by combat, that would be outright funny
There is a world, not this one, but somewhere, where the President of the United States is challenged to a trial by combat by the King of Denmark over ownership of Greenland
The king of Denmark is a former frogman (i.e. Danish Navy Seal). I would love to see that fight.
You’ll get your wish starting late Jan 2027
When Vance becomes eligible for 2 year plus 2 full terms
Look if there was a way I could sovcit my way to a golden fringe slap fight I’d take it all the way to the top of the conspiracy (lose a slap fight against the president? That’s a hell of a story). Something tells me it’s more complicated.
I know this dude who lost a slap fight against a toad. He was lynched for treason and running round with other dudes wives and daughters. Imagine how far I could go if I lost a slap fight against a president.
You’re not wrong but a monarchy isn’t strictly speaking the same as facism so I guess it’s technically plausible
cons had problems with the 13th and 15 doctor, because of the gender, and ncuti , also surrounding several episodes “Gender issues”
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Thats Peter Quill.
Ummm Peter Quill went fasch.
peter quill is a fictional character and i havent seen a guardians movie where he went fasch. is there a comic where that happened?
Think they’re referring to the actor Chris Pratt and comments he has made in the recent past.
Peter quill’s actor.
right, a character being portrayed by a dick. but that doesn’t necessarily make the character themselves a dick.
“The poison. The poison for Kuzco. The poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco. Kuzco’s poison. That poison?”
Just replace Kuzco with any number of evil people fucking shit up rn.
Somebody, somewhere, is updating their list of all the old pre-fascism movies and TV shows that will need to be erased from the culture.
Meanwhile, I’m going through this list right now of Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time
So their whole pre-2025 catalogue? Haha oh my.
Only in America is Hydra the good guys.
Learn from the wisdom contained within our magical tales, child…
NO NOT LIKE THAT!!
Collectivize all companies
is there a non paywalled link?
Doesn’t load for me.
Because of the CAPTCHA? Are you, perchance, a robot?
Paywall.
