does anyone know of undertones in the Disney movies?

Question

ie. little mermaid, beauty and the beast ect.

undertone- a subtle way of saying something and meaning something completly different, or something in the background that you have to look for to notice.

Answer 1

in Shrek...when Lord Fukwad is talking to the mirror and it shows the Princess, my man gets a woody.

The Beast sports a tattoo in Beauty and the Beast.

Disney produced an animated film called The Story of Menstruation.

The personalities of the dwarf characters in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs represent the seven stages of cocaine addiction.

Hidden messages in Disney films

I was watching the lion king today and for the first time ever i actually noticed the word "sex" written in the dust kicked up by simba.

And i also know that in Aladdin they say the phrase "good teenagers, take off your clothes" although disney swears it says "good kitty, take off and go." http://www.snopes.com/disney/audio/aladdin.wav

Claim: The photographic image of a topless woman can be spotted in the background of The Rescuers.
Status: True.

Origins: On
8 January 1999, Disney announced a recall of the the home video version of their 1977 animated feature The Rescuers because it contained an "objectionable background image." Approximately 38 minutes into the film, as rodent heroes Bianca and Bernard fly through the city in a sardine box strapped to the back of Orville, proprietor of Albatross Air Charter Service, the photographic image of a topless woman can be seen at the window of a building in the background in two different (non-consecutive) frames: first in the bottom left corner, then at the top center portion of the frame. (Click on each link below to view an enlargement of the frames.)

http://www.snopes.com/disney/graphics/resc2.jpg

http://www.snopes.com/disney/graphics/resc1big.jpg

Unlike most rumors of risque words images hidden in Disney's animated films, this one is clearly true, and the images in question were undeniably purposely inserted into the movie.

The two "topless woman" frames have reputedly been present in the film ever since its original 1977 theatrical release (a fact apparently confirmed by Disney, whose spokesperson said that the tampering "was done more than 20 years ago"), although Disney claims that they were not included in the 1992 home video version because "it was made from a different print." Disney also claimed that the images were not placed in the film by any of their animators, but were inserted during the post-production process. The company decided to recall 3.4 million copies of the video "to keep our promise to families that we can trust and rely on the Disney brand to provide the finest in family entertainment."

Disney's announcement of this recall might be considered a bit curious. Unlike previous rumors over "hidden" items in Disney's animated films, this one was not widespread until Disney itself made a public statement about it. As well, unlike the salacious images and sounds allegedly to be found in The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and The Lion King, the Rescuers frames in question are not noticeable during a normal viewing of the film -- one has to know they're there and freeze-frame the video to view them. Disney didn't recall any of those other videos, so why this one? Because they knew how quickly the story would spread via the Internet? Because this occurrence was as undeniable case of tampering rather than misinterpretation? The cynical among us might ponder that one of the best ways to boost sales of a slow-selling video would be to announce its recall due to the presence of some "objectionable images."

Claim: The letters S-E-X are formed by a swirling cloud of dust in The Lion King.
Status: Undetermined.

Origins: About
halfway to three-fourths of the way through the film, Simba, Pumbaa, and Timon are lying on their backs, looking up at the stars. Simba arises, walks over to the edge of a cliff, and flops to the ground, throwing up a cloud of dust. Eddies of dust form and dissipate in the roiling cloud, and at one point the various curves and angles in these eddies appear to form the letters S-E-X. It takes a bit of persistence to see specific letters in the shapes formed by the swirling dust clouds, even when the video is played in slow motion.

Whether the image of the word "SEX" was deliberately planted in this scene or is merely a product of the power of suggestion is unknown. The letters seem readily apparent to those who know what they're supposed to be looking for, but persons unfamiliar with the rumor rarely make them out even after being told to look for a word in the still-frame images. The generally accepted explanation is that the letters were slipped in by a special effects group (to form the abbreviation "S-F-X").

A 4-year-old boy from New York (or Louisiana), viewing the video with his head tilted to the left, supposedly noticed the appearance of the letters S-E-X and told his mother (or aunt) about it. (How a mere 4-year-old could both spell and understand the significance of the word "sex" remains unexplained. When you want to charge a huge corporate conglomerate with slipping nasties into its supposedly wholesome children's films, however, it's best to pretend an unwitting child made the discovery. This method increases the outrage factor -- if a 4-year-old found the word "S-E-X" in a video all by himself, why, then anybody's child might see it, too.) His mother (or aunt) in turn notified a religious organization called the American Life League, who claimed this was yet another occurrence of Disney's deliberately inserting hidden images into their animated films. The American Life League, which had already been boycotting Disney films since the previous April, made this rumor the highlight of their September 1995 publicity campaign against several Disney videos allegedly containing "sexual messages."
http://www.snopes.com/disney/info/lionpics.htm

Answer 2

I have heard that The Lion King was based on "Hamlet." The Beauty and the Beast story is a moral fabel. I don't have anything for you on The Little Mermaid, sorry.

Answer 3

if you mean sexual undertones then yes...in the little mermaid the priest is supposedly erect in one scene when he's marrying Eric and Ariel...In Aladdin, the genie (as a bee) whispers something in Aladdin's ear about sex if you turn it up really loud? and in The Lion King, when Simba is laying in the grass and the little white cotton things float up, it spells S-E-X if you pause it at the right time...those are the only ones I've heard of

Answer 4

undertones? well i know Disney has a lotta embedded messages...there are a bunch of websites...if you type in Disney and sex as your search, or Disney and hidden messages, youll prolly come up with something...im trying to think of the the word id use, its not coming to mind tho...when stuff has hidden meaning, like embedded in the text...it starts with an 'E' i think, im totally have a brain malfunction...

Answer 5

I've heard of them-- and had a friend show me some of them.
They seemed more like the ideas of someone who has WAY too much time on their hands and is looking for a reason to be offended.

Answer 6

i have heard of all of these, but if you want to know the truth check out snopes.com and search for disney...they're all apparently products of over-active imaginations

Answer 7

Not sure what to say