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Brutal Disney Endings

sbk1234 said:
Disney seems to do a lot of falling deaths.
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They like that drawn out shot of the villain falling away from the camera. Into water preferably, saves the kids from seeing their shattered corpse. Plus, it allows for the barely-clinging-to-the-edge shots before part of the edge gives way.

I realise I just described The Search for Spock.
 
Good point. I, for one, insist upon more accuracy in cartoons about talking animals!

;)
 
Not to mention that the deep jungle is no place for an animal who's strongest asset as a predator is being able to run really fast in a straight line.
 
Don't forget Pocahontas. Kocoum gets shot (then slow-motion falls into a river) though he wasn't technically a villian. But then again, he was trying to kill the hero when he was shot.
 
I was thinking about Old Yeller. It's sad that the dog got shot, but was that so brutal? I think being ripped apart alive by hyenas would have been a lot more brutal. I'm just saying.
 
Yeah, Tarzan, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty are all pretty hardcore. Snow White is pretty creepy because of the vultures watching the witch fall to her death, and then fly down there with a sinister smile upon their faces.
 
That's why I expected him to turn into one. Cynically, I was predicting an after-school-special ending. At that time, I'd forgotten about what Disney tended to do with their villains... and "The Lion King" hadn't come out yet.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
How about live-action Disney? The Black Hole actually showed the villain, trapped in the body of a robot, end up in hell! :devil:

And I keep laughing whenever I consider the irony...the actor, Maximilian Schell, playing a character who is trapped...in Maximilian's shell. :guffaw:
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OK that was funny.
 
Yassim said:
Joy said:
sbk1234 said:
Disney seems to do a lot of falling deaths.
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Probably 'cause it's the best way to say "Hey, this bad guy died, but we're not gonna show you anything violent, so just have him falling away from the camera and your imagination can make up the rest."
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Plus, the death isn't a murder. The Joker needs to die at the end of Batman '89, but the audience can't watch Batman kill him... so he falls to his death. It's gravity.

It's a way to visit punishment on your villains without turning your heroes into killers.
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That's what made the ending of The Dark Knight so great - the Joker falls, and it looks like it will be the same ending, until Batman, with deep reservations, grapples him to safety.
 
JiNX-01 said:
Bambi's mom is shot by hunters while he's still a baby.
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At least that was done entirely offscreen, with only the sound of a gunshot and Bambi's father saying that his mother won't be with him any more to let us now what happened. Not like with, say, The Lion King, where we see Scar deliver the fatal push to Mufasa and later actually see the dead body.
 
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