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In his “Hobbits, Narnia, and Spirituality” blog on Examiner.com, Mark Sommer examines Disney’s post-Narnia direction in the light of Alice in Wonderland, which premiered in theaters March 5. Sommer notes that
[t]his version of Alice comes across more as an impersonal video game than a story capable of touching the soul. (Significantly, the video game based on the movie is promoted in the previews attached to the film.) Is this a reflection of where Disney, and perhaps society as a whole, is headed?
Sommer and HollywoodJesus.com editor Greg Wright also discussed the nature of various changes Disney made in its film versions of LWW and PC, focusing on LWW’s ice-river and battle scenes. As a result they decided,
It seems that Disney is developing a predilection toward designing movies that will adapt well as video games, rather than focusing on what makes a good movie.
It is also significant that Disney is releasing a movie (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) this May based on a video game.
Video games perhaps have their place, but they do not do well (if at all) what movies can do well – tell a story that can touch our souls. Disney, we don’t need more soulless entertainment.
Narnia fans seem to be finding good reason to be glad Disney has been replaced by Fox.
You can read the full story here.
I’m wondering if “soulless entertainment” and a “video game”-like atmosphere, both aspects of Eastern spirituality, are Disney’s goals — and those of post-modern culture. Reality is not an image.
Thanks for covering this, AslansLily. I hope I am wrong about Disney. Time will tell.
HAHA! I’ve been predicting the downfall of Disney ever since Prince Caspian released. *grabs popcorn and watches Disney go down the tubes*
‘I’m wondering if “soulless entertainment” and a “video game”-like atmosphere, both aspects of Eastern spirituality,’
Seriously? Aspects of Eastern spirituality? What the heck you on about? Why even bother to share material of this poor quality. Don’t waste our time please.
Finally. Disney hit it’s peak a long, long time ago — back when the good Disney movies were new: Lion King, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, etc, etc… Since then, the only good Disney movies were just the Narnia movies. I think it’s past it’s prime.
I wouldn’t take this as a prediction of Disney’s doom. Alice in Wonderland, despite the critics, and perhaps partly because of them, is set to break all kinds of March records.
Disney is in business to make money. For better or worse, making movies that make good video games seems to be helping their bottom line.
@Annoyed: you clearly know nothing about Eastern religions, mysticism, or New Age spirituality, possibly even witchcraft. Video games and “soul-less entertainment” = a Western, post-modern repackaging of the East. This is spiritual darkness.