Saturday, May 12, 2018

5/13/18 Understanding Disney Buying The Star Wars Franchise?

    What is at the core of almost every Disney movie?  I mean yes there has to be some catchy merchandise , but above everything, most storylines have to have dying parents.  Think of almost all the Disney cartoons, Cinderella has a mom that dies at the start or childbirth, The Lion King has the dad dying, The Little Mermaid has no mother figure, and even the newer one like Frozen has both parent's dying.  It is pretty messed up that at the core of our children's most beloved stories, most of the heroes are dealing with the death of a parent or getting by in life not knowing their parents at all, is it any wonder kids act like little shits, thinking they can survive life on their own.
    Anyways, so that is how Disney operates, so in 1977 a little gem of a movie comes out and it gets their interest, "hmm, hero with a dead mother.  Tell us more..."  well, we find in the next ones that the hero comes full circle and kills his father.  Disney starts clapping and screams "bravo" but these are hard times, it was the 80's, so nothing happened.
    Enter the 90's, and we are introduced to a young Anakin Skywalker, born like Jesus with no father or a hell of a roofie, you tell me.  He will very soon abandon his slave mother and go chasing after bigger dreams.  Disney is again interested but they need a little more bloodshed, so in the 2nd movie, with Anakin having enough training and time to ignore his mother, he shows up a few minutes too late to see his mother getting killed by Tusken Raiders.  This is where Disney drools and falls in love.  Anakin kills all the Tusken Raiders, even the women and children.  Believe me, to make those rich guys happy, Anakin will lustfully kill many more children, including all the padawans training under Yoda, just because he could.
    Disney decides to get in the game, buying the franchise for a hefty $4.06 billion and they already know which daddy they are going to start with.  They don't even wait, as soon as their first movie comes out, our favorite hero, Han Solo gets stabbed in the gut by his own son.  That's how Disney does it.  Ain't no good Disney movie like a parentless kid Disney movie.  It is sad that Princess Leia died of natural causes in real life or I am sure Kylo Ren would be coming after her next.  But for $4.06 billion, kid better make me some money.

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