Wow, Walt Disney was a bastard....

[HEyHEY]

Did anyone else know this? I was reading Fast Food Nation and it went into Walt a bit. He was a union buster, and even was an FBI informant snitching on "commies" during the 50s.

WHo knew? :shrug:

[joeybee12]

1. Are you serious? I thought EVERYONE knew! He really was a prick...

...and he stole Mickey Mouse from his partner.

No talent, but a good business sense, which, I guess, means screwing those around you.

[HEyHEY]

2. Never had heard a thing about him ever before

Really kinda wrecks Disney for me - my childhood was spent watching the product of a bastard!

[joeybee12]

9. I used to work in animation, so I read a lot about him....

...there's a really trashy book about him--check your local library. Its title is something like Prince of Darkness.

I always thought his devotion to a YOUNG Annette Funicello was very unseemly.

[Elidor]

14. You watched the creations of talented men and women...

Who happened to work for the biggest asshole since Henry Ford. Their work is no less special for his involvement.

[rurallib]

3. Dija ever hear the stories

of Walt the major league racist. I can not remember all the details. I think Walt was from southern Illinois. Not that that is an excuse.
Some of his early work was very racist. I think it turned up in an auction in England a couple years back. Was authenticated.

[Rick Myers]

4. And a dope head...

Got hooked on morphine while driving ambulances in WW1! Many say that is the reason we got "Fantasia!!!"

[freetobegay]

5. A different time A different era

[yardwork]

6. I don't think that's a good excuse. There were decent people then.

Walt chose not to be.

[freetobegay]

11. I didn't say it was asn excuse

My father used to be in the KKK! He saw the errors of his ways. Am I never to forgive him?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

17. yeah, and they got deported

like charlie chaplin for, in the actual words of j edgar hoover, being "prematurely anti-fascist" and speakingout aginst hitler in the 30 when guys like ford and hearst were still making big bucks building up his war machine

the great dictator by chaplin was the film that planted the seed of two following decaeds of harrassment by hoover's corrupt fbi

[Deja Q]

7. Disney Corp is a true fascist organization

Hell, they want schools to pony up big-time so the kindergarteners can do a play of one of their cartoon movies (The Lion King?).

Disney also pays bounty for such wrongdoers too. :eyes:

[bearfan454]

8. Didn't he get a dishonorable discharge from the Marine Corps ?

Was it from LSD or is that a rumor ?

[skippythwndrdog]

13. It's one of those urban legend things.

It's been debunked numerous times. Check out almost any urban legend website.

[Downtown Hound]

10. Disney was a grade A, first rate asshole

Plus he killed Bambi's mom, the son of a bitch. If they ever thaw him out I'm going to kick his ass!

[kokomo]

15. Bambi was my first movie at age 4 and I cried for days.

My earliest memory of going to a theater was seeing Bambi in 1943. The movie left me terrified, wondering if I could lose my mother too. I would never allow a small child of mine to see it.

[Downtown Hound]

16. You know, it's easy to make kids cry

So as a result, certain storytellers like to really get sadistic with children's material. Yeah, I remember crying at Bambi too when I was three or four. I remember seeing Jaws when I was like four or five, a movie that had legs being bitten off and blood all over the water. It didn't scar nearly as much as Bambi did. Ironic huh?

[BlueJazz]

12. I read that when he would take out friends to eat....

...he would "stiff" the waitress after promising her a good tip.
He seemed to get off on it...
Sick Prick....

[sundog]

18. Disney conveniently swept the racist "Song of the South" under the carpet

[drumwolf]

19. and how about "What Makes A Red Man Red" from "Peter Pan"

although, to be fair, I'm not sure how racist it was by the standards of the time (the film was made in 1953).