DVDizzy Forum

thelittleursula wrote:

sunhuntin wrote: i always assumed the workers were painted in shadow because it was stormy and therefore too dark to see facial details. i never saw the roustabouts as being black, white, asian or anything else, and thats still true to this day.

Same here, but yeah sadly the Bluray/ DVD versions show that they're dark skin coloured singing about how they waste their money away and be called dirty Apes.

That's maybe why this song dodged everything while the Crows didn't; the shadows/ rain blocked everything in the earlier versions of the movie.

sunhuntin wrote: ok. i havent seen it, only have the original release and prior to that a worn out vhs that was taped off the tv, lol. still, i guess it was acceptable for the times, same as song of the south and the propoganda shorts from WW2, or showing characters smoking. it shows how much the way we see the world has changed, also how much the disney corporation has changed as well. im loathe to consider that movies might be edited to conform to todays standards. history cannot be re-written, and neither should these movies. ive heard rumors of cruella losing her cigarette, and she just wouldnt work without it. similarly removing the scene of Pinocchio with the cigar on pleasure island. i find the donkey-boy begging for his parents more traumatic than smoking.

I do think that maybe a apology in front of the movie should be added in, instead of pretending it doesn't exist.
I think Loony Tunes DVD's do this, just to say sorry, this was created during a racist time period and we no longer hold these racist views and we apologize if this offends.

That's not a bad idea thelittleursula, Disney hiring well known people to explain the context of the time period so that we won't be offended easily (which I'm not when it comes to the song but it is still very awkward).

But disney has done that in the past. At least in the Treasure series (at least the Goofy one, can't tell of the other ones), Leonard Maltin appears at times before a short to explain about its content and how it wasn't deemed offensive back then when it was created, and how it contrats to nowadays. Mostly due to this one short where the "Goofy crowds" played Native Americans and was sorta like the What Makes the Red Man Red-scene. Very racist and awkward.

If you get right down to it there are no bad songs in the early DAC's. It is in the past 15 years or so that there have been some songs that just don't hold up. I enjoy most of today's music in movies, and Disney is no less enjoyable. The soundtrack for "Frozen" hasn't left my DVD player in the car since the first time we saw the movie.

I think that instead of "worst song" we should be looking for songs that just don't fit the moment. It doesn't make them 'bad' songs per se, it just means that they don't fit in that particular situation in the film. "Princess and the Frog" has some really great songs, but I know there are a couple that just seem out of place!

"Lady and the Tramp" has a soundtrack that defies picking apart. Every song fits each situation perfectly, and I can't think of a truly 'un-liked' song from any Disney film.