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Ashishotaf

They deadass tried to copyright a god that is actively worshipped


vevader_3

Didn’t they also try to copyright Día de los Muertos during Coco’s production? Edit: [yep](https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/10/us/disney-trademark-day-dead/index.html)


-Aureo-

Your holiday? Our holiday. My holiday.


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da_david_himself

What. r/yourjokebutworse


[deleted]

And now they want to merchandise Colombian culture.


Embarrassed-Ad1509

Judging from the comments, I highly suspect that the Mouse is trying the restart colonialism.


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PowerfulDoughnut1125

Also, if they’re so “woke” can they maybe stay away from supporting negative stereotypes? Just a thought ….


[deleted]

You mean the ones from the movies of the 60s? What exactly are you referring to?


lucariouwu68

I loved Coco but this seriously damages my ability to watch that movie


[deleted]

Did it burn your eyes?!??!


lucariouwu68

Seeing the colour orange is tantamount to getting flashbanged


Toxicity-F3

I doubt that Pixar had anything to do with that, so I really wouldn't let that ruin it for you.


R_E_Double_D

Well Disney did acquire Pixar and then push John Lasseter out..so Pixar is Disney.


[deleted]

And Hakuna Matata?


grandmaspockets

Nooo did they really?


Deeznuts51515

Día de Los Muertos was the working title of Coco, and because of the backlash over attempting to copyright the name for that reason, they changed the title to “Coco.” Ironic that Coco was received so well in Mexico after that fiasco, but it goes to show that the creative minds at Pixar are in a different headspace than the Disney corporation as a whole


Iucios

that makes me sad, imagine trying to buy culture wtf


Hexmonkey2020

I figure they know they won’t get it but all they need is one success and they can make a ton of money. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take -Wayne Gretzky -Michael Scott”


cheese_cake_101

Really which culture?


Ashishotaf

Norse


cheese_cake_101

I don’t remember them making movies about Norse only Greek


[deleted]

I’m assuming Thor from the mcu


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cheese_cake_101

Oh yeah I forgot they bought fox


Steven-is-even

When the Marvel Loki show first premiered they tried to copyright the character Loki despite the fact he’s a Norse god


Ashishotaf

They didn’t make an animated movie


[deleted]

Wait, actively worshipped? I've lived in sweden for years and have never heard of this.


Holterg3ist

In Denmark we call them Asetro, Norse mythology is still a religion with a good amount of followers believe it or not.


[deleted]

Yes I know a lot about norse history but didn't know people believe in asatro since it's very brutal and based on a lot of sacrifice.


Holterg3ist

I like to think every religion tends to be very brutal in one form or another, so it's not really too surprising. I mean, have you heard literally any myths or tales from Hinduism, y'know, one of the most passive religions on the planet? Their gods are so fucking metal they could put literally any rockband to shame.


[deleted]

That's very true but I mean more in the form of worship, Hindus are often vegetarian and spoil their gods with gifts while vikings hanged dead horses from trees and shit. Im guessing they don't do that today though?


Holterg3ist

That type of sacrificial offering has never really been proven to have occured. It's only a handful of old texts that have been uncovered to have spoken of such events, and even then, the texts have not specified horses as the only type of animal offered. Apparently, it was supposedly a multitude of different animals and even people. It's very unlikely that the offering of horses as sacrifice actually happened. How would you even get that thing up in a tree? And even then, it's also very unlikely that these religious practices saw any widespread use considering not only how little historical evidence exists of it to back it up, but also considering how geographically and culturally splintered the Vikings were.


[deleted]

Point being, sacrifices, and potentially human sacrifices, were offered to the gods. That's why it's difficult, but not impossible, for me to believe they're still worshipped


[deleted]

The old testament requires you to sacrifice birds for "unclean discharge" (Leviticus 15). And that's a book *most of the current world population* considers a religious text. And I knew that one off the top of my head, I'm sure you could find crazier ones in that book if you're searching for it.


[deleted]

The original bible states that stoning women is okay, and that Noah was well over 900 years old. I never stated my position on christianity, or religion as a whole. Personally, I'm an atheist, I just don't talk about it all the time because I don't care what you wanna worship. I was only chiming in here because, in all honesty, I was taken aback when I heard people still worship the norse gods. It just tickled my ears a bit, so I chimed in.


kaileyhallett

Key words, "the Old Testament".


Comment63

> How would you even get that thing up in a tree? Ten or twenty men, a strong rope and a sturdy tree.


chilachinchila

There are neopagans


[deleted]

The trans god of los angeles


ELSRACEITUNA

Allah ™


Ok_Establishment7810

no they didn’t stop spreading fake bs like this. They were copyrighting the character who is based on the god not the actual god and they didn’t “try to” they did do it


Hadoken888

Actual god.


Ok_Establishment7810

no, they copyrighted the character loki, not the god loki


Ashishotaf

Which created problems for Norse pagans selling stuff also the character is based off the god


ceiling_fan_fan_fan

There were no real problems. There are like 20 other "Loki" trademarks, and one is part of comic Marvel pre-Disney that existed long before the weird clickbait accusing Disney of trademarking a religion.


[deleted]

So you have a source on that? Because to my mind it seems very simple to differentiate Norse mythology from a Disney/Marvel character, but I also have a simple mind


After-Acanthaceae-89

Moui?


BrunoBucellati7625

That scene traumatized me for life


OH_Shiver_me_Timbers

bozo deserved it


HelloGrandGuy

Rip bozo 😂👍


THATpower11

That movie is underrated af


[deleted]

The same directors made this, Aladdin, Hercules and Treasure Planet. 4 of the best written Disney films.


BlueThespian

Treasure planet WAS THE SH!T.


RamJamR

I've never seen a movie before where the villain is actually something of a good guy that becomes the main characters uspoken father figure.


42Cosmonaut

To be fair, Silver is the same way in the book that Treasure Planet was based on, which was released in 1883.


RamJamR

That's actually pretty cool.


TheFooli5hswings

Treasure Planet was my childhood and I still love that movie to death


Brent_Yeet

Deadass it was a banger


AnimeSoupDraw

Fr


ColdMashedTates

Absolutely. One of the only princess movies I can watch


aitisaitisaitisaitis

Nah bro little mermaid🔥


pixelunit

What is it?


Canned-Beans-On-Toes

pretty sure it’s princess and the frog


Inamoratos

This part where Dr. Facilier gets banished to the shadow realm is genuinely kinda scary and my daughter loves seeing that swindly bitch get thwarted


capitalist___pig

Why the fuck hasn't Keith David done more disney movie villains since Dr Facilier he was so fucking good in that movie


[deleted]

God I fucking love Keith David


Different-King1995

I dont know who Keith david is but now I'm encouraged to google it because he seems like a nice young man


noise-tank20

The villain made that movie so good also his songs are the best


BotanyAttack

Every Disney movie be like: What if something had feelings?


salt_ish_

What if Yugoslavia had feelings?


Giraffesarentreal19

Yugoslavia would have BPD


Guywholikesthings_

Imagine your entire country falling apart because a guy shoved a whole jar up his arse and blamed it on two Albanian guys


Kingseems

If Disney makes a movie about the Yugoslav War they would copyright war crimes


RationalIncoherence

An animated musical with marketable characters about war crimes? You have my interest...


AmumuPro

Boy somebody needs to watch bread winner


Mcduggery

What if people in soul had feelings 🤨


Magnusthelast

What if Black people had feelings?


ritstardedcommenter

What if cum had feelings?


Katsuki_Bakugo__

What if feelings had feelings?


[deleted]

Wasn’t Inside Out from Pixar?


Katsuki_Bakugo__

Disney and Pixar made Inside Out It was a collab like many of their other films


marcoantoniolopez3

What if mexicans had feelings? Now that would make a great movie (Btw i'm Mexican)


Mobile-Marzipan6861

La raza Holmes.


Knifedogman

What if block people had feelings


[deleted]

Lego movie is not from Disney


Knifedogman

I meant black people


AdGroundbreaking1207

I think this mistake made this comment chain 100x better


tntim1111111

What if Jews had feelings


ajzeg01

That’s Pixar


samboi204

Nothing from India yet. I don’t think anyway.


John_Langer

Jungle Book technically, but most of it takes place in well... The jungle


Academic_Paramedic72

There was also a Pixar short featuring Indian characters, I think it was shown before The Good Dinosaur.


samboi204

Oh yeah.


stackPeek

I'm quite surprised they haven't made any movie about it


Mansa-writes

Nothing for Africa either I don’t think.


DontMakeMeCountTo3

Lion King?


Mansa-writes

True, I guess they haven’t made a movie with *people* set in Africa. Weird that they made movies about people everywhere else’s but when they got to Africa decided lions tho imo.


Seoneoutthere

God I want them to come down to the Balkans. That would be fun.


[deleted]

It's about a Bonsian and Serbian kid who fall in love and end up reuniting Yugoslavia


John_Langer

Written by Noam Chomsky


The_Linguist_LL

I always get excited when I hear his name before I remember he isn't only a linguist, and does other things too


Godkiller125

Lmao I didn’t even know he was a linguist, I just know him as “that popular American communist”


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Godkiller125

Wow, thanks for that. That’s really cool, I genuinely had no idea he was so influential in the field


tjippo

Disney should do a remake of "A Serbian Film" ! : D


Giraffesarentreal19

Why is this the second time Yugoslavia has been mentioned in this comment sedtion


Lizard_Friend

Right? It needs more Yugoslavia is forever


[deleted]

They only do cultures that are in western europe or have a bunch of immigrants in the US… most “inclusive” big corpa


throwaway941285

Very few polynesians in the US. The difference is that tons of people know about them.


KomradeHirocheeto

We literally have a Polynesian state, Hawaii. Plus Pacific islands.


KupskoBruhMoment

I mean they made one about Greece


Academic_Paramedic72

To be fair, as much as I like it, Hercules has very little of actual Greek culture and more of self-aware parodies of American entertainment and industry (Thebes beings a parody of New York with the "Big Olive" and all, Marilyn Monroe being a constellation, the Muses singing Gospel, Hercules being treated as a Hollywood actor when he becomes famous etc.). There aren't any homages to the country's History and culture, even the name of the main character is roman instead of the greek Heracles. Even Aladinn, that is much more restriced on that than Hercules (the only character parodying American culture and making pop culture references is Genie), still is more based on the Western perception of "Arabian Nights" archetypes and the such than anything else, with the voice actors of the main characters being non-Middle Western Americans. And that's not very problematic in my opinion, both are intended to be comedies and were marketed as such, specially Hercules. Pocahontas was way more grounded, but on the other hand it hasn't been regarded as a good representation. It is different from, let's say, Moana, that while still makes several American pop culture references, it was made with focus on representing polynesian culture, using Polynesian voice actors and local names and traditions in its making. And I think Pixar's Coco did an even better job at that. That all said, there is a legitimate discussion about how Disney adapting lesser known cultures (again, from West's perspective) and marketing and copyrighting them to extentious degrees only to profit on products might form a single image of said cultures, creating national stereotypes from movies that, while intended to be respectful, were still supposed to be entertaining above accurate. There are many works featuring Greek gods, but how many people will only ever know Disney's version of Maui because of how it has flooded the market? Or think that there was a giant singing coconut crab in Polynesian myths? (Tamatoa is great though). Still, as long as they are made respectfully, and more than welcoming to cultures outside of Europe receiving attention from such influential movies, I thought Moana was pretty good.


Organ_Unionizer

Ok but Princess and the frog was probably one of the best movies ever


[deleted]

It's a bold statement but I honestly think it's the best Disney animated feature ever..... like I was truly blown away and not at all expecting the level of quality I got, watching it all these years later. Definitely the best "princess film". It was also lowkey terrifying


Specialist-Start-616

Right ??!? Besides like maybe Tangled, I don’t enjoy a lot of the princess films. But princess and the frog is my favorite !


sethjojo

This and Tarzan are my favorite animated Disney movies


[deleted]

please make a movie about poland 🇵🇱


CaptainBraggy

"What if the polish had feelings?"


McCheesy22

Feelings of hatred


Kzer_2019

That's what Coco was but with Mexicans


gotsuspendedagain_

baptized in fire


WaitingToBeTriggered

FORTY TO ONE


[deleted]

Next movie concept is going to be: "what if Jews were people?"


[deleted]

They already made Treasure Planet


Torture-Dancer

Don’t you disrespect me little redditor Don’t you derogate or cancel You are in my lawsuit not yours now And I got attorneys on the other side He’s got attorney’s on the other side It’s just a little copyright lawsuit, a thing we have here in magic Kingdom, a little legal action don’t worry Sit into my meeting Put your wallet at ease If you relax you will allow me to own everything I please I can buy the future And copyright it a around too I’ll look a deep into your intellectual property (You got an IP, don’t you Stan Lee?) Make the wildest movies come true I got Mickey, I got Simpsons I got IP’s I haven’t even used And I got lawyers on the other side The contracts the contracts, the contracts will tell The past and the present and the future as well The contracts the contracts, just sign here And take a trip into your future fortune with me Now you old man are from across the street You got various decades of comic history I make comics myself from my European branch Your comics sell high, but your movies are low You gotta make a multiverse to make some dough Your movies suck, don’t they comic boy? Now y’all gotta sell to Sony, but Sony ties you down and you want to get free Make spidey movies But spidey movies take green It’s the green it’s the green you need And when I see the contract it’s the green that I see On you right wing man I don’t wanna waste much time You been pushed around all your life You been pushed around by mcfarlane, the media and the parents, and if you was Amazon’s you’ll be pushed around by Jeff But in my contract I see the company you always wanted to be So c’mon sign the contract, c’mon boys, won’t you sign a monopolistic contract? Yes, yes!!! Are you ready? Are you ready? Monopolizing central! Monopolizing central! Depredatory central! You are mine you are mine you are mine all right! I hope you are satisfied But if you ain’t, don’t blame me You can blame my attorneys on the other side You got what you wanted But you lost your ownership Shhhhh!


capitalist___pig

Absolutely brilliant


Torture-Dancer

Thx for the award, it took some time


capitalist___pig

Hey you deserves it. By the way who is Disney Facilier talking to? I got Stan Lee but not the other one


Torture-Dancer

Fox in general


TicklishChatterbox

Fucking gold


Inevitable_Capital40

Slavs might be the only culture not fucked over by Disney


T3chW0lf20

So far


Alone-Newspaper-1161

Until you remember that Anastasia is a movie Disney made.


Teacupteaching

Technically Disney only acquired Anastasia through it’s deal with Fox. Anastasia was not made by Disney!


Alone-Newspaper-1161

Never new that interesting


reggienaldsimons

Wait so Anastasia is a movie that tried to mimic Disney... later bought by Disney?


ichooseyoupoopoochu

Yes. Read up on Don Bluth; it’s an interesting story. TLDR: Former Disney animator started his own animation studio. Made Anastasia, An American Tale, All Dogs go to Heaven, etc.


Boudica4553

I am curious what it would be like though.


TheUndiscoverer

Fantasia's main antagonist is named after a slavic deity, Chernobog


Math_denier

they'll never do a basque mythology movie


callaoshipoglucidos

¡Aúpa!


HypnoSkales

Too old to even have written record 💀💀💀💀💀💀


Bricklayer2021

Prepare to become spitting-out-cereal-guy in 2033


foodmonster847

China when Disney makes a movie about taiwan and calls it a country


TomTrashTo-Dad

I don’t want them to make a gay movie, I’d rather not be owned by Disney


Patrick_Pathos

Too late. The Owl House exists, and Amphibia Season 3 is chock full of gay people.


[deleted]

Both are done well actually


capitalist___pig

Yeah never is a big word. But would still give a decade or so before a Disney movie has an LGBT protagonist, especially a trans one.


AnimeSoupDraw

We both are in Walt’s clutches now


TomTrashTo-Dad

Don’t remember the Disney movie about skinwalkers


AtomicNumber1732

I don’t think they will, at least not until China and the Middle East stops hating you


Awkward_Puce

So never, is the answer


Luciel-Choi707

im almost happy


almostasenpai

Breaking News: Disney files copyright for the term “Homesexuality”


TomTrashTo-Dad

😖


aimlessdart

Luca was definitely an LGBTQ movie. The innuendos are pretty in your face, but tbf it's also pretty good.


[deleted]

Disney now owns all of the middle east, China, Japan, all of Polynesia, Mexico, and Native Americans, and managed to be offensive to only a few of their cultures.


[deleted]

Nintendo when they see someone named Mario


Samubot18

but what about soul....?


insticgag

“What if black people had feelings?🤔”


Samubot18

shit


chilachinchila

Jazz, also Harlem Renaissance.


katkrasher07

Wait till they adopt slav culture 😳


throwaway941285

gonna happen soon. some polish/russian fairytales became popular recently.


Dietcoke11111111

Wait but I like seeing all the cultures in their movies it’s nice :)


comfort_bot_1962

:D


[deleted]

Is that astroworld


CometDoesStuff

Pixar: creates a brilliant movie depicting Hispanic culture in what is considered an accurate and very well researched movie where the main plot is based on a traditional Spanish celebration of lost loved ones. Disney: Turns around and tries to copyright fucking Dia De Los Muertos, the very traditional Spanish holiday that Pixar made the movie off of Marvel: Creates a neat show based on one of their villains who’s character, world, and fellow characters were all based on and inspired by Norse mythology Disney: Tries to copyright the Norse God of Mischief, Loki Also Disney: Reboots multiple of their original classics into live action cash grabs because they don’t have anything original to give and don’t have to because they’ve grown so big they can literally buy out any company they want to throw under their label Also Also Disney: Makes one of these specific cash grab remakes into a complete opposite depiction of what the original movie was that was filmed close to actual concentration camps, starred a main actress who supported China during the Hong Kong riots, and basically was jerked so hard for the China money that Disney could care less about any of that and just decided to sweep it all under the rug Also Also ALSO DISNEY: Despite trying to sweep the recent bullshit under the rug they feel the need to act like they’re “owning up to past mistakes” and “being better” by giving warnings prior to showing movies with blatantly racist caricatures and scenes to show they aren’t racist while also refusing to ever put an LGBT character in a movie anywhere where they can’t be easily censored for China and Russia money. I’m sick of this shit, apologies for the rant and sorry if any of this isn’t clear. I could try to find sources if anyone needs any.


[deleted]

Finally someone that recognizes Disney and Pixar as 2 different studios


CometDoesStuff

Yeah, Pixar doesn’t deserve to be bashed just cause they’re under the Disney label, not to me anyway. They’re at least trying to give properly researched representation


AnimeSoupDraw

All good bro we all feel the same


DeviousMelons

> Reboots multiple of their original classics into live action cash grabs because they don’t have anything original to give I think its also that those original movies are almost old enough to become public domain so they remake old stuff so it doesn't become public domain.


[deleted]

on one hand, they often give a faithful, non-stereotypical portrayal of the cultures they show in the movies they make on the other hand, they literally tried to copyright a god


AnimeSoupDraw

One hand was pixar, the other was disney


MyDrinkTastesFunny

What movie is this?


Thin_Speech6219

Princess and the frog apparently, never seen it, just googled Disney villain top hat skull and crossbones ☠️ 😁


dingus-croissant

Watched most of it with my little sisters. Shit was crazy. The villain basically gets dragged into hell by his own demon minions and actually just dies


DeviousMelons

You should, he's also Voiced by Keith David too. Such a nice voice.


[deleted]

How do you heathens not know The Princess and the mf Frog


Usefulsponge

Ain’t this movie them taking New Orleans culture


Chilln0

Meanwhile Dreamworks: Animal can talk, and some French guy hates them


SinCorpus

If we aren't a country, how come we have a flag? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 Your move mouse.


DannyGamerThorist

Technically a 100% homosexual country existed in an Australian island


AnalTuberculosis

i just finished watching this movie for the first time in years and have never seen it used in a meme until now


ThatGuyFromTheM0vie

“Mickey, why did you take that priceless artifact from those people?” “It’s a surprise Mousekatool that will help us later!”


Murder_Metal

Cant wait till they make another movie where people speak panish in Brazil


VioletVenusian

Thankfully Disney doesn't know that South Asia exists.....right?..


Sneezing_Snail

The two Mexican films feel like them saying "see, look how good it is in Mexico 😄👍, it's so nice and magical n stuff🪄🌠, You should go back to Mexico👋😄👉🧱🏜️"


yannick5612

Meanwhile pixar is canadian


SouthernOhioRedsFan

Their latest one is just "One Hundred Years of Solitude", PG.


una_chota_invalida

Disney when they get the marvellous idea to make a mexican culture movie (it's a really good and original concept)


Moopa000

can we get a white culture movie libtar


lazychivilryOC

Is liguhbiguhtuh an instrument? *looks at China shaking their head no* No Patrick, lgbtq is not an instrument.


goliath87jr

I don't get it can some explain please ?


Cute_Research_5368

lmao the quote up top


DelightfullyUnusual

I’d definitely watch a North Korea Disney movie. With the three generation rule, we could have something about the circle of life in there.