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      An investigation… so to speak

      August 21st, 2004 by mike d. in The Page

      I saw the lion king last night and noticed the pure unoriginality in the villain’s name (scar) with respects to the other characters (mufasa, simba).
      So, I decided to do a bit of an investigation into Disney villain’s names.

      Now, many of the stories listed in the chart below are not Disney Originals, so really, disney shouldn’t be blamed for the dumb villain names. With this in mind, we will make the official title of this chart:

      THE CREATIVITY OF NAMES COMMON IN FAIRY TALES AND DISNEY ANIMATED MOVIES
      Animated Villains

      stats for the geeks:
      Average: 6.0
      Standard Deviation: 3.1

      a few curious notes:
      -The Rescuers got such a low mark for Medusa because it was stolen outright from greek myth. Hercules got a high rating for Hades because it is Greek Myth, and was never stolen.
      -I also find it interesting that one of the evil stepsisters was named Anastasia: a future animated Heroine.

      CONCLUSION!
      My current hypothesis is that animated films, being for children, want to make it so that even viewers lacking any form of intelligence will know who the villain is.

      It kind of makes you wonder how intelligent the director of austin powers must have thought his audience would be… what with a villain named Dr. Evil.

      For more info on Disney villains, click Here.

      Authored by: mike d.

      Lion King

      August 21st, 2004 by mike d. in A Day In The Life...

      I went to see Lion King last night in Boston.
      It was breathtaking. The costumes and methods that they used for scenes like “the stampede” and “the stars speak to simba” were really impressive.
      Jill made a comment that I very much agreed with. She said that she liked how they didn’t hide […]

      I went to see Lion King last night in Boston.

      It was breathtaking. The costumes and methods that they used for scenes like “the stampede” and “the stars speak to simba” were really impressive.

      Jill made a comment that I very much agreed with. She said that she liked how they didn’t hide the people in the animal costumes, and they didn’t hide the methods by which they animated the arms and legs of the animals. The honesty of the costumes made them so much more intriguing.

      4 Stars

      on a side note, lets look for a moment at the names of the characters in Lion King. There’s Simba. Nala. Mufasa. Zazu. and… Scar.

      What a completely unoriginal name for our supervillain. Scar? seriously. All the others are so african. It’s like Disney got tired and decided to stop being imaginative.

      Authored by: mike d.
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