10 Disney Movie Myths Everyone Still Believes
There's nothing better than sitting back and rewatching all your favorite Disney classics, such as The Lion King and Aladdin. You can quote the movies in your sleep and you love dazzling people at parties with all the insider fun facts - except, some of your "facts" are actually wrong.
We've compiled several popular Disney myths about animated movies and characters because, well, we just love ruining your childhood.
Sorry to burst your '90s kid bubble, but Mufasa and Scar actually weren't siblings. Director Rob Minkoff and producer Don Hahn told Hello Giggles, "[While making the movie] we talked about the fact that it was very likely [Scar and Mufasa] would not have both the same parents."
They also added, "The way lions operate in the wild...when the male lion gets old, another rogue lion comes and kills the head of the pride. What that does is it causes the female lions to go into heat [to reproduce], and then the new younger lion kills the king and then he kills all the babies. Now he's the new lion that's running the pride."
Apparently, we've been misgendering Christopher Robin's best buddy. Thanks to the book Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, it's revealed Winnie the Pooh is, in fact, a girl.
Her full name is Winnipeg, and she's a black bear from London Zoo. Moreover, she's Canadian!
According to Alexis Nedd on Twitter, the official Disney Princess website notes the crab's last name is Sebastian. His full name is a mouthful: Horatio Felonius Ignacius Crustaceous Sebastian.
Basically, Ariel's been calling her sea buddy by his last name instead of his first.
When Simba collapses on a cliff, he kicks up a cloud of dust that appears to spell S-E-X.
According to former Disney animator Tom Sito, that's not what it spells. He told HuffPost Entertainment, "It doesn’t say 'sex.' It says special effects. It’s SFX."
Former Disney animator Tom Sito also debunked this myth.
During the scene when Aladdin - aka Prince Ali - tries to woo Jasmine on her balcony, many fans claim to have heard him whisper this scandalous phrase. But Sito told HuffPost Entertainment, "The two animators who were doing that sequence are both, like, very religious guys ... that’s not their sense of humor."
HuffPost Entertainment also noted how the director's commentary explains that line is supposed to be something like, "Good tiger. Take off. Scat. Go!"
Scott Weinger, who voiced Aladdin, also denied ever saying that phrase.
If you look at the very center of of the golden castle, you'll see what appears to be a phallic symbol.
Somehow, a rumor emerged that an angry Disney employee snuck the penis imagery into the artwork because he found out he was going to be let go from the company after the movie was finished.
According to both Snopes and Complex, this isn't the case. Snopes questioned the artist and got the details: "Rushed to complete the video artwork (featuring towers that were rather phallic to begin with), the artist hurried through the background detail (at 'about four in the morning') and inadvertently drew one spire that bore a rather close resemblance to a penis."
Reportedly, the artist (whose name was not mentioned in the article) never even noticed the phallic similarities "until a member of his youth church group" alerted him to the news.
If you check out the official Disney Princesses website, you'll learn Frozen's Elsa isn't on it - because she's actually a queen.
Sadly, Moana also isn't part of the official Disney Princess lineup. In July 2016, The New York Times reported a Disney spokesperson confirmed the famous Polynesian will not be added to the princesses realm.
Since both Aladdin and Hercules were written and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, fans thought the two worlds were connected.
So when a shooting star appears during an early scene in Hercules, it's surely Aladdin and Jasmine soaring sideways and under on their magic carpet ride, right? Wrong.
Ron told E! News, "Pegasus is sort of watching over Hercules until he joins with him. The shooting star, we were thinking, is Pegasus. Though no one, I guess, can ever know for sure..."
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered in 1937 and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1939. It set in motion all the other Disney animated classics we love today - but it wasn't the first Disney movie.
According to Mental Floss, The Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons was technically the first Disney movie. It's a collection of five Disney shorts compiled to create buzz for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The runtime for the movie was 41 minutes, and according to the Oscars's rulebook, "An animated feature film is defined as a motion picture with a running time of more than 40 minutes."
Looks like The Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons just barely made the cut.
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There's nothing better than sitting back and rewatching all your favorite Disney classics, such as The Lion King and Aladdin. You can quote the movies in your sleep and you love dazzling people at parties with all the insider fun facts - except, some of your "facts" are actually wrong.
We've compiled several popular Disney myths about animated movies and characters because, well, we just love ruining your childhood.
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