![]() Today was the first day of college for people here. I don't go to college, but I decided to make it a productive day and work on my sister & brother-in-laws wedding scrapbook for most of it - a project that's proving to take much longer than first intended. Now, I usually can't scrapbook without some sort of background noise going on. So I decided that today would also be a Disney Day. Which, let's be real, made the day significantly better. It probably wasn't the best for the sake of productivity, since at nearly every song I stopped ![]() what I was doing and sang along enthusiastically while making wild interpretive dance gestures. Between scrapbooking and busting out into a one woman musical, I learned some things while watching these Disney movies today. ![]() 1) I know WAY more lines from these movies than I thought I did. Movies I haven't seen in years. In each one I recited about half of the lines along with the characters. Which I would say is a bit disturbing and/or obsessive, if I didn't think it was such a beautiful thing. 2) Ariel is 16. Which, they tell you that in the movie, but I never really thought about it until now. It just seems strange to me . . . ![]() 3) Time wise, the Beast would have had to be 11 years old when the enchantress cast a spell over him and the castle. They make him seem older during that part though . . . granted, the only form you see him in at that age is stained glass form. And who knows, he might have been one of those lads who just matured REALLY early on in life. But still, he always seemed older growing up . . . Also, that makes Belle around my age. Which is weird. 4) The more I really think about it, I don't really identify with any main characters in Disney. I share some traits with a few of them, but I can't really look at any of them and be like, "Dude, that's totally me". HOWEVER, I can do this with most of the characters pets. Philippe (Belle's horse), Jolly (Esmeralda's goat), Achilles (Phoebus' horse), Maximus (the guards horse in Tangled), Pascal (Rapunzel's chameleon), Cri-Kee (Mulan's lucky cricket), Hugo (Quasimoto's gargoyle friend), etc. 5) I know almost every song in these 4 movies word for word. 6) I become a different person when I sing Disney. 7) There's one song (or, at least part of it) in these 4 movies that I would legitimately like someone to be able to sing/lipsync to me some day. 8) The Hunchback of Notre Dame has a lot more mature elements that you would never pick up as a kid. I mean, there are all of those things that Disney slips in for the parents' sake that the kids don't get, but seriously . . . wow. Let's put bigotry, damnation, verbal/emotional abuse, lust, and genocide into a children's movie. Don't get me wrong, I love that movie. But . . .what? and 9) Out of all the guys in Disney, if they were real, and I had to choose one, I'd probably go for Quasimoto. Posssssssibly Phoebus. Maybe. And there you have it. The things you can learn from watching Disney with a spastic little 20 year old.
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