there are more remakes and sequels being releasedthan original films today but than again are they really original? films reuse plotlines over and over againbut that’s okay because they usually find a plotline twist that we love and we keepheading into theaters. disney has been making animated films since1937 and their first film snow white was based off a popular brothers grimm story. still, sometimes their plotlines are closerto films that have already been released and people are quick to point out the similarities. here is screen rant’s list of ten timesdisney stole ideas from other popular movies.
stick around to the end of the video for afrozen fact that you might not have known. aladdin nearly thirty years in the making, miramaxreleased the thief and the cobbler in 1995. miramax, which was a subsidiary of disneyat the time was supposed to beat aladdin into theater but did not. when watching the two films it is impossiblenot to see the similarities. both villains had a bird as a partner in crime,numerous costumes looked the same and the villain in cobbler looked a great deal likealaddin’s genie. both of these films are considered classicanimations today, even if you see the similarities.
toy story the story of toys coming to life when humansaren’t around and these toys having their own secret life was the plotline of a jimhenson special released in 1986. henson released a special called, the christmastoy where the protagonist is desperate to keep his status as the favorite toy. when a new toy arrives that is space themedshe doesn’t believe she is a toy. doesn’t that sound familiar to the storyline of 1996’s toy story? it’s okay disney has worked with the hensonteam for many years and today they even own the muppets.
wait till you see which film’s plotlineis similar to toy story 2. monsters inc. a monster living under your bed isn’t anew concept but having a portal to a world of monsters is a little more unique. in the 1989 film, little monsters, fred savagefollows a blue furry, horn toting monster into a monster world. in monsters inc. an adorable little girl followsa big blue monster into her closet to another monster world. the few people who have actually a seen bothfilms saw the similarities but there is less
in common than there is in common. now if fred savage returned to this monsterland to go to college, than we might have an issue with disney. the incredibles 2004’s the incredibles is about a familyof four with these super powers: superhuman strength, ability to be invisible, super speed;and the ability to stretch and flex like rubber. another story of four superheroes with superpowersis the fantastic four, with their superpowers being: superhuman strength, ability to beinvisible, ability to generate flames and fly and the ability to stretch and flex likerubber.
three out of four are the same but what happenswhen baby jack-jack finds his powers? he can self-combust, levitate and teleport;that sounds pretty close to us. what do you think? the lion king the lion king was billed as disney’s firstbig animated feature that wasn’t a retelling of a fairytale or a previous story. so when the similarities to the japanese-createdamerican television cartoon series called, kimba the white lion was revealed it was alittle shocking. from the plotline to the strong image of alion standing atop pride rock, all of this
can be seen in the cartoon series. still disney states that the lion king wasbased off bambi and hamlet despite the similarities. you remember the scene with bambi’s departedparent talking to them as a cloud. oh wait, that was kimba’s parent. toy story 2 the filmmakers behind toy story must lovejim henson’s work as much as we do. toy story 2 has a very similar plotline to1985’s follow that bird, starring big bird. big bird leaves sesame street and finds otherbirds more like him, he gets kidnapped and forced to perform in a circus.
his family from sesame street saves him andhe goes back to his home where he truly belongs. woody leaves his home when a toy collectorsteals him. winds up with cowboy characters just likehim and he’s going to be displayed in a museum but is ultimately saved by his friendsand returns home. luckily toy story 3 doesn’t have any hensonsimilarities or we would start to wonder. toy story 3 speaking of the toy story franchise, we allknow how important john lasseter is to the pixar studios. did you know he worked on the story for adisney film called, the brave little toaster?
in both films a kid goes off to college andthrough a misunderstanding his toys or appliances are taken away. the films are about the adventures of thesetoys making their way back to their owner, both having a life or death scene at the citydump. robin hood when walt disney died in 1966, it took a longtime for the studio to release another animated hit. one of the reasons was that the studios werecutting back the budgets of these films and the filmmakers had to find ways to cut theircosts.
one trick was to re-draw over previous cellsmade for other disney films. they even went as far back to their firstanimated release of snow white for the film robin hood. this is one-way disney stole from the oldand gave to the new. cars 1991’s doc hollywood starred michael j.fox as a doctor who crashes his car into a fence at a small town. the judge sentences him to community serviceand he soon comes to respect the town’s old fashion doctor.
once he is able to leave he wants to returnto his newfound home. looks like disney said, “i love that carcrash scene but the people ruin this movieâ€. so they got rid of the people and changedthe storyline a little and we got the animated film cars. still, we don’t remember any scene witha car coming our of the water without her hood down. frozen the story of a snowman that comes to lifeis nothing new but tell that to animator kelly wilson who made the 2009 short the snowman.
in frozen’s teaser, olaf sneezes off hisnose and kristoff’s reindeer sven goes after that carrot nose. in the snowman, after the snowman looses hisnose bunnies try to take it from him. some of the shots are even identical to disney’steaser. either way the movie frozen melted our heartsand the snowman was adorable to watch too. what do you think of our video? did we skip over any other times disney stoleideas from other stories? sound off in the comments below and be sureto subscribe to our channel! don’t leave just yet; watch another screenrant video for more fun lists of your favorite
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