Emo Spice

james charles stays serving LOOKS

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I kind of wish disney’s ~weird period~ had lasted longer. Like all of a sudden we were getting these films like lilo & stitch and Atlantis and the emperor’s new groove and treasure planet and they were so fun and DIFFERENT. Just thinking about what the pitches for those movies had to have been like is so surreal?? A little blue criminal alien crash lands on a Hawaiian island and gets adopted by two sisters dealing with social services that teach him about the value of family. An Inca emperor gets turned into a llama and john goodman helps him get back to his palace and one of the bad guys talks to squirrels. Treasure island but in SPACE. Like, on the surface, the premise for these films seem so random but they all TOTALLY WORKED IN REALLY GREAT WAYS??? idk I just really miss that early 2000s spark of offbeat creativity in Disney’s timeline.

That. Explains. Everything.

Dude..

And then DreamWorks killed *their* 2D film division (in Jeffrey Katzenberg’s words: “traditional animation is dead”), and focused exclusively on creating franchises, namely Shrek and Madagascar sequels, and most of the Disney animators ended up going *back* to Disney when John Lasseter took over the animation division in 2007, and Lasseter encouraged more 2D animation, and a general aura of “back to basics”, which lead to films like Bolt, The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Winnie the Pooh, Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, and Moana. Which would also explain the sudden resurgence in quality from Disney.

i hope my soulmate slept well last night