Alex Mouse from Fantasyland

The Hamlet-like aspects of The Lion King weren't always part of the plan for that movie: that fact I already knew. Scar wasn't originally conceived as Mufasa's brother, but as a rogue lion who wanted to take over the pride. But then the creative team decided it would be more effective if the threat came from within the pride rather than without.

Here's what I just learned from the Woolverton article: the decision to have Scar be Simba's uncle wasn't inspired by Hamlet either. It came from one of the filmmakers (his name wasn't mentioned) who had once been betrayed by an "uncle figure" and then had to testify against him in court. But when Woolverton saw that this movie was going to be about a prince who has to defeat his uncle who killed his father for the throne, she realized "This is like Hamlet!" From that point on, she intentionally brought more Hamlet-inspired elements to the screenplay.

This is based only on the classic cartoons from the '60s through the early '90s, which is the Scooby Doo I grew up with in syndication. As a kid I lost interest in the franchise after Scooby Doo on Zombie Island, and I've never seen the live-action movies or the more recent cartoons.

Favorite thing about them: What a friendly, funny, and all-around likable character he is, and how resourceful and brave he can be when it really matters.

Least favorite thing about them: Probably how cowardly he usually is, though of course his cowardice is funny.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I'm anxiety-prone.

*I love food.

*I love dogs.

Three things I don't have in common with them:

*I'm female.

*I'm not a beatnik or a hippie.

*I would never own a Great Dane – I prefer small dogs.

Favorite line:

"My stomach's emptier than a piggy bank on the day after Christmas!"

When the gang is forced to stay in a creepy inn that the innkeeper says has "all the comforts of home":

"Like, whose home? Dracula's?"

When the villain of the day has Shaggy and Scooby tied up on a pile of explosives:

"Like, who's gonna build a new us?"

When he hears a creepy laugh and Velma dismisses it as "the wind":

"Well, that's the first wind I ever heard with a sense of humor!"

brOTP: Scooby, Fred, Velma, and Daphne, but especially Scooby.

In crossover-land, I might also like to see him become friends with the sitcom character he was modeled after, Maynard G. Krebs from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, or with Jughead from Archie Comics, who was a predecessor to both him and Maynard.

OTP: None in particular; his romances never seem to last.

nOTP: Scooby or Scrappy.

Random headcanon: The franchise's inconsistency about whether or not he's a vegetarian is true in-universe too. He switches back and forth between being a vegetarian and letting himself eat meat sometimes. But he always eventually goes back to vegetarianism, for the same reason his original voice actor Casey Kasem was a staunch vegetarian – his love of animals.

Unpopular opinion: I have no desire to ship him with either Velma or Daphne. I like them as friends.

Song I associate with them:

The "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" theme song.

Favorite picture of them:

Illustrations by Cory Godbey for the novelization of Disney's live action Cinderella, titled "Have Courage and be Kind: The Tale of Cinderella". Retold by Brittany Candau.

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Kinda makes me wish for a whole animated film in this style.

Sometimes I have trouble telling the difference between the two.

But sometimes an example is so blatantly obvious that it baffles me when the one is mistaken for the other.

A while back, I read a comment from a fellow autistic Disney fan about Grumpy in Snow White, saying that they liked the fact that even though he doesn't personally like Snow White, he still makes every effort to protect her from danger. As if they thought it was just the dispassionate "right thing to do" on his part.

Yet it seems so obvious to me that Grumpy's whole character arc is about learning to love Snow White. Reluctantly at first, and trying to hide it, but learning to love her all the same. I've been able to see that since I was six years old!

Originality- 5/5 I've never seen a Cinderella story set in Spain before. The film also has some strange casting going on, as Prince Rodrigo is played by an Egyptian actor, while our Cinderella, Isabella, is played by an Italian actress. The Fairy Godmother is replaced by an old hag, who is part of a whole coven that doesn't want to help Isabella. There's no Wicked Stepmother or Ugly Stepsisters to speak of. No glass slipper, no pumpkin carriage. But there is a monk who can fly.

Soundtrack- 2/5 not a musical

Romance- 2/5 Let me just start by saying that I HATE enemies to lovers. Isabella and Rodrigo immediately get off to a bad start, with him trying to steal her horse and then accusing her of being a thief for some reason. She also repeatedly talks about how much she hates him. But as soon as he leaves, she goes to a bunch of old hags and asks them if he loves her. They spend almost all their screentime fighting with each other. Rodrigo even tries to have Isabella executed at one point. He also seems actively against the idea of marriage. Rodrigo refuses to speak to or even interact with any princess, and tells his mother to just pick a wife for him. And yet, when they reunite in the final act, Rodrigo and Isabella act like none of that ever happened and embrace each other.

Enjoyability- 2/5 This movie is strange, and I don't know how I feel about it. The plot is more like a series of random events, which honestly does feel fairy tale-esque, but not very Cinderella-y. I think it'd be fun to watch with friends, and probably laugh at, but I was mostly confused. It's very goofy, but frustrating at the same time.

Morals- 1/5 I think the message they're going for is "don't give up on love" or maybe "go after the people you love". But it comes off more as "if a man and a woman hate each other, it means they're secretly in love".

Ok so for some clarifications: this film isn't an adaptation of Cinderella, it's a hodgepodge of different stories from the Pentameron (the oldest european fairy tale collection) and local south italian folk tales. For some reason, the title "Cinderella italian style" was picked for the UK market and ever since then the connection with Cinderella stuck around. The movie also isn't set in Spain, but in an italian kingdom under spanish rule (Naples). That is also a reason why the monk tries to set the pair up: Isabella is an actual local inhabitant, while Rodrigo and the princesses are from foreign spanish nobility. This theme of the importance of a woman from the local people to become queen is also present in the neapolitan musical/operetta "la Gatta Cenerentola" by Roberto de Simone.

This movie suffered a bunch from conflicting visions: Francesco Rosi, the director, wanted to incorporate a lot of southern culture, while the producer Carlo Ponti pushed for overseas marketability. Originally the monk, st. Joseph of Copertina, was supposed to be played by comedy legend Totò, but unfortunatel, he passed that year, and Ponti got the more recognizable abroad Leslie French in the role.

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Clark always brings back a memory of a discussion he had with his ex-wife that was caused by him breaking a glass and ended up with him being kicked out of their home.

But he's the thing. Clark is always portraying himself as the victim, and the whole film is about how memories can be deformed and twisted until they are completely unrecognizable.

In the Backrooms, the Still Life redhead is deathly afraid every time Clark's Still Life copy comes near, and she's the only Still Life creature besides Clark's copy that moves on their own.

So, what if the broken glass is another false memory? An euphemism to end all euphemisms.

Clark gets home drunk again one night and gets violent with his ex wife, breaking a few stuff, and she's so scared that she kicks him out of the house. And he, still wanting to play the victim, insists to himself and to his therapist that she was only angry because he broke a glass.