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Disney is notorious for taking good fiction that's in the public domain and then producing a bastardised version that's copyrighted to death and a vehicle for '

Disney is notorious for taking good fiction that's in the public domain and then producing a bastardised version that's copyrighted to death and a vehicle for 'merch'. They bastardise the story solely so that they can make it copyrightable, and ruining it in the process.* I challenge people to see a Disney version and then read the original, and count up how many changes Disney have made. Invariably, Disney's version of the story is a poor resemblance of the original and doesn't have the same 'pull' as the original. I boycott Disney like I would boycott the plague. * "Chabon now describes it as a “hodgepodge” of the John Carter stories, which he had loved since he was 10 years old."

jfengel 5y ago
Whether it's "ruined" is a matter of opinion, but it's objectively true that a variety of those stories are very popular. It's possible that a more "authentic" version would have been even more popular, though I'm not sure that's always the case. I just don't see people flocking to see truer versions of The Little Mermaid or The Hunchback of Notre Dame. They might well be artistically more mature, but there's something to be said for stories that are so popular that they inspire people to dress up as the characters.