![]() ![]() Meanwhile, some names besides "Walt" start to enter the mix - from the prolific Don Bluth, who was personally responsible for a sizable chunk of this list, to Richard Williams, the obsessive genius behind one of moviemaking's greatest Sisyphean feats. Apparently, some stories just weren't quite meant for the Magic Kingdom. Still, it's perhaps telling that Anastasia's nemesis is a consistently rotting corpse, and The Great Mouse Detective achieved considerably less press than others surrounding it (see: The Little Mermaid). Of course, there are also plenty of princesses to be had herein (hi, Anastasia!), and Disney certainly had its darker moments (the toy factory from The Great Mouse Detectivewill never not haunt my dreams). ![]() Indeed, in revisiting these films, you start to notice a distinct and pervasive undercurrent of non-Disney-ness, a number of them creepier, zanier, even more visually complex than their song-studded House of Mouse contemporaries. In fact, a number of the most undeniably excellent late-20th-century animations were not Disney fare. However, as we of the Laser Disc players (slash, obsessive IMDb routine) know well, this couldn't be further from the truth. In the same way that "Kleenex" has become synonymous with "facial tissue" and "Coke" often acts a stand-in word for any brand of brown soda, the phrase "Disney movie" is often used interchangeably with "animated film" - to the point where it almost seems like Walt & Co. ![]()
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