qindarka wrote:I never quite understood why Disney are so often associated with fairy tales (Actually I can, it's the marketing). Only 6 of their 51 animated movies have been based on fairy tales (Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Tangled). Not to mention that there was a 30 year gap between Sleeping Beauty and The Little Mermaid and a 19 year gap between BATB and Tangled. Them not making a movie based on a fairy tale is par on the course, really. More often they have done adaptations of books rather than fairy tales.
I think Joe Public would also consider Pinocchio, Aladdin, and The Princess and the Frog to fall in that genre. Whether or not they actually do is beside the point if the issue is why do people perceive Disney making primarily fairy tales.
That's 9 out of 51 (since WiR hasn't released yet). If you don't include films like Make Mine Music, Melody Time, Fun & Fancy Free, Saludos Amigos, Three Caballeros and perhaps Ichabod & Mr. Toad that non-Disney fans have probably heard of, you probably get a number that equates to 20% of their canon. If you also exclude sequel films (which the public may not be savvy enough to realize it's not the same film such as Fantasia 2000, Winnie the Pooh and the Rescuers Down Under, and films that may not necessarily scream "animated classic" like Dinosaur the number starts to get closer to 25%.
(Oh, and 60% of all statistics are made up on the spot, right
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