Did you know some of our favourite movies as kids are based on some pretty dreadful
events? Also if we take a deeper look into the movies we find some pretty disturbing aspects that
we missed as children.
The Real Minions Released in 2010, despicable me is an animated
comedy film made by universal pictures and illumination entertainment.
The films plot follows a supervillian by the name of gru, He becomes upset when a rival
of his by the name of vector steals the great pyramid of giza.
Gru wants to top this and plans to steal the moon by shrinking it first.
He and his minions plan to steal a shrink ray from a secret base in east asia but it
turns out his rival had already stolen it. Now you get the gist of the movie lets take
a look at the minions: They are little yellow creatures who speak in high pitched tones
they live to serve but always find themselves working for a series of unsuccessful masters.
A rumour sparked online after this picture was released, its believed to show jewish
kids in outfits before they were placed in gas chambers
by the nazi's during the holocaust. Now we know that during the holocaust the
nazi's performed cruel experiments on thousands of children,
this is also tied into the idea that the minions were based on the children, during the experiments
the children would plead for help and scream but as they did not speak the same language
as the nazi doctors they would be laughed at by them as they found
their whining funny. This is believed to be why the minions speak in a
high pitched voice in the movie. After the rumour sparked many people claimed
it was a hoax and said the picture simply showed deep sea divers.
but others believed the rumour was real this included many news stations some went as far as saying the
movie is a push by hollywood and the government
in order for us to accept modern day nazism others said the resemblence of the minions
in the picture is too close to be a coincidence. Whether the rumour is real or not who knows
i guess only the writers do. if you want more information about this then
be sure to check out this video which goes in depth about the rumour.
Pokemon Not only does this involve every pokemon movie
ever but also every tv episode, if you just take a look at the pokemon world you will
find that its full of dark material which doesn't seem suitable
for kids, Pokemon started off in 1995 as a video game
for the gameboy but adapted into movies and a tv series.
were to begin? lets start with team rocket.
Lead by giovanni, team rocket is a villainous team who pursue evil and like to exploit pokemon.
their motto is "steal pokemon for profit. Exploit pokemon for profit. All pokemon exists
for the glory of team rocket." Their main focus is to steal or capture rare
pokemon so that they can sell them. they are also known for conducting cruel experiments on
the pokemon for research purposes, at times they have even killed them
They are pretty much like the nazi's of the pokemon world who run an illegal trafficking
racket. There are also child abductors in the world,
the pokemon known as drifloon like to abduct children
they are shaped like a purple circle and have two string like arms, children often mistake
them for balloons and once grabbed they are taken away. this isn't the only pokemon
that has an interest in children there is one which is known as banette this one likes to stalk
children. Although the original first movie was rated
g meaning anyone can watch it, the opening scene showed mewtwo waking up and slaughtering
the scientists who created him. so yeah.. Pokemon is pretty dark if you look into it.
The Jungle Book This disney film follows mowgli, a young boy
who is an orphan. After being found in a basket by a black panther in the middle of an indian
jungle he is taken to a mother wolf who raises him as her own.
he then spends most of his life in the jungle with several animals. released in 1967 the
film was met with positive reviews, however others believe there is a deeper meaning.
professors that analysed the film believe it is racist. Media professors from syracuse
university claim that the apes in the film are clearly meant to demean black people,
in an interview they said that in a scene in which the apes are singing a song titled "i wanna
be like you" the ape explains how he wants to be like a human
the professors claim this is
really a racist metaphor for black peoples efforts to be more like white people.
However these are just the opinions of the professors.
the real shock comes when you learn what the movie was based on. It was based on a short
story by rudyard kipling, in the disney version the ending shows mowgli
coming across a village full of people, he then enters the village and the animals sing
a happy tune and the movie finishes, however in the original
version when mowgli enters the village the villagers do not accept them into their society
due to this he asks an elephant for help, in the movie the elephant is portrayed as an helpful forgetful
old elephant, but in the short story he is a
blood thirsty savage. Due to the rejection of the villagers mowgli
gets upset and rounds up a gang of animals and destroys the whole village. To sum it
up, in the original ending mowgli is one ruthless kid.
Tangled Released in 2010 this walt disney film is
based around rapunzel, rapunzel was born to a queen but was kidnapped after birth by a
woman called gothel. gothel took her as she found out that rapunzel
hair has magical healing properties which helps retain youth.
She also locks rapunzel away in a tower but all she wants to do is be adventurous.
Shortly after a thief discovers the tower and helps rapunzel escape they then fall in
love and she finds out that she is a princess and they live happily ever after.
Well thats the case in the disney version... However in the original fairy tale of rapunzel it goes a little bit like this
gothel tricks the thief into climbing up the tower by cutting off rapunzels hair and dangles
it out the window for him to climb up it but when he makes it too
the top he notices that he has been tricked, leaps off the tower and lands face first onto
a bed of thorns which blinds him, no happy ending... just a blind thief.
Cinderella Once again another disney movie, released
in 1950 the films main character is cinderella, She is an aristocrat who is bossed around
by her step mother and step sisters, she tends to all their needs
meanwhile a grand duke is setting up a grand ball in order to try to find his son by the
name of prince charming a companion.
cinderella asks her stepmother if she can attend the ball, she agrees but only if she
finishes her chores and finds nice clothes to wear.
she then goes searching around the house for something to wear
as she is about to give up hope her fairy godmother appears waves her magic wand and
presents cinderella with an outstanding outfit for the ball.
Cinderella makes her way to the ball but must be home before midnight, when she arrives
she sees the prince and its love at first sight
they then dance but time slips away and cinderella rushes home as its close to midnight, in her
hurry she loses one of her glass slippers. the prince then takes the slipper and makes
his way to cinderellas house, the step sisters then try on the slipper but they dont fit
this is until cinderella puts it on and it fits perfect. Her and the prince then get
married and live happily ever after. that was the disney version,
in the grimm's fairy tales version the step sisters amputate their toes and mutilate parts
of their feet in order to try force on the slipper
also during the wedding it gets even more disturbing, cinderella orders that her sisters eyes be
peaked out by angry birds.