>> Crazy Nate: If you watched my video About Robin Hood Everything You Missed, you might
remember I pointed out the fact that Disney Copied a few scenes from Snow White, the Jungle
Book, and the Aristocats putting the same movements in Robin Hood.
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but Disney did this several times, and today I’m going show you every time Disney Copied
Disney, more importantly, why did Disney copy Disney?
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It all started a long long time ago, back in 1942, when Disney made Bambi. Well, so
the copying started then, not the actual beginning of Disney, stay with me here people! We have
a little blue bird taking a bath. This was the original time, but just 9 years later
in Alice in Wonderland we have another blue bird taking a bath, the exact same way.
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and I know that some of you are saying, that's just a coincidence, it's not a copy cat. By
the end of this video you too are going to agree with me that these scenes were straight
up copies.
When all the dogs are trying to escape from Jasper, Horace, and Cruella de Vil, they manage
to sneak onto a transport truck. Now watch this. In the Aristocats, Thomas O’Malley
is sneaking the kittens onto a milk truck,
>> Marie: Mamma!
>> Duchess: Marie!
>> Crazy Nate: and he managed to save the last cat Marie the same exact way Pongo old
boy managed to save the last puppy, Lucky.
Speaking of copycat, Thomas O’Malley had another copy cat of his own. When Edgar the
butler is trying to kill him, it’s all fun and games for O’Malley, until he realizes
the lunatic is actually trying to kill him. If you look when Edgar pins him against the
wall, O’maley does something you probably saw a hundred times before, and didn’t even
know it, well more like 101 times. When Sargent Tibbs tries to rescue the puppies he too gets
cornered, and does the exact same motion.
The dogs get in on the action too. In 1963, Little King Arthur gets licked to death by
a pack of dogs. Then in 1967’s The Jungle Book, Mowgli gets licked to death by a pack
of wolves the exact same way.
Mowgli’s three wolves also lean against a rock wagging their litte tails, the same
way that the three spotted pups are wagging their tails on the chair watching thunderbolt
the cowboy, wrestle up some bad guys.
>> Patch: Come on Thunderbolt!
This is crazy right. Crazy old Baloo.
>> Crony 1: Crazy old Marice.
>> Crazy Nate: Crazy Old Marice, ok, that was a connection, I'm trying to make jokes
here. Stay with me.
If you are part of my YouTube family you already know, but Little John had a lot more in common
with Baloo then just being a bear. And you wont BARE to believe how much Robin Hood borrowed
from the Jungle Book.
>> Baloo: Oh boy.
>> Crazy Nate: I’m not sounding the alarm as to why there was so much copying going
on just yet. There’s a lot more to point out. The elephant in Robin Hood also tried
sounding an alarm, only to get trunk chocked. Sound familiar though? That’s what happened
in the Jungle Book, when the bugler tried to sound the alarm way too soon.
>> Colonel Hathi: Shh! Not now soldier!
>> Crazy Nate: You could cut these two scenes in half, and they would line up practically
perfect.
>> Merry Poppins: Practically perfect in every way.
>> Crazy Nate: Now clap your hands because here comes some more.
Another Dog Cat moment was when Bruno tries to eat the cat Lucifer. Good dog. The cat
obviously freaks out, but this is the same freak out from 101 Dalmatians, when Sargent
Tibbs dodges the darts from Jasper the exact same way. And even though I’m a dog lover
and not a cat lover, shame on Jasper for trying to kill the poor barn cat. Barn cats are good
for society. Do you realize how many people died from mice?
Shame on you Jasper. And if you think this wack on the head is a copy, then you’re
catching on to the game. Disney would go on to use this same gag in the Sword and the
Stone, only this time with a sword instead of a club. And they even recycled the same
exact sound effect and the same exact voice.
Jumping to our next one. Yeah, I know I’m loaded with a lot of bad puns today. In the
Fox and the Hound, we have a squirrel jumping from one tree to another tree. Just like in
Sword in the Stone, another squirrel can be seen jumping from tree to another tree the
exact same way. Then these ducks going into the pond in the movie Bambi are the same exact
ducks from the Fox and the Hound, they just don’t match up perfectly because they were
flipped horizontally. And yeah, these ducks might be a exact copy, but at least they survived
hunting season, unlike Bambi's dad.
Too soon? Sorry Bambi.
The next identical moment we have is Mowgli walked up to a cliff and then throwing a subscribe
button off the cliff at a bunch of innocent youtubers, click it!
>> Mowgli: Ha, he said an elephant never forgets. Haha
>> Crazy Nate: Just like Christopher Robins in 1977’s Winnie the Pooh, only that time
he was throwing Crazy Nate Merch! Also did you know that my share a smile wristbands
are glow in the dark? Pretty cool for when you go to the movies. Both these boys also
walked off the same log. And I’m NOT even kidding. Get it, the knots, like they're in
the same exact spot.
Princess and the Frog decided to jazzed up the party and Louis plays with his fake hair
just like Madam Mim from the Sword and the Stone.
When Aurora wasn’t sleeping on the job, her dance routine was the same exact dance
routine that Belle and Beast had, in Beauty and the Beast.
In the Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad had a copycat scene passing the paper back
and forth, just like in Jungle book when Baloo and the monkeys were passing Mowgli back and
forth.
One movie you might not have heard about is the Truth about Mother Goose which was a Disney
short directed by Bill Justice and Wolfgang Reitherman. In that short we have a moment
where two knights joust each other, and this is very much like the battle scene in the
Sword in the Stone. So much like it, you're going to think it's the same battle. Literally.
(Survey Time)
So why do you think Disney recycled all these scenes? To be cheap, to save time, or for
good luck?
>> Fa Li: I should of prayed to the ancestors for luck.
>> Grandmother Fa: How lucky can they be? They're dead.
>> Crazy Nate: or it wasn’t copied and I’m just crazy?
>> Cindy: I'm not crazy! Ahhhh!
>> Crazy Nate: So let’s not just guess at this situation. We need to dig deeper than
just looking at a few scenes and saying aha I have the answer. With Disney having over
400 films under their belt, we seemed to only be pointing out a small handful of movies
that they copied scenes from.
It is true that World War 2 hurt Disney profits, and Disney also directed a lot of their resources
and energy to help win a victory in the war. Which they did win! Merica'! However the movies
that we mentioned here today that were known for copying each other took place after the
war, so that can’t be the reason.
Some would say that this is because Disney is cheap and or greedy. This could be true,
I don’t personally know though because I don't know their heart,
>> Lumière: Cogsworth, have a heart!
>> Crazy Nate: But Mr Walt Disney was dumping a lot of money he made from his movies back
into his parks and into new land for the new Disney World. Also many Disney employees have
been on strike before wanting a bigger share of the income. Because humans are greedy and
want more of the pie.
Looking at other movies Disney released in the same time that didn’t recycle scenes,
it seems the cost of making a movie was gradually going up. Look at this, They didn’t even
spend a full Million Dollars to produce Bambi, yet Alice in Wonderland who copied scenes
from Bambi has a budget three times the size of Bambi, so what's going on Alice?
>> Bird: And just what are you?
>>Alice: I'm just a little girl.
>> Bird: Little?!
>> Crazy Nate: So if anything, some of these movies with the copied scenes were literally
more expensive than the original ones that didn’t have any scenes copied from. Put
that in your pipe and smoke it. Now I know, this still doesn’t rule out the possibility
that they reused scenes to save money. Once people that worked on a movie start to realize
how much money that movie actually made, then they think all of a sudden they deserve more
money, that’s funny because when a movie company looses like 20 million dollars on
a movie, you don't see the same employees lining up saying let me give you some money
since you lost it all in the last movie. No they only want the rewards, they don't want
the risk.
>> Prince John: Then give me a cruel chuckle.
>> Crazy Nate: Alright, back to reality.
So even though the cost to make these movies went up, it’s possible they had to cut costs
in other areas just to keep their budgets reasonable, and not go through the roof.
Here’s a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Robert Downey Jr. allegedly made $500,000
for the first movie, Iron Man with Marvel of course. Fast Forward to end game he’s
unexpectedly made over 75 million dollars for his role in that movie. Now I'm not saying
he didn't deserve it, I don't think anyone else could of been Iron-man, that's not what
I'm saying, but you see the problem here. Everyone wants more, everybody, not just the
actors.
Another reason Disney was fighting their need to increase budgets for their films, is around
the same time of the Sword in the stone and Jungle Book, Disney was actively purchasing
land for what is now known as Disney World. The Jungle Book release date was the same
year they broke down... Broke down... They broke down in Disney World so they just built
the park.
What’s another reason for all the copycatting in all the movies? Follow me, we’re going
to go deep into the rabbit hole.
Lets look at all the movies that we mentioned today, and find out what they have in common.
First, 101 Dalmations, it has a lot of people involved in making the movie, I know that.
But I want to look at one person specifically in particular. That’s Wolfgang Reitherman
or known simply as Woolie, he was the director for the movie, and in fact here’s the crazy
part. He was directly tied to almost every single movie we mentioned today.
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, directing animator. Alice in Wonderland the 1951 verison.
Directing animator. Aristocats, Director. Cinderella? Directing animator. Then there
was Fox and the Hound he was co-producer, for the Jungle book he was the Director. For
Pinocchio he was the animation director. He Directed Robin Hood, and the Sword in the
Stone, and the Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. He was the sequence director for Sleeping
Beauty, and an animator in Snow White, literally the first movie Disney launched. Then the
two that you probably haven’t heard of, maybe you did. Congratulations! The Truth
about Mother Goose and Goliath 2, he Directed both of them.
Now if you are taking notes like Nerdy Nate, you will realize I didn’t mention Princess
and the frog or beauty and the beast. I’m willing to say that Princess and the frog
probably was NOT a recycled scene, I know some of you might be shocked to hear me say
that, and maybe it was just a coincidence. In fact it's definitely not a coincidence,it's
definitely an easter egg. He sings about the witchcraft the moment he shows off the hair.
>> Louis: Odie, she the queen of the bayou, she got magic and spells, all kind of Voodoo.
And Madam Nim was a witch in the Sword and the Stone, who has the same style hair.
>> Madam Nim: Say lad, did you know that I can make myself uglier yet?
>> Bird: Well that would be some trick. I mean.
>> Madam Nim: Want to bet? Boo!
Also I don’t see Woolie connected to the Princess and the Frog anywhere in the credits.
Then there’s Beauty and the Beast. What about that movie. He wasn’t really a part
of that one either.
So then what happened? according to Gary Trousdale the Co-Director of Beauty and the Beast, they
re-used the dance scene from Sleeping Beauty for Beauty and the Beast, because they were
running out of time, so they rotoscoped Aurora as Belle, and Prince Charming as Beast.
But then, Floyd Norman who was also a part in making these movies claimed that Woolie
duplicated scenes as his signature, and NOT to save time. Floyd doubles down on this little
theory by saying and I quote, “It’s actually harder and takes longer to redraw an existing
sequence.”
Have you ever heard of the expression, you can’t have your cake and eat it too? So
the Disney crew here are basically saying that they recycled scenes to save time, and
then, they are also saying in the same moment that it's because it’s a form of expressing
a signature even though it takes more time to express that signature. So which is it?
A time saver or a time waster? Because you can't have both.
In conclusion it seems straight from the mouths of the people who actually worked on these
movies we have our answers. One reason was because it saved time, the other reason was
a way for Woolie to express himself.
But if you're one of those people that thinks rotoscoping takes longer than just drawing
a new scene from scratch, then I have some beachfront property for you in Oklahoma. Clearly
the real reason here is to save time. And if you don’t know what rotoscoping is…
>> XXX: Rotoscoping was made for that purpose, technicaly rotoscoping is shooting live action
film and then tracing each frame on to animation paper, and then those drawings would be used
as reference and the point of it of course is using it for the suggestion of ideas that
they can get from that. It doesn't mean that they would be tracing every arm movement and
leg movement that he did, what they'd be doing is looking at the whole general spirit of
his movements and any ideas that he might unconsciously suggest
>> Crazy Nate: Now, you are welcome to take this information and think up your own conclusion.
I know crazy thought, thinking for yourself. But, for me it clearly shows that this is
a method of saving time, and when making a movie, like it or not time is money. And I
should also say that I don’t think Disney trying to save money and making a movie magically
makes them evil. It’s common sense people. If they spent all their money making the movies
instead of the parks, Disney World would more like the fair in Toy Story, instead of the
happiest place on earth.
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