I could be wrong.
Neither your name, not your excessive trolling is clever. How long until you get sick of being a troll and go along on your merry way?
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20 years of Splash Mountain
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Neither your name, not your excessive trolling is clever. How long until you get sick of being a troll and go along on your merry way?
Axle1986
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Why hasn't he been banned yet? I have never seen a non-smarmy comment from him. For someone to be so negative all the time is rather sad.
Tom
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Because in a few weeks, K-12 will be back in session and the problem will hopefully resolve itself.
RSoxNo1
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Splash Mountain could have gone in Fantasyland to replace 20K Leagues Under the Sea.I'll do bitter.
I still resent Splash for breaking the theme and placemaking of Frontierland. FL is inhabited by humans, not cartoons*. It is the West, not the South.
Splash should've been made the headline of a new land, together with Pooh! Then we'd still have Toad, plus hope of something WRE in FL, plus thematic integrity.
* Well dead cartoons, most of them move less than a possum playing dead.
RSoxNo1
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It's insensitive on one level - people can't put it in context.
Clever Name
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A few other levels too. The main problem is that the movie (like the books) was designed to specifically appeal to the prejudices of the white audience. He's some information that might help in understanding the matter:
"Back in the day, Song of the South might conceivably have been read as a warm-hearted salute to America's "coloureds". Since then it's become a shameful embarrassment for the company, the equivalent of a racist old relation who can't be introduced to polite company. In depicting a (literally) fabulous Deep South strung sometime between slavery and Reconstruction, the film trades in a dubious form of myth-making - implying that African-Americans stuck below the Mason-Dixon line were a cheerful bunch who liked nothing better than going fishing, spinning tall tales and looking after white folks' kids."
"When he's not waxing lyrical about "tar babies", Uncle Remus explains why he likes "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Days .... Dat's the kinda day when you can't open yo mouf without a song jumpin' right out of it." Thus Song of the South reheats the old canard about how slaves can't really be so miserable because, my, just listen to them sing in that cottonfield."
"Annoyingly this cosy misconception had already been nailed by Frederick Douglass way back in the 19th-century. "I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness," Douglass wrote. "It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2007/mar/28/therearetwodisneyfilms