I re-watched it as well and I think I know what they’re getting at. I think Disney is saying from now on, they will create content with diversity in mind, as well as healthy representation in mind.
Yeah, I imagine that was what they were trying to get at. But they did it poorly and confusingly.
But they act as if they just now realized that. Disney movies have been changing for decades, as a mirror on how American culture itself has changed since the end of World War II about 75 years ago. Racial equality, womens equality, gay rights, etc., etc. It took decades of hard work, but it happened. There's still work to do, but the change has been sweeping and monumental in scope.
I was watching old episodes of
Password last night. Sammy Davis Jr. in 1964 was cracking "seperate but equal" jokes and referencing Reverend King, and the audience roared in approval. Those were jokes he could not have made on TV in 1954, but by '64 the times were changing fast. The last half of the 20th century was a tidal wave of cultural change, and Disney's products changed with it.
Burbank insults us and they muddy the message by pretending they are
just now deciding to "change". It's not new. Many people were fighting for this change many decades ago, and succeeding at it! Disney changed with them.
Jump to the
4:50 mark at this Password episode from July 2nd, 1964 when Sammy Davis makes his "separate but equal" joke. The audience starts to nervously laugh, the lovely Edyie Gorme realizes what he just said and starts cracking up, the audience then realizes it and laughs louder and applauds its approval.
The times are literally changing right before the TV audience here, and it's hysterical!
But "Disney" thinks they've cornered the market on social change, and they just started doing that now? Nope. Not even close.
If anything, this silly Instagram video makes Disney seem like they are behind the times and struggling to catch up. Idiots.
