0315 - Jiminies - 2023.10.16 |
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Comment: Walt Disney has, of course, completely altered our cultural picture of what Cinderella, Snow White, Pinocchio, etc. all look like and how their stories go. Even current depictions of these classic tales can't help but reference the more popular versions, can't help but copy - or at least nod at - Disney's modifications to their plot elements. There is a videogame that came out recently called Lies of P that (for some damn reason) mashes the story of Pinocchio into a Soulslike format. The "cricket" in that game is not named Jiminy - the actual name "Jiminy Cricket" is owned by the Mouse - so they named it "Gemini"... which is, of course, pronounced by the characters in-game as "Jemminy". I admire the ingenuity. I am certainly not the first to point out the cruel irony that a megacorporation which built its fortune from stories in the public domain is ceaselessly and cynically campaigning to extend their copyrights into infinity (and, presumably, beyond). Money does what money does, and it really doesn't matter how charitable and avuncular the hand holding it pretends to be. But, of course, Disney's cultural and economic hegemony is tied to America's, and, in the future of Forward, that dominance has wilted somewhat. All empires wax and wane, do they not? |
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