Alan Ng of Film Threat continues his series documenting the downfall of a once great entertainment company, The Walt Disney Company. This is an interesting series, which is basically documenting how Diversity Equity and Inclusion (the 21st Century's answer to the Reign of Terror's Libery, Equality, Fraternity), is destroying Disney. THE D-FILES PART 4: A SLOW DEATH IN A STRANGE WORLD.
In the last edition of the D-Files, we see that the pieces are now in place to radically change the very foundation of Disney Animation leading up to the Disney 100 Celebration in 2023. After John Lasseter’s firing and with the #MeToo movement in full rage, Jennifer Lee took over Disney Animation with the goal of 50/50 equity in animation. Lee “achieved” her goal by hiring activist artists from social media sites like Tumblr.
The result should have been a happy work environment of diverse male and female artists creating “Disney magic” in perfect harmony. Instead, what Lee created (whether intentional or otherwise) was a toxic work environment of artists walking on eggshells in fear of being outed by Lee’s snitches. For the Veteran Animators (The Old White Guys), they were left with the choice to either quit for mental health reasons, get fired for the most minor infractions, or shut their mouths and keep their heads down to keep their jobs. By the time Raya and the Last Dragon was completed, Lee’s nightmarish team was in place to “reimagine” Disney Animation.
The first animated feature to be produced by this "new and improved" Disney Animation was Raya and the Last Dragon. Critics loved it. It had the first of many Disney Girl bosses in the character of Raya. No man would ever come to her aid, and it seems that all the male characters were emasculated. Anything else would have been to promote the patriarchy. It was a box office dud, which Disney blamed on COVID-19, as it came out in March of 2021.
After Raya and the Last Dragon, came Strange World, and Lightyear, both failed to recoup their production and marketing budgets at the box office. Alan has the details on those films, and a few notes on a couple of others along the way. You should click thru and read the whole thing.
In the next D-Files, we’ll show how Jennifer Lee took it upon herself to sit on Walt’s throne and forge a new legacy for herself and Disney Animation. Also, I made a big mistake in describing the production disaster that was Wish in a way that will surprise you as it did me.
It is a long article, that is worth your time. But you can watch Alan Ng and Chris Gore discussing the article in the Film Threat video THE D-FILES CH. 4: DISNEY'S AGENDA IS NO SECRET OR SUCCESS | Film Threat's The D-Files.
If you are interested in cinema, and want to see how the Woke scolds are destroying Hollywood in General, and Disney in particular I can recommend the entire D-Files series, all by Alan Ng, and a few associated articles. All them can be found at Film Threat.
John Lasseter, mentioned in the "D-Files Part 1" above, was a driving force at Pixar. He directed Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Cars (2006), and Cars 2 (2011). He was executive producer on everything that came out of Pixar thru 2018.
