While people criticize Disney for taking classic fiction and fable material and bowdlerizing it into formulaic pap, the truth is that's how mythology works — recasting stories for new audiences to teach some sort of lesson. That Disney and Kipling had two very different ends for Mowgli's tale is amusing (highly so), but that doesn't mean the Disney version isn't legitimate literature for the ends to which it is put (which are different from the ends to which Kipling was writing).
7 Classic Disney Movies Based On R-Rated Stories
We can understand watering down a story to make it child-appropriate, but Disney didn’t have any business adapting these tales in the first place.
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In fairness to Disney, this musical number from Hunchback is questionably G-rated, though unquestionably awesome: Hellfire (Original version)
Wow. That's pretty cool.
I'll confess that Hunchback is the one "modern era" Disney film I've not seen in its entirety.
Hunchback is one of my faves, about the dangers of stalkers who are also sexual arsonists endowed with political power.
In 101 Dalmations original story, Cruella is a total, animal-torturing psycho. Way crazier than in the Disney movie.
101D is a fun movie — but, yeah, I enjoyed the book more (esp. in terms of discussing the animal society living in parallel to the human one).
Dude, rewatching Disney classics as an adult, some of them are fucked up. The Lion King is unspeakably violent. Jiminy Cricket is a homeless pervert. Cinderella's a bitch. It's amazing.