The Good Ol' Days

Remember the good ol' days when Disney movies were the highlight of our lives? No pressure to work, or go out, or do something with our lives then, but to sit back, relax, and take in those entertaining motion pictures. Let's go back in time and relive some fun facts about our favorite Disney movies...

I guarantee that you and your friends will to this day instantly recognize Aladdin's famous song, "Arabian Nights?" How many of you remember the lyrics? Well, they went like this: "Oh I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face. It's barbaric, but hey, its home! Oh, Aladdin! Good times! Do you remember how wonderfully sexy Aladdin looked in comparison to Jafar, who was fifty shades darker and had a ton of grown out facial hair?

Remember the two sneaky cat villains in Lady in The Tramp? Si and Am? If I say they were the two cats with slanted eyes and spoke like that foreign exchange student from China, or Vietnam, or Japan, or wherever in Asia, would that ring a bell? Oh and don't forget about that really cool Siamese cat from Aristocats who couldn't play the piano with its fingers (paws) but could easily do it with his chopsticks!

We all remember our friend Sebastian from The Little Mermaid, who obviously swam all the way from the Atlantic waters in Jamaica to convince Ariel not to be a human being because life is too hard and you'll have to work all day...

And I know for a fact that we all miss Neverland! Don't you miss following the leader, our heroic Peter Pan and his counterparts as they helped us get a long with the rest of the Indians, decked in feathers, beads, and bright red skin, behind us who could never speak a word... except they could make the traditional whooping sound that Peter himself taught us all! Yeah, of course we do, but what about that song "What makes the Red Man Red?" We don't seem to miss that one as much...

We can't forget all our friends from The Jungle Book! Baloo, Bagheera, Shere Khan! And of course, our favorite monkeys, even though we didn't understand them because their voices sound "African American" in comparison to the memorable British accents of Mowgli, Baloo, and the rest.

Our favorite Indian princess Pocahontas, who's obviously really good unlike the other Indians who are really bad, saved Captain John Smith from the evil Indians who captured him, because he was courageous and strong when holding the "savages" captive and when seeking their land.

Dumbo an all-time classic, about this elephant who realized that he could fly with his magical, large eyes, and then ended up on a tree befriending a bunch of crows, one who's name was Jim crow, who would all just chill out, smoke cigars, speak in Jive, and not really do anything else. Oh and don't forget all the catchy tunes from that one, especially the one that the black men without faces sing when pitching up the tents for the animal circus: "We slave until we're almost dead, we're happy-hearted roustabouts, keep on working, stop that shrinking, pull that rope, you hairy ape!"

There's many more, I've left out over a dozen Disney princesses, like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow WHITE, but those are pretty self-explanatory don't you think? I'll stop there and let you go back and watch them. The Walt Disney cooperation is of the most popular and influential media production companies that exist in North America. Their movies are the ones that you watched as a child, the movies that introduced to you the different kinds of people who exist in the world around us: who they are and what they are like. Relive your childhood, and you'll truly realize how these films led you to understand the world around you and its people today.