{"id":95,"date":"2007-11-28T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T14:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2007-11-28T10:26:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T14:26:02","slug":"disneys-enchanted-parody-or-love-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/disneys-enchanted-parody-or-love-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney&#8217;s Enchanted: Parody or love-letter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great and even-handed article in the <i>New York Times<\/i> (go figure!) on <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/25\/business\/media\/25steal.html?em&#038;ex=1196398800&#038;en=f66d61f9e59cf5e3&#038;ei=5087%0A>The Line Between Homage and Parody<\/a> at Disney (ESPN&#8217;s parent company), focusing on the new movie, <i>Enchanted<\/i>. One bit jumped out at me:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Because Disney&#8217;s characters are so well known, tweaking them even slightly could result in indelible damage. A decade ago, Disney updated the birds in the Enchanted Tiki Room attraction at Walt Disney World and still hasn&#8217;t heard the end of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><br \/>\nCount me in that group &#8211; the new Tiki Room, featuring Iago from <i>Aladdin<\/i>, is beyond annoying, and of course by changing the attraction, they eliminated the nostalgia angle for those of us who went there as kids.<\/p>\n<p>But that aside, I generally enjoy a little self-parody. <i>House<\/i> had a scene earlier this season where Dr. House is using the janitor as a sounding board, and the janitor says out of nowhere, &#8220;It&#8217;s lupus,&#8221; a reference to the fact that that disease is suggested &#8211; and, until last week, is wrong &#8211; in every single episode. If you can make fun of yourself, you can show viewers\/readers that you don&#8217;t take yourself too seriously.<\/p>\n<p>As for whether the Princess Line was a good idea or not &#8211; well, aside from the cited $4 billion in revenues, ask me when my daughter is four or so. I think my wife already made her an appointment at the Bippity Boppity Boutique for sometime in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great and even-handed article in the New York Times (go figure!) on The Line Between Homage and Parody at Disney (ESPN&#8217;s parent company), focusing on the new movie, Enchanted. One bit jumped out at me: Because Disney&#8217;s characters are so well known, tweaking them even slightly could result in indelible damage. A decade ago, Disney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}