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Speaker 1: Gold, It's Jonesy demanded driving you home. It's Friday. Let

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Speaker 1: me ask you this, what do you think all of

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Speaker 1: these Disney films have in common? Bambi, the Lion King, Frozen,

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Speaker 1: Finding Nemo. Actually, I've got a list that goes on

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Speaker 1: for a couple of pages. Pokerhonters, Moana, Rayah and the

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Speaker 1: Last Dragon Up, Tarzan, Cinderella, snow White, and the Seven Dwarfs.

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Speaker 1: What do you think they This is a rhetorical question.

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Speaker 1: What is the answer? Well, the parent dies. The parent

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Speaker 1: has died in all of these and it's a very

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Speaker 1: interesting thing to look at as to what Disney does.

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Speaker 1: And Disney does this better than anyone else. Is Disney

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Speaker 1: starts these stories at a moment of such vulnerability and

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Speaker 1: fear for little kids who are watching. For a certain generation,

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Speaker 1: it was Bambi, Bambi Quick, I remember this bang the

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Speaker 1: median mother? Oh mother, Yeah, because he thinks we made it,

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Speaker 1: we got away. And then this big buck comes out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere a shadowy bark and says, your mom's dead.

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Speaker 1: In those paraphrasing. Paraphrasing is only Brendan Jones can having

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Speaker 1: Disney fight it. But this is in twenty two Disney films,

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Speaker 1: a parent dies or disappears before the story begins. Remember, well,

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Speaker 1: I just let's set the scene. We've got from Bambi

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Speaker 1: to this other one that just tears at your heart strings.

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Speaker 1: The lion king scar brother help me. Yeah, it's on

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Speaker 1: the cliff and he takes into his paws with his

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Speaker 1: big scar paws long watching it thris him off the

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Speaker 1: cliff into the world. But abs, I still cry when

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Speaker 1: I see this. Wow, a little simber by himself trying

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Speaker 1: to get it. Oh, stop, it's still heartbreaking. We have

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Speaker 1: to stop. We all start crying. It's far to heartbreaking.

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Speaker 1: But this is what's happened, is that And child psychologists

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Speaker 1: confirm this that kids age between four and ten fear

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Speaker 1: abandonment above everything else. And so what Disney. If Disney

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Speaker 1: wants children to engage, that's the biggest story arc you

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Speaker 1: can have. You start with fear and abandonment and then

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Speaker 1: you come out the other side with hope, with family,

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Speaker 1: friends getting you through. That's the major story arc that

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Speaker 1: can happen in an hour and a half. If you

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Speaker 1: want to change a child's life and make them glued

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Speaker 1: to the screen, that is the biggest thing you can

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Speaker 1: have happen, and so that's their trope that they've lend into.

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Speaker 1: I guess one of the reasons they think. What Disney

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Speaker 1: also latched onto this is he lost his mother. He

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Speaker 1: was an adult, but he always blamed himself. He had

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Speaker 1: bought his mother a house to live in and there

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Speaker 1: was a gas leak in that home. So to the

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Speaker 1: end of his life he kind of blamed himself. And

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Speaker 1: psychologists have said the dead parent trope maybe his unresolved,

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Speaker 1: unresolved grief. But it's interesting, isn't it that every you

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Speaker 1: think of any Disney story, and it starts with a

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Speaker 1: child in a place of abandonment and fear, and then

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Speaker 1: by the end of it they are supported by a

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Speaker 1: cavalcade of characters of friends of resilience. It's the ultimate

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Speaker 1: story arc that you can go from there to there

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Speaker 1: in an hour and a half, and Disney has perfected it.

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Speaker 1: What about Fantasia, that's when he's dabbling with the old

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Speaker 1: lsd Well, that's right at Lesti he was able to

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Speaker 1: use a broom, which you mind getting onto itvy, My

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Speaker 1: children had picked that up