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From: Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com>
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Subject: Re: A bottomless pit of plagiarism
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On 6/15/25 1:22 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Disney, however, takes great works and ruins them.  That's my objection.
> Whoever decided to tack a happy ending on to Hunchback of Notre Dame deserves
> to be thrown in the catacombs.

I fully agree. Disney also gave the impression it was a movie for kids. 
I remember a co-worker (a serious Christian, I'll grant) complaining 
about it.

> And Disney does not really give credit to the sources... so many people today
> think Cinderella was originally a Disney story.  That is another layer of
> shame.

I put more of the blame on commentators who have no sense of history. I 
didn't like what Disney did with the remake of Snow White, but I kept 
objecting to the claims that they had changed "the original," meaning 
the Disney animated version. My complaint about the movie is that they 
were pulling in two directions at once, as if they were simultaneously 
trying to do a remake and put a new take on the story.

-- 
Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com