A Whole New World
After getting drunk at work christmas party last Saturday, I spent the Sunday watching Disney's Aladdin. (A result of drunkenly telling my boss he was Princess Jasmine and I was street rat Aladdin) and not only was it a film I had not seen in a long time, it was, to me, more than a children's movie (eithier that or I am simply a child) It was so ( Read more... )
True love doesn’t happen outside of Disney movies!?!
I'm shocked.
If you think you need Disney magic to make everything right (pixie dust excluded):
You’re wrong.
Yeah, a 90min animated feature cuts the crap, but you're forgetting the Genie couldn’t help Jasmine and Aladdin fall in love.
“Rule two: I can't make anyone fall in love with anyone else..”
If anything, all magic did was complicate matters.
And all the carpet provided was a change of scenery.
So let’s skip the Blue Genie of the Lamp. Let’s go way back to the Fairy Godmother.
Does Cinderella need her magic? All she got was a change of clothes and some transport. You go girl.
All that magic does is enable Cinderella to get to the ball; the rest is up to her.
Same with Ariel (by the darker magic of Ursula).
Same with Belle, except the dark force that impels her towards her lover is the Beast himself.
All these Disney Princes and Princesses make incredible efforts
(or in the case of Belle and Ariel: sacrifices)
to attain love.
Therein lies true magic.
As Walt Disney said of Cinderella:
“She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him”
So, yeah, I guess if you refuse to get out there,
to hunt love,
if you’re content
to stay at home;
then you’re right:
There is no such thing as magic.
There won’t be a happy ending.
As for loves that come and go:
Remember Prince Eric?
“I lost her once. I'm not going to lose her again.”
if you reach out once
But miss!!!
and in missing
refuse!!!
to ever return
to turbulent waters
even though
- at the bottom of a dangerous whirlpool,
crushed and possibly dead -
you can see someone you might have loved
Then the closest you’ll get
is Disney home video.
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If I read anything posted by Dexter_Collins be sure that I will have my journal barred from viewing.
No further comment.
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I wasn't trying to tear fantasies apart, either.
I was trying to show you that they’re true.
I’m trying to remind you what Disney is all about; before Eisner came in and messed up the studio. Life isn’t Hakuna Matata. Even for Disney characters.
Oh, and the subject title? It's from Disney's Geppetto. The Blue Fairy sings that when she's trying to explain that you don't need magic for happily-ever-afters.
I.e. if you don't need magic lamps and forrest friends, then everything's possible.
I'm sorry if my comment hurt. It wasn't meant to.
opposite even
:(
Truly
Dex
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Even knowing - even after me telling you! - that I prefer to be walked over than hurt somebody else, you think I might hurt you.
I will not.
So Jamie, if that's why you log on, and leave song lyrics (which I like reading, because I can see hoe carfully you choose them) on Dexter_Collins, then let me ease your scorpion-phobic mind:
there is no need.
I just can't see how you think
I could have shown you so much of myself,
so many darkled scars, and not trust you.
I have always trusted you, Jamie, and will continue to, until proven wrong.
As for my comments?
I like words Jamie. I have an addiction, a literal addiction.
If words were heroin I'd be Betty Crocker at Betty Ford.
So although I write a lot, I don't use them lightly.
What you see on my LJ output accounts for about a tenth of my daily writing. And that's just what I put down on paper, or type. Then there's everything else I scrawl inside my skull.
So I guess what I'm saying Jamie is that
if you don't want these words,
if they send you to sleep
(like they did Steven)
then don't worry.
I won't give you more.
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