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 Remake After Remake

    If Disney has one talent, it is most certainly making their fans feel nostalgic, but how could we not, the stories Disney has told go back to everyone's childhood, and everyone remembers the movies they grew up with. Unfortunately for Disney, they've told so many stories, it's hard not to feel repetitive with each new film, so instead of trying to make new and original content, they're doing what they do best, beating the dead horse even more with their new trend, live-action remakes of old animated movies. Disney has been remaking movies in live-action since the '90s but it really became successful for them with the remake of Alice In Wonderland. This remake really pushed the definition of the remake, more like a reimagination of the original story, but keeping what's important the same. This style of remake became more interesting to Disney so the follow-up film was Maleficent, the story of sleeping beauty but told from the story of the villain, really making the seemingly simple bad guy really interesting. But Disney seemingly forgot about that and decided just to make shot-for-shot remakes of the animated films. These movies perform moderately well in the box office, some performing better than others, but a vast majority of Disney fans are upset they are investing so much time and money into remakes instead of new content. My counterargument to these films is that those are the ones we grew up loving, shouldn't younger children have the same opportunity to enjoy in the theatres like we did.


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