OlfinBedwere said:
That’s never going to happen for two reasons. Firstly, the only way you’re going to completely remove politics from a work is by making it so that it isn’t actually about anything beyond the most dirt-simple “heroes take on the villain and win†story. Secondly, no matter how much you try to make a work apolitical, people will read politics into it anyway - case in point, George Lucas putting an extremely general point about how dictatorships get started into Revenge of the Sith, and people mistaking it for an attack on George W. Bush (or if you really want to go back, the whole debate over whether Biggs’ deleted introduction scene from A New Hope was meant to be an allegory for Vietnam draft dodgers). |
Whether there were politics in Disney's movies between Snow White and when Walt died, they were too buried underneath simple fairy-tales and too subtle for anyone to notice. And the same could be said for their revival period of Mermaid through The Lion King. Those two periods are considered the high marks of that company by the vast majority of people, a time when seeing a Disney movie was akin to magic... and there were zero overt politics to be found in any of their films. I do not think that is coincidental.
