(Aug 12th, 2024, 10:59 AM)Mr EliteL Wrote:

I don't hate Toy Story 4 though because they made Bo Peep come back, who I really missed, plus how it ended was fine to me. However I do still wish TS3 should've been the final movie. Just ugh not looking forward to a 5th film.

• Whereas in the movie it only suffers a broken leg, in the novel the dog that chases Tod onto the train tracks is killed by the oncoming train.
  
• Tod has a litter of kits that are subsequently found and gassed to death by Copper's owner.
  
• The mother of that litter with is later captured in a bear trap and killed.
  
• Tod has another litter of kits with a new mate, and all but Tod are killed by Copper's owner when it lures them out with animal sounds to shoot them.
  
• Years later, a rabies outbreak among the foxes leads Copper's owner and a large number of other hunters to walk into the woods and shoot any fox they come across.
  
• One morning, Copper catches Tod's scent and relentlessly pursues him for 24 hours, ending only when Tod drops dead of exhaustion and Copper collapses on top of his corpse, close to death himself.
  
• Copper's master nurses him back to health, but with nothing left to do except drinking and growing increasingly older, he ultimately decides to agree to move into a nursing home. However, dogs are not allowed, so before leaving he takes Copper outside, bringing his shotgun with him.
  

(May 30th, 2025, 07:31 PM)Moonface Wrote:

I forget how but I got into a lengthy chat with @ShiraNoMai this morning about Disney movies, and during it she was looking up the novel that The Fox and the Hound was adapted from, and holy shit if you thought that the Disney movie was rather grim and depressing from its second act onwards, the novel makes it seem like a Disney Jr. movie by comparison:

• Whereas in the movie it only suffers a broken leg, in the novel the dog that chases Tod onto the train tracks is killed by the oncoming train.
  
• Tod has a litter of kits that are subsequently found and gassed to death by Copper's owner.
  
• The mother of that litter with is later captured in a bear trap and killed.
  
• Tod has another litter of kits with a new mate, and all but Tod are killed by Copper's owner when it lures them out with animal sounds to shoot them.
  
• Years later, a rabies outbreak among the foxes leads Copper's owner and a large number of other hunters to walk into the woods and shoot any fox they come across.
  
• One morning, Copper catches Tod's scent and relentlessly pursues him for 24 hours, ending only when Tod drops dead of exhaustion and Copper collapses on top of his corpse, close to death himself.
  
• Copper's master nurses him back to health, but with nothing left to do except drinking and growing increasingly older, he ultimately decides to agree to move into a nursing home. However, dogs are not allowed, so before leaving he takes Copper outside, bringing his shotgun with him.
  

Like... just even writing that out at the end was actually hard because it's just so utterly bleak. I can't even fathom how Disney reads a book like that and thinks "We should totally adapt this into an animated movie for families". I know a lot of the novels Disney adapted are darker than the movies produced from them, but I wouldn't expect any of them to have been like this.

(May 30th, 2025, 07:39 PM)Kyng Wrote:

Yikes :O . 

Makes me wonder whether Disney might adapt Game of Thrones into an animated family film (at some point in the distant future, when it's out of copyright). Because this is more or less on that level!