Hi everyone, this weekend I was reading some articles about the consequences of disney films in children. I was reading about this topic because now we are working in a project related with Disney films, specifically in Aladdin film so I wanted to know more thing than the usually that we know and here my astonishment appear.
I think that all children have watched some of the classical disney films like Aladdin, The lion king or the little mermaid and we think that this films are innocent and contein good values that our children should have but we are tricked because some of these films contain subliminal messages.
Now you are asking some questions about this so I will try to explain some things.
Aladdin was created in 1992 by Disney company. In this film there is a scene in which Aladdin tries to woo Princess Jasmine on her balcony, only to be confronted by her tiger. As the shot cuts away, we can still hear Aladdin stammering to the angry tiger in the background — including what sounds suspiciously like the line, ‘Good teenagers, take off your clothes’.
The lion king in 1994 has a scene where Simba slumps on the ground, he sends a cloud of dust swirling up into the night sky. For a moment, the dust seems to form into the letters: S-E-X.
We can find more subliminal messages in many other films that if we know the existence of them, maybe we bar to our children watch this films.
I am going to throw a question, do you think that your children can notice or sense these subliminal messages? I think it is an interesting question for think about this because I am sure that all of us have watched all disney films and we did not notice this dirty messages and if we do not notice them, why do people introduce subliminal messages in kids´fims?
I hope that you stop to think about this questions and know more about the films that we give to our children to saw them.
We should take into account these subliminal messages, for taking off the importance that a child could give to it in the case in which he notices the subliminal message.
It is important to identify the most as we can of subliminal messages and their intention for the spectators, because sometimes they are going to have good values but the majority of the time, they are going to express negatives intentions. So we have to ensure that no one is going to feel influenced by these messages. The important fact of these types of messages is that they could promote bad thinking and ideologies such as racism, margination, political power, but it will depend on the concrete message in each case.
In conclusion, this messages are hide everywhere, not only on Disney films, and we see daily this type of messages, so we should try not to be influenced with the thinking that the message shows and try to have a critical thinking of the reality of the world.
We must have our own perspectives of everything, and nothing could change our minds.
Good Morning Nuria! I, ve found your post very interesting because you make us think about our own students or children. Before reading it, I have read something about this topic on internet. That Disney includes erotic or satanic messages in its films, but I´ve never saw that like a threaten for children due to I think, they never realize of this kind of tricks included in the Disney films in the same way I´ve never realize of that while I was watching the films, even being an adult. So, in my opinion I will use this Disney films with my students if the moral teach something important to them without any problem, because the tricks are imperceptibles.
Tying to answering the difficult question that you have sent to has… I don´t really know why they include this subliminal messages in a product directed to children but maybe the most probably reason is that make this children films attractive to adult using our subconscious, what is the only one that realize of this subliminal information. This way the adult public continue spending money in the Disney Company.
A good point to study deeper would be the importance of subliminal messages in children. Maybe this massages affected to their minds more than we think and could be dangerous for them. Due to in this period of time they are very susceptible because of their big capacity to learn.