5.Ugliness is Immoral

4.Beauty is Moral

The film "Beauty and the Beast" works on the pretence of "looks don't matter". However a closer look at the plot structure reveals this as a false front. In the climax of the film the beast transforms back into a handsome human form, thus allowing him to live happily ever after with the equally attractive Belle. This totally contradicts the film's supposed message of "looks don't matter", because if that were true, why is the transformation needed? "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" also does this with the main character being physically deformed. However, the message is again twisted when a new handsome character in the form of Captain Phoebus is introduced to marry Esmerelda instead of the protagonist, who of course is not worthy of her because of his ugliness.

3.Satanic Imagery

Although perhaps something of a controversial entry, visible evidence exists which suggests Disney uses subtle themes of Satanism in their films. For example, the beast of "Beauty and the Beast" is portrayed as a horned creature with fangs, resembling a traditional image of Lucifer. Philoctetes in "Hercules" is also displayed in this form, with horns and cloven-feet. The most bizarre, albeit most controversial case is perhaps in Disney's adaptation of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". It has been argued that eight-year-old Lucy's meeting with Mr Tumnus involves a subtle theme of paeodophilia: the stranger (incidentally portrayed with goat legs and horns) persuades Lucy to visit his home before putting her to sleep by playing lullabies on his flute. The next thing we know, Lucy wakes to find Mr Tumnus crying and saying that he has "done something very bad": in the context of the story Tumnus betrayed Lucy to the White Witch. Despite the evidence of a darker theme, many critics of the theory have suggested the sequence simply represents the consequences of children trusting strangers.

2.Everything is Fluffy

Now many would feel inclined to offer Disney some leniency here, given that it is targeting children with its films, but many others would condemn them for sugar-coating themes of death and deceit with fluffy singing animals and perfect happy endings. Take "The Lion King" – a film based on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy "Hamlet". Disney altered the original ending of the play, in which many of the central characters die, and replaced it with a perfect triumph of good over evil, firmly rendering the plot meaningless and holding up a giant middle finger to Shakespeare in the process. However "Hamlet" isn't the only literary masterpiece Disney have butchered on screen. Take the plot structure of Hans Christian Anderson's "The Little Mermaid" and you will find another drastically altered ending. In the original, Ariel does not marry the prince and is forced to kill him to regain her mermaid tail, but she cannot perform the deed and instead dies sadly.

1.Racial Stereotypes

Overall the most blatant and unambiguous message that Disney teaches any child is how to discriminate between races. The crows in "Dumbo", released in 1941 when racism against African Americans was more acceptable, is probably the most blatant example. The language and attire of the birds are clearly intended to mock African Americans. The characters exist only to help the white protagonist, and contribute mainly comedic value amongst white audiences, adding insult to injury on the already glaring stereotype. Another example is the Chinese cat from "The Aristocats", who sings about fortune cookies (invented in America incidentally) with an almost unintelligibly Asian accent. Disney has been blasted time and again for racism and yet it continues to perpetuate glaring stereotypes.

翻译：高陈影 编辑：陈艳冲 来源：前十网