Trust in me, just in me, close your eyes. . . Yeah, I can see where the undertones are there. But I've never actually thought of it like that until I read this -_-||| I'm not a big fan of the Jungle Book, so that might also be why.
As for Ursula, I remember her role in the original story of the Little Mermaid not being that deep. But since there was no real "bad guy" and the ending wasn't really all sunshine and rainbows, Disney had to come up with something to mold it into their normal castings.
Poor Hades, in the original myths, Hera was the actual "villain," but of course Disney couldn't use that! Then they'd have to explain why Hera wanted to kill her husband's kid and how he wasn't hers either. Definitely kid-unfriendly concepts. I supposed the use of Hades was because death isn't generally depicted in a positive light (unless it comes with eternal life or reincarnation, but even then, there are exigent conditions regarding those). That, and the fact that death is mysterious and a typically scary concept makes sense that Hades, Lord of the Dead, was type-cast as "evil"
For the rest, I'm not all that familiar with the original materials so this was interesting to find. I've read the Wonderland stories and cliff note The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but that was such a long time ago, I don't truly recall everything that happened.
I did read the comments aikaterini wrote about Hades and found it amusing that there was a slight, but common, misconception on the depiction of Hades as the Satan because he's the ruler of the Underworld. Most media industries suffer that same error of regarding Hell as a place where Satan rules, when in fact, it's actually a prison for him to be placed in when the events of Revelation passes, at least that's what Catholics, Protestants, (wait there are too many sects to list, let's just go with most or many sects) believe. So, I always find that sort of mistake (as well as the portrayal of a firey monster with horns as Satan) just weird.
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As for Ursula, I remember her role in the original story of the Little Mermaid not being that deep. But since there was no real "bad guy" and the ending wasn't really all sunshine and rainbows, Disney had to come up with something to mold it into their normal castings.
Poor Hades, in the original myths, Hera was the actual "villain," but of course Disney couldn't use that! Then they'd have to explain why Hera wanted to kill her husband's kid and how he wasn't hers either. Definitely kid-unfriendly concepts. I supposed the use of Hades was because death isn't generally depicted in a positive light (unless it comes with eternal life or reincarnation, but even then, there are exigent conditions regarding those). That, and the fact that death is mysterious and a typically scary concept makes sense that Hades, Lord of the Dead, was type-cast as "evil"
For the rest, I'm not all that familiar with the original materials so this was interesting to find. I've read the Wonderland stories and cliff note The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but that was such a long time ago, I don't truly recall everything that happened.
I did read the comments aikaterini wrote about Hades and found it amusing that there was a slight, but common, misconception on the depiction of Hades as the Satan because he's the ruler of the Underworld. Most media industries suffer that same error of regarding Hell as a place where Satan rules, when in fact, it's actually a prison for him to be placed in when the events of Revelation passes, at least that's what Catholics, Protestants, (wait there are too many sects to list, let's just go with most or many sects) believe. So, I always find that sort of mistake (as well as the portrayal of a firey monster with horns as Satan) just weird.