Disney does a lot of that sort of thing. Pinocchio. Aladdin. Beauty and the Beast. The Lion King. Hercules.
They're very fond of acting in that way - taking stories from the public domain, twisting them to suit their own ends without regards to the intention of the original, and then claiming them as their own.
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Date: 2009-02-21 03:54 pm (UTC)They're very fond of acting in that way - taking stories from the public domain, twisting them to suit their own ends without regards to the intention of the original, and then claiming them as their own.