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Bring Back the Animation
Traditional hand-drawn animation is certainly not dead, but Disney has forsaken it. Why?
We’ve republished it now alongside the release of Episode 3 of Land of the Giants: The Disney Dilemma, a Vulture-Vox Media Podcast Network collaboration that looks at the many facets and ever-changing fortunes of the sprawling entertainment company. “I think that’s a lie they like to tell themselves,” says critic and Disney historian Josh Spiegel, who points out that, as much as The Princess and the Frog may have cost, its $105 million production budget was still lower than contemporaneous Pixar films such as WALL-E, Up, and Toy Story 3. But if Disney is going to continue on this “live-action” remake kick (and the initial box-office of 2019’s Lion King strongly suggests they will), don’t be surprised if more and more viewers are suddenly seized by a nostalgic hankering for hand-drawn animation and its unparalleled warmth.
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