Abstract

Building from Helena Hammond’s discussion of Disney’s legacy films, there are three kinds of Disney legacy films designed specifically around Disney’s animated classics: legacy re-releases when classic animated films are brought “out of the vault”; legacy remakes which fairly faithfully remake the original animated classics with the story and plot more or less intact; and legacy retellings which draw on animated classics to tell a completely new story, often by focusing on a different perspective or continuing the story beyond the animated classic. These three types of legacy film venerate the Disney company and their catalog in three distinct ways: the re-releases make these films seem like a treasure worth hoarding; the remakes use new technology to give the old films new life, making the original text seem both new and yet always familiar; and the retellings work to show how Disney has supposedly grown as a company, both venerating the original texts and intentionally pointing to their flaws in order to make Disney seem even better today. All three tactics work in concert to bring Disney’s past to the present in order to secure their future amidst technological and cultural changes.

摘要

海伦娜·哈蒙德 (Helena Hammond) 对迪士尼传统电影的讨论构建了三种迪士尼传统电影，专门围绕迪士尼经典动画设计：经典动画电影“出库”时的传统重新发行；传统重制，相当忠实地重制原始动画经典，故事和情节或多或少完好无损；和传统的复述，利用动画经典来讲述一个全新的故事，通常通过关注不同的视角或在动画经典之外继续故事。这三种类型的传统电影以三种不同的方式崇敬迪士尼公司及其目录：重新发行使这些电影看起来像是值得囤积的宝藏；翻拍采用新技术赋予老电影新的生命，使原著既新又似曾相识；复述作品展示了迪士尼作为一家公司应该如何成长，既尊重原始文本，又故意指出它们的缺陷，以使迪士尼在今天看起来更好。这三种策略协同工作，将迪士尼的过去带到现在，以确保他们在技术和文化变革中的未来。