None of that gaaar baaage scared me....what scared me was the use of essentially adult scripts to make children's movies....for instance, " Beauty and the Beast", a Disney kiddie flick which used Jean Cocteau's 1946 script almost verbatim. The existentialist movement was just winding Itself up to throw a spitball into literature, at that time, and that script is truly grim in many ways....so...1980s Disney runs with it....a Cartoon, in which not one single human displays any socially redeeming values, and not many of the nonhuman ones do, either. Belle's Dad is a crackpot. Gaston is a Narcissist, first order, le Fou is aptly named, and our heroine, Belle, is a shameless Social Climber. The only truly decent characters are a lamp, a teapot and a Horse. Yay. Realistically, Animation was never supposed to be for children's entertainment. DISNEY created that aspect in 1927. Post-Mickey, all of it was kid stuff....Mickey was described by his creator as a spirited juvenile. As thevyears have passed, what would have been intended for kids got more sophisticated, while, ironically, Adult fare has gotten dumbed down
