Urban Legends, Hoaxes, Trickery, Subliminal Erotica, and a Whole Crapload of DISNEY...
Submitted by AlacritMusic on Mon, 01/15/2007 - 12:33
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- All I'm going to say is... I've always wanted to make a list like this.
- Hidden Perverse Messages and Subliminal Erotica in Movies
- Disney's Aladdin
- When closely listening to the balcony scene between Aladdin and Jasmine, while being nearly attacked by Raja, Aladdin supposedly states "Take off your clothes," under the ruckus. Its unsure if it was meant to sound like that, or if it was a mistake. I have indeed heard this in the movie, and it's a very washed out and unobvious sound, but if you're desperately searching for it, you'll find it.
- Interestingly enough, the phrase "Take off your clothes" can be caught in the beginning of the film as well, on Jafar's first trip to the cave. When the cave appears, Jafar flies off of his horse and as he hits the ground you can hear the "phrase."
- Disney's Beauty and the Beast
- It's said in one frame of the film, during Beast's rage scene after finding Belle in the West Wing, viewers can see a heart tattooed on his backside. Most likely difficult to find though, since the video release version includes the tattoo being obscured by beast's cape. The artist's prank is only said to be featured on the "work in progress" laserdisc version.
- Disney's Clock Cleaners (Short Film)
- Clock Cleaners was a 1937 film short, featured on the collection "Fun on the Job," featuring Donald Duck. It's been claimed that you can hear Donald say the phrase "Fuck you," while in the middle of fighting a clock spring. I, myself, haven't seen this film, therefore can't confirm it personally. It's not likely that it was meant purposefully.
- Disney's The Lion King
- The Lion King includes a well known innuendo in the scene where Simba collapses on the edge of a hill with a heavy sigh, resulting in the debris being picked up by both his movements and the wind briefly revealing the word "sex." Yes, I was pathetic enough to check this out myself, and I indeed saw... something along those lines. But there are two sides to this mistery. Arguments also explain that it was an abbreviated "S.F.X.," symbolizing Disney's special effects department, which is very likely.
- Disney's The Little Mermaid
- Perhaps the most well known of Disney's animated films for its possible innuendos. The cover of the first video release includes a single tower in the castle with a striking resemblance to a penis. This is not a hoax, the layout artist did in fact know of it looking like a penis, but evidently didn't mean for it to strike SUCH a resemblance. There wasn't enough time for the problem to be fixed. Alas.
- Another well known innuendo in The Little Mermaid is featured in the upcoming wedding between Prince Eric and Ursula. The priest appears to have an erection. This was proved to be false though, as it was stated that it was, in fact, his knee.
- Disney's The Rescuers
- In this movie, there are two frames of a topless woman that can be seen as Bernard and Bianca take off on the albatross and swoop down through the city. Only featured on limited copies of the video, and only visible for a VERY brief amount of time. It's confirmed that the layout artist and scene planner were responsible for it. The images were seen in the theatrical release, edited out of the first video release, but returned visible in the 90's re-release, then quickly taken off the shelves for an edited re-release months later. Which version did YOU end up with????
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- In the piano fight scene onstage between Donald Duck and Daffy Duck, directly after Daffy uses his trademark of calling Donald despicable, Donald uses a phrase of angry jibberish, likely being his trademark in return. It is stated that the phrase sounds unusually like the racial comment "God damn stupid n*gger." This has been proven false, and wasn't intentional.
- The second innuendo happens when Jessica Rabbit flies out of the taxi cab. Viewers claim to see her female genitalia showing in a couple frames. It's not obvious, and consists of simply a brown patch, which opens the field for it being anything.
- Non- Perverse, But Interesting Things to Catch In Films
- Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- During the second song ("Out There"), as Quasimodo peers into the village and the "camera" zooms into the town, a close look reveals Belle ("Beauty and the Beast") walking down the street, reading a book. If you look even closer and search even more desperately, the scene features two men carrying Pumba on a pole (although after seeing the scene I'm quite skeptical about that one), and a street merchant shaking out Magic Carpet from "Aladdin." Also, I've been searching but haven't found this detail yet, but it's said that one of the rooftops is pimped out with a satellite dish as well.
- Disney's The Little Mermaid
- In the beginning of the film, as King Triton is swooping down over the applauding audience, below him to his left are Mickey, Goofy and Donald in the crowd.
- Three Men And A Baby
- The first "urban legend" from a film I had ever come across, I've only recently acquired the knowledge that it is, in fact, a hoax (I'm really quite crushed about that). In the scene where Jack Holden's mother visits the house and is playing with the baby, you can see in the window there's a human figure in a top hat, seemingly hiding partially behind the curtain. The mood is quite eerie when the figure is spotted, and its not hard to catch at all. Supposed legend states the human figure was the ghost of a boy that had shot himself dead in the house. But alas, its not true. The figure turned out to be a prop left by accident on set, of a stand up cardboard cutout of Jack used for a commercial. You see it again later in the film, as Jack stands right next to it. Depressing, huh? Actually thought an obvious spirit was caught on film.
- The Wizard of Oz
- The second "urban legend" I had ever heard, also proving to be false (no fucking fun.). Directly after the Tin Man scene, as they skip away into the forest singing "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" song, strange movements are seen in the forest background. Rumor has it that a munchkin/stage hand (two versions of the story) had fallen madly in love and fell into a depression, thus ending in hanging himself in the back drop. In reality, there were multiple birds put into the scene to add a form of reality, and the strange movements were caused by a crane's spread wings.
- Also, a LARGE number of eerie syncs can be heard when playing the movie alongside Pink Floyd’s "Dark Side of the Moon" album.
- UPDATE: I purchased the Pink Floyd album and decided, HELL why don't I try this out? Well, I haven't looked into it far enough, but the cd only lasts as long as half the movie. So I will admit there are alot of unusual syncs involved, including ironic lyric similarities, and things occuring on a beat change in the track. The cd ended during the Tin Man's introduction scene, and my friends decided to start the cd over because of the irony. The cd starts out with a heartbeat and ends with it as well. Since it ended during the song "If I Only Had the Heart," they wanted to continue it. So we did. That's when the freaky shit happened- The first song synced exactly to his dance he did. Then the sync was completely lost. We gave up. I'll research it more. But its worth it :)
- Music
- Yeah, I should be making a separate list under music, but there's only one exception in music I'm raring to mention.
- Ohio Players "Love Rollercoaster"
- Complete hoax, but scared the SHIT out of me when I heard it. Yes, I'm a pussy, but it's convincing. Have the song? Get the song. 2:32. That's the track time it occurs when I listen to it. A scream in the background. Not just a scream, but supposedly a terrified or torturous scream. Rumors state numerous stories of the murder of a woman caught on the recording. Some state it was the album "Honey's" cover model, committed by the manager. Others state it was an anonymous murder in the next room. In truth? The guitar soloist made a Minnie Ripperton/Mariah Carey screaming noise whilst soloing guitar (ha). The band agreed to a vow of silence, due to the fact that the urban legend BOOSTED the record sales.
- Sources:
- Anonymous friends, obviously.
- www.snopes.com (CHECK THIS SITE OUT! IT'S CRAZY!)
- www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mdisneyperv.html
The reason for the "The Little Mermaid" innuenedo is the mythological basis of the storyline. King Triton is based on Poseidon, who was famously connected to phallic imagery. The ancient Greek and Roman myths were rife with phallic imagery, and Poseidon was no exception.
I did a research paper on "subliminal messages" when I was in high school. At that time I was fascinated by all the different methods used but the general consensus is that this stuff really doesn't work. The Lion King one was very interesting...even if, indeed, the message was "SFX", who the hell was going to see that pattern of stars and assume that? I think that message flashing by so quickly will be caught as "SEX" by 95% of the audience.