by Jim Smith | Jul 25, 2021 | Best of the Best - Disney and Beyond, Disney, Lists, Marvel, Role Call - The Best of Disney, Star Wars
Disney films have used MacGuffins as storytelling devices almost since the founding of the Walt Disney Studios. These devices – whether they be objects, characters, or even events or ideas in film, serve to set and keep the story’s plot in motion. At their core,...
by Jim Smith | May 4, 2021 | Best of the Best - Disney and Beyond, Disney, Lists, Marvel, Media, Role Call - The Best of Disney, Star Wars
Many of our favorite Disney characters are plagued by that one major weakness – their Achilles Heel. In Part One of this two-part series, we took a look at some of the more well known physical character weaknesses. Now in Part Two, we’ll focus on the mental...
by Jim Smith | Apr 27, 2021 | Best of the Best - Disney and Beyond, Disney, Lists, Marvel, Role Call - The Best of Disney, Star Wars
Everyone has a weakness. It’s the vulnerability that makes us real and human. It’s also another piece of our personality that makes us each unique. Another, darker way of looking at our limitations comes from the chilling wisdom of Mr. Incredible’s nemesis Syndrome...
by Jim Smith | Mar 22, 2021 | Best of the Best - Disney and Beyond, Lists, Marvel, Role Call - The Best of Disney, Star Wars
(A version of this article was shared with Laughing Place and published on February 20, 2024.) Everyone loves a good villain, and Disney films are full of great ones. Villains are necessary evils for most storytelling. They provide the protagonist (we’ll call them the...
by Jim Smith | Jan 21, 2021 | Disney, Disney Trivia, Lists and Trivia
Most hard core Disney fans are familiar with Disney Legend Mary Blair, for her creation of it’s a small world, as well as her immortal Pueblo Village mural in Walt Disney World’s Contemporary Resort. But did you know she also inspired a multi-billion-dollar Pixar film...
