Matt Walsh Explains Why These Movie Villains Were Right

fire enemy wrestle [Music] destroy so we all know that Disney movies these days are hopelessly woke and basically awful in every way I'm a narcissist weird weird that's why most people think back fondly to like the old days of Disney they Pine for the the classics I understand that mentality but the truth is that even older Disney movies have issues the problem is that in those films in many cases the alleged villains are treated I think very unfairly they get a bad rep in many cases they are misunderstood misconstrued I only wanted to help and look maybe it's just my overabundance of empathy and compassion you know it gets me into a lot of trouble sometimes and maybe that's what allows me to see it this way but either way today in this very important video we're going to talk about Disney villains who were actually write all along so we'll go through five movies number one is a Bambi wake up we have company now first of all I've never met a child who actually likes this movie I don't know anyone my age who liked Bambi growing up Bambi is one of the weakest films in the Disney Canon and yet it's viewed as a classic because it happened to be released in the ' 40s although it could have been released last year based on fact that the villains in this movie are the hunters who shot Bambi's mom no Hasty SC shooting there you are fire away oh good shot boy good shot but they were obviously entirely justified in doing so first of all because venison is delicious those Hunters I'm guessing made some you know great venison steaks maybe some deer jerky out of Bambi's mom which is a fact that could have brought Bambi some comfort and Solace if anyone had explained it to him but they never did second deer populations are out of control in this country like they wreak havoc in ecosystems they cause 1.5 million car crashes a year including hundreds of fatalities so deer hunters are performing a service and yet they've been villainized in a movie that generations of bored children have been forced to watch think about this if Bambi's mom had not been shot and killed she may have gone on to like run into the road one night causing a family returning home from dinner to Veer off into a tree and die whole family dead think about that number two is Lion King now I'm not saying that scar is the good guy in that film I'm not justifying what he did like killing your brother trying to kill your nephew is is inappropriate I don't condone it oh God but all I'm saying is that you know I think the character deserves a bit more sympathy then he gets for one thing his name is scar okay I don't want to get into the nature versus nurture debate but when you name your child scar you can't complain when he becomes a villain especially if we have one kid that you name Mufasa you that strong name Mufasa the other one you named scar what will that make you a monkey's uncle so what did you expect also I'm not saying the maasa deserves to be thrown off a cliff but there's a fundamental like moral dishonesty to maasa that I've that I always found deeply troubling even as a child the first time I saw it I even said to my parents there's a fundamental moral dishonesty in this film Mom and Dad I said that to them and here's why he eats his own subjects Okay one minute they're all celebrating the birth of his son you know they're bringing gifts or whatever they're cheering and the next they don't show this in the film but Mufasa is hunting them down and consuming them and by the way lions eat their prey alive that's how lions eat that's how Mufasa treated his subjects and then he has the audacity to get all high and mighty towards scar like you can understand Scar's resentment and to make matters worse they acknowledge it in the movie so Simba asks his dad dad don't we eat the anope they were just at our baby shower and now like we eat them and that's that's kind of not cool and Mufasa said well son that's okay because it's part of the circle of life when we die our bodies become the grass and the antelope eat the grass okay but that is not the same thing at all that is not an even trait so give me a break and also your body doesn't even become grass so that's to begin with and I'm not holding it against a lion for being a lion I'm just saying that there's arguably a certain intellectual Integrity in Scar's Outlook and behavior that you don't find with Mufasa that's my point number three is pocah this is an obvious one uh the villains in this movie are the evil white Europeans who are portrayed as brutal greedy barbarians oppressing the innocent Native Americans who are all kind and generous and so in touch with nature that they can literally talk to the trees good morning child somehow everybody speaks perfect English including the trees this is a like the noble savage myth put the film it's also really we talk about wokeness in Disney films this was the beginning of Disney's Long March into [Music] welness but you could argue that that March began with the vegetarian propaganda of Bambi but in any case the white settlers in reality were courageous and Intrepid Pioneers not villains we'll build roads and decent houses and our houses are fine you think that only because you don't know any better so that's an easy one number four is Snow White now this is another case where I'm not so much claiming that the evil queen was wholly Justified if IED in her actions I'm simply suggesting that the situation is a bit more nuanced there's some Nuance there's some complexity okay did Snow White deserve to be poisoned with an apple no but does she also bear some responsibility for eating an apple offered to her by a random old woman who showed up at her window laughing manly yes absolutely all alone my pit she never even asks like who the woman is yes I am just the woman shows up at the window and says hey do you want an apple and she never says who are you what are you why um excuse me what's the actual Fu are you doing in my house This Woman's walking around the forest randomly handing out apples there's no question she just takes it and eats it doesn't bother washing it in the sink so it's hard for me to feel sorry for and for the record you should never eat anything if the person offering it is laughing while they hand it to you never mind if it's an evil laugh I don't care if it's any kind of laugh [Laughter] and never mind that they're at your window in the middle of the day for no reason not to mention the fact that the whole Snow White fairy tale is really about home invasion and burglary uh this woman barges into the home of these clearly mentally disabled old men chimney crickets who aren't even half her size makes herself at home what a cute little chair now eventually the dwarves grow attached to her so you might say oh they're friends no they they were they were terrified when they first got out like anybody would be you get home and there's this giant like sleeping on your bed all of your beds that she's helped herself too of course you're going be anyone would be scared and they were scared but eventually this kind of Stockholm syndrome takes effect and uh and and they become friends and then when she dies they put her in a glass coffin because they somehow had a full-size glass coffin lying around which makes you question their motives frankly and they display her body for several days until a prince who has never met her before okay shows up out of nowhere kisses this woman who for all he knows has been dead for days and this is this is back when they didn't have like the preservation of the body was nothing was done to preserve the body there could be some you know decomposing I mean and he starts just kissing this dead woman it's very dark it's a very morbid story when you think about it like an insane person which means the evil queen is maybe still evil but her action should at least be understood in proper context and maybe you could argue that she even was an advocate for private property rights and that's why she was so upset at Snow White I don't you know that's one interpretation number five finally is beating the Beast now we've talked about this before I consider it to be one of the most important issues that I discuss it probably deserves to be the subject of its own documentary uh Gaston is the quintessential villain who was actually the hero of the story hello Belle and I will insist on this until my dying breath we're supposed to hate Gaston from the beginning because why he's manly and in good shape he eats a lot of eggs is that his crime what has he done wrong it's not right for a woman to read soon she starts getting ideas and thinking they never explain it and the anti- gastan propaganda is laid on thick from the very beginning but even in spite of that it's clear who the real protagonist is we see Gaston early in the film what a pleasant surprise right he's dressed to the 9 he visits Belle to propose marriage say you'll marry me and he's obviously an advocate of traditional marriage and a nuclear family he even says that he makes a pitch for the nuclear family traditional marriage to Bell he's explaining we'll have six or seven dogs no Belle strapping boys like me you know he wants to have children he wants to have a family it's a very lovely thing Belle turns him down and pushes him into a mud pit total humili ation and yet by the end Gaston is still willing to risk his life to rescue This Woman This Woman Who humiliated him from the clutches of a beast and how did Beauty end up in that situation yeah she initially went to the Beast Castle to save her dad or whatever I think how did you find me but she she had many opportunities to escape after that point like she could have just walked out of me she was in in the prison cell and then she's invited to dinner and from that point on she doesn't go back to the cell so she could have left anytime anytime but she stays because she ends up falling in love with a non-human creature who looks kind of like an evil water buffalo keep something in mind Belle didn't know that the Beast was really a human Prince she had no idea about that okay that's true look up on the that's you could go back and watch the movie that's she never is aware of that fact that was just luck of the draw so as far as she knew she was entering into a romantic relationship with a member of a of another species that's a simple fact now of course poor Gaston he didn't know about any of this he didn't know that the Beast was really a prince he didn't know that the woman of his dreams had fallen in love with a giant mutant mountain goat all he knew from his perspective was that beauty had been imprisoned by a monster her own dad told Gaston that who's got B locked in a dungeon a beast a horrible monstrous beast and so he rallies the troops he marches off to fight for her and save her this is the villain of the story The Man Who ultimately gave his very life for the woman he loved and the monster who kidnapped a young woman is supposed to be the one we're rooting for that's just wrong and I won't stand for it so thank you for spending 10 minutes watching this piece of content it was obviously very important and uh well worth your time and mine

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Published: Thu Dec 28 2023