ls represent this clearly, for they are not enchanted furnishings at all but people transformed into objects as part of the punishment of the Prince, a fact that emerges in the course of the film and that is not readily apparent at the start.
Critics have noted how the Disney company tends to use folk tales and history in a false way. In 1965, Frances Clarke Sayers wrote the following with reference to Walt Disney and the way he treated his film material:
I call him to account for his debasement of the traditional literature of childhood, in films and in the books he publishes: He shows scant respec
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