Backhanded Compliment to Walt Disney?

[JML]

Isaac was the first author to create stories.  All of the other authors, including Walt Disney, simply recorded what they saw.

This could be an unintentional slam at Disney, who got rich by making movies based on other people’s stories (many of which were in the public domain so that he didn’t have to pay for them).  It could be argued that the people who came along after Walt Disney went on to create much more imaginative stories.

[Myril]

Very unintentional, I think.

Disney was a good storyteller in his way, but he was no writer, so don’t get anyway, why he ever should have been one of the authors here. Walt Disney was a great business man, good at marketing, he had a good nose for what stories people wanted to see. Disney’s name became a brandmark for entertaining good storytelling in a variety of forms. Aside that he at some point developed some ideas or visions for a different, better (?) future for urban living, keyword City of Tomorrow or EPCOT.

I had a big grin, when the boss told Isaac, that he hired him because he thought he would be a storyteller, and that story telling is means to sell. In marketing, and particular online marketing, story telling is the big thing at the moment, as if story telling hadn’t always been a key to successful sales. Look at good advertising over decades, they tell stories.

Did people before and after Disney create much more imaginative stories? Maybe, but might depend on what is defined as imaginative. Disney was sure imaginative in business, something some writers, being great at creating imaginative worlds, might miss as talent on the other hand.

Disney movies haven been and are imaginative and entertaining, though they might be eventually somewhat unoriginal and lack the depth of top level drama.

Furthermore, I think recording stories is an art in itself. Can try it yourself, sit down in a cafe for example and record in words what you are seeing and what is happening around you. Then take that and give it a friend to read and let them retell in what they pictured while reading your record. Even if you do it with a video camera you will have influence on the recording, as simple things as camera angels can change how we perceive a person, can make something interesting or boring.

And Isaac’s imagination looked to me rather blunt, what we got to see from his book was cheesy and not any complex but simplifying.It was rather unoriginal and I hesitate to call that imaginative.

You can be that by the way, blunt and rather unimaginative like I think Isaac was, and still be successful as writer, see Twilight series and even more so Fifty Shades of Grey.

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[JML]

Well said, Myril.

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