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Last weekend, The Guardian published a long-ish piece on Philip Glass’s soon-to-debut opera The Perfect American based on the novel of the same name by Peter Stephan Jungk. The book (and it appears the opera, too) is a veritable checklist of accusations that have been leveled against Walt Disney throughout the years: he was a McCarthyite, a racist, a misogynist, an anti-Semite, a megalomaniac. It manages to come up with new fictional flaws too, like philandering and incestuous obsession with his daughters.
Jungk’s book has been described by Walt Disney biographer Michael Barrier as “infantile” and “wretched.” That is perhaps why the Guardian reported that the Disney company called Glass to ask him not to work on the opera. The article also says that the finished opera was submitted to the Disney Studios for consideration, and there was no response. Jungk, the author of the book, said that he interpreted the company’s lack of response as “a green light.”
Glass says that despite all the negative (and untrue) traits the opera attaches to Walt, his intentions were noble:“When I started out, people thought I was going to laugh at him. But I see Walt Disney as an icon of modernity, a man able to build bridges between highbrow culture and popular culture; just like Leonard Bernstein, who could jump from a Broadway musical to a Mahler cycle.”To me, the opera is representative of a bigger problem faced by the Disney company, and that is that the company has been unable to present an alternative narrative to the perpetual vilification of Walt Disney in contemporary pop culture. The lack of honest and easy-to-access information about Walt is precisely why a majority of teens and twenty-somethings today have a wildly distorted and inaccurate view of Walt Disney, the man.
The Disney company could do much more to humanize the founder of their company. Instead the company has taken the tactical approach that its founder must be deified. In response, they build statues of Walt using every conceivable material that is known to mankind, from bronze to Tom Hanks.These statues end up being as one-dimensional and untrue as the negative portrayals. Today’s generation is too savvy to accept an image of Walt Disney as an irreproachable god-like entity, and so they seek their truth elsewhere. It is through this cycle that the Disney company continues to lose control over its founder’s image.Disney animator and director Ward Kimball, the subject of my own as-yet-unpublished biography, rebelled in his own idiosyncratic fashion against the Disney company’s deification of Walt, which he felt diminished the man’s accomplishments and tainted his legacy. Ward never censored himself when he was asked to speak about Walt Disney at public functions. He made sure to incorporate stories about honest human interactions with Walt, of which he had more of than almost any other artist who worked at the company. In Ward’s stories, Walt may have used a cuss word and he may have just walked out of the bathroom after taking a shit, but he was a human being who people could recognize, understand, and most importantly, admire.
The Disney family-operated Walt Disney Family Museum, in its own way, does a great job of humanizing the founder of the company. However, the museum is not a panacea for Walt’s image problem because its impact is limited to tourists and Disney fans. It cannot combat the steady stream of misinformation about Walt from mainstream cultural sources like Family Guy and Saturday Night Live.The Disney company itself, with its vast media reach, is in the best position to rehabilitate the image of its founder and offer a counterimage to the flood of negative portrayals of its founder. A good first step would be to acknowledge the fact that Walt Disney wasn’t a god, but a human being.Walter Elias ‘Walt Disney’ laid the foundations of a magical, optimistic and whimsical world full of imagination many decades ago that instantly won the audiences and the magic of his creation is still alive today.
The American director, film producer, screenwriter, animator, voice actor, entertainer, philanthropist and a highly successful entrepreneur was born on 5th December 1901 in the Hermosa community of Chicago. His family moved to Marceline shortly after his birth where Walt spent most of his childhood. His early interest in art and drawing had him selling small sketches that used to do in his spare time. His activities always revolved around some kind of art work. He attended McKinley High School where he showed immense talent in drawing and photography. He also contributed his drawings to the school newspaper. To refine his art skills he joined the evening classes in the Academy of Arts.
The Disney family moved to Kansas where Walt continued to flourish in his artistic talent. He also picked up a knack for performing and acting. In 1918 Walt joined the Red Cross and was sent to France for a year. He covered the ambulance that he drove with cartoons instead of stock camouflage. On his return Walt decided that he would pursue commercial art seriously and soon he was producing animated films for small businesses. At 21, he had started his company called ‘Laugh-O-Grams’ and the first animated film he began working on was called ‘The Alice Comedies’. The company went bankrupt before the film could be created however Walt was not one to give up. He packed his bags for Hollywood with a dream to achieve greatness. With the help of his brother Roy O. Disney, who was already in California, Walt managed to set up a shop. He got his very first order for ‘Alice in Cartoon land’ and from that there was no turning back. Walt was soon known amongst the elite of Hollywood, although he chose to lead a simple lifestyle.
In 1928 Walt created one of his most legendary characters ‘Mickey Mouse’ who made his debut in world’s first sound cartoon in 1928 at the Colony Theater, New York. After the introduction of Technicolor to animated films, Disney held its patent for almost two years. In 1929, Walt created new friends for Mickey Mouse namely Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Pluto and Donald Duck. Walt’s journey to fame had started to get even better. He won his first Academy Award in 1932. His first full length animated movie ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ came out in December 1937 which was produced at the unimaginable cost of $1,499,000 amidst the Depression. In the next five years Walt Disney Studios released more full length features such as Pinocchio, Dumbo, Fantasia and Bambi. More animated features followed in the 50's including Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), Sleeping Beauty (1959) and 101 Dalmatians (1961). Walt was the first one to use TV for entertainment purposes and his shows Davy Crockett, Mickey Mouse Club and Zorro were immensely popular.
Walt had always wanted to start a theme park where children could enjoy with their families, take fun rides and see their favorite Disney characters. This dream became a reality in 1955 with the opening of Disney Land Park that entertains worldwide tourists. Walt planned another Disney Land which he could not see as the maker of the magical world died on 15th December 1966 due to lung cancer. His brother Roy completed the Walt Disney World which opened in 1971.