Why I Think That A Jelsa Movie Is A Better Idea Than You Think... Part 1

 History of the Disney and DreamWorks

Disney

'Prologue'

It may surprise you to know that Disney wasn't always called just Disney, just like Facebook was originally called The Facebook, back when it was in it's early days it was called the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio! It wasn't until Walt's brother, Roy was the one who suggested to call it the Walt Disney Studio, which started out with their Alice Comedies until 1927.

He then moved onto cartoons and he invented Oswald the lucky rabbit but because of the fact that he did not have the rights to him and some backstabbing on the company that he belonged to, he lost that character, but fortunately the company was able to get him back. This caused Walt to set up his own, somewhat humble, studio, but as the company grew out grew this one causing him to look some place else. Enter Hyperion Studio! Then Walt came up with the one, the only, Micky Mouse! Now because he actually owned Mr Mouse, he didn't have to worry about any backstabbing.

'The Golden Age'

In 1934, Walt Disney wanted to do an animated move, which had been met with sceptics but Walt's enthusiasm silenced them and got them on board. (Which must have been something to see) This film was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, which is loosely based on the fairy tale. This was released in 1937 Christmas time. This was the beginning of the Golden Era of Disney. Which were followed be Pinocchio and Fantasia in 1940, Dumbo in 1941 and ended with the heartbreaking Bambi in 1942.

'The Silver Age'

The silver age came after this and lasted until 1966 when Walt Disney died. Which started in 1950, and had films such as; Cinderella, Alice In Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone and the Jungle book.

'The Bronze Age/ The Dark Age'

This was the darkest period of Disney, which started officially in 1970. Where the people of company were only focused on getting kids into the cinema and the story telling, voice acting and marketing, did little to hide it. The films that were made during this period were; The Aristcats, Robin Hood, Winnie the Pooh, The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective and ended with Oliver and Company, all of which were enjoyable movies in their own right. This dark time of Disney finally came to an end in 1988.

'The Renaissance Age'

This part of Disney started in 1989 with the release of The Little Mermaid. The films in this time were (deep breath!) The Little Mermaid (of course), The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty And The Beast, Mulan, Pocahontas, Tarzan, Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Rescuers: Down Under! Disney was on a roll. This ended in 1999.

'The Experimental Age'

This part started with the release of Fantasia 2000. The films of this time were (deeper breath!) Fantasia 2000, Dinosaur, The Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Lilo and Stitch, Treasure Planet, Brother Bear, Home on The Range, Chicken Little, Meet The Robinsons and ended with the film Bolt in 2008. Now you can relax a little.

'The Revival Age'

This part started with the release of The Princess and the Frog in 2009...and is still going on...So the films that are in this period are, (not so quite a deep breath but deep enough!) The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Winnie The Pooh (Reboot), Wreck-It Ralph, Frozen (The one that's the most important to this theory), Big Hero 6, Zootopia and the recent, Moana.

So now you can see Disney's record of it's films, and you can see that if it was to work with a company like Dreamworks, it would be encouraged to bring only the best on their par to to table. So now for Dreamworks.

DreamWorks

Dreamworks was set up by Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen and Speilbreg after a disagreement with Disney. They started with Spin City, The Peacemaker, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan. Their first animated films were, Antz, Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Chicken Run and Joseph: King of Dreams. These all were successful but not as successful as their rivals Disney until in 2001, with the release of Shreak which came along which grabbed an award that year.

Then came the films that came after that (deepest breath you can make!), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shreak 4-D, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas. Then in 2004, came the first official sequel to be released in all cinemas, Shreak 2, (which I do find it interesting that Shreak 4-D came out first) which, unlike Disney, was a good and well loved sequel (fingers crossed that Frozen 2 will change all that). Then after that there was, Shark Tale, Madagascar, Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Madagascar Penguines in a Christmas Cracker a Christmas special, Over the Headge, it's spin-off: Hammy's Boomerang Adventure, Flushed Away, Shreak the Third, the infamous Bee Movie, Shreak the Halls another Christmas special, Kung Fu Panda, the second official sequel Madagascar 2: Escape From Africa, Secrets of the Furious Five, the under-appreciated, Monsters vs Aliens, it's spin-off: Bob's Big Break, A Merry Madagascar (the second Christmas special).

Then came the fourth golden child of Dreamworks, How to Train Your Dragon in 2010 and that was followed by (deeper breath than that!), Shreak Forever After, Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon, Scared Shreakless the first Halloween special, Megamind, Kung Fu Panda Holiday a Christmas special, Kung Fu Panda 2, the Shreak spin-off Puss in Boots, the How to Train Your Dragon shorts: Gift of the Night Fury & Book of Dragons, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Lincoln, (the film that is important to this theory) the one with the slow growing franchise, Rise of the Guardians, The Croods, Turbo, Mr Peabody & Sherman, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Dragons Dawn of the Dragon Races, Penguins of Madagascar the Movie, Home, Kung Fu Panda 3, Boss Baby and Captain Underpants. With How to Train You Dragon 3 being released in 2019, I would not think that it would be appropriate! So sorry.

Whew! Now that you can breathe easily I would like for you to note this, even-though both companies had their lows but when they had their highs they were all on a roll! So if you want to know other things about the companies, click on the link in the brackets ( https://d23.com/disney-history/ http://www.dreamworksstudios.com/about/history). So as you have well noticed I mainly focused on the films and that it what I wanted to remind you all, they are both brilliant when they find the script that works, well it works! So, if they were to combine forces and say to old grudges, let it go! They would want to make the story work for I am willing to place a bet that when they are trying to purposefully let us down then we will all know, because we have both seen their highs and lows and this is the thing that both Disney and Dreamworks will know and it would damage their reputations to do so.

There will be no review next week so, Yami Shorters, I will see you next week and B.A.C.C.M.M.L.A.T.ers see you in two weeks time when I cover how the current rivalry between both companies could play a part in ether the success or failure of the movie so see you later and God bless you all!