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wich is sad

I think she means that the majority of Disney movies are based of existing fairytales or books.

In my opinion, I don't think it's sad. In fact, any time Disney tries to create an original idea, it doesn't do very well. They take something and make it their own. Lots of movies do that, especially nowadays. Even classic movies such as Wizard of Oz are based off previous creations...Shakespeare himself drew inspiration from other work.

I think everyone knows that Disney movies didn't create the original fairytales, and it isn't like they are the only company that makes movies based off those stories. (I can't even begin to count how many Cinderella adaptions there are haha) and they are certainly not claiming that these are their own stories...they always give proper credit when it is needed.

Well, Disney never claimed the stories as their own... Walt Disney wanted to revolutionize storytelling in Cinema. Which I think he achieved. Disney was the first to put many fairy tales on screen in a way that the entire family could enjoy. Fairy Tales and stories in most cultures are not original anyway... if you study the art of storytelling it is pretty much taking ideas from somewhere else and adding a few of your own twists.

If you were to criticize authors for doing the same thing you wouldn't be able to read Fantasy. Its just not possible because all myths and magic came from SOMEWHERE.

And if you wanna get technical... almost EVERY movie out today is based on a book, poem or short story someone else wrote at some point. Or a "loosely based on" model. Instead of focusing on where things originally came from... lets focus on what counts.

The ability to RE-tell a STORY that everyone will love. After all... there are "LOTS OF STORIES"(-Wendy)