The Chicken or The Egg?
It is no coincidence that many Disney films are based on other films or stories. Typically many of the films are a mix of things, that also relates to geographic location or moments in time. Let’s tale The Lion King, for example, it is based in Africa but has strong Shakespearian undertones of a story between a father and son. So when it comes to understanding movie titles and their plots, it isn’t always so simple.
A Tumblr user asks a very significant question, and we also want to get to the bottom of it. Some films in the Disney empire include puns, such as the film ‘Aristocats‘, a play on words from the word aristocrat. And what we want to know is, did the people at Disney come up with the movie title before the idea for the movie or the other way around? We want to believe yes, they did come up with the title and then decide to create a whole film based around it. So there you have it.