Details magazine recently wrote about Disney’s experimentation with updating Mickey Mouse. They say, leave Mickey alone!!!
www.details.com/blogs/daily-details/2009/11/daily-douc...tml
According to the New York Times, Disney will release a new video game called Epic Mickey next year, in which "the formerly squeaky clean character" is re-imagined to be "cantankerous and cunning, as well as heroic, as he traverses a forbidding wasteland." Kind of like Mad Max. What exactly does it say about us when we turn our country's most benevolent animated cash cow into a "cantankerous" rodent, banished by his creators to forever wander a "forbidding wasteland"? Obama was our most recent cartoonified icon of hope, and barely a year since election day that big-eared hero has seen a demonic reshaping of his own—at the hands of shrieking tea-party protestors, birther freaks, Glenn Becks, Liz Cheneys, death-panel morons, Dittohead 2.0's, and all manner of scowling, cantankerous rodents indigenous to the sub-reality warrens scattered throughout the country. And now, Mickey Mouse...
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