The Walt Disney Company turns 100 this year, so each month IllusiveKen is looking back at its landmark films to better understand the Mouse House - and the film industry it's helped define. This month: The Black Hole:
This year, The Walt Disney Company turns 100 years old. For good or ill, no other company has been more influential in the history of film.is a monthly feature in which Ken Lowe revisits the landmark entries in Disney’s filmography to reflect on what they meant for the Mouse House—and how they changed cinema. You can read previous entriesDisney’s two unofficial rules these days seem to be making money and having a minimum bar of quality—or at least of.
Reinhardt has survived aboard the ship for 20 years using his genius and army of robot minions, studying the phenomenon of the black hole the entire time. He’s determined to travel through the black hole, claiming that there must be another reality on the other side, one that he will pioneer. Everybody but Perkins’ scientist immediately comes to the conclusion that Reinhardt is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, and their independent wanderings around the ship immediately bear this out: V.I.N.CENT. runs into bedraggled fellow robot survivor B.O.B. who reveals that Reinhardt’s robot servants are actually the animated corpses of the crew he claims to have sent to the escape pods 20 years ago, Mimieux’s father among them.
When it’s revealed that Reinhardt has no intention of letting his guests leave alive, Perkins tries to go with him into the black hole, but is killed by Maximilian’s. The last reel of the movie is a series of laser gun fights and escapes against increasingly dire sets and matte shots, the ship colliding with meteorites and tumbling into the singularity. V.I.N.CENT. has a struggle to the bloody death with Maximilian before sending his foe screaming into the void, and then watches as B.O.B.
It’s not too surprising that the movie has something of an identity crisis. The Mouse House was falling on relatively hard times by the late ‘70s. The man who had founded the company and been its guiding visionary had been dead more than a decade, and the studio’s animation division had
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