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Eugene

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2989 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

So I have discovered that like the early Disney movies are 50 times better than the most recent ones.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

Yes.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

Like, I never saw these as kids.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

So I'm seeing for the first time.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

So I've watched a lot of, for example, Snow White.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

And first of all, Snow White is astonishingly good.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

But the best part about it, and this is actually because I've been part of a larger thing I've become very interested in.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

The best part about Snow White is all of the, and also even more so probably with Cinderella, is their willingness to go on these tangents.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

Like in Cinderella, there's like 20 minutes on the mouse playing with the cat, Lucifer, and they leave the whole story

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

set it over here, and it's just a cat and a mouse.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

And the self-confidence of the filmmaker, they're like, the kids are happy to put Cinderella to the side and just go with the mouse and the cat for 20 minutes.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

And they'll come back to us.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

We have such confidence in our story and our storytelling ability.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

And I feel like today, when you watch the newer ones, there's never any of these digressions.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

No.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

And what is, they don't understand how kids' minds work or even, pardon me, how human beings' mind works.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

Well, you know, this is a comic.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

Yeah.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

Nobody was giving them instructions.

What Now? with Trevor Noah
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Fairytales Make Adulthood Harder?

The other thing that's interesting is that the mistake that data makes is that they don't account for the fact that the audience might change its mind.