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Disney Plans Hero's Death
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Sir Gavin interrupts a writers’ room to demand reassurance about his future in an animated adventure. The writers’ explanations of familiar mentor deaths do little to calm him, and learning that he is also a Disney protagonist’s father makes matters worse. Walt Disney arrives with a chilling view of storytelling, prompting an agent from a protection program for fictional characters to intervene.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 6
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Your fate was decided before you were created.
The mouse createth and the mouse destroyeth.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:04
Mallory Everton
Okay, in the next shot, the Dark Lord raises his weapon and he says, Fools, if you... Hello, writer's room.
- 00:12
Speaker 1 ?
The new animated character wants to see you.
- 00:15
Mallory Everton
Okay, send him right in. All right, guys, it's the mentor character. The animators just finished him last week. Sir Gavin, buddy, how's it going?
- 00:28
Sir Gavin
Not good. I've been doing some research, and I'm very concerned about this movie.
- 00:32
Writer ?
So, can we help you with something?
- 00:34
Sir Gavin
Yes. You can promise not to kill me. So you promise not to kill me?
- 00:44
Writer ?
Gavin, you are a main character, buddy.
- 00:47
Sir Gavin
Yes, but mentor characters like me always die. There's Qui-Gon Jinn, Captain Pike, Aslan.
- 00:54
Writer ?
But we made you an awesome fighter, like Obi-Wan or Sirius Black.
- 00:58
Writer ?
Or Yoda.
- 00:59
Sir Gavin
Okay, you know all those people are dead, right?
- 01:03
Writer ?
Gavin, calm down, okay? Mentors are tough.
- 01:05
Sir Gavin
Really? Because they all seem to die very wussy deaths. Like falling off a cliff after the Balrog let go. Or contracting magical arm cancer and then committing Snape-assisted suicide.
- 01:18
Writer ?
Okay. Is there any way you'll trust us?
- 01:21
Sir Gavin
Yes. You can let me help with the story. No, no, no! No! You guys are storyboarding my death?
- 01:26
Writer ?
No! No, we're not.
- 01:30
Writer ?
Yes, we are.
- 01:32
Sir Gavin
How could you? I am the protagonist's father.
- 01:36
Walt Disney
Ah, but, Sir Gavin, this is Disney.
- 01:41
Sir Gavin
This is a Disney film? I'm a Disney parent? You murderers.
- 01:48
Walt Disney
Your fate was decided before you were created.
- 01:52
Sir Gavin
Please have mercy. Not all Disney characters have to lose a parent.
- 01:56
Walt Disney
No, you're right. Just Cinderella and Snow White, Aladdin, Jasmine, Shang, Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Ariel, Mowgli, Tarzan, Jane, Peter Pan, The Lost Boys, Christopher Robin, Bambi, Simba, Nemo, Todd, The Aristocats, Arthur, Belle, Tiana, Pocahontas, Remy, Linguini, Flick, Atta, Andy, Kuzco, Flynn Rider, Anna, Elsa, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Lilo, Will Turner, Elizabeth, Swan, Gabriella, Hannah Montana, Mia Thermopolis, and Pollyanna. The mouse createth, and the mouse destroyeth.
- 02:35
Agent Donovan
Stop right there! Agent Donovan, Character Protection Program. Sir Gavin's coming with us for his own safety.
- 02:45
Walt Disney
Oh, you think he'll be saving some rom-com or Bollywood flick? We'll find him. Uncle Walt always gets his man.
- 02:53
Agent Donovan
I don't think so. I'm the guy who saved Jar Jar Binks.
- 02:57
Speaker 2 ?
Oh.
- 03:02
Agent Donovan
Not proud. All right, boys, let's head out.
- 03:08
Sir Gavin
Um, question, do I have to live with Jar Jar?
- 03:10
Agent Donovan
No, he killed him after like an hour.
- 03:12
Sir Gavin
Oh, good.
- 03:13
Speaker 3 ?
Hope you liked that video. I have a question for you. If you could save anyone throughout the history of literature and the cinema, who would you save? It could be any character. Comment below, guys.
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