Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

The film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane is a 1962 thriller, based on the novel with the same name by Henry Farrell. The movie stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. It was directed by Robert Aldrich.
The story begins in the year 1917 when a child star with golden curls called "Baby Jane Hudson" sings on stage in front of an audience of adoring fans. Her shy sister called Blanche feels left out. A boy gives Baby Jane a doll in her likeness as a gift. When Baby Jane and Blanche grow up, things turn dark between the sisters. I'm certain that doll has something to do with it! I rate this film 8/10 because it's so well acted, beautiful and full of weirdness.

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She-Ra: Princess of Power

Well it's been a month that I last posted. That's because I was watching all of the episodes of the original She-Ra: Princess of Power series. It's got to be one of the most awesome TV animations ever. It was made by Filmation in partnership with toy company Mattel. It was first released in 1985 and has two seasons with about 93 episodes. Creators of She-Ra include Larry DiTillio and J. Michael Straczynski. The style is colourful and set on planet Etheria, which has been partially taken over by the Horde. A girl named Adora was raised at the Fright Zone to become a Horde soldier, and she's the long lost sister of He-Man. When she's given the sword of protection, all of her origins are shown, and she discovers for herself how evil the Horde really is. She becomes a saviour of the downtrodden, joins the Rebellion and makes new friends. Her brother is He-Man, Prince Adam, who had his own popular TV series for a long time before She-Ra. I plan to make a comparison with the original She-Ra and the reboot in the near future. 

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Dark fan theories 3

This is the third part of my Dark Fan theories. The following are about films, animation or family movies and TV shows that are not as good as they seem. I will talk about theories and conspiracies about those.

Scooby Doo This long running TV animated series isn't immune from conspiracy theories. The dog Scooby escaped from the Soviet Union because he didn't want to be part of their fatal dogs in space program. If that isn't far fetched then what about the fan theory that Shaggy is the son of Captain America. The next one is that the characters are part of a cult, that they are all smoking weed in their van, or that Fred is the driver because the rest are too stoned to drive. The other popular theory out there is that Fred and Shaggy are hiding because they were called up to fight in the Vietnam War. Perhaps weirder is the fan idea that there are real monsters in the Scooby Doo animation because the first appearance of them is supernatural, but those always turn out to be humans in disguise.

Tangled theory is the most interesting one. That is that the evil queen in Snow White is really Mother Gothel. Many have said that there are tons of clues. One of them is obviously that both of their names translate as "Mother". Also there is a symbol of the red apple on the wall left there by Madam Gothel. Her dagger is identical to the one that the evil queen owned. Both evil queen and Gothel look alike. It's centuries between the two stories but Gothel is said to be hundreds of years old. She turned into an old hag when her magic was fading. She looked like the old crone the evil queen transformed into.

Castle in the Sky theory is that the character Dola the pirate queen is really an aged Pippi Longstocking. This is a cross over of fictional characters. Castle in the Sky is a Studio Ghibli animation, and Pippi Longstocking is a book character from Sweden. Some believe this because of the obvious hairstyle, the red braids that stick outwards in mid-air. Also the character Dola has a portrait of herself when she was younger so it makes the fans more convinced. Miyazaki wanted to create an anime based on the Pippi Longstocking books and asked the author, Astrid Lindgren, for permission but this was refused. If this is true then it was poking fun out of the author to make the fictional kid into an old bag! 

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Dark fan theories 2

There are some more films with sinister conspiracies or fan theories around them. This is the second part of my dark fan theories topic.

Coraline is a 2009 animated horror film. There are plenty of creepy themes in the film as it is but the storyline is simplistic and almost gothic but I will just focus on one. This film has a lot of theories that make it far more darker than it is. The Other Mother is also called a "beldam" by some spirits of her victims. A beldam is an archaic word meaning "witch". The Other Mother has buttons for eyes and is obsessed with sewing buttons on Coraline after removing her eyes. Its said that the Other Mother killed all of those children over time. There are silhouettes of the those children on the wall of the Other Mother's dining room.

Frozen is a Disney favourite and there are plenty of sinister theories on this to make you see the film in another light (or lacklustre!). Sven's own mother was killed by Kristoff, and Kristoff wears clothes made of reindeer pelts. Now Sven likes Kristoff because he smells like his mother! Another theory is that the trolls are truly the villains because they denied Elsa's magical powers, sent her away into isolation and they steal babies. No thanks to Elsa's father who many believe wanted to use Elsa as a weapon so he kept her away.

My Neighbour Totoro film by Studio Ghibli has a load of very grim theories. One is that Totoro is a psychopomp, or a god of death, so that whenever someone is about to die then they can see Totoro. The two girls featured in the animated movie are dead, according to many fans. The film is set in the Sayama Hills, and the name itself has caused fans to speculate that this is a link to the tragic Sayama Incident involving two sisters. 

Will you watch those now feeling quite differently about them?
Anyway more will come in part three.

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