Disney Hit With Copyright Lawsuit For Moana 2 In The Middle Of Awards Season
Disney Hit With Copyright Lawsuit For Moana 2 In The Middle Of Awards Season
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Below, see a breakdown of story elements that are present both in the Moana movies and the Bucky screenplay:
- The setting of an ancient Polynesian village
- A teenager goes on an ocean adventure that involves the spirits of ancestors manifesting as animals
- Said adventure begins because of a turtle
- A symbolic necklace is important to the story
- A supporting character is a hook-wielding demigod with tattoos
- A large creature is hidden in a mountain
- The crew is sucked into a whirlpool portal
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weren't a good portion of those already established in Moana 1?
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Yeah, and it looks like they tried to sue then too but missed a deadline.
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Not to mention both stories being explicitly rooted in Polynesia means they're working from a shared common mythos. Maui is a real-world mythological figure who wields a hook, Moana didn't just make that up. Turtles are also culturally significant, as are boats/seafaring journeys, tattoos, ancestral spirits represented as animals, and so on.
I hate to defend a corporation as evil as Disney but the most they're guilty of in this circumstance is making a non-Eurocentric movie for a change.
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