History Headscratchers / Fantasia

** Your arguments are [[UsefulNotes/LogicalFallacies fallacious]][[labelnote:*]] See Loaded Words, Non Sequitur Fallacy, {{Bulverism}}, Appeal to Ridicule, ExtendedAnalogy, Appeal to Ignorance, Frozen Abstraction and especially Shifting the Burden of Proof[[/labelnote]]. You may wish to check UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode page to determine what was permissible to show on film when the film was made. A character gleefully engaged in defiling graves, terrorizing villages and torturing his own servants is ObviouslyEvil.

** Complaints like this were addressed by the creators, when fans were upset that some of the pieces of music had nothing to do with the actual "stories" (the Nutcracker Suite featuring no characters from the ballet from which is is adapted, for instance). They said that their goal was to animate the "impressions" they got from the pieces, separated from the context of the songs. As one animator put it: "We say that ''Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring'' makes us think of dinosaurs. So prove that it doesn't!"

* Before "Night On Bald Mountain", it explicitly mentions the name "Satan". Yet every single piece of media outside this film I have ever seen in my entire life refers to this character as "Chernabog". Is he simply a SatanicArchetype or the actual Devil?

** Probably because Sorcerer’s Apprentice was the most popular piece in the original Fantasia, and because the image of Mickey Mouse wearing that NiceHat was so iconic!

** How would ''you'' like to have you soul thrown around by a gigantic demon? I think we can assume that the experience is deeply unpleasant! And who's to say that the souls come to him willingly? They don't have dialogue. They're not all like "Hey, let's all go up to the mountain and get tossed around by Chernabog! That sounds like a ''jolly'' good time!" Presumably they've been ''summoned'' to the mountain against their will. Why else would they show up? (Note also that once the church bell starts weakening Chernabog, the souls immediately go back to their graves. That's because they ''want'' to go back to their graves.) The idea that Chernabog is just "celebrating a Sabbath" is silly, as is the idea that he's just "throwing a party". I don't know about you, but when I throw a party it's more like "Turn on some music and pass the cake", not "toss the souls of the damned into a ''demonic fire''". And if he doesn't harm the villagers, that's probably because he simply ''can't''. His powers only work on the souls of the dead.

** How would ''you'' like to have you soul thrown around by a gigantic demon? I think we can assume that the experience is deeply unpleasant! And who's to say that the souls come to him willingly? They don't have dialogue. They're not all like "Hey, let's all go up to the mountain and get tossed around by Chernabog! That sounds like a ''jolly'' good time!" Presumably they've been ''summoned'' to the mountain against their will. Why else would they show up? The idea that Chernabog is just "celebrating a Sabbath" is silly, as is the idea that he's just "throwing a party". I don't know about you, but when I throw a party it's more like "Turn on some music and pass the cake", not "toss the souls of the damned into a ''demonic fire''". And if he doesn't harm the villagers, that's probably because he simply ''can't''. His powers only work on the souls of the dead.

** How would ''you'' like to have you soul thrown around by a gigantic demon? I think we can assume that the experience is deeply unpleasant! And who's to say that the souls come to him willing? They don't have dialogue. They're not all like "Hey, let's all go up to the mountain and get tossed around by Chernabog! That sounds like a ''jolly'' good time!" Presumably they've been ''summoned'' to the mountain against their will. Why else would they show up? The idea that Chernabog is just "celebrating a Sabbath" is silly, as is the idea that he's just "throwing a party". I don't know about you, but when I throw a party it's more like "Turn on some music and pass the cake", not "toss the souls of the damned into a ''demonic fire''". And if he doesn't harm the villagers, that's probably because he simply ''can't''. His powers only work on the souls of the dead.

** Your arguments are fallacious[[labelnote:*]] See LoadedWords, NonSequiturFallacy, {{Bulverism}}, AppealToRidicule, ExtendedAnalogy, AppealToIgnorance, FrozenAbstraction and especially ShiftingTheBurdenOfProof[[/labelnote]]. You may wish to check UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode page to determine what was permissible to show on film when the film was made. A character gleefully engaged in defiling graves, terrorizing villages and torturing his own servants is ObviouslyEvil.