Have you ever noticed that Mickey Mouse never starred in his own feature film? Discover the possible reason behind this curious fact!
Mickey Mouse is, without a doubt, one of the most popular characters in the world. Appearing in 1928 through the short film ‘Plane Crazy’, the memorable little mouse created by Walt Disney was actually his second character.
The pioneer was Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit, released in 1927 for the series “Alice Comedies”, by Universal Pictures. However, at the beginning of the following year, the renowned filmmaker ended up losing Oswald’s copyright, preventing him from creating any production with the rabbit.
Although Mickey was not the first success of Walt Disneythe little mouse became a symbol of his studio, appearing on different merchandising, productions, books, and carrying a legion of fans around the world.
However, something curious is that, despite his enormous influence, Mickey Mouse was never the protagonist of his own feature film, only starring in short films.
Why did Mickey never get a feature film?
The website Collider explains that the reason behind Mickey never starring in his own feature film lies in his own history. This is because, over the years, he increasingly became a role model for children, demanding that he be portrayed in stories with more acceptable values, without carrying out great antics as were seen in his first short films.
Therefore, it became increasingly difficult to create a perfect script that maintained its impact as a children’s model, and conveyed the necessary values to little ones, at the same time, keeping the audience’s eyes on the screen for more than an hour. Thus, the portal explains that, in order not to tarnish the image of Disney’s main symbol, Mickey, so far, he has only received short films — but nothing prevents his first feature film from arriving one day.
Long discarded
Despite this, anyone who imagines that there were never any plans for a Mickey Mouse feature film is mistaken. According to the Disney historian, Jim Hillthe studio had plans to produce a film titled “The Search for Mickey Mouse”.
In the plot, Mickey would have been kidnapped, causing Donald, Goofy, Minnie and Basil, from “The Adventures of a Mouse Detective”, to go on a journey to find him where, along the way, all the Disney characters would appear.
Through your website, Jim explains that “The Search for Mickey Mouse” would be the main project for the 75th anniversary celebration of The Walt Disney Company, celebrated in 2003. However, due to problems with the script, the idea was discarded.
Second Hill, the writers were unable to “create a semi-plausible plot that would emotionally engage the audience and yet allow for a different set of classic Disney characters to appear on screen every two or three minutes. This kind of trick is cute for a while. But imagine a 90-minute film that does nothing beyond that? It seems kind of boring, doesn’t it? More of a feat than a story.”
Source: Recreio
