7) Incest And Disney! – Hercules (1997)
Disney may be accused of promoting many old-fashioned ideals regarding love and gender, but incest isn’t usually one of them. Hercules bucked the trend though by throwing in a subtle, but definitely not child-friendly joke about sons having “naughty times” with their mothers.
As Hercules leaves an Ancient Greek theater, he throws out a casual comment about the play, saying “That Oedipus thing? Man, I thought I had problems!” As most people probably know, Oedipus was a mythical Greek king who killed his own father in order to marry his mother. Oedipus didn’t know that his new wife was also his mother at the time of their marriage, but that doesn’t make what they did on their wedding night any less freaky.
While this may fly over the heads of most children watching the film, I can’t help but feel kind of bad for the kids who studied Greek mythology at school…
Published: Dec 9, 2014 11:08 pm