[Quiet Man Cometh]

Beauty and the Beast was among the first animated films I think to be nominated for Best Picture (Bambi might have been another but I'm not sure). I love that movie, and the music in particular.

I imagine Greek myths get tweaked all the time, expecially since there isn't any one official version, but I think Disney went beyond that right into butchery. Core traits of the gods were changed, certain myths were crossed (I'm pretty sure some of the monsters Hercules killed were actually killed by other heroes), the reason for the labours was changed, (not sure if they were really labours at all, been a while since I've seen the film. Only watched it once).

If it wasn't "Hercules" I don't think I would have cared. It worked as a Greek themed mythical story, more or less. I don't think it would have caused many problems if they gave their hero a different, unknown name rather than Hercules.

There was a recent documentary on the history of Walt and the Disney company that was really interesting, and covered much of what happened while Walt was there. They did a lot of phenomenal stuff, but there are always going to be gripes about some things. Disney does make stuff for kids and they aren't the only people that censor material from certain stories to make them presentable for a younger audience, but I do think there are some things which just shouldn't be editted in that way. It's not just Disney that does that but being really big and really easy to spot I imagine they take the most hits over it.