Blood In DreamWorks Movies - Disney Vs DreamWorks

disney: noooooo! his blood needs to be already dry within 0.05 seconds!!!! dreamworks: okay so a chunk of his ear gets blown off

I literally never felt bothered by blood in the movies as child, it felt completely natural to me. I don't get why Disney tries to "protect kids" so much, blood adds realism to those movies!

Dreamworks was formed by ex-Disney employees literally just to compete with them, by doing things their own way. That creative freedom is very much on purpose. Treating your audience like fellow intelligent human beings (even if they are young) rather than like endless cash cows that must be protected at all costs is pretty cool too. Never understood the obsession with Disney that some folks have. I am probably more of a Dreamworks fan tbh.

I want to point out that I really like that dreamworks keeps the blood minimal for the most part. When you use blood too often, your audience can become desensitized to it. It loses any sort of meaning in the story because it's just the status quo. By holding back on using blood, they are able to make sure that it keeps it's visual and narrative impact when it does get shown. Blood isn't just set dressing, it has a purpose.

My respects to dreamworks

Kids don't think blood is unnatural, if anything, I thought characters getting stabbed and the knife coming out clean was unnatural. I would even ask my parents why the knives were clean because the knife not being bloody felt unrealistic and I was a little nitpicker

Blood is like the most inoffensive type of 'gore' there is. Like it's just a fluid, that kids see all the time anyways, like you know how often you get injured as a kid? It's nutty.

While i understand Disney may want to keep it tame, it's a bit too tame. Kids will only be more frightened of blood if they don't get the point that cuts and blood happen. It doesn't have to be graphic, but it also doesn't have to be treated like "ow I got a paper cut, I need immediate medical attention!"

Kinda depends on the mood you wanna set for the scene. For El Dorado and Puss in Boots the blood flowing gives that feeling of unease, while the Shrek scene’s supposed to be funny. Seeing blood on the arrow would feel a bit out of place.

1:25 Girl just pulled out a clean dagger after stabbing him😂

The weird thing about the Encanto example is that Disney have clearly gone out of their way to make that fresh cut look like it's been healing for days.

It's interesting that even small amounts of blood are considered inappropriate for children. Children get little cuts and scrapes all the time. I remember in my primary school, there were often trails of blood drops leading up to the office from kids getting nose bleeds. I can understand not showing anything actually gory, but small amounts of blood should be fine.

Prince of Egypt is probably the bloodiest PG rated animated film I’ve seen, and it’s from that one scene alone! (Though technically the blood wasn’t coming from/out of anyone)

The blood that runs down Puss' forehead after Death cuts him is one of those "Oh snap" moments, it just adds that brevity to the scene where it sets up the stakes right away. The fearless hero has met someone who could not only cut him, but kill him. It's such a good scene from such an incredible movie.

I think the lack of blood on the arrow helps the gag work better, that way the audience never notices the blood, it's a very small amount of blood that only Donkey notices and then immediately faints at. As a result, the shock of the realization that there's blood on the arrow comes with Donkey's delivery of the line, not with the sight of the arrow. If there was blood on the arrow, it'd have to be a barely perceptible dark stain on the arrowhead. Maybe they figured there was no point in adding the blood, or maybe they were worried that it'd look like poop or something.

With how Disney maintains its brand of family friendliness, I do believe Dreamworks, from time to time, is not afraid to take risks and open up to new ideas. Sure, they care about finding their next big franchise similar to Shrek or Kung Fu Panda, but it's worth noting how they give writers, directors, and even animators creative liberties to their films. Great video.

Disney sucks when it comes to not putting blood in their movies honestly I really like how DreamWorks isn't afraid to show dark scenes and blood like how Disney does. All Disney does is being a sensitive company that is scared to show blood because they think kids will be terrified or confused.

It's been mentioned once in the comments, but I'd like to elaborate. There's blood in the animated version of Mulan. The scene I'm referring to shows Mulan being slashed in the side. No it doesn't show that wound trickling, but later it shows Mulan touching the wound and her hand comes back covered in blood. Not enough to where it's dripping, of course. That would be unnecessary no matter what. But there's enough on her palm, at least according to memory, to where she could have made a handprint of she wanted. Her clothes are stained pretty good too. So there's another note worthy blood scene from a Disney film.

I've met so many animators and writers from Dreamworks through internships and all of them switched from Disney for the freedom to create. Disney while has good animation never allows artists to go further and push the limits anymore. That's why I love Dreamworks and always have. Especially because of The Prince of Egypt. That movie is literally a work of art in my mind that makes me cry everytime I watch it.

This is foreshadowing to Mr Donald 😂 2:05