![]() A nurse warns him that he may contract the cat flu. He also becomes obsessed with a pair of sexy teen-age French girls, and he trails them around the park inappropriately. The father imagines that his son and a creepy man in a wheelchair want to kill him. Aided by the use of black-and-white film, the familiar Magic Kingdom is transformed into something abjectly terrifying, as friendly icons morph into monstrous forms. Jim begins to act strangely, and his perception of their day at the park becomes twisted and scary. As commentary on the social ideals of Disney World, it seems to clearly fall within a well-recognized category of fair use, and therefore probably will not be stopped by a court using copyright or trademark laws.īefore I address the questions of law, here’s the plot of the film, which is, in fact, murkier: A typical American family is on vacation at Disney World, when the father, Jim, finds out that he has been fired. ![]() Though the filmmakers may have committed trespass when they broke Disney World’s rules and if it violated the terms of entry on their tickets, the film itself is a different matter. At the Sundance Film Festival, where the film premièred this week, Moore was onstage answering questions when someone in the audience asked, roughly, “Why did you put so much work into a film that violates so many laws?”īut the underlying assumption of that question-that Disney has a good trademark or copyright case-is wrong. New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other news organizations have speculated that “Escape from Tomorrow” must violate Disney’s rights and that its lawyers will seek to have the film enjoined.
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