The Disney Heartbreak Chart - mapping the exact minute all 33 Disney films break your heart.
I went through 87 years of Disney animation and mapped the exact minute each film hits you with that scene. You know the one.
Some things I noticed while making this:
\- 57% through is the median heartbreak point. Pixar waits until the end to get you. Disney? Disney will ruin your afternoon halfway through the movie.
\- 16 out of 33 films kill a parent. Sixteen. I started tracking this as a fun project and ended up building a database of dead cartoon parents. :/
\- Three films don't even let you settle in. Encanto, Tarzan, and Frozen all hit within the first 5 minutes.
\- Bambi is still the one. Minute 40. "We made it, Mother!" He turns around. She didn't make it. I knew it was coming and it still got me while I was logging the timestamp.
\- Disney basically has six ways to ruin you - death, separation, sacrifice, goodbye, betrayal, and just straight up cruelty - and they've been cycling through them since 1937.
What's the Disney moment that wrecked you? I have a feeling Lion King is going to dominate this thread. #video #movies