It’s All About the Money

While critics argue back and forth about symbols and meanings of Disney films, and classes such as this one are devoted to analyzing them, we sometimes forget to take a step back and look at the bigger picture.  In this particular case, the bigger picture is that Disney has one goal: to make money.  I have already discussed this in previous posts, but I found another interesting article titled “3 Reasons Why The Walt Disney Company Is Brilliant,” which highlights how Disney shareholders have received a 221% return on their investment in only the past five years.  Despite the controversies brought up with many of their films, Disney executives can still go home at the end of the day knowing that their company is and will continue to make billions of dollars each year.

The link to the article is below:

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/03/28/3-reasons-why-the-walt-disney-company-is-brilliant.aspx