![]() ![]() In 2010’s Alice in Wonderland, Burton turned the Lewis Carroll books and Disney classic into a grand-scale fantasy war film. Dumbo utilized the familiar Disney story as an allegorical through-line for its own narrative of an outcasted family of circus performers, while also depicting the original’s iconic scenes in the same breath. 2019’s Dumbo, directed by Tim Burton, follows the original classic’s basic premise and setting of an outcasted baby elephant who learns to fly in the circus, but also incorporates an original story of a family-owned circus bought out by an eccentric entertainment mogul who threatens to break the family apart. The reinvention may bear aesthetic and thematic similarities to the original, but it presents them in a new narrative and direction that differentiates itself from the animated classic and grants it a new identity. The reinvention takes elements of the animated predecessor’s story and characters and builds a practically new film around them. Generally, Disney remakes can be classified into two categories: the reinvention and the reiteration. ![]()
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