2 Especially if you're aWalt Disney,
3 Which will be the name of another great motion-picture genius,
4 bWho will turn all of the most popular fairy tales into cartoons,
5 Including c'Cinderella' and d'Snow White' and e'Sleeping Beauty,'
6 fWho will defeat the wicked stepmother,
7 And marry a handsome cartoon character named Prince Charming,
8 And live happily ever after,
9 gGetting rereleased every seven years,
10 Whether anyone's forgotten how it all comes out or not,
11 hWhich is the kind of genius that everyone in Hollywood would like to have,
12 iExcept that they won't ever have that particular kind of genius,
13 Because Walt Disney will get it all,
14 Except for the part that goes into the j'The Wizard of Iz.'
CHAPTER 451 This is not to say that plenty of other producers and directors won't make movies for children,
2 Because they will.
3 It's just that they won't be great artistic geniuses with lots and lots of money to spend,
4 kAnd so a lot of their movies will be pretty low-budget,
5 And they'll mostly be about alien invaders from outer space,
6 Or carnivorous mutants from some laboratory,
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7 Or lgigantic monsters from Japan,
8 mEven though it really won't matter which it is,
9 nBecause all these movies will have about the same plot,
10 oWhich has to do with saving the world from whatever it is,
11 Usually with the help of a phandsome scientist and the qonly girl on earth who doesn't think he's a complete lunatic,
12 rBecause he has already figured out what is happening,
13 And no one will believe him because nothing has squashed sTokyo or tLos Angeles yet,
14 uAlthough everybody changes their mind when they actually catch sight of it,
15 Which means it's time to call in the vmilitary,
16 Who show up with a bunch of tanks and planes and shoot off weverything they've got,
17 xWithout having any effect,
18 yBecause all earthly weapons are powerless against the invader,
19 zWhich means that unless the good scientist can figure out what to do, everybody on earth will be history in about twenty-four hours.
20 aaAnd so the good scientist and his girlfriend stay up all night thinking,
21 bbAnd figure out that none of this would ever have happened in the first place if it weren't for nuclear weapons,
22 ccBecause the monster was created by fallout from nuclear tests,
23 Or the aliens from outer space spotted the nuclear tests and are angry about the ddchildish violence of the human race,
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