Walt Before Mickey Movie Analysis

Being a success in satisfying work is a difficult struggle that takes its toll on those who choose to follow their dreams. Despite loving one’s work being a common goal, many give up and work to make ends meet. Khoa Lee’s movie, Walt Before Mickey, shows the struggle Walt Disney faces in working to sustain work that he finds rewarding. This movie tells of the challenges Disney faces from his years on a farm to the making of Mickey Mouse and how he overcomes these obstacles. Walt Before Mickey accurately shows the challenges Disney faces through the way the characters behave, how the actors look similar to the real life comparisons, and the events that happen in the movie. The characters contribute to the accuracy of the movie through their …show more content…
Thomas Ian Nicholas and Armando Gutierrez, who played Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, additionally contribute to the movie’s accuracy. In Walt Before Mickey Walt and Ub have quite distinct features like their facial structure, hairstyles, and mustaches. In real life Disney and Iwerks had very similar characteristics of those in the movie, (“History”). Choosing to maintain these features was probably important to production because of the well known look of Disney and the comments on Iwerks’ frizzy hair were important to make Disney seem like the fun person he was when entering animation. Hunter Gomez and David Henrie are more actors that contribute to the accuracy of the movie. In the movie Hugh, played by Gomez, is clean shaven with a smooth face and Rudy, played by Henrie, is a young looking man that has a small mustache. The real appearance of the actors are similar to the actors in their faces and ages, (“History”). Perhaps these looks were maintained because of the large number of pictures of these characters from the time. If the looks were not maintained the error could quickly be exposed by using the readily available images of the …show more content…
Walt Disney and Walt, Disney’s childhood friend, perform a Charlie Chaplin act but Disney’s father is not impressed, (Walt Before Mickey). Disney and Walt preformed a Charlie Chaplin act and won fourth place for their skit, (Josephson 27). The event was likely kept accurate to show the viewer Disney’s love for entertainment and his young start in the entertainment business. Early work for Disney was also kept accurate in the movie with his first animation job. Disney and Iwerks work together at Pesmen-Rubin Advertising Agency where they meet. Then both are laid off when the company could no longer afford to keep them, (Walt Before Mickey). Disney and Iwerks worked at Pesmen-Rubin and after the holiday rush both were laid off and began a small company, (“History”). The laying off of Disney and Iwerks was probably included to show Disney’s perseverance in challenging times and his resolve to fulfil his goals despite the problems that he would