The Donkey Eeyore

Even if you are surrounded by people who love you every day, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, you and Donkey Eeyore will be dissatisfied and mutter. The donkey Yori is the most dissatisfied and pessimistic animal in the Winnie the Pooh book. His tail is never fastened well enough, and his house regularly falls. Eeyore sees many more reasons to be sad and sarcastic than to smile and enjoy life.

We doubt that the imagination of A.A. Milne had a desire to give birth to such a desperate donkey. Nor did the illustrator Ernst Shepard depict him exactly like that, millimeters from the brink of suicide.

If we have to point out the culprit for the modern gray image of Eeyore, he is just the cunning Walt Disney.

When Disney offered Milne the rights to Winnie the Pooh in 1937, the producer's goal was one. Namely - to make the good-natured, fat and eternally hungry bear a world-famous movie star. Strange or not, in just a few years Winnie became so popular that if he could, today he would be signing autographs all day, drinking vodka with honey and lying on an indecently comfortable sofa in a five-room deluxe apartment in Hollywood.

The problem is, Disney hasn't stopped there. The animation wizard was generous enough to allow Piglet to walk the red carpet of fame. Making him the main character in a film dedicated to him - "Piglet's Big Movie" from 2003. After that, almost all the characters from the Merry Forest, logically, also warmed themselves, albeit for a while, in the spotlight, happy to be able to show their indisputable qualities.

Meanwhile, Eeyore was slowly and surely sinking into the twilight zone, without any allusion to salvation. Until today, when in "Winnie the Pooh 2011" we see him with a totally lost tail and absolutely crushed self-confidence. Not that this doesn't happen to him in Milne's original story. It's just that this time Disney seems to have deliberately gone too far with the gray paint without thinking about the tragic result.

Thus, deprived of almost any emotion, to this day Eeyore does not even want to mourn the loss of his naughty tail. What's more, he's not at all impressed by his friends' attempts to experiment with his buttocks. And in general - with him. Because the little, unfortunate donkey, anyway, has nothing more to lose, right?

We don't know about you, but we prefer to see him a little more smiling.