There was an age, once upon a time, when Disney was classic. It ended pretty much with the 21st century. There is a possibility of it coming back however, with the advent of "The Princess and the Frog". For those not familiar with this new 2D Disney movie check it up on Wikipedia or just Google it.
It harbors Disney's first black princess. Pretty awesome if you ask me.
Lots of problems:
However, much to the shame of this society, it's getting a huge amount of bad rep. Too many people are playing the "race" card and are attacking it at all points. Seriously people, grow up, stop acting like everything is against you, and just enjoy a good plot that
will have a wonderful heroine as usual. Every classic Disney movie I have watched has done a fine job in making sure all characters are lovable (or understandably disliked) and have not done anything intentionally to harm the image of their character background. However, a lot of people are trying to condemn Disney's efforts, and would rather they keep anything and everything controversial out of the movie. However, the movie will no longer make sense for its time period--United States 1920's. The fact is there were controversial things happening back in the 20's. If you ignore that, and sweep those "bad things" under a rug then this country is just lying to itself. If they put something controversial in the movie deal with it, and most likely it will be dealt with by the end of the movie anyway. Some people actually objected to the fact that the heroine was black, but the prince will be white. Why the objections? If there are controversial race issues occuring what better way to overcome this than by having an interracial love story? Also, they've decided to change the heroine's occupation and name to better respect her as a black woman. Her occupation was a chambermaid, which was just a position many women had back then. And there was nothing wrong with the name "Maddy" before, but now they've renamed her to "Tiana" which is also nice...but I see no reason for the change. However, people had their reasons, which I didn't agree with--and no, not because I'm a white person. *huge sigh* It's all in your head. Generally: not many Chinese-Americans lashed out at Disney for making Mulan seem to sometimes be a scatterbrained woman. You don't see white people causing a raucous at the thought of Aurora or Snow White being rescued by men, and not being allowed to help themselves like self-righteous women should. Well...I'm not crazy about the damsel in distress thing, but then I don't have to name Snow White as one of my favorite movies either. And I don't recall anyone being upset about the Arabic Aladdin being a street-rat beggar, which is an occupation far worse than chambermaid. The point is those movies were labeled as being great and wonderful. And overall they won the hearts of everyone (except the minority who still choice to over-analyze good movies). I don't care what the character's name is, or what their position is: the only thing that really ever matters is their personality. And as far as I know, names and occupations are superficial. It's what you do and how you act that let people know who you are.
Is the US still living in the 20's? Well, with the way some people insist races are segregated it appears that way. I have no problem living with people of every color and making friends in every walk of life. But it seems there are a lot of people who can't let the past die and start again. Those people hold us back and cause us all to walk on egg shells. Generally speaking, nothing will ever be natural if we are constantly watching everything we do and say so we don't possibly upset the fragile web we've gotten ourselves into. I'd rather just be able to talk to anyone about anything and not have to rephrase what I say depending on who they are. That's ridiculous. And now the Disney movie is paying the price.
So that's my rant...for now =).
2009 Disney's The Princess And The Frog, Opinions, comments, fears?
Sep 12 2008, 4:51 PM
