Disney's first AA princess... - Page 2

[lolar2]

Princess Pea/ Presto on Superwhy is AA. Not Disney though, I realize.

[Fiestabeth]

Originally Posted by Kristine233

Yup.

So I was wrong, another princess had a mom and dad, but they were pretty much absent.

I was a Disney fan for a long time and still love a lot of Disney films, but after I realized so many moms were missing it really soured Disney a lot in my eyes. Bambi had a mom too, but she was shot. And Dumbo had one but she was taken away.

Originally Posted by KaraBoo

me too. I agree with you. MIA parents are as bad as no parents in a Disney film.

Dumbo? Good god, that movie is very difficult for me to watch. It just kills me.

The only thing that bothers me about the missing moms is that Disney relies on that as a dramatic tool so often. They are basically just telling the same story over and over with different characters and settings. I still like them, but it does get old. That's why I love Pixar movies so much - the stories are so incredibly original!

Now I'm trying to think of who does and doesn't have a mom.

The ones who don't:

Belle
Snow White (evil stepmother)
Ariel
Pocahontas
Cinderella (evil stepmother)
Jasmine

The ones that do:

Aurora (kind of)
Mulan

So yeah, definitely overused.

And it's supposed to kill you. Movies that don't evoke an emotional response are written off as bad/boring/nothing special.

[ccohenou]

I don't think it's a Disney thing, the missing mom/parents. It's a common theme, an archetype even, the first part of the hero's journey.

[lolar2]

I was going to say, those are all pre-existing stories.

[urchin_grey]

"How 'bout a nice firm handshake?"

Okay, that make me LOL.

But yeah, the anti-mom thing isn't really Disney's fault, they didn't exactly write any of those stories.

[St. Margaret]

It IS a thing, if you read like Women Who Run With the Woolves, that the "too-nice mother" must die, so that the heroine can move on to getting in touch with her wildish woman side. But the problem is, many of these stories/movies completely leave out any female community/support which is inherent in the original stories where the mom at least symbolically dies. Anyway...

I am glad they are having an AA princess, even tho we avoid the princess stuff. I hope this movie is good and fun, with a New Orleans setting, is it? Hopefully better than Disney's last foray into similar territory, Song of the South

[LiamnEmma]

Originally Posted by crittersmum

Excellent! So between the two of us, we've got a drunken, flat-chested princess.

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Why the heck are my boobs so small?