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| Author: | skeleton-countess [ Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:47 am ] |
| Blog Subject: | on princesses |
Recently, I've been seeing a lot of criticism on social media (facebook...tumblr...pretty much wherever you can find social justice warriors) about Frozen (disney's newest 'princess' movie). There are always people bitching about this stuff whenever a new disney movie comes out, but the amount of people criticizing Frozen for its racism, mainly the exclusion of minorities, is amazing. I went to see Frozen a few weeks ago with my mother and youngest brother. It was pretty good, I liked it overall, but there were still a few things that bugged me about it. Not so much any kind of racism, I don't have anything new to add to that discussion anyway, but the main thing that bugged me is that time and time again, Disney has to make every princess movie about girls falling in love and being boy-crazy and it's irritating as hell sometimes, constantly being force-fed the message that girls have to fall in love with handsome, strong princes. Admittedly, I haven't watched all the more recent princess movies, I haven't really watched any since I was in elementary school. Except for Mulan, and Mulan isn't actually a princess. Even in that movie, they had to awkwardly cram a romance into a story about a girl going to war to protect her family and her country. Back to Frozen, though. Anna started out as such an annoying character, to be honest. I actually liked and connected to Elsa, but Anna got on my nerves. She was so over-the-top I WANT TO FALL IN LOVE. I wanted to hit her when she met that guy Hans and decided, after hanging out with him for one evening, that she wanted to marry him. Yeah, some people are boy-crazy, but for those of us who aren't, it can be rather awkward to watch. Luckily, other characters thought she was crazy too, like that guy Kristoff, who she befriended on her journey to find Elsa. But then she ended up falling for him, too. And he ended up falling for her, and I was just left wondering why people don't want to let men and women just be friends. No, they have to jam some kind of stupid love story in just for drama, even when it totally makes no sense. I guess their falling in love made more sense than Anna randomly falling in love with Hans, but whatever. Finally, they just Had to being back the same old "true love's kiss" thing, even after it's been done a million times. Yeah, I know they said "an act of true love" but then they had to go rushing off finding princes to kiss Anna. But then it wasn't even a kiss that saved her in the end! Instead she was restored when she sacrificed herself for Elsa. They set it up like Kristoff was going to be her 'true love'...why bother making characters fall in love, honestly, if it isn't even plot important. They could have just stayed as friends the whole movie. It would have been a great message to send, that people don't have to f--king rush into love, but, meh. It's funny, when I was little, and my parents turned on those disney princess movies for me to watch...I feel like I would've liked to watch a movie about a woman I could actually connect to, instead of being inundated in all that true love and prince stuff. Yeah, there are some strong, independent princesses, but in the end everything is always about falling in love and happily ever after. It just made me all the more depressed when I realized I couldn't fit into this mold. I don't even remember being that interested in princesses when I was little, anyhow. I had more fun running around in the woods and digging up bones. It would have been nice for someone to tell me that I didn't have to fit a specific criteria to be happy. How cool would it be if they made a lesbian, bi, or otherwise non-straight princess? How cool would it be if they made a princess who just didn't give a damn about falling in love with a prince. |
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