lierdumoa: kaiayame: I kind of wish disney’s ~weird period~ had lasted longer. Like all of a sudden we were getting these films like lilo & stitch and Atlantis and the emperor’s new groove and treasure planet and they were so fun and DIFFERENT. Just thinking about what the pitches for those movies had to have…

koolaidofthecosmos: my question is did disney come up with the movie and then the name or did someone just think of the pun “aristocats” and then design an entire movie after it

takineko:

dopeybeauty:

if disney princesses had blogs

Jasmin omg

summerashes:

laysiaprincess:

pr1nceshawn:

Famous Disney Characters As Ethnically Correct Humans by

Pugletto.

I love this

Omg

Researchers have found a major problem with ‘The Little Mermaid’ and other Disney movies

animatedamerican:

dduane:

And this is where it gets interesting:

Disney princess research is still in its preliminary stages, but a
few weeks ago, Fought and Eisenhauer gave a preview during the nation’s
largest conference of linguists. Their goal is to use data to shed light
on how the male and female characters in these films talk differently.
They started by counting how often the characters spoke. That’s when
they hit upon a surprising irony.

In the classic three Disney
princess films, women speak as much as, or more than the men. “Snow
White” is about 50-50. “Cinderella” is 60-40. And in “Sleeping Beauty,”
women deliver a whopping 71 percent of the dialogue. Though these were
films created over 50 years ago, they give ample opportunity for women
to have their voices heard.

By contrast, all of the princess
movies from 1989-1999 — Disney’s “Renaissance” era — are startlingly
male-dominated. Men speak 68 percent of the time in “The Little
Mermaid”; 71 percent of the time in “Beauty and the Beast”; 90 percent
of the time in “Aladdin”; 76 percent of the time in “Pocahontas”; and 77
percent of the time in “Mulan” (Mulan herself was counted as a woman,
even when she was impersonating a man).

I’m on the fence about calling Aladdin one of the “princess movies” given that its princess is not its protagonist, but the rest of this is on point.

Ariel’s animal friends are both boys, she has no mother (and her sisters have about five lines total), she never develops any female acquaintances or allies on land, and she’s literally silenced for the second half of the film  – and her movie has the highest percentage for the era of female vs. male dialogue.  That … that just gets more disturbing the longer I think about it.

Researchers have found a major problem with ‘The Little Mermaid’ and other Disney movies

mymindpalaceisatardis: distortedpineapple: serendipitousramblings: This makes me inexplicably happy. I smiled uncontrollably when it started playing, omg this needs to be everywhere on tumblr. I SAW THE GIF AND WAS LIKE “IF IT’S WHAT I THINK IT IS I WILL BE PLEASED” AND THEN IT WAS

navydream:

takashi0:

king-arius:

shineonforevershineon:

Disney Characters Gender Swap

Lady Beast and Lady Hades.
gimme dat

You mean Lades.

Movie Thoughts: Mulan

hikagekitsune: So I recently rewatched Disney’s Mulan, and had an interesting thought as to what actually drives the plot. It’s not actually Mulan, or the invasion. Rather, it’s something quite smaller. Cri-kee The cricket is what basically starts the main plot and keeps it moving forward. Cri-Kee contributes majorly to Mulan’s bad showing with the…

micdotcom:

dopeybeauty:

the second disney movie no one asked for

This is amazing. And of course there are more where this came from. dopeybeauty has created a whole series LGBT-inclusive “movies” Disney will never make — including Aladdin/Hercules, Belle/Esmerelda and Rapunzel/Merida.