This is a response to
Doreen’s recent post “Christianity in the Princess and the Frog”:
Doreen’s post:
Disney fairy tales
had always been my favorite when I was a little girl, all the things such as
love, prince, happiness, ultimate victory of goodness, and fairy godmothers. They
once made me believe that all girls will eventually have a dream coming true
and have a forever-lasting happy life. Disney is a kind of selling a series of
dreams to every little girl all around the world, no matter where you are, no
matter what language you speak.
In the lecture last
week, Professor Harris talked about teenager girls being targeted in the
fashion market, merchandise with sexy elements being designed for them. In a
lot of posters and photographs, young girls with makeup as well as dressing-up
like sexy adults are showing as models to attract their peer groups. It makes
me think about the Disney fairy tales as similar to it, female protagonists are
portrayed as living in an unfortunate life, struggle with it and eventually
defeat it. Females have always been set as the weak group, the soft target and
the sympathetic figures.
As the society
develops, the Disney fairy tales also innovates as Doreen said, “the
protagonist is set as a black girl which break the stereotype of princess in
Disney films”. As I see, I cannot really tell if this innovation is good or
not, we can see that Disney is trying hard to do something new, and to do
something updated which could fit the social topic in nowadays, but it also
points out the issues directly such as the gender issues, the social status of
girls in society, the racial issues, etc. Portraying this black princess has
nothing to do with the theme or the storyline, but instead, bringing out those
social issues without responding to any of them. And also as Doreen mentioned,
it doesn’t pass the Bechdel Test！
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