What disney movies actually promote...

Really now, is Disney all that Great?

Everyone loves Disney, but what are they really watching? what do they think their kids are adapting from Disney? Do they think that their children are getting great concepts like how to sing merry songs and preschool fun rhymes because most disney movies are based on cartoons?

Walt Disney has produced an estimate of 45 animated movies. Some of the mos popular ones are: Pinocchio (1940), Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (1953), Sleeping Beauty (1959), The Jungle Book (1967), The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994), Tarzan (1999), and Lilo and Stitch (2002); Many of all these movies have won great awards like for example Academy Awards(The Oscar Award), and the Annie Award, as Best Animated Film making, Best songs, lyrics etc... But enough, despite all these great prestigious awards that these Disney movies have won, they all portray to stereotypical gender roles and racial bias. Just like men are have to have the perfect masculine figure with the husky looks and the handsome faces and the women all have to have a slender fragile figure and a youthful beautiful face; in general, they only want people with unsurpassable beauty and a perfect body figure for starring on their show.

I will be giving you an example of an animated Disney movie that will show you about how that specific Disney movie effects children and what are the things and details about that certain movies that portrays children to adapt specific things...

The Disney movie that I'm going to be focusing on is about Hua Mulan; first, I'm going to summarize the so called innocent story, then I will show the character analysis that will exactly shows reasons and ways, tactics that the movie crew used to discrimate charcters and basically historically discriminate the movie...

Hua Mulan: This is an old chinese story about a women who participated in war with men and country in place of here father because he was sick; she had a little brother but he couldn't participate in war because he was too small in age. Anyways, she was known as a great chinese warrior and till this day, they remember her as a great leader and a vunerable respectable leader.

Character Analysis:

The Disney animated movie that was made on her behalf wasn't respectable and the description of the characters of the chinese movies facial expressions and bodily features were similar to each other symbolizing chinese peoples' features that represents recognision of a chinese person and they all had chinky sort of eyes that looked somewhat unattractive; their eyes are usually used for glaring and scaring people that makes people think that chinese eyes are indeed not pretty and unevitable.

The main character herself is more masculine rather fragile like a normal chinese women, even though this movie isn't about strength levels and body structures; it just seems that way with the Disney movie represented in weird motive for the main character just by appearance. She isn't viewed as a beautiful Asian women but enough though in the animated movie she gives off the vibe of masculine roughness.

If we go further on describing bodily portrayal, we can see that that the characters are drawn with short limbs and legs; people might say that ''that's just the way Asian bodies are'' or ''that's just the accurate picture of an Asian body'', when it actually takes a standpoint to a white person's standard.

Bibliography:

Nelson Alyssa, Shim Karim, Gee Priscilla, Phelan Rachael, and Nunez Veronica. "Disney and Racism." [Online] Available

http://disneyandmovies.pbworks.com/ , Web, Sunday, September, 26, 2010

Nelson, Alyssa. "Mulan." [Online] Available

http://disneyandmovies.pb.works.com/5-Mulan , Web, Sunday, September, 26, 2010