It's also plausible that fairy tales deliberately featured protagonists whose parents were dead, absent or inattentive in order to teach their listeners a moral lesson that helps guide them into adulthood. "In the 19th century in Europe, a peasant woman might bear around seven children, and bury as many as she raised, if she made it through all of those labors alive herself." "Stepmothers were quite common, and warfare over the inheritance was a serious matter," she tells us. Katie Orenstein, author of Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, agrees. Therefore, there were many single parents, although men tended to marry quickly after their wives died as in Snow White and Cinderella." "Historically speaking, people did not live very long from the medieval period through the early 20th century", Jack Zipes, author of Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales, Children, and the Culture Industry tells Hopes&Fears. "Was Geppetto a widower or a lifelong bachelor? I don't think either Collodi or Disney gives us a clue." These stories, inherited from traditional fairy tales and recycled over thousands of years, reflected the customs, norms and values of their orators. "Part of Disney's reliance on single parents is simply owing to the presence of single parents in the source material, as with Pinocchio," animation historian Michael Barrier tells Hopes&Fears. It was in this house, one year later, that Flora lost her life.īefore Flora Disney's death in 1938, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs had been completed and released, and Bambi and Pinocchio were already in production. Hot off the heels of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ success in 1937, Walt and his brother Roy had presented their parents Flora and Elias with their own home in North Hollywood, near the Disney studios in Burbank, California. According to Hahn, Disney deliberately wrote out, killed off, or replaced maternal figures as a consequence of the guilt he carried about his own mother's death. But, in a 2014 interview, even Lion King producer Don Hahn attributed its use to Walt Disney's own childhood trauma. Is there a darker undertone to these tales-to the bastion of unadulterated childhood innocence promulgated by the Disney brand? We spoke with animation historians, fairy tale experts, activists and mythographers to explore the trope.ĭisney's "motherless" plotline-recurrently used over the past 80 years-has been refuted by many experts as coincidental. Even Disney's most high-profile acquisition ever, the Star Wars franchise, follows the pattern: a dead mom and absentee dad, with the Skywalker children being raised by relatives. If maternal figures aren't absent from the start of the story, many are killed, captured, or replaced by a "wicked stepmother" along the way.
The mothers of Belle ( Beauty and the Beast), Jasmine ( Aladdin) and Pocahontas from the eponymous film are all either absent or deceased.ĭelve further into the Walt Disney Studios' extensive archive of feature-length animated classics and similar trends emerge. Peter Pan is forever a motherless lost-boy. Where are the protagonists' biological mothers? Little wooden puppet Pinocchio is carved and cared for by his "father" Geppetto. But the good point is the cinematography is good and the main female character is also hot.Many Disney movies share a curious detail.
There are also the same sentences or conversations are repeated over and over again by almost every character in this movie marked that this movie is not well written.
The plot is also predictable and really annoying, we can found many characters cut off the conversation of other characters which is I found really annoying and unforgivable because it is wasting the time and stretching the duration while the conflict that could be solved immediately always delayed because of this.
The main character with crazy friends is already stale and boring formula nowadays, moreover, the main character is disgusting, the actor already played this kind of template character in all of his movies. The hype from the fans already down and some of them already realized how mediocre this movie actually is. I think because of the number of viewers of the previous movie which is mostly the fans of the director who also an influencer/Youtuber that made the previous movie getting a sequel, but now it seems doesn't work anymore. Back in the days, I can't see why the first movie was getting a sequel in the first place, the movie itself already boring, not that bad but just so so.
Repeated formula with the previous movie, same template, lame and outdated joke, bad acting, cheesy conversation, and many more. First, let me give a quote straight from this movie: "Is it funny? Your sense of humor is so dry!" That sums up all of what is happened in this movie.