[ SECRET POST #4001 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4001 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting how you picked Moana for the image since I found her really forgettable, just your standard perky adventurous cutie with no real personality flaws. Works as a role model for kids I guess, nothing more.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked how her tensions with her dad worked out. (Familiar recipe, but I liked the way it was cooked.)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, no kidding. What was unique about her? She was poor man's Mulan. Wanted more adventure than her role in society dictated. Kinda butted heads with her dad about it. Had a mystical grandma. Leaves family, is a little spunky, saves world.

She didn't have any character flaws, even. The movie briefly flirted with the idea that she was too headstrong, but without anything to show for it really.

[soldatsasha]

Your description also fits Pocahontas (and Ariel, minus the "mystical grandma" part).

I haven't seen Moana so maybe she really is super different and interesting. But Disney heroines have always been fairly formulaic, so I doubt it. And I mean it's fine that they all fit a formula, because it's a formula that works really well for main characters. Out of all of the Disney movies I've seen, which is most of them at this point, Snow White is the only one who really breaks the mold in a significant way. So I don't want to sound too negative about Moana, I'm sure it's a great movie.

But I think just judging by the newer movies I have seen, I don't know how you could defend their characters being less flat than classic movies. Nowadays they just spend more screentime on musical numbers to sing about how spunky and adventurous they are. And Beauty and the Beast is the prime example of why having a couple songs about your adventurous spirit really isn't enough.

But the end result is really the same. Whether a character is questing for love or freedom or adventure or respect, one goal isn't automatically better or more interesting than another. A character isn't flat just because she dreams of true love like the old princesses, or round because she wants to sail the seven seas.

[(Anonymous)]

Snow White was the first, so there wasn't really a mold for Disney heroines at that point.