"Talking it over with my husband, he pointed out that most Disney heroes are heroines, so maybe Pixar was just overcompensating... heh"
You know, I thought the very same thing instinctively, but when I sat down to count them, it's not true. Even supposing you take Tarzan as the cut off point of classic Disney animation there're more blokes (the ones after Tarzan mostly have male protaganists too - Emperor's New Groove /Atlantis/Treasure Planet/Brother Bear -).
Looking at the big hits that have a single protaganist, the breakdown goes like this:
Female = 8 Snow White Cinderella Alice in Wonderland Sleeping Beauty The Little Mermaid Beauty and the Beast Pocahantas Mulan
Male = 12 Pinocchio Dumbo Bambi Peter Pan The Sword and the Stone The Jungle Book Robin Hood Aladdin Lion King Hunchback of Notre Dame Hercules Tarzan
Re: 129,
You know, I thought the very same thing instinctively, but when I sat down to count them, it's not true. Even supposing you take Tarzan as the cut off point of classic Disney animation there're more blokes (the ones after Tarzan mostly have male protaganists too - Emperor's New Groove /Atlantis/Treasure Planet/Brother Bear -).
Looking at the big hits that have a single protaganist, the breakdown goes like this:
Female = 8
Snow White
Cinderella
Alice in Wonderland
Sleeping Beauty
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Pocahantas
Mulan
Male = 12
Pinocchio
Dumbo
Bambi
Peter Pan
The Sword and the Stone
The Jungle Book
Robin Hood
Aladdin
Lion King
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hercules
Tarzan