[ SECRET POST #2179 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2179 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Whoa. And I thought I had high standards when it comes to historical accuracy... But honestly, I think you are not applying them to the right context.

This is a children cartoon. Look back on Disney's previous works (disclaimer: yes, I know this is a Pixar movie, however Disney is older): they were all supposed to appeal to contemporary audiences. Do you honestly think that if Disney had started with "The Frog Prince" instead of "Snow White", the movie would have been even remotedly similar to the one we got in 2009?

And the bad news is, there aren't a lot of people who'll care about complete historical accuracy or who are even likely to notice.

[(Anonymous)]

and people who care for historical accuracy aren't necessarily going to watch an animated movie to get it.

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AYRT:

You're right in that one shouldn't expect historical accuracy in children's films, and that's why I didn't like the plot of Brave that much. Why did the source of Merida and Elinor's conflict have to be a forced marriage, of all things? The clash between what we as a modern audience expected ("Merida deserves to make her own choices") and what would have been typical in a similar situation ("Merida is being selfish, and needs to put her clan first") was pretty much inevitable.

Most of the kids watching the film wouldn't have cared, but it was weird seeing that feel-good ending where Merida got everybody to believe that children should marry whom they choose. It was like watching Cinderella end with Cinderella and Prince Charming starting a constitutional democracy.

[(Anonymous)]

But the same thing happened in Aladin. Jasmine didn't want to be forced to marry someone she didn't choose on her own. In the end she got her father to change the law so she could marry someone she truly loved regardless of social standing.

Totally off topic but it would have been interesting if Disney would delve more into how Aladin was going to handle being Sultan considering he had no education whatsoever and would more than likely utterly fail at trying to run a nation. But it is Disney.

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nayrt

I always figured Jasmine would be ruling Sultana and Aladdin would be her consort