[ SECRET POST #2237 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2237 ⌋

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Comments

[sugar_spun]

Well, he's basically older Aladdin, and Aladdin is probably the first Disney character made to look appealing to women. Certainly he has a better personality than some of the newer ones.

[(Anonymous)]

Where do you get the idea that Aladdin is the first Disney character made to look appealing to women? That's a very strange idea I've never seen before.

[sugar_spun]

Here. Naveen and Flynn are also two who I remember being explicitly designed to look appealing.

[(Anonymous)]

That was a really cool article.

[(Anonymous)]

What about Prince Philip and Eric? That article doesn't say that Aladdin was the first male character designed to appeal to women. It's just Glen Keane stating his own opinion on the previous Disney princes.

[sugar_spun]

Well, I said he was 'probably'--it was my own conclusion drawn from the fact everything I know about these character's designs. Aladdin was calculated to appeal, but Eric was just sort of drawn to be a handsome prince, like the others. I mean, anyone is free to disagree with me. But my personal opinion is that Aladdin was designed to appeal to women and girls and set hearts aflutter in a way totally distinct from Eric or Phillip. More like Ariel and Jasmine.

Belle, for instance, is beautiful, but I don't think she was supposed to be eye candy for little boys like Jasmine or Ariel were. Eric is good-looking, but I don't think he was eye candy like Aladdin was supposed to be.

[supermanda]

What about Eric? TLM is '80s.

[sugar_spun]

To my knowledge, he was not designed to be hot the way Ariel and Jasmine were designed to be hot. He was designed to be attractive in the way Prince Phillip or Charming were.

Disney generally designs all of their main characters to be good-looking, but the difference here, I think, is that Aladdin wasn't just supposed to be handsome, but rather calculated to appeal to women in a particular way. Similarly, Flynn was designed based around what the female coworkers felt was most attractive in a guy.

I could easily be wrong, but I've never heard anything about Eric's design being anything besides 'handsome nice guy prince'.

[(Anonymous)]

i don't know, i wouldn't put eric in the same category as phillip or charming. he's no aladdin (although he easily could have been if it had been his movie, and not ariel's), but he definitely has character, and attractiveness beyond a pleasing face. he is kind of in between what phillip and charming, and aladdin, are.

[sugar_spun]

I would. His face might have more definition, but you might say Ariel's has more definition than Cinderella's, as well. It's simply a result of the animation style and the animators actually knowing how to animate a dude (something they had huge problems with in the past).

As it stands, none of my knowledge of Eric or his design has led me to believe he was designed to look appealing to women, calculated for attractiveness, in the sense that Aladdin or Flynn where, and not in the same way Prince Charming or Phillip were, which was essentially what the animator's idea of a handsome prince for little girls would be.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm entirely with OP and never found Aladdin attractive...but then older guys are A Thing for me, so: unsurprising.