Because of Disney movies’ entertainment and educational value, they appeal to children and adults of all ages. However, in contrast to the positive lessons the movies teach, the movies sometimes contain unintended messages that are not appropriate for children. Disney’s Aladdin conveys an unintended message about using manipulation, duplicity, and coercion to acquire
Walt Disney once said “I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality;” Rex and Mary Rose Walls lived by this quote.
In Peggy Orenstein’s book, she effectively argues that a princess-like society immersed in America's culture is damaging to young girls through her interviews, evidence, personal experience, and humorous tone. Starting towards the beginning of her book, Orenstein exposes to the audience that she too liked Disney. She says that "God knows I was a Disney kid. I still have my bona fide mouse ears" (Orenstein 13). By doing this, Orenstein conveys her knowledge of the two sides of her argument: Disney is damaging to young kids or vice versa.
The Goonies were in need for a miracle to save their homes before their last weekend was over, and Mikey built up enough poise to direct the others, telling them that they couldn’t give up; even though their adventure set them on the brink of death. This motif also reaches out to a larger statement about Western cultural ideals and values. A great ideal taken away from this film is the concept that everyone needs some sort of adventure in their childhood. Not every child may have experienced a journey as wicked as The Goonies’, but even the littlest of things, such as playing tag with friends or playing pretend, gives children the enjoyable memories they won’t forget as they grow older. In relation to the need for adventure, Western values also consist of enjoying the journey, not necessarily the goal itself.
Famous entrepreneur and animator, Walt Disney, once said and lived by the following: “I don’t believe in playing down to children. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.” Similarly, Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, expresses how individuals face the world and such experiences on their own, gaining wisdom, despite their age and an apathetic support system. Facing multiple adverse conditions, Rex and Rose Walls kept their family from amassing happiness, substantial wealth-- wasted in alcoholism, and precious time--in attempts to achieve personal goals that put their children’s successes aside. Yet however, the Walls parents never “treated
REXBURG-- The Madison Avenue Players is proudly presenting Mary Poppins on Saturday and Monday at Madison High School. Directed by Madison High drama teacher, Robert Hibbard, the show runs from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. with a 20 minute intermission. Buy tickets soon or risk not getting a seat. Even before opening night, Mary Poppins had sold 1700 tickets using a new online ticketing system.
Throughout the book The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis, Edmund of the Pevensie children went through a lot of characteristic changes. His experiences in Narnia teach him to love, respect, and be kind to his family, no matter how annoying he might find them at times. In the beginning of the story, Edmund Pevensie despised his family. At any chance he could find, he would do anything he could do to make himself feel more important than them, or to hurt their feelings.
Back in the second grade, my teacher; Mrs.McFarland had read a book to us called, The Lion,The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I learned how to read when I was three years old, but in the second grade I was unable to read books past my reading level so when Mrs.McFarland got to the part where Lucy went through the Wardrobe to me it had to be the coolest thing in the world and that was coming from a kid who had just gotten back from Disney World. I read the topic for this personal narrative and almost immediately asked my sister who is starting college at Howard because honestly for me, the question for me was very complex. How Do Books Work? The answer that she gave me was confusing, to say the least, not because it was a long and complicated, but
I better stop watching this!” Children don’t understand that. They watch movies to enjoy them, to pass time, to have fun. Her statement about this affecting children in any way is laughable. This is easily the worst review of this movie I have read.
For hundreds of years, stories have been passed on from one person to another through the oral tradition and the visual arts. In our society today, film is the dominant form of storytelling. Films shape and inform our opinions of the world. Many people’s only source of information is from films. This can be harmful when the information is false or misguided.
Joseph Calise October 26th, 2015 Dr. Hesson Language in Society Aladdin Essay 2 When talking about linguistics in the movie Aladdin, different dialects between characters correspond directly to stereotypes from a socioeconomic and racial lens. The sentence structures from both Aladdin and Jafar in this clip expose many properties of language including morphology, syntax, as well as the patterns of phonetics. Based on dialect and linguistics throughout the clip as well as the entire movie, it is evident that Aladdin is seen as the more trustworthy person when compared to Jafar. Aladdin, being from the Middle East would be expected to have some kind of an Arabic accent.
The Lion King is an illustrious 1994 Disney movie. The movie begins with the celebration of Simba’s birth. Simba is the son of King Mufasa and Queen Sarabi. Scar, Simba’s evil and jealous uncle, kills Mufasa by letting Mufasa fall off of a cliff during a stampede. Simba runs away, thinking it was his fault for his father’s death.
I believe that all good movies have a climax with suspense that makes you want to keep watching to find out what happens next. In my favorite movie, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the climax is trying to find out what’s going to happen to the little boy who was abducted by the queen. What makes this movie unique is that one by one all of these kids follow in the same path while the others think that they are imagining something or dreaming it. In the beginning, four kids are sent to live in a huge mansion with an older man and one rainy day they decide that they want to look around inside and the youngest goes into a room alone and finds a wardrobe, goes inside and finds a winter wonderland.
Although some might think the epic poem, Beowulf and the animated movie, Aladdin may have nothing in common, these two works actually have many relatable aspects. One of these common characteristics is the type of the plot that both of these works contain, the Hero’s Quest. However, with these similarities come many differences in these respectable works of literature. These similarities and differences include the Hero’s Quest, the type of villain, and the hero portrayed in each plot. Which one fits the Hero’s Quest better?
The lyrics of the song Arabian Nights are just one of the many examples in which Disney movies stereotype minority groups, even up to the level that can be identified as racism. Yet, thinking about Disney certainly does not often lead to discussions about racism. However, watching these movies now as an adult and with the ability to critically question the depiction of marginalised groups, these illustrations raise the question as to if and how beloved classic Disney features help fostering stereotypes and racism. Therefore, the following academic work aims at debating this issue. b. Problem
Amanda Putnam’s essay, “Mean Ladies: Transgendered Villains in Disney Films”, is a compelling piece on gender portrayal and views in Disney films. Putnam opened the essay with a personal anecdote about her daughter. Her daughter wanted a Disney movie without a “mean lady”, as in most Disney films the villains are scary, evil women. The real life evidence strengthened her claim that children are noticing the characterization of female villains in Disney films. The antidote was brought fill circle when she referred back to her daughter in the final paragraphs of her essay.