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Posts Tagged “disney”

  1. Morning Links: Disney Star Wars Something Something Hurricane

    Disney acquires Lucasfilm for $4.05 Billion. [engaget]

    Transportation Nation has up-to-the-minute updates about the progress of NYC’s ongoing metro transit repairs. [transportationnation]

    Princess Leia is now a Disney Princess. [cheezburger]

    Ethiopian kids who had never seen a written word hack their OLPC Motorola Zoom tablets to re-enable the disabled-by-default camera. [dvice]

    People are cranking out the Disney Star Wars mashup fanart like it’ll win them an award or something. [the fw]

    Some East Coast airports are open again after the hurricane. [consumerist]

    Up top: Really though, Disney bought the rights to give Jar Jar his own animated spinoff if they really wanted to. [endlessorigami]

  2. Morning Links: The Past and Future Ain’t What They Used to Could’ve Been

    Your childhood is not sacred: Nickelodeon’s new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles replaces Cowabunga with Ali G’s signature “Booyakasha!” [the stranger]

    Oh no! New research suggests that sea levels will rise irreversibly for thousands of years. [science daily]

    Ho hum: With the debates beginning tomorrow, here are 6 strategies we may see President Obama using to maintain his footing against Mitt Romney. [the week]

    Hmmm: Male celebrity faces Photoshopped onto female bodies. [22 words]

    Up top: Artist Justin Turrentine imagines what it would look like if Disney villains had won. [geekologie]

  3. “Brave” is Not Exactly a Disney Princess Movie with a Strong Female Lead

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    Disney/Pixar’s newest offering, Brave, was one of the most highly-anticipated, non-sequel, childrens’ films I can remember.  While the avalanche of pre-release buzz may merely be the current status quo of web-based marketing (witness: The Hunger Games, Prometheus, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, etc.), the anticipation hinged largely on this film being Pixar’s first release with a female protagonist AND a Disney Princess™ film that features a strong female lead.  Many film critics, along with parents like myself who would prefer our daughters not sit around crocheting doilies, practicing etiquette, and learning subservience until a suitable husband comes along, had hopes that this would finally be the movie that broke away from the narrowly envisioned, patriarchy-reinforcing, and traditionalism of past Disney princesses.

    So, does Brave‘s portrayal of Princess Merida really stand as a revolutionary, groundbreaking moment for Disney that will usher in a new era of strong female characters and empowering stories?  Not really.

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  4. Awesomely Bad Movie: “The Black Hole”

    The Black Hole

    Space movies were all the rage in the late 1970s. Everybody wanted to capitalize on the success of George Lucas’ Star Wars (see my earlier post about 1978’s Starcrash).  By “everybody,” I mean EVERYBODY and Disney certainly did not want to be left in the lurch. The problem is, the only script they had was for a film modeled after 2001: A Space Odyssey and was much more about concepts and pathos than action and adventure. Add to it a strange cast of older actors and some silly-voiced robots and you have one of the weirdest, most delightful failures in history. I’m speaking, of course, of 1979’s The Black Hole.

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