Posted on 09/26/2014 11:33:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin
At this point, we've seen just about every iteration of Disney princesses recontextualized by creative fans. The well may have run dry, but this exhaustion speaks to how eager a global audience is for animated females who break the traditional Disney mold. In the meantime, one writer has started conjuring some new princesses who break that mold so comprehensively they've become more likely characters for violent indie thrillers than family-oriented studio fare. Which is kind of a shame.
Former DreamWorks effects animator and fledgling artist Jason Porath recently created Rejected Princesses, a website that features detailed, often hilarious stories and illustrations about some historical and mythical women who were just too darn interesting to end up with their own big budget four-quadrant vehicles. It's a counter example to the litany of animated heroines who seem to lack much agency; the ones who have some semblance of power within reach, but too often end up relying on a romantic interest or other helpful tropes, to save the day. (Porath cites Hayao Miyazaki's--especially Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind--as popular counter-examples.)
Rejected Princesses developed out of a lunchtime conversation at Porath's old workplace back in February, during which he and some colleagues tried to determine who'd make the least suitable candidate for an animated princess. After eventually soliciting some suggestions on Facebook, the gears began to grind in Porath's imagination and he was very much compelled to see what some of these characters might look like, even if he had to draw them himself.
(Excerpt) Read more at fastcocreate.com ...
LOL.
Disney is too concerned with homosex and liberal propaganda, not actually telling a story.
“Rejected Princesses”
Sounds more like a lesbian bar...
Go visit the Rejected Princess site.
It will be well worth your time. And you might learn something. I did.
I love “princesses” who are like my daughters or like my wife. This girl in FR news today fits a mold that would make a great female hero: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3207980/posts “ Girl, 11, shoots man attacking mother . . .”
There are a lot of real girls like that, and I’d guess many (most?) of us on FR raise our girls to be able to defend themselves when needed and take pride in our strong and self-reliant mothers, wives, and daughters, just as we take pride in our strong, self-reliant sons. I doubt that Disney would make that movie though - they are more into girls being rescued than being able to take care of themselves.
He left out Boudicca.
She would make a good movie!
Or Xena, the warrior princess. (Not real, i know! ) LOL
Boudicca is there at the website
Excellent!
How did I miss her? I’ll go check again. :0
His prescription is for fathers to do manly things with their boys like working on a car.
He has a pretty good success rate.
Just something to consider.
OO RAH!
They don’t make ‘em like THAT anymore!
Thanks for the link.
(BTW, I am a Harley Riding, Bass Playing, Straight Shootin’ FReeper Gal. Does that make me a Princess?:-))
How about Disney comes up with a story about a woman who’s a good mother and who raises decent, God-fearing, and law-abiding children?
Elisabeth Bathory??? Really?
Disney’s rebellious “princesses” are hardly what I would call “family fare”.
A lot of the women noted are villains.
Not Mariya Oktobyarskya, who was a real WWII heroine.
Would make a good show all by herself. Hollywood fake hero women would be shocked.
I would go with Irena Sendler.
Royalty. Without a doubt.
The website grovels in political correctness as it describes how she really was a victim of false accusations by ...you guessed it...a man.
You mean that’s not a joke?
Lolita was actually considered? The picture shows a young girl with a lollipop waiting for an older man to open the hotel room door.
I especially like “Nzinga”, and the Russian military gal.
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