It's the middle of the night

[velvetpage]

And I have links for you. So there!
Dear Pixar, please make a movie about a girl who isn't a princess

On Rape and Men, which all the wonderful men on my friends list still need to read. I truly believe that most of you are That Guy, and like some of the commenters said, it's pretty sad that I feel the need to acknowledge guys as good just for not being raging dickheads.

Comments

[starry-midnight.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure what I think about the first one...is it a plea to Pixar because they know that Pixar makes really good movies and therefore could handle it well? They seems like a strange company to aim a letter at, since the grand majority of their female characters are very empowered. *shrug* I'll reread it in the morning.

[daednu.livejournal.com]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes YES!!!!!
I would love to see a main character to a movie like the girl in UP. I'd love to see the movie be about her instead. And have it not be that at the end she realizes she's beautiful and flounces about in dresses and gives up all else.

I would support a movie like that so hardcore. I'd take a whole gaggle of little girls to see it.

*crossing fingers*

[mockingbirdq.livejournal.com]

Can I just say I wish, wish, wish that Ellie had appeared beyond the first 10 minutes of the film UP? Because, my god, I loved little Ellie and a character like her - who doesn't change to girly and beautiful in the end- is exactly the kind of female lead I would want in a Pixar movie.

BTW, Pixar has plans for a movie with a female lead - but she is a princess :P

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

If you want good quality animated films that feature female protagonists, I humbly recommend that you look at the works of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. I wouldn't call them feminist, but they do have female protagonists, compelling stories, wonderful production values, and don't seem to me to have the same kind of odious subtext that I perceive in most modern Disney projects.

Oh, and by and large, Miyazaki's heroines aren't Princesses either; in specific cases, they are "people of note" (Nausicaa), or even called Princess (Mononoke-Hime), but they don't really have the same kind of role-loading that the traditional western "so there's this girl who's a Princess" has, as far as I can tell.

Highly, highly, highly recommended for children and adults, and Disney's Region 1 releases on DVD are high-quality (thank heavens that Miyazaki struck the deal he did with Disney: basically saying, if you want any of my films, you'll be committing to releasing "them all", preserving their original theatrical aspect ratio, and their original audio track, where "them all" is probably a larger percentage of them than Disney would really have an interest in, strictly on the financials).

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

I read them both, the second one strikes pretty close to home. I have major trust issues when it comes to men :(

[kesmun.livejournal.com]

The second link has been tweeted and linked to in my LJ as well. Unfortunately, it vastly overshadows the first link, at least IMO.