A Metafilter post with comments like: "I've never seen Hercules. Does Megara look that drunk and horny in the movie?"
And: "See these Disney characters? See how they are really gorgeous and skinny but they're animated? Imagine what they'd look like if they were gorgeous and skinny and looked like very highly photoshopped people instead of cartoons!"
October 23, 2011
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Visual fanfic fare?
The artistic(?) product of ogling Disney characters. It's a little creepy.
What does a mermaid need a bra for?
>>What does a mermaid need a bra for?
Modesty.
These aren't that bad, mostly. I knew a woman who looked a lot like Jasmine. The Little Mermaid was based on Alyssa Milano.
The last time I saw a collection like this, the images weren't at all realistic, they were just differently illustrated in a hyper-sexualized way.
Side note: Megara does look a little drunk and horny in Hercules. It's her job to seduce him, at Hades' request.
This drawing makes her look a little closing-time trashy, though.
And Belle looks a little ... constipated?
I guess I should be disturbed but on the new, modified, Internet scale of creepy, this is pretty tame.
Also, I just saw The Smurfs. Gargamel is basically the god of Pedophiles, isn't he?
What does a mermaid need a bra for?
Okay, dumb joke that works better verbally than in writing, but here goes: Why do mermaids wear seashells? Because B shells are too small and D shells are too big.
I know, I know. Laaaaaame.
Better than gorgeous and skinny is gorgeous and buxom, curvy, voluptuous, sumptuous...
Not to mention full-flavored.
rhhardin said...
What does a mermaid need a bra for?
Backflips.
blake said...
What does a mermaid need a bra for?
Modesty.
No, the MPAA ratings guy.
PS I took one of The Blonde's nephews to see "Hercules" because the rest of the family was in Canada. Megara didn't look that good.
"Meg" is one of the coolest Disney fems in a long while. "Hercules", in my humble opinion is a far better film than "Lion King". At least Hercules was ripped off from the Greeks, not the Japanese.
Anyone watched on of these films lately? I have. When you're a young kid, you don't realize how generally awful they usually are.
Disney seems to a have a fixation on ta tas. I fully approve.
I don't think they're actually awful, at least the older ones I watched with my kids. There are some great songs, like 'Under the Sea' and 'Kiss the Girl.'
I dislike CGI and claymation, though. Even as a kid I couldn't get into the Frosty and Rudolph ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QrKiod8rXM&feature=related
Why a seashell bra? To sexualize her. But as I've always told my kids, the human body is a beautiful thing.
Freeman Hunt said...
Anyone watched on of these films lately? I have. When you're a young kid, you don't realize how generally awful they usually are.
They're really made for adults (cleavage, etc.); in fact, when "Beauty and the Beast" came out, the critics made a big deal about how un-Disney they were.
PS How's your Dad? Last I recall, he was pretty sick.
Freeman's father died. Fortunately he left us Freeman.
Didn't hear that.
My apologies and sympathies, Freeman.
"Does Megara look that drunk and horny in the movie?"
Absolutely.
To be fair, she looks a lot better through the retsina goggles at closing time.
I watched a ton of Disneys with my kids, but I never watched Hercules or Aladdin, and probably a couple others I can't think of. I'd become so tired of them.
Some from the other studios were interesting. I found the Bluths, such as Land Before Time and Feivel, a bit depressing in artistry. Warner Brothers All Dogs Go To Heaven was a hoot, but it took me a while to appreciate.
One of my all time faves was Warner Bros.(?) Thumbelina. A bit dark, but I appreciated where they were going, and great music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkCPlKANPzs&feature=related
No All-American beauties. Of course not. Must be stamped out. Must be replaced with a blended International half-beauty. MUST be. Insane elite culture crushers.
Oh, ricpic, lighten up :) Belle is white, as is Ariel, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Cinderella, and a few more.
For an All-American beauty, see my favorite Disney TV heroine: Kim Possible.
Ed, no problem. It was about a year ago.
And so will we all follow him at some point.
At least Hercules was ripped off from the Greeks, not the Japanese.
The creator of Simba , the white lion,was a fan of Disney. He was the first in Japan to draw manga and used big circular eyes like Mickey´s because of his admiration for Disney.The good characters have big, round eyes. The evil ones, little ones
I watched Simba for years but the relationship between the two characters does not go well beyond the name. The Lion King is a good version of Hamlet with a feminist twist.
The white lion jr was an heroe that once in a while fought beside his father. No dead father , no Claudius .No drama but entertainment
When hercules was released, the NYT? published an article critizicing Disney for the edulcorated, version of Hercules.I did not watched it but i remember from the trailers the bad guy been a man. Hera was a woman fighting the son of his adulterous husband like he was guilty of his father´s sins. And Heracles killed his children in a rage inspired by Hera.
And there was an anime of Hercules in the 60s. He fought against Dedalus with the aid of a young centaurus
The mermaids in Fantasy did not have a bra. They discussed it and they mentioned it on a documentary about Walt made by Disney in the 70´s
Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella were like a lifetime ago. You wanted to plow them and at the same time they were virginal: the best of both worlds.
Ariel and Belle I don't know since I haven't watched any Disney since he stopped doing the animated paint brush setting the scene in his nature series. That animated paint brush ruined painting for me cause I thought all you had to do was pass the paint brush over the canvas once in a waving motion and, voila, a picture. Thirty years have I resented that painting takes effort. ;^(
The old madonna/whore complex, eh?
You remind me of the time I was about five, and was disappointed to find that you can't just sit down at a piano and play.
Belle: no cleavage except ball gown scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVovQfq7U0w
Ariel and Jasmine, cleavage related to background.
Pocahontas, little cleavage, but necessarily so, as she's probably the most generously endowed Disney gal. And sweetly 'ethnic' thighs and booty. (Damn you, Althouse! why the hell am I discussing this?)
Pocahontas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEzfWpGahng&feature=related
Looks like the Cards bats have been cooled tonight.
Nasty breaking pitch form Bush 43.. scored as a pass ball on hall of famer Nolan Ryan.
I love Zooey Deschanel
@richard mcenroe -- "retisina goggles". Nicely done. A month ago I would not have had a clue. But then read Roald Dahl's Going Solo. He flies a Hawker Hurricane in the doomed British defense of Greece against the fascists. Those RAF pilots needed all the retsina they could get.
Assuming each started with a famous woman as a template, my guesses:
Pocahontas - Tia Carrere
Jasmine - Kim Kardashian
Esmerelda - Amanda Peet
Aurora - Debra Harry / Kim Basinger
Merga - Mary Louise Parker
Ariel - Geena Davis (young)
See Drudge's lede?
"New Libya to Introduce 'Radical Islamic Law'"
... under a smiling Obama.
Drudge really knows how to stick a knife in and twist it.
Ursula - Susan "Stop the Insanity" Powter, gone insane
Congrats to Drudge on the ultra-creepy smile. Yes, he did stick the knife in.
@deborah:
Why a seashell bra? To sexualize her. But as I've always told my kids, the human body is a beautiful thing.
Except when it is half fish.
Blech.
"Last of all you old seadogs
Who travel after whale
Youd storm the gates of hell itself
For the taste of a mermaids tail
Who come from long lines of skippers
Whose duty was fulfilled
In the words of a warriors will
And protocol."
A beautiful song by Gordon Lightfoot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jut8wYL9NVk
I disagree that they're all awful. The Ashman/Menken movies (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and half of Aladdin) are great.
Ashman, of course, died while Aladdin was in production, and all subsequent Disney musicals have suffered.
We went from the sublime voice of a 16-year-old mermaid pining:
Betcha on land
They understand
They don't reprimand their daughters
to the banal, unaware Mulan:
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
Blech.
Hell, in that one movie where Rice takes over from Menken, "Aladdin", the cutting (and ultimately censored) lyric:
Where they cut off your ear
If they don't like your face
replaced with the banality (and broken rhyme scheme) of
Where the heat is intense
And the desert's immense
Pfeh.
I disagree that they're all awful. The Ashman/Menken movies (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and half of Aladdin) are great.
I can't agree. Those are the ones I've watched lately. I was shocked at how poorly they compared to my memory.
You want bad, try watching The Aristocats.
Well, yeah, but you were, what, five when they came out the first time? Nostalgia distortion factor!
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