Brave

[Danseru-kun]

It's all about sales. Older girls may idolize heroines like Pocahontas and Mulan but younger girls who are too young to understand those films tend to like pretty stuff. Most younger girls like princess stuff, sparkles, frilly dresses and long hair and the demand is higher from them Of course there were exceptions but Disney cares little about that smaller market. I'm speaking from experience. However what I can say was that I never really cared about the skin color or the curve of the body.

I once had a Pocahontas metal box when I was around 5 or 6, the picture has Pocahontas and John Smith on the pointed cliff and the place was just beautiful. I will never forget how strong she looks and how lovely her long hair flow with the wind. That picture served as an inspiration for my drawings and I would always draw a girl with long hair on a cliff. Al the other sparkly stuff left no impact on me So those pretty things might sell more, but some images will last forever in children's hearts.

This scene:

Back to Merida, I doubt a bow would turn off girls. I loved girls with weapons when I was a kid. My Mary Sue was always a girl with a sword ^^

 

[Unlucky]

This is playing on cable right now. <3

Spoiler: What is Cloud doing in this movie?

 

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[Super Mario]

I think this is a case of mistaken identity here...

 

[Farron]

I think that they should of left Merdia alone and not let her become a Disney Princess. Disney loves feminine things and princesses and sparkles and Merdia is the polar opposite of that. I think that they should've made that Sofia the First girl the next Princess instead because she seems to be everything that Disney loves. She has a long flowy princess dress, she's feminine and she's nice but naive.

They should left Pixar to focus on advertising merchandise and dolls and just let Disney do what they enjoy; pretty Princesses.

Though Disney can't even get their own girls right. Tiana is now turned into a girly-girl and Mulan is no longer the fighting chick that she was in her original movie. I think that they're scared that if they make one of the Princesses too masculine young girls won't buy it.

 

[Tennyo]

Though the question that needs asking here is did you think that girls/princesses should look more like that because that's inherently what children think or because you had already been given the impression that such a design is closer to what girls/princesses should look like and had accepted it?

I understood what Alex was saying too, but I'm simply making the point that Merida as she originally was designed would have been just as easily accepted as pretty based on what we know to be inherent wiring of the mind (soft expressions and features = friendly, positive, good, etc.) rather than on likely social programming.


Alex: Why did you get pissed, dude?

You basically said what I was saying. You just reworded it differently.

It is most definitely because of the impressions that young children get from the images they are exposed to that caused such a point of view. The new Merida is a prettier, brighter shade of blue. She sparkles and has that golden patten along the hem of her skirt. And she has makeup.

Children like familiarity. This is why they watch the same movie a million times or want to listen to the same song over and over in the car. The new version of Merida is something that Disney believes fits into the mold of what they already know and will be drawn to.