Why do you think there were no mothers in the majorityof Disney movies and carto!
Question: Think about all the cartoons and Disney movies, what happend to all their mothers? Some had wicked step mothers, can you name some of them? Cartoons can be very creepy and violent. Im just sitten here trippen about this insane world we live in!
Answers: Think about all the cartoons and Disney movies, what happend to all their mothers? Some had wicked step mothers, can you name some of them? Cartoons can be very creepy and violent. Im just sitten here trippen about this insane world we live in!
Lol, you should read some of the original fairy tales. There a thousand times more gruesome then the Disney versions.
Here's the original version of Sleeping Beauty. A young maid was walking in a forest one day, when she pricked her finger on a poisonous bush, and drops dead. A young prince sees her on the ground, and thinks she's sleeping. The prince gets horny, does his business, and rides away. 9 months later, the maid has twins, and one of the twins accidently sucks the poisonous thorn out of her finger, and she wakes up. The prince hears that the maid had his children, and goes and picks them up from the forest.
The princes WIFE isn't happy about this, and tries to put one of the twins in the oven to serve to the prince. She gets caught, and is burned at the steak.
Now, compared to that, I'd say the Disney version is a lot more children friendly.
ummmmm idk
I think there are a few things going on in these films and the original fairy tales they are based on-One they tap into children's deepest fear-losing a parent-especially a mother who is often times the prime caretaker. The mother's exit or the lack of the mother is also empowering to the child in the film/story because it forces them to confront a cruel or dangerous world on their own. Lacking a mother causes them to draw on their own strengths as they are without a "protector".
Also these movies are often based on old fairy tales and before the nineteenth century childbirth was a leading cause of death amongst women.
No actually the original fairy tales are a lot more violent then disney versions! Not all of them becouse Disney made them almost exactly like fairytales but still....
Because Disney is anti-family and pro homosexual agenda. Just kidding. Actually, I never noticed that before. Interesting observation.
I found this about Disney it was interesting! Thanks for the question.
Disney's Dead Mothers Club
I'm not sure of many things in this world, but I'm convinced of this one: Walt Disney Studios has something against mothers. In a striking number of Disney movies - in fact, in most of the animated films, the mother gets bumped off before the film begins, or early on in the action. As far as Disney is concerned, the only good mother is a dead mother.
I take this rather personally, because I am a mother, and have read the Disney books and seen the Disney movies with my children. Naturally, I'm always looking for a "cuddle moment" - when the kids and I can say "Awww," looking at the close mother-child relationship, and feel a rush of recognition in it. However, time and time again, we see something sinister instead: dead mothers, or protagonists apparently not of woman born. It is noteworthy that Disney deletes all reference to the most primary human relationship.
Put briefly, the Disney message is: there is no such thing as a mother; having a mother is not a factor in your life in any way; remove Mom from any of your feelings, thoughts, or behavior. Not a frame or a word is wasted on Mom stuff. (Dad, however, is another story; you've got to have a Special Relationship with him, or you won't get anywhere in life.)
I first recognized Disney's compulsion to bump off moms when, as a young child, I saw Bambi. I remember my delight as Bambi and his mother scampered about in the meadow, and I can still feel my astonished pain as Bambi's mother is shot dead and left behind in the woods - a violent tragedy for which I was neither prepared nor helped to work through. At the strategic moment, Dad (the Prince of the Forest, conveniently) came along and off they went, never looking back. Mom dies, and you just run away, no regrets. In a movie intended for small children, that scene is downright sadistic.
A similar fate befalls Mama Dumbo, in another heartwrenching scene equally inappropriate for small children: little Dumbo the elephant loses his mother early on, when she is locked in a cage and taken away from him forever, her helpless trunk reaching out to him for one last motherly caress. Even discussing it last week with another mother, we both burst into tears just thinking about it. Yet, all over the world, parents sit their tender little children down in front of such scenes and convince themselves that it is the ultimate Wholesome Family Entertainment. What a sell job!
Then there's the category of Long Gone Moms. In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the mom has died before Scene One, and we encounter only a depraved Wicked Stepmother. Ditto with Cinderella.
Ole Geppeto the Woodcarver can't seem to come up with a mom for Pinocchio in the movie of the same name, but a Blue Fairy does some motherly sorts of rescues and magic for a brief time and then makes a final farewell. Pinocchio wishes to be a real boy, but never to have a real mom.
Sleeping Beauty fares little better. The Queen Mom and her husband, the king, earnestly "wish for a child," and finally get one who comes with a curse (made by a powerful woman villain). Young Aurora is sent away at birth from her parents to be raised by three inept aunts. Later, when they all come back from a hundred-year sleep, where is the joyous reunion with Mom?
Granted, these ancient stories have been handed down from days when mothers died young, often during childbirth. The stories were meaningful to those who were left with stepmothers who mistreated them; after all, bloodlines establish inheritance, and stepmothers wanted to position their own blood offspring to inherit money or power. But there are hundreds of ancient stories on diverse themes. Why did Disney choose these?
More recent Disney movies have swelled the ranks of the Dead Mothers Club still further.
In the movie recounting the young King Arthur's exciting boyhood, The Sword in the Stone, there is a father, but no mother. Likewise, young Mowgli in The Jungle Book has lost his human parents, but even his surrogate caregivers are father, not mother, substitutes - Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther.
In The Little Mermaid, Ariel the mermaid has only a father, King Triton; we are never told what in the Deep Blue Sea happened to Queen Triton, or whatever her name was. Belle in Beauty and the Beast lives with her dotty father, an inventor, in the woods, and it's anybody's guess if she ever had a mom, or was merely one of her father's previous inventions.
Princess Jasmine, the female lead in the movie Aladdin, has only a father, the king, and a - male - tiger companion. The only way we even know she had a mother is when her dad tokenistically recounts, "You're just like your mother." Exeunt mom.
Even Max and Goofy in The Goofy Movie are in a momless world. We relish Goofy's well-meaning incompetence as a single dad, and when father and son take a long trip, no reference is made to a dearly departed or otherwise-occupied mom of any kind. The father-son bond is all that matters. Even Max's heartthrob, the Girl Next Door, has only a father!
When Pocahontas came out, I thought, well, this is a whole new world, so to speak; the rules have changed. If the lead character can be a strong, serious, woman who turns down romance to help her people, maybe there will even be a mother. No dice: no Mom. There is one mumbled reference to "when your dear mother died," and the plot proceeds apace.
Mom is never a player at all, not missed, not remembered - where are all the "Mom visions" like those Simba has of his deceased lion father up in the sky, in The Lion King? Where are the memories of mother love, motherly advice, motherly ways?
And who is mothering these protagonists? Everyone in the world but Mom. It may be a friendly fish, a cricket, a chipped teacup, seven dwarves, friendly birds, rabbits, skunks and baboons - all of the male gender, of course. There's not even room for a helpful sister figure. The message? Who needs a mom when you've got a friend.
Up on the wall somewhere in the Disney Studios' inner sanctum there must be a sign: NO MOMS ALLOWED. There cannot be even a benevolent, mild mom. No moms at all.
However, in the area of the Disney villain, Disney shows real evenhandedness, perhaps even preferential hiring. VILLAINS CONSIDERED AFFIRMATIVELY, the other sign might read. Unlike the mother taboo, Disney creates looming, hideous female witches, demons, octopi, dragons, and stepmother-monsters, to make sure everyone comes away with a perfectly nauseating feeling toward powerful women. They can be disposed of by bursting, melting, catching fire, being run through with swords, pushed off cliffs, or other imaginative punishments. The sound of their screams as they perish in agony is bloodcurdling. Some are even moms.
What sort of effect do 50-plus years of Disney-sponsored fantasies have on our society and our world? When will the lie be put to rest that Disney films are "the best in children's entertainment?" And when will mothers and motherlove be given a face and a voice that reflect the reality of human experience and our basic needs?
The solution? After I read her this essay, my seven year old daughter said solemnly, "Maybe there should be more mother animators."
c 1995 by Kristin Lems