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alexseanchai) wrote2013-06-23 06:12 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2013-06-23 06:12 pm
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100 college things 22: Disney: Gender, Race, Empire week one discussion: Snow White
I thought I remembered the bit where Snow’s mother wishes for a baby who looks like Snow. Guess that wasn’t this version.
The mirror is CREEPY.
I notice Snow isn’t trying to find a way out of her situation on her own account. She’s hoping for someone to come and save her from it. And I don’t buy the love at first sight on the prince’s side. She’s dressed like a servant girl. She’s dressed like someone vulnerable.
Peacock throne for the queen. Appropriate.
I guess princesses in this land are permitted (when outside the castle) to do as they please, which includes entering empty houses and messing with the owner’s (owners’?) stuff.
Love how the male characters appear completely incapable of domestic work.
Also love how the moment they decide only one of them needs to go into danger, it’s the developmentally disabled character who gets volunteered. While playing him for laughs, of course.
And it’s her beauty that keeps her alive. If she were an ordinary-looking girl, I get the distinct impression she’d be dead.
It’s not just the creators who think Dopey’s funny because he’s developmentally disabled, it’s the characters.
Grumpy’s really misogynist, isn’t he. I am sad. I have a Grumpy sweatshirt a friend gave me as a joke (I’m grumpy, you see), and it’s not as funny now.
Why does the queen trust the mirror?
Bet the potion tastes nasty, as well as being visibly physically unpleasant to endure in other ways.
Why doesn’t she just brew an outright poison?
Yeah, laughing at somebody who looks to have social anxiety disorder, that’s a sure way to get him to do whatever he’s anxious about.
Your Majesty, your ‘harmless old woman’ disguise would work better if you’d put some effort into looking less frightening. Unless the point is that age itself (at least on a woman) is frightening? I don’t like that point if so.
Given the scene earlier of Snow praying, having the Queen die of a lightning bolt strikes me as a deus ex machina. Not that Mercedes Lackey’s The Serpent’s Shadow ends significantly differently, but at least that book had previously established the existence of divine entities willing to lend a hand.
How long did the dwarfs know Snow? Day and a half?
How can that possibly have been a consensual kiss? I’m not sure from the description of ‘sleeping death’ whether she’s actually dead or merely comatose, but he had no way of knowing whether she wanted to be kissed.
Bechdel fail. The Queen is nameless and she and Snow White never speak.
I also watched Feminist Frequency's vlog on the Bechdel test. Very educational to someone who'd never heard of the test before, I'm sure (and it reassured me that I'm pronouncing 'Bechdel' right), but...that's it? Three minutes saying what the test is and a selection of famous movies that don't pass?
Mickey Mouse Monopoly is probably waiting for tomorrow.
The mirror is CREEPY.
I notice Snow isn’t trying to find a way out of her situation on her own account. She’s hoping for someone to come and save her from it. And I don’t buy the love at first sight on the prince’s side. She’s dressed like a servant girl. She’s dressed like someone vulnerable.
Peacock throne for the queen. Appropriate.
I guess princesses in this land are permitted (when outside the castle) to do as they please, which includes entering empty houses and messing with the owner’s (owners’?) stuff.
Love how the male characters appear completely incapable of domestic work.
Also love how the moment they decide only one of them needs to go into danger, it’s the developmentally disabled character who gets volunteered. While playing him for laughs, of course.
And it’s her beauty that keeps her alive. If she were an ordinary-looking girl, I get the distinct impression she’d be dead.
It’s not just the creators who think Dopey’s funny because he’s developmentally disabled, it’s the characters.
Grumpy’s really misogynist, isn’t he. I am sad. I have a Grumpy sweatshirt a friend gave me as a joke (I’m grumpy, you see), and it’s not as funny now.
Why does the queen trust the mirror?
Bet the potion tastes nasty, as well as being visibly physically unpleasant to endure in other ways.
Why doesn’t she just brew an outright poison?
Yeah, laughing at somebody who looks to have social anxiety disorder, that’s a sure way to get him to do whatever he’s anxious about.
Your Majesty, your ‘harmless old woman’ disguise would work better if you’d put some effort into looking less frightening. Unless the point is that age itself (at least on a woman) is frightening? I don’t like that point if so.
Given the scene earlier of Snow praying, having the Queen die of a lightning bolt strikes me as a deus ex machina. Not that Mercedes Lackey’s The Serpent’s Shadow ends significantly differently, but at least that book had previously established the existence of divine entities willing to lend a hand.
How long did the dwarfs know Snow? Day and a half?
How can that possibly have been a consensual kiss? I’m not sure from the description of ‘sleeping death’ whether she’s actually dead or merely comatose, but he had no way of knowing whether she wanted to be kissed.
Bechdel fail. The Queen is nameless and she and Snow White never speak.
I also watched Feminist Frequency's vlog on the Bechdel test. Very educational to someone who'd never heard of the test before, I'm sure (and it reassured me that I'm pronouncing 'Bechdel' right), but...that's it? Three minutes saying what the test is and a selection of famous movies that don't pass?
Mickey Mouse Monopoly is probably waiting for tomorrow.