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hopeful soul
Member since Nov-23-05
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Aug-31-10, 08:09 AM (CST) |
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3. "RE: cinderella"
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I love Cinderella! As a child, I used to watch it everyday, followed by Sleeping Beauty. It's funny, it wasn't until all this propoganda started about the hidden messages that Disney movies teach our young kids that I realized how it could affect a young girl's self image. But, to me, growing up, I didn't see Cinderella as a girl waiting for a prince to rescue her. If she was, she wouldn't have lost her shoe. She wouldn't have run away from the Prince when he was clearly in love with her. She wouldn't have gone back to her life as her step-mother's servant - makes me wonder why she did. Why did she choose to go back, when she found a way to get free from them? I saw Cinderella as a girl with resilience, someone who made the best of the situation. Yes, her life sucked, but she was able to find her own bits of happiness where she could. She always saw the silver lining, always abundantly patient, and she had the most precious gift still: her ability to dream. She didn't need material wealth to make her happy, like her step-sisters, and that her happiness was derived from her friends (even if they were animals) and she believed true love conquers all. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with a message like that. As for Lion King, you can blame that story line on Shakespeare's Hamlet. But with anything kids watch, the only way to deal with the after-effects is to talk to your kids about it. Ask them questions: Why did Simba believe he was to blame for his father's death? Should he have stayed back to question his uncle or himself to face the truth or to run away? Should Cinderella have been treated like that? What could she have done to better her life? If you get kids talking about it, I believe you get them to think critically about it. Besides, like romance novels, what's wrong in letting yourself believe in ideals from time to time? |
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KJ O
Member since Sep-7-07
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Aug-31-10, 04:42 PM (CST) |
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9. "RE: cinderella"
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I don't worry too much about things like this, maybe it is naive of me but I feel like the attitude DH and I portray has more of an impact than any disney movie can impart. Not that I let them watch whatever they want but I tend to think the cute little mice and all the pretty songs will be more what they'll remember than the exact phrasing of an poorly written script. I actually have a much harder time with Wall-E than any of the other Disney's but I'm weird like that. Jeanna
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. Love that movie. I doubt my kids watched Cinderella - the one i loved showing Emma when she was young was The Little Mermaid - that one's great.
