#Disney FIlms

[velvet4510]

A Defense of Snow White’s Prince Florian

“He kissed a random corpse in the forest!”

“He’s preying on a child!”

“He stalked her!”

Please, please, you guys, I’m begging you to actually WATCH the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

WATCH.

THE.

MOVIE.

Because the Prince kissing Snow White is, to me, one of the most heartbreaking scenes in Disney history.

And here’s why.

First of all, the Prince is clearly close to Snow White’s age. He is both drawn and voiced as very youthful. He looks and sounds about 16 or 17, at the oldest. He is NOT a “predator”. He’s a boy who loves a girl, like in any good fairy tale.

Secondly, the Prince meets Snow White early in the movie. She’s NOT a complete stranger to him at the end. And their first meeting is significant. The Evil Queen makes a big deal out of Snow White’s looks, being “the fairest of all”, etc. But the Prince is first drawn to Snow White’s VOICE. He’s captivated by her singing and her kindness to the birds. He sees beyond her looks. He sees past the rags she wears and recognizes that this is a good person, a beautiful person on the inside. Then when she’s startled by him, he’s very polite and soft-spoken, apologizing for frightening her. He’s a total gentleman. Then he serenades her, letting her know how much he admires her. (Words that she has NEVER heard from ANYONE else in her life, by the way.) Then he even smiles at and is kissed by a dove that lands on his finger, hinting he has a connection with animals somewhat like hers.

And then there’s a fade to black. So we actually don’t know if she came out again, if they talked for a while. Maybe they didn’t, but maybe they did. The film doesn’t clearly tell us one way or another. But there is a possibility that they did get to know each other a little there. And if they didn’t, something is still beginning between them. They share warm smiles and affectionate looks. They both feel it, and they both hope to pursue it.

Then Snow White finds out her stepmom wants her dead and has to run away. Which means the Prince noticed her absence.

And the narrative text later tells us that he “searched far and wide” for her after she disappeared. (This guy walked so Fiyero could run, let’s be real.) Imagine the person you’ve been thinking about, hoping to get to know, wondering if they may be the one, suddenly vanished without a trace. And she’s the Princess of your neighboring kingdom. And then the Queen of the same kingdom also suddenly disappears. Wouldn’t you be alarmed? There’s a chance the huntsman may have gone to the Prince’s kingdom for help, and warned him of the Queen’s horrible actions. There’s also a chance that the Queen already had a bad reputation in the area, and the disappearances were a confirmation of what was already suspected. So the Prince nobly tries to find out what happened to his newfound love, worried about her safety. Snow White sings about her hope that she will see him again and tells the dwarfs about him … but the full truth of the situation is that he’s been thinking about her too. It’s a mutual young first love, pure and innocent.

Then the Prince FINALLY finds his beloved… in a coffin. After a “far and wide” search, there she is, apparently DEAD! All his hopes and wishes for a possible relationship with her are dashed. A 17-year-old who once dreamed of reuniting with his first love has just found her dead. He knows absolutely nothing about the poisoned apple’s spell or its cure. He doesn’t know a kiss will save her. He thinks she’s gone. Forever. All he knows is that he has found the girl he loves too late, and he couldn’t help her, despite all his searching. So, he kisses her goodbye. He kisses her as an apology, a sign of regret for lost dreams, a chance that he seems to have been denied. A 2-second touch of her lips to show his devotion. Then he bows his head and grieves.

This moment demonstrates than in him, Snow White has found the genuine love she’s been yearning for. While her stepmother tried multiple times to murder her, now she has someone who genuinely values her, so much so that he searched everywhere to find her when she went missing. Who was so heartbroken and crushed at the notion that she was gone forever that he gave her what he thought was a goodbye kiss, his one and only way of showing what she meant to him before he became haunted by the ghost of her memory, of his failure, of his lost chance at love.

This is a deeply and tragically romantic moment that has sadly been widely misunderstood. Do not slander Prince Florian! He doesn’t deserve it!

[holyfuckinshitleto]

So this is Love

[ackernen]

Cinderella (2015)

[franklinn97]

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

[racer62]

My friend called me this morning and just started off with no hello or anything.

"You know in Once Upon A Studio where every Disney character comes to life? Where are the Pixar characters?"

"It's just the disney characters, the Pixar characters are probably at Pixar studios."

"They're probably fighting for their life."

"Huh."

"The Pixar characters are in life threatening situations every second in some of their movies. They're probably fighting a monster or something."

"Go to sleep."

And I couldn't stop thinking of how funny the idea was

[dailydisney22]

FROZEN ( 2013 )

Directed by - Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee

[elvisqueso]

Reaching out and letting go

Pocahontas (1995)

[nightshadefairy]

༺ 𝐼 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓊, 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓁𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑜𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓊𝓅𝑜𝓃 𝒶 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂 ༻

[hydravns]

CARS 2 (2011) Dir. John Lasseter

[scaryfaiiry]

༺Halloweentown [1998]🎃༻

[holyfuckinshitleto]

Me Core

[libra-doll]

old disney movies :

snow white and the seven dwarfs ( 1937 )

pinocchio ( 1940 )

dumbo ( 1941 )

bambi ( 1942 )

cinderella ( 1950 )

alice in wonderland ( 1951 )

peter pan ( 1953 )

lady and the tramp ( 1955 )

sleeping beauty ( 1959 )

the jungle book ( 1957 )

101 dalmatians ( 1961 )

the aristocats ( 1970 )

the many adventures of winnie the pooh ( 1977 )

the fox and the hound ( 1981 )

the little mermaid ( 1989 )

beauty and the beast ( 1991 )

aladdin ( 1992 )

the lion king ( 1994 )

pocahontas ( 1995 )

hercules ( 1997 )

mulan ( 1998 )

tarzan ( 1999 )

the princess and the frog ( 2009 )

[franklinn97]

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998)

[the-knight-of-the-stars]

I haven't been this enraged by a disney live action since Mulan, and even then I kept it to myself, but this too much man whAT THE FUCK. I'm sick of disney.

I'm not hawaiian, but I'm mexican. I know what it's like to see your home invaded by turists who think they have right over this place that's so ingrained into your roots, who think they are somehow entitled to your culture as their vacation entertaiment, a mere tool for their "growth" without any regard for the people who were actually born into it.

I know what it's like to have the United States dig their hands into the politics of your country, take what they need and abandon its population to the bloodshed they leave in their trace. I know what it's like to see them try to propagade their ultra capitalist, individualist, hollow aspirations into the minds of everyone around you.

You want realism? Nani doesn't need to leave her home to "be somebody," or to "do something useful with her life." The US foster system is not her friend because it's FUNDAMENTALLY broken, because it's part of the US goverment and the US goverment is ILLEGALLY OCCUPATING the hawaiian islands.

The movie almost makes you think there is some hope that the US and native hawaiians can coexist and integrate, as in, integrate Hawaii as another state and be treated equally and it vicious, fabricated propaganda. There is no peaceful integration because the US are INVADERS. If Nani has no oportunities in her own native land is because the US stole them from her.

Of course the movie wants you to think her leaving her island is somehow a happy ending. They want the natives of the place they invaded to leave their home so they can have their glorified amusement park all to themselves.

Staying, not letting then rip apart your family—and with it your comunity, your culture— is a way of RESISTENCE.

Maybe some US citicens don't fully grasp how insidious this is, and it's because you don't have an ancestral culture. Your country was build by robbing and destroying other ancestral cultures and that's why you have none of your own. That's why your God who you serve and pledge your life to is the U.S.A. flag.

Your leaders have told you for decades that it is all justified and that feeding the bloody, shallow, selfish capitalist system is worth sacrificing your humanity and I need you all to wake up. There will be no reward at the end of the road, nationalism is a TOOL to ensure your loyalty but it won't give you any purpose. I need you to wonder how you want human kind to remember you, because empires fall, and history remembers.

Our land is WHO WE ARE. Culture is build in the land, around the land, because of the land. There us no culture without the land. And culture is what makes us human, what connects us all. And why would life be worth living if not for each other.

[amaterasou]

alice in wonderland