#enchanted tales Disney

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*＊✿❀ 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐸𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒❀✿＊*

[artist-issues]

A little late, but reading your take on Enchanted made me remember how much I love that movie. What are your thoughts on the rest of it? Like say, what do the Prince and Nancy represent? What about the villains? I’m curious how they fit into the allegory

Prince Edward is just like Giselle in the sense that he does what people accuse Disney Princes of doing, and it's funny--but it's rewarded by the narrative, because it's actually a good thing.

People think a Disney Prince is just some dumb hunk with no personality, because he's "just there to be the obligatory love interest so the girl can't save herself." But that's a twisted, hollow way to look at it.

Prince Edward is

Active -- he actually does something, not just in his spare time but when faced with a problem or a dilemma. Doesn't matter if it's troll-hunting or braving a strange world to rescue his bride or turning on a dime to fight his own step-mother when she turns out to be evil. He actually acts.

Keeps His Commitments -- When Prince Eric commits to Ariel he commits; jumps in the water to fight a sea-goddess single-handedly. When Prince Charming says he'll give his heart to Snow White but then she disappears, he won't rest till he's found her. When Prince Edward's fiancée disappears, he won't stop searching for her, either.

Genuinely Cares About the Princess -- People act like Princes in Disney movies are just obligatory--they don't actually care about the girl, there's no real tension or getting to know each other or whatever. That's such bull, obviously. In fairy tales, you cram a lot of nuance into a little scene. The Prince meets Snow White singing at a well and promises his heart to her; but it's after he hears her singing about her heart's fondest desires, after he observes that she's surrounded by doves that aren't afraid of her, after he notices she's just a scullery maid; and he still chooses her. Disney appeased everybody by adding in more rom-com moments with later Princes, like Aladdin and the Beast, but truthfully, Princes do what Princesses do; they know what virtues they're looking for in a good soulmate, so they don't need much to recognize it when it crosses their paths. Then they commit. Edward is willing to go on a date with Giselle. When she grows, he's confused, but he'll go with her. She doesn't sing with him anymore but that doesn't mean he ditches her. When she's cursed and be can't wake her he's 100% onboard with Robert doing it--because it doesn't have to be him, he just cares about her.

Has Just As Much Faith As the Princess -- One of the things Princes and Princesses use as the litmus test of whether or not they're soulmates in Disney movies is if they're both believers in the same Idea. Ariel and Eric are the perfect example. They both believe in something that everyone around them thinks is totally crazy. Eric believes in the fated, Right Girl. Ariel believes the Surface World can be worth loving. Those two things get united when they meet each other. Prince Edward longs to find the woman who's his other half, a companion who fits into his heart and makes his life more than just one quest after the other. (And he's so sweet about it.) He's very romantic. Giselle's been dreaming of her true companion, too. They have that in common, that faith that somebody right for them is out there. It just...so happens that that person isn't each other. But they're not wrong that someone is out there, which is why he is rewarded by winding up with Nancy.

Anyway. If Giselle is the Disney movie, so is Prince Edward.

And yeah, he's not quick on the uptake, he's super confident that everything he's doing is right, and he's definitely convinced that Nathaniel actually likes him. But that is okay. Because Edward is uncomplicated. He knows that what he's setting out to do is Right, so what bothers him is never "people here are mean" or "I'm not the hero in this world." Did you notice that? He's never bothered when he finds out he's not the hero. He's only bothered when the idea that Good won't win is threatened.

He's the first one to turn and look at Robert and go "unless...!" excitedly when he realizes his own kiss isn't working. No trace of bitterness. No suspicion. Just eager to solve the problem.

That's why he's great. His confidence came from being the champion of Goodness. Doing the right thing. He doesn't care if he's not the one who wins. He just cares that it's someone Good who's winning.

Then you have Nancy, who is the first of the "normal" people from our world to really give in to the idea of "True Love's Kiss" being a viable solution, right on the spot. Meaning there was space in her brain to believe in it.

I guess if I had to try to distill it, I'd say Nancy is just the reverse-Giselle. In the allegory (it's not all one-to-one) I would say...if Giselle (and to a lesser extent, Edward) is the Disney movie, and Robert is the skeptic, Nancy is us. She's not quite Giselle, not quite Robert...she's someone who wants to believe that the Disney Philosophy is true, but the problem is, nobody in our world believes it or acts like it.

She's looking for a fairy tale but she's stuck in our world. The moments where she's happy with Robert are moments when he's doing something an open-hearted, genuine, selfless and chivalrous Disney Prince would do. The kind of guy who knows who he is and knows what's Good and values Love, so he isn't ashamed or insecure to come right out and declare it.

Gentleness is power, under control. A man in love should have no fear of vulnerability, which again, takes faith—because love isn't about you. It's selfless. Why worry about how telling a girl you love her will make you look, will make you feel? So what if she rejects you; you thought she was worth loving, you gave her that enormous compliment--so what if she doesn't return it? You know who you are. You didn't need her validation--that was never the point of the love-declaration--it was for her. You kindly gave her the world's best compliment, good job, now on to other worthy things. It would've been great if she wanted the same outcome of that love as you did, but she didn't, and that's great too, because it was never that much about you. So you don't have to be hurt, angry, embarrassed, jealous, or any of the anti-love things we associate with bogus unrequited "love."

But in our world, men don't act like that anymore. Because it's all about you. Can't tell the girl how you feel because she might hurt you. How would you be hurt? By finding out she doesn't feel the way you would prefer her to feel about you, by mocking what you've deemed precious, etc. It's all about you, you, you, fear fear fear, etc.

Still, you can tell Nancy thinks she got as close as she could to the fairy-tale guy with Robert because in her first scene, when she finds Robert and Giselle together, she goes on that rant about how she thought he was "sensitive" and "protecting Morgan." Those are the traits she's attracted to; the idea that he wasn't protecting himself, he was protecting his daughter--the idea that he was careful with emotions for other people's sake, not his own--that he cared about emotions at all.

But that's not what it was, it was self-protection, over-planning. Still, the second he's willing to send her flowers or make any kind of heart-on-his sleeve, straightforward gesture of affection, she is SO ready to believe in him again.

She's the grown up who wants to find the Disney fairy tale in "real life" and she's doing the best she can with what she can find. Kinda like a lot of us who grew up on Disney and didn't want to accept the derisive cynical mocking of Disney as we got older, but what could we do?

But good news! It's real! The Good, the Beautiful, the True, exists, and it comes for her.

Then you've got Narissa, the villainess.

She's interesting because she's totally the opposite of everything the movie says is Good. Giselle and Edward wear their hearts on their sleeves—Narissa manipulates people's fondest desires for her own gain. Robert needs to learn to have faith—Narissa believes everybody is out to take what's hers.

Edward gives the gift of love freely, first to Giselle, then, unshaken when she doesn't give him the same, to Nancy—Narissa takes the adoration of people like Nathaniel and treats them like garbage in return.

I also think Pip is important, and it's important that Narissa is defeated by him.

She's brought down by the tiny chipmunk who's been treated with true kindness and friendship by the Princess. The chipmunk who can talk and understand what's going on and be useful, even in a world where people like Robert think there's no such thing. Pip is the unlikely "something wonderful will happen" in our world that Robert didn't believe in. He's the little, fairy tale element that nobody could plan for or calculate or control, coming in to save the day.

How very Disney of him. Ya'll get off of Wish. Disney's tribute to 100 years of fairy tale animation? It has nothing on Enchanted.

[disneyparksattractionstournament]

Disney Parks Animatronic Tournament: Bracket A/Tier 1 Round 1

Lantern Belle: Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast(2020-current) - Tokyo Disneyland

Propaganda:

"Have you SEEN this animatronic? She WALKS. It's INCREDIBLE 😍"

(Video is already set to start at the point of the animatronic! If it doesn't, go to 1:48)

Hatbox Ghost: Haunted Mansion(2015/2023-current) - Disneyland and Magic Kingdom Disney world

Propaganda:

"His head disappearing affect is really well done. His also so dapper!"

[mask131]

On a much brighter and lighter topic!

I originally wanted to make this post on my side-blog about fairytales, but I'll do it here thanks to having a wider audience. Because I have not seen people talk about this when I think it should?

I want to talk about Disney's Enchanted and its sequel, Disenchanted.

So we all know that Enchanted is Disney's self-homage and parody of all the classical Disney fairytale movies. It is the quintessential boil down and humoristic summary of Snow-White, and Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty, and the Little Mermaid, and so forth and so on... It is all their tropes and archetypes and the like. That has been well established, well analyzed, well discussed upon.

But when it comes to Disenchanted, Enchanted's sequel, there is I think something people completely missed... Haven't you noticed that this movie had the quintessential feel of a "Disney sequel"?

Literaly and figuratively. They pull tropes and ideas and concepts from all the Disney sequels, from The Little Mermaid 2 to Cinderella 3. And by extension, when you look at Disenchanted as a whole, you actually get this very unique and distinct feeling of a Disney sequel. This feeling hard to put into words but that you have upon looking at The Lion King II, or Aladdin II, or the 101 Dalmatians II.

You know the feeling. You know the type of thing I am talking about.

The movie is not as great as the first one and can only be compared badly to it, but it is still a fine and enjoyable product on its own right.

The movie expands the universe set by the original, and yet it feels like this new story is of a much smaller scope than the first.

It explores the consequences and the aftermaths of the first movie, usually through a "next generation".

It feels weird somehow. Not "uncomfortable" weird, but somewhere between "funny" weird and "bizarre" weird.

Or is it just me? Whereas Enchanted is the essence of typical Disney "classics"... Disenchanted really managed to recreate and sum up perfectly the feel of a "Disney sequel".

[romancemedia]

Cartoon Makeovers

[princess-ibri]

Loved Disenchanted so much, but bummed that Morgan and Tyson’s song and dance got cut, they were cute, would have liked to see more of them together

[totallyambularmua]

Once Upon a Time (ABC / Disney+) Collection

[colorfulhope95]

This trilogy is getting interesting 🤔

[airasora]

[thefreshprinceofjunes]

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i knew disney princess enchanted tales: follow your dreams existed, but i didnt realize aurora and jasmine have new songs in it

so i was saving footage from it for my disney princess sing-along panel and like

this scene is very funny out of context

transcript:

Aurora: I'm so sorry to keep you waiting, but I promise I will get to each and every one of you. And to thank you for your patience, I have a gift for all of you. Who would like a cow?

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I know you're scared and I know what you've been through

Look in my eyes

Can you see I'm frightened too?

I won't give up

That's one thing I swear will be true

For it's said by the wise:

"Keep your eyes on the prize"

and I've got my eyes on you

[barbie-girlll]

*＊✿❀ 𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐸𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ❀✿＊*

[thecreativemillennial]

Credit to disneyxscene.

[disneyparksattractionstournament]

Disney Parks Animatronic Tournament: Bracket A/Tier 1 Round 1

Belle and Prince Adam: Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast(2020-current) - Tokyo Disneyland

Propaganda:

"That entire ride has so many incredible and impressive animatronics but these two (which are joined so I’m counting as one) are dancing and lifting feet and wow" "The animatronics from the ride are so incredibly expressive and life-like, and the dance and transformation are my two favorite moments from the ride. How the dance works in particular, making it look like the beast is really was really walking through the steps, is just incredible.

(Video is already set to start at the point of the animatronic! If it doesn't, go to 7:29) 

Tiana: Tiana's Bayou Adventure (2024. Note, this ride has not opened yet, but we do have a little preview of one of the Tiana animatronics) - Magic Kingdom Disney World and Disneyland

Propaganda:

"Princess and the frog is such an unsung gem of a movie!!" "Super expressive and fluid movements"

[cruelparadise]

[avitha]

You'll Never Lose This Love - Belle and Claire