When they’re making a movie about men they make a movie about lifting a house into the sky with balloons and traveling across the world, or about a lonely garbage robot with a heart of gold (so to speak.) When they’re making a movie about girls they make a movie about the restrictions placed on girls, and how this one! special! girl! will fight the (other women) people enforcing these restrictions placed on her.
Pro-tip: when the only plot you’ll write for girls are about how they’re GIRLS! DID YOU NOTICE THEY’RE GIRLS!! LOOK IT’S A GIRL! (BUT NOT A ~~GIRLY-GIRL~~ DON’T WORRY) THE WORLD IS UNFAIR TO GIRLS BUT SOME OF THEM ARE PERFORMATIVELY MASCULINE AND THAT MAKES THEM COOL. as a priority dominating the story about them as people and it comes off as feet-draggingly second-wave and smacking of tokenism even though she’s the chief protagonist, which is almost impressive.
This is almost word-for-word what I was saying to my friend a while back. Like, thanks Pixar for making a movie about a girl… but please try harder next time. (or prove me wrong when I go to see Brave in theaters).
- You think God made you broken? And Black too?
- Yeah, but I got all the screws Black needs. I got every one… I got every one.
Tekkonkinkreet (2006) dir. Michael Arias
(Source: vimeo.com)
Walt Disney Animation Studios Challenge
10 Movies → Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Geometry of Circles from Sesame Street - music by Philip Glass
Top 10 Favorite Disney Movies (in no particular order)
→ Robin Hood
Favorite Animated Movies (Non-Disney) → Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
All the magic of life exists within a single, tiny seed.
(Source: mark-buffalo)
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