BrandonSP wrote:
First, the songs were almost all unbearable for me to listen to, with the possible exception of the villain song (and even that was mediocre). Secondly, even though it's set in the Jim Crow era, the movie barely acknowledges the presence of racism with one character's vague reference to Tiana's "background". Thirdly, the moral of the movie seemed to be "women need men in their lives to be happy", a sexist and patriarchal message.
I will admit I did like Tiana as a character though.
Your opinion on the soundtrack is just that. Musical taste is subjective, and personally I found a lot to like in TPatF's songs. In fact I think it's one of my favourite Disney soundtracks. I like jazz from the 20s-40s, and find gospel music interesting, so and I found it refreshing. Also, it had Keith David
singing. Anyway, you can't use such a subjective thing as proof of a movie being "terrible" unless you're referring to your opinion alone.
I'd also have to disagree about the moral. Tiana didn't specifically need a man, she just needed to stop being a workaholic. Her father had encouraged her to dream big and never to forget to help her dreams along by working hard, but over the years she had perverted his philosophy into "never wish, never have fun, only work is important". It was her main character flaw. Naveen just happened to represent the opposite, a person who only knew how to have fun, and never worked at all. Both characters grew over the course of the film by teaching each other the part of life that they'd been previously rejecting. Nobody said Tiana specifically needed a man, they just encouraged her to be true to her feelings, since by about halfway through the movie she had fallen in love with Naveen but was refusing to admit it.
I'll give you the fact that the movie barely acknowledged racism, but so what? It wasn't the point of the story at all, or even particularly relevant; what exactly do you want from a Disney film? A searing critique upon racial prejudice and an exploration of the racial divide and history of black oppression in the 1920s American South? In a fairy tale about a Frog Prince? Why?
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20 Jul 2010, 11:50 am
