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artist-issues · 5 months

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Yeah, again, you can tell that the creators of Wish wanted certain moments to be impactful and to hit as hard as any other animated Disney movie’s moments did. But they didn’t. Because there was no convincing build-up for the moments to peak on.

You can tell which moments they are.

When Asha and the King sing “At All Costs” - If you listen to the song on its own, and you have no context (which is to say, you make up the context on your own) it is moving. Because it’s a pretty-enough song with vaguely passionate lyrics, once you assign meaning to them. But the movie doesn’t build up why this song should be an impactful declaration for either Asha or Magnifico. We already knew that Magnifico made it his job to “protect” the wishes (which are the subject of the song.) Asha, on the other hand, has only just been introduced to us, and we know she “cares too much,” so we already knew she’d protect people’s wishes. The song isn’t giving us a deeper understanding of them, or a more interesting angle to look at their motivations.

But, that’s not really the problem. The problem is that the wishes are the subject of the song. And that whole concept, of wishes being tangible objects that hold the most important and beautiful part of people’s hearts, but when they’re tangible, they remove that part from the person, is bad. It’s not good to try and build a story of stolen-treasures on.

Because that’s how they’re treated. Like treasures that the king is hoarding, after manipulating the people of Rosas into giving them up. And you know what? That’s a terrible thing to sing a protective love song to.

Just think about it this way: the story is about a King who takes everyone’s favorite keepsakes (family jewels, ornaments, old photos) and promises to protect them, but in actuality…for some reason…the moment they hand the keepsakes over, they forget whatever made the keepsake important to them. And then the King and a young woman sing a heartfelt song to the photographs and old brooches about how they will love and protect the photographs and old brooches.

Do you see why this song is pretty but not impactful in the story? They shouldn’t be singing to the wishes. Even Magnifico. They should be singing to the people. The movie plays it as if that is what they’re doing—singing a heartfelt promise of protection to a person, or a people. But that’s not what they’re doing, and do you know why?

Because the people have forgotten their wishes.

By definition, the actual human beings in Rosas cannot care (believably) about the bubbles in King Magnifico’s tower. They can only vaguely care about the chance of being happier than they are now, someday, if the wish they don’t even remember is granted. And what a terrible lesson, never mind plot point.

Anyway.

I digress. The point is, for a personally-worded, vow-of-protection-song to hit the audience meaningfully, it needed to matter to the person receiving the vow. But there is no person receiving the vow. Because of the narrative and lazy concept, only Asha and Magnifico care this much about the wishes. Because the people who made them have forgotten them. (More on this when I talk about Asha’s mom.)

When Sabino’s wish is not granted - This is supposed to be like a “Tiana’s restaurant gets taken away from her when she’s outbid” moment. The character is crushed when the thing they wanted and really believed they would finally get is taken away.

Doesn’t work in Wish, though. Because of a few things, but the main two are:

The audience has no reason to believe this means so much to Sabino because he hasn’t been shown really longing for his wish to come true.

This movie avoids any vulnerable emotion in facial expressions.

When Tiana loses her chance to have her wish come true, it is also unfair—she was already promised the property, but the brokers accepted a larger offer anyway, and it’s implied to be because of racism. Similarly, everyone acts like Sabino is entitled to (“promised”) having his wish come true because he’s so old and it’s his birthday. Plus we, the audience, know that Magnifico isn’t rejecting his wish for good reasons, and that Sabino’s wish is unselfish. So it’s meant to feel unfair and sad when he doesn’t get it, but it’s not. Not like it felt with Tiana.

Not only does the lazy concept of wishes and forgetting them once they’re tangible hamstring all of this—but the fact that Sabino has had nothing but a handful of sparse lines (ones like “we don’t know for sure that I’ll get my wish granted”) to convince us that he really cares about this hamstrings it, too.

When Tiana loses her restaurant property, it’s only about 24 minutes into The Princess and the Frog, and we have already had:

1 - A song about how hard she’s worked for it. 2 - An opening scene where her relationship with her father connects the restaurant to a deeper, more personal meaning for her.

3 - Several scenes where she is shown doing drastic things to get enough money for it; her drawer full of tip money; the two jobs she works with only a minute’s sleep in between; her friends asking her to come dancing but reiterating the fact that she often loses time for fun and their good feeling toward her because “all she does is work.”

4 - We are also shown that people don’t believe she’ll get it. The cook at her job mocks her for her wish, which makes it all the more important to the audience that she gets it—to prove the jerks wrong.

Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the restaurant is directly tied to Tiana’s character flaw AND her strengths, at the same time, so that it’s killing two birds with one stone—we’re shown who Tiana is, and we’re convinced to empathize with her when something sad happens to her.

Sabino has zero of those things going for him. No character details or set pieces to hint to us that he wants the wish to be granted so badly—no speeches about what it means to him—no memories tied to how he began to wish for this thing—because there can’t be. Because he’s spent 82 years not wishing. Because he’s lived the majority of his life totally forgetting what he wanted. You couldn’t logically show any evidence that he wanted it that much, then, could you?

So Sabino can’t be shown caring too much about not getting his wish. Therefore the audience doesn’t care either. We’re shown a glimpse of his sad face, and Asha’s sad face, and then told, “now feel sad!” But the work wasn’t put in to make it happen.

They cut their legs out from under themselves.

Now you could say, “well it wasn’t really about Sabino’s disappointment, it was about Asha’s disappointment.”

Yeah, but that doesn’t really hold up either. I’ll explain how in the next moment-that-should’ve-made-us-feel-something failure:

When Asha’s family doesn’t believe her - This scene is very clearly supposed to be like the one where Mulan has an argument with her family about her father going to war, and knowing her place, and he yells at her and she runs out distraught.

You definitely feel for Mulan and care about how she’s feeling in this scene—you might even cringe at the part where her dad yells at her. Part of that is because the scene is so well-done—there’s the buildup of tension as the camera cuts between each family member quietly drinking their tea, refusing to talk about the day’s devastating events. Then Mulan bursts out by slamming her teacup down and starting the yelling, herself, in outrage. Her dad stays quiet and steady like he has the whole movie up till now, so then when he stands up and shouts at her, about the exact thing she has been so upset over since the Matchmaker’s, the audience really feels the impact.

You don’t feel the same way about Asha, and it’s not just because her family argument scene wasn’t done as well—it’s also not just because, as you can see above, the movie keeps tiptoeing away from emotional vulnerability in the way the characters look.

It’s mostly because there’s been no impactful buildup to this scene. Again.

When Mulan has an argument with her father, you know what it means to her to have him yell at her about doing what’s right in her own place—you’ve had the whole first few scenes of the movie to convince you of it.

Mulan is upset because she wants to find her place and she loves her father very much. But she does not, ever, say the words “I love my father so much.” She doesn’t even outright say things like that before the argument. She doesn’t say to the Matchmaker, “Won’t you please give me another chance? My father has been praying about this for weeks, and I can’t bear to disappoint him. My father is a great man; he fought for the Emperor and was wounded in the wars; for his sake, can’t you help me?”

Asha does. Asha says to King Magnifico (but really, to us, the audience) “My grandfather’s wish! It’s beautiful.” And “Your Highness, couldn’t you grant his wish?” And to her friends, and to her mother, and to her grandfather himself—over and over she just reminds us with flat, “okay-we-get-it” dialogue and exposition of what she wants.

Whereas Mulan shows us. She convinces us. She runs up to her father, in the very first scene, and we’re shown that even though she has trouble remembering what she’s supposed to say to the matchmaker—even though she has trouble remembering what time it is and getting her other chores done—with this one part of her life, her father, she can remember exactly what the doctor said about how much tea he needs to drink. And she is prepared for her own clumsiness to make sure he gets it.

And even after she doesn’t get what she wants, and is shown to be so ashamed she can’t even look at him (because that’s how much she loves him and cares what he thinks) the only thing that makes her feel better is when he carefully compares her to a late-blooming flower and basically promises that he believes in her, anyway. We know how much Mulan cares about her father because we’ve been convinced by the way the movie artfully and carefully shows it.

We also know that she cares about knowing her place, specifically because of her family’s wishes for her. So all of this combines to prove to us that having her father shout at her about knowing his place and why he’s going to die willingly is a devastating thing for her. Enough for her to run out of the house sobbing and cling to a pillar as if she can’t hold herself up.

But when Asha runs out of the house (barely sobbing, just kind of breathing fast, because there’s no vulnerability in this movie) and stumbles up to a tree in the same way, we don’t really believe something so devastating has happened to her.

Everything happened too fast. She just kept saying she cares about Sabino’s wish coming true, and that she loves him. When he explodes at her (and really out-of-nowhere asks if she wants to “break his heart”) it’s the first time he’s shown any kind of intense emotion, either toward her, or about his wish.

There is no build-up. So it just feels awkward, and kind of like a high school production where one of the kids hasn’t even been trying to act, but in one scene, he suddenly starts yelling because that’s what his character is supposed to do. And it’s just cringe because you haven’t seen that level of energy, happy or sad, good or bad, at all up until now.

And that’s a problem because it leads right into Asha’s “This Wish” song, which is supposed to be like her “Mulan riding off to war” moment. But it’s not set up well by the emotions tied to the family argument, or the emotions tied to the conflict with the King, so you don’t really care.

Moving on to the next emotional-moment failure:

When King Magnifico threatens Queen Amaya - I don’t have much to say about this one; I think you’re getting the point. When there’s nothing but bland words and one-liners spoken to convince us that the characters are thinking and feeling how they’re thinking and feeling, moments like this one just feel boring and forced. And try-hard.

Like, the lighting? The music? Fine. Good. When he points his new magic wand at her threateningly, and clearly appears ready to betray her? All that stuff is fine. It just hasn't been built up to, so it doesn’t hit.

It’s like, “that’s it?” He just says one line about, “Are you betraying me?” And she pours forth a bunch of lines like “no I’ve always believed in you and in Rosas.” And then he’s basically like “okay, I’m convinced, moving on” which of course is him already knowing that she’s betrayed him and already having a plan to trap Asha…but still. From Queen Amaya’s point of view, there’s nothing emotional here.

We’re supposed to believe they’re madly in love and that she trusts him wholeheartedly, so that when he falls to dark magic and she chooses to side with Asha it’s this big moment. But it happens so fast.

There’s no moment where Queen Amaya grieves her husband. There’s no real sense of loss, or even of impactful betrayal. The voice actress delivers every line like she’s trying and failing to feel what the character feels as she reads the lines to a 5 year-old who needs every concept spoon-fed to them.

And King Magnifico drops her like a bag of dirt instantly. No sense of loss from him, either. He’s not even condescending to her, like, for example, Mayor Lionheart was to Dawn Bellwhether in Zootopia. Or like Jafar was to Iago. All of those things would’ve made their quick severing of bonds to each other make more sense.

But we’re not shown that Queen Amaya has sensed any darkness building in her husband over the years, and is just now realizing that this is the last straw and maybe he was never the man she thought he was. She treats him like she adores him (blandly) for the whole first half of the movie. No hint of doubt. Even when he goes for the forbidden book the first time, she easily convinced him not to and then wandered away like “well, took care of that.”

When Asha’s mother loses her wish - The biggest problem with this moment is still lack of buildup, and that is because the tangible-wish forgetfulness thing is stupid as we’ve established. We don’t believe she feels grief, even when she says she does, because we don’t know this woman at all. We don’t know what she wants, or how badly she wants it—we certainly don’t feel that she’s been missing her wish.

But the other offenses are worth mentioning. When Asha’s mother’s wish is broken by Magnifico, she just…gasps. And her father-in-law says her name, and Asha yells something typical like “no!” She looks a little weak in the knees, like maybe she can’t walk for a second, so the 100 year-old man supports her.

But the cameras spend no time on how this is affecting her. The shots of the family escape in the immediate aftermath of this world-shattering thing don’t let us see Asha’s mother’s face. Not that her facial expression is that devastated, anyway. It’s just “typical sadness” expression. There’s a shot where they’re going from the house to the stolen horses and if I remember correctly, Asha’s mother has her back to the camera the whole time; I was looking at her because I was like “something devastating just happened; this is the most interesting part of the scene.” But there was nothing to see.

They could’ve had her visually turn grey. They could’ve had her go mute, stare off into space, suddenly become scarily unreachable. They could’ve had her weeping uncontrollably. They could’ve just had her go catatonic—after all, we’re supposed to believe that even the chance of having “the most beautiful part of her” returned to her heart was just destroyed. Wouldn’t that logically make a person…cold? Calloused? Unfeeling? Uncaring? But no. She’s as just keen to express concern for Asha and apologize for being wrong about Magnifico and urge Asha to keep believing in herself, passionately, as she would’ve been before. No big deal, just lost the most beautiful part of myself forever.

Doesn’t help that we never knew what the mom’s wish even was, so even we can’t miss it.

So when she gets her wish back at the end, and she’s like, “come home.” It’s just…cringey.

When Asha convinces the crowd to wish for Magnifico’s defeat - The idea of the movie is that “the power of the stars is in you because we all came from stardust, so keep wishing and working toward it even when it’s hard.” So this moment is supposed to be impactful.

But it isn’t. Because that kind of thing isn’t impactful. They literally sing a song, glow, and Magnifico is defeated. Even if we were supposed to believe Star was dead, and this is bringing him back like Tinkerbell coming back to life, it’s still not impactful. Because one, it happens way too fast. And no character really emotes about it, like Peter did when he thought Tink was dead.

Two, that hasn’t been the point of the whole movie; the main character never had trouble believing that she was powerful enough to enact change. She barely doubted her own wish. If they wanted us to be excited that she could win based on the stardust in her heart, and in the kingdom’s hearts, alone, then they should’ve given us several scenes where it’s like “Asha is relying too much on Star’s power.”

But no, doubt and disbelief and reliance were never character flaws of hers for this moment to overcome. She doesn’t really have any character flaws, let’s be honest.

Even if you want to say “well sure, Asha didn’t doubt her own power, but the kingdom did! Otherwise, why would it’s citizens have put so much reliance on King Magnifico?” Okay, that’s nice, but 1) that is never solidly or impactfully alluded to in the story, beyond jokes about how handsome they think the king is and the literal plot point of trusting him with their wishes. And 2) having a whole kingdom of background characters believe something false and then get their minds changed in a split second is not nearly as impactful as having the main character’s mind changed first—and then she passes that knowledge on to them.

Like Judy Hopps learning to try to understand Nick, then encouraging all of Zootopia to try and understand each other. Like literally any good story where a whole kingdom needs to realize something.

Also it is never a good idea to defeat your villain just by singing about how you want to defeat your villain. Nobody should have to tell Disney that. They wrote the book on this.

But this movie was made by a company that no longer knows itself.

I could say more, like about the moment where Asha supposedly is at her lowest, or the part where Star “leaves,” or when her friends work together, or the “Knowing What I Know Now” song, but it’s all the same problems.

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the-sage-libriomancer · 5 months

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Rewatched Princess and the Frog today and honestly it feels more like a celebration of Disney's 100 years than Wish. A classic fairy tale respun in interesting ways while still being undeniably Disney? Check. A traditional story with modern twists and a (narratively) strong female protagonist? Check. A return to 2D animation in a time when the medium was dying out? Check. Hell, it even takes place in the same time period (1920s) that Walt Disney released the first animated feature film and started a hundred years of magic. There are multiple references to older Disney movies, from classics like Pinocchio and Sword in the Stone to (then) recent films like Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. It features the fucking wishing star! In a more narratively sound manner than Disney's actual 100th year celebration!

And even beyond that, Princess and the Frog feels like it pays tribute to the magic of magic - the power of believing in stories, of having a dream, of working hard to reach your happy ending while never losing sight of what's really important. There is so much effort put into this movie and it shows: the animation is gorgeous, the story is creative and structurally sound, and behind the scenes reveals that the producers put their backs into making sure both the African American aspect and the New Orleans cultural aspect were accurately depicted. It was the first Disney movie in over a decade to return to the Broadway musical format, and they literally had to dust off the abandoned 2D art tools because the company hadn't used them since 2004.

Princess and the Frog was a labor of love through and through, a heartfelt tip of the hat to Disney's legacy while still being its own story. I don't know what could be more celebratory of Walt Disney's dream than that.

#i admittedly haven't seen wish yet so i feel a little hypocritical complaining about it #but i have Not been hearing good things about it and i trust the youtubers on this one #years of cross referencing other people's reviews with my own thoughts has taught me how to sense #when the masses are right and when they're talking shit #and when it comes to wish i think it really is just a corporate-controlled mehburger :/#anyway please rewatch princess and the frog it is SOOOOOO GOOD #i really couldn't ask for a more perfect movie #might make another post talking about it because it needs way more appreciation that it gets #it's the movie that killed disney's 2d animation era #but it was so worth it just for the movie to exist #princess and the frog #wish 2023 #analysis #sage speaketh

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uva124 · 2 months

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Okok, I know what you're thinking: what the hell happened to Aster? Well, it's a funny story <⁠(⁠￣⁠︶⁠￣⁠)>

I was discussing Aster's design with Emy and Anny, in particular his clothes, since I personally wasn't convinced by the idea of him having yellow boots, but then I realized that I didn't want Aster to look like Emo wearing all black, so I said in the group:"yeahh, I think I understand why they should be a different color, I don't want Aster to look emo either lmao (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠)", ✨And so this amazing idea was born✨, I mean, just think about it, the boy has a overprotective family that underestimates him because of his age and incidentally does not fully understand him because of his curiosity about the human world, Aster had to have at least one year where he had an emo stage lol, Emy also gave me this idea: I imagined Aster refusing to shine at night and saying something like "if I can't shine on earth I won't shine in the sky either, we already have too many stars here, I want to shine there", it was impossible for me not to draw it lmao.

plus: Aster and Asha's live reaction to Aster emo lmao (if you're wondering who's next to them, it's my avatar :] )

Now I know what you're thinking (again): Who is Emy?

Well, it is a pleasure to introduce you to the new member of the team "the kingdom of wishes" @emillyverse! *Incerte confetti sounds 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉*

She will be in charge of making comics of @annymation 's incredible story, it is very fun to work with both of them!

The 3 of us hope that all of you like our next works :D

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usernamesuggestionsarefunny · 5 months

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Wish spoilers ahead.

The start of Wish is exactly like that of Encanto but without all the heart. It is literally the meme of "Can I copy your homework?" "Yeah but change a few things so it is not too obvious."

Also Asha deserved a pretty dress in the end like wth are you going to sell to little girls Disney you are all about money and you failed miserably even at that.

And it is for real soooo unfair how the queen did get a pretty dress the whole movie and Asha only got some lazy ass sparkles added to her boring ass dress.

Asha... not bad, ok, but she is copy paste Anna, Mirabel, and Rapunzel. Youtuber ModernGurlz is right about Disney's "adorkable" problem. All their main girls since Rapunzel have the same "quirky" personality save a few details. I have liked them all but it is getting boring. Give me a princess with a monotone, sad personality, give me a shy princess who only smiles and talks around close friends, give me back the classic super girly personality Aurora and Snow White style, give me an angry girl with a brutal sense of humor like Merida. Be creative, please!!!

I love the queen's design, super gorgeous. Too bad her character added nothing. Her help was barely needed since Asha's friend had already sneaked them into the castle and it was her who deciphered the king's magic. A super villain couple would have been way more fun.

Oh, yeah, Asha's friends. There were so-damn-many of them and only like 3 were rememberable or needed for the story.

The villain is a complicated issue. I appreciated Disney's attempt at another fully evil character, I liked how he wasn't yet another badly set up "twist villain" revealed only at the end. But I didn't like the end result that much.

His backstory was super underdeveloped and to "get" his motives better, if they really wanted to make him evil-yet-complex, they should have shown us a flashback of him losing his family Encanto style (They copy pasted the start might as well do the same with the antagonist backstory.

What the hell was the missing piece of tapestry for if it wasn't going to have any significance later on? Did the writers just forget or what even?

Worst part for me: The stakes were low as fuck. Disney doesn't respect its target audience, nowadays it thinks that children can't handle anything worse than a main character getting disappointed. The worst this "super evil" villain does is make people sad temporarily, for like two minutes (Kid you not), like one character stays sad for longer but MOST people in the kingdom seem happy and normal after giving up their wishes, he legit just makes people sad a few minutes (Again, I kid you not, no one dies, the wishes he "eats" to make himself stronger come back, nothing he does has a permanent, devastating effect, he is not even revealed to have killed Asha's father in a dramatic way or something). Yeah he makes people forget their wishes which is pretty sketchy but up to that point he seemed to have complex reasons for that, reasons that seem to disappear or have never even been there the second half of the movie when he magically becomes more evil due to a forbidden green spooky magic he uses, and then suddenly he becomes Maleficent (The cool, perfect villain version, not the woobie one) style evil in a very, very rushed and over the top way. I feel like he should have started up as fully evil with no backstory (Just a simple, Gaston or original Maleficent style, self centered guy, who wants more and more power and adoration), and simply gotten worse and stronger OR given more complexity as to why he became that way, but instead we got this weird thing in between where it is clear he just wants power and love from the people for the sake of it and yet he has this half-made sob story on how his family died.

There was a great lack of originality in this movie at the climax as well. Anyone watched "The little mermaid II"? That was pretty much it. Villain gets power boner, says he will enslave everyone (Worst thing he does in whole movie and yet no one trying to defy him dies at least off screen or gets hurt in any meaningful way). Then heroine saves the day.

The funniest part of this movie is that the villain's fate is worse than anything he ever did in the movie I swear. He gets trapped in a freaking mirror and then locked up in a cell (Similar to the Little mermaid II villain's end too lol). That is straight up torture till death, it is so fucked up. And his wife who literally sees how the green spooky magic is the main thing responsible for his bad day (If we are being honest that is all it was, other than the taking wishes part he seemed to be a good king) leaves him to rot and becomes queen Catherine II style, it is hilarious. Like girl, you turned against your husband like five minutes ago because apparently through decades of seemingly loving marriage, you never knew he was evil but now somehow you are ok with him rotting in solitary confinement till the end of time? So dorky and silly. So bad, so bad.

Lastly, that goat was annoying as hell.

#disney wish #wish #asha #asha disney #disney princess #disney prinesses #rant #disney rant #wish rant #wish review #disney wish review

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livrosencaracolados · 9 months

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"A Princesinha"

Sɪɴᴏᴘsᴇ Oғɪᴄɪᴀʟ: Sara Crewe é uma menina encantadora, que estuda no colégio interno da diretora Minchin. Quando o pai morre e ela perde tudo, Sara fica desprotegida, à mercê da cruel diretora do colégio que a explora, rebaixa e quase mata à fome. Contudo a imaginação, a inteligência e a bondade de Sara vão ajudá-la a superar os desafios da sua nova vida. E as boas ações são sempre recompensadas.

Aᴜᴛᴏʀᴀ: Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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O Mᴇᴜ Rᴇsᴜᴍᴏ: Vestidos de veludo, chapéus com penas de avestruz, tutores, criadas, amas, animais exóticos, carruagens privadas, mansões... Tais bênçãos só estão disponíveis à classe mais alta da sociedade, o resto só pode ver esse tipo de maravilhas nos seus sonhos, depois de um longo dia de trabalho. Felizmente, Sara Crewe não tem de se contentar com sonhos, nasceu no mais faustoso berço de ouro e tem tudo o que poderia desejar e muito mais, garantido para o resto da vida com apenas sete anos. Curiosamente, os mimos extravagantes com que Sara é presenteada não a "estragam", aliás, se não lhe tivessem explicado o tamanho da sua riqueza ela nem o reconheceria, porque o que a faz mais feliz no mundo não é algo requintado ou material, é o seu pai, o Capitão Crewe. Jovem, bonito, bondoso e extremamente rico, Ralph Crewe está o mais presente possível na vida da sua adorável Sara, especialmente depois de perder a esposa, mas quando o clima quente da Índia, onde pai e filha têm vivido, se torna demasiado para as crianças inglesas, o Capitão decide mandar a menina para uma escola interna em Londres. Sara não gosta nada da ideia e para a distrair, o Capitão Crewe decide presenteá-la com uma amiga especial, uma boneca única que os dois escolherão juntos e que se chamará Emily, uma companheira vital na jornada da protagonista. Assim, o Capitão deixa a rapariga no colégio interno da senhora Minchin, um verdadeiro monstro de mulher, onde Sara, pela sua capacidade económica, é imediatamente posta num pedestal em relação às outras alunas e chamada de "princesa", para combinar com todo o luxo que a diretora lhe concede. Passando o período de adaptação, Sara acaba por se integrar em Londres e no colégio de forma mais do que ideal: com um quarto privado, uma criada, uma carruagem e um pónei próprio, a sua fiel companheira Emily, um novo círculo de admiradoras e as cartas frequentes do pai, tudo está perfeito. No entanto, a sua vida é virada de pernas para o ar quando na sua festa de onze anos, a mais extravagante que o colégio já viu, recebe uma notícia esmagadora: o seu querido pai morreu e o novo investimento que supostamente o faria dez vezes mais rico, as minas de diamantes, falhou, deixando-o na ruína. A ruína do Capitão Crewe é a ruína de Sara e antes de poder sequer processar as notícias, a menina é alvo da fúria da senhora Minchin, que ao perceber que não pode lucrar mais de lhe fazer graxa, lhe retira tudo o que conhece e a atira para o sótão poeirento e cheio de ratos, forçando-a a ser a nova criada se não quiser ficar na rua. A partir daí, Sara vive em absoluta miséria, passa de ser tratada como uma princesa para ser esbofeteada se abrir a boca, pouco tem que comer, é proibida de interagir com todas as que antes eram suas amigas e fica isolada do mundo, como um segredo sujo. Tudo o que lhe sobra é a sua imaginação fantástica, a que Sara se agarra para sobreviver, decidindo que continuará a agir como a mais nobre das princesas, com toda a integridade, graciosidade e bondade de uma, mesmo vestida em trapos. Fazendo o seu melhor para não perder quem é depois de lhe ter sido retirado tudo o resto, Sara tem uma jornada muito dura pela frente, mas, felizmente, a raridade dos corações puros não passa despercebida e muitas surpresas extraordinárias estão à sua espera no fim do caminho, se ela se conseguir aguentar.

Cʀɪᴛᴇ́ʀɪᴏs ᴅᴇ Cʟᴀssɪғɪᴄᴀᴄ̧ᴀ̃ᴏ:

Qᴜᴀʟɪᴅᴀᴅᴇ ᴅᴀ Pʀᴏsᴀ: A forma como a autora escreve é um miminho, não há outra forma de colocar as coisas. É poesia subtil, cheia de lições, significado e descrições lindas que realmente colocam o leitor a pensar. É capaz de ser um dos meus estilos de prosa favorito.

Hɪsᴛᴏ́ʀɪᴀ: A história da Sara é uma das mais belas, se não mesmo a mais bela, que eu alguma vez já li. É um conto de resiliência, conquista, integridade e, principalmente, moralidade, que ultrapassa tudo. O leitor está ao lado de Sara em todos os momentos: desde o ambiente de luxo, admiração e amor que a rodeou durante tanto tempo, ao instante onde a realidade perfeita se estilhaça em frente dos seus olhos, até às consequências da ruína do Capitão Crewe, onde uma menina inocente acaba no fundo de um poço escuro, sem nenhuma saída aparente, de onde não parece valer a pena levantar-se. É uma leitura altamente emocional que não permite a fuga a uma série de duras introspeções e que acima de tudo inspira. Não é um conto exatamente original, há o da Cinderela como comparação, mas tem um sentimento único e etéreo que não se consegue colocar em palavras.

Pᴇʀsᴏɴᴀɢᴇɴs: A Sara, como já brevemente mencionei, tem um coração de Cinderela, e o mesmo super poder, algo que é muitas vezes ignorado a favor das críticas superficiais à sua história. O seu grande super poder é a sua força, uma força subtil e generosa que não precisa de anunciar a sua existência a plenos pulmões, mas que está lá na sua habilidade de manter a integridade, graciosidade e empatia pelos outros, independentemente de quantas vezes é espezinhada. A Sara é uma protagonista inspiradora, uma menina que não é definida pela sua idade ou circunstâncias e que decide, conscientemente, que a raiva e a tristeza não a vão tirar do lugar onde está, que tudo o que pode fazer é continuar a andar e a oferecer tanto aos outros como espera receber. É sem dúvida uma das minhas personagens favoritas no mundo inteiro, tem um crescimento profundo ao longo da história e são precisas mais protagonistas como ela. Em relação aos outros, todas as personagens são afetadas pela jornada da Sara, o que mostra a sua relevância como protagonista. No caso de, por exemplo, Becky, Ermengarde e Carrisford, a influência de Sara desafia-os a enfrentar os seus medos e inseguranças e deixa-os, no fim do conto, num lugar mais positivo, por estarem dispostos a evoluir. Já a senhora Minchin recusa ter de lidar com os problemas internos que a chegada de Sara lhe traz ao de cima, decidindo que não quer crescer e acabando a história numa situação negativa.

Rᴏᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ: Não há, a Sara é muito nova e já tem muito com que se ocupar. O mesmo para o resto dos personagens.

Iᴍᴇʀsᴀ̃ᴏ: A prosa da autora é magnifica então não será de espantar que tudo o que nos é descrito seja muito fácil de visualizar e extremamente vívido. Mesmo nos momentos mais difíceis da obra, fui transportada para um ambiente lindo e irreal e vivi com a Sara tudo o que lhe foi apresentado. Se há uma coisa que não falha neste livro é a capacidade de imersão, dá vontade de mergulhar nas páginas e não voltar à superfície.

Iᴍᴘᴀᴄᴛᴏ: Li este livro muitas vezes, a este ponto isso já não devia ser novidade, não costumo recomendar algo que me é novo, e todas as vezes foram uma experiência encantadora. Este é o meu livro de conforto, se esse conceito vos for familiar, sempre que estou zangada, preciso de motivação ou de alguma coisa que me devolva a fé na humanidade, é o que leio. Mostra-me sempre, sem falhas, que sacrificar quem eu sou não vale a pena, em nenhuma circunstância, e que quem oferece o melhor de si ao mundo, recebe o melhor que o mundo tem para dar. A Sara serve de modelo para como eu quero ser, eu idolatro protagonistas em vez de celebridades, e relembra-me sempre que não há arma mais poderosa do que a integridade (como a Selena Gomez diz, mata-os com bondade). "A Princesinha" desafia ao crescimento e poucas obras estão tão bem memorizadas na minha cabeça como esta.

Cʟᴀssɪғɪᴄᴀᴄ̧ᴀ̃ᴏ Fɪɴᴀʟ:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Iᴅᴀᴅᴇ Aᴄᴏɴsᴇʟʜᴀᴅᴀ: Qualquer idade honestamente, a Sara é o modelo perfeito para os mais novos, embora possa ter lições mais claras para os mais velhos. Costumo dar sempre uma idade mínima mas este é o tipo de livro que foi propositadamente escrito para ser relido muitas vezes, então mesmo que seja lido por alguém muito pequeno, vai ter muito a oferecer mais à frente.

Cᴏɴᴄʟᴜsᴀ̃ᴏ/Oᴘɪɴɪᴀ̃ᴏ Fɪɴᴀʟ: Já é bem claro o que penso, só não disse ainda as palavras óbvias: ISTO É UMA OBRA-PRIMA. O facto de não ter mil e um enredos a acontecer ao mesmo tempo não reduz a beleza deste livro, e eu não sou de dar cinco estrelas facilmente. É absolutamente algo que todos deviam ler a algum ponto da vida, talvez se o fizessem, teríamos uma sociedade mais humana. Então, claro, megaaaaaaaa RECOMENDO!

Pᴀʀᴀ ᴏʙᴛᴇʀ: A Princesinha, Frances Hodgson Burnett - Livro - Bertrand

Assɪɴᴀᴅᴏ: Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 𝐿𝓊𝓏 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒlit

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bulbabutt · 5 months

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no offence to people who genuinely enjoyed james somerton and feel cheated but you could kind of tell he didnt give a shit about anything he ever said. there was no passion or personable anecdotes in anything he ever made, and the fact he was constantly posting videos was crazy. like if you watch your more popular video essayists theyre always coming from a point of 1) education in a field 2) passion in a subject and 3) being open about themselves

like , this man hopped on the video essay train because of the popularity of his peers and just tokened himself into "the gay video essayist" as if so many other people werent already doing that? and the lack of care for intersectionality was obvious. i stopped ever watching him after he took it personally that some marvel show was about black exploitation in america and not about two men kissing each other, cuz it became abundantly clear that was the only experience he gave a shit about (his own)

#idk im GENUINELY not trying to be rude im just saying be sus of people who dont put themselves in their work #like i remember lindsay ellis and dan olsen talking about their film school experience and then you look at their work and its like oh yeah #i see how this is their work because they know what theyre talking about and they enjoy it #and you can look at like quinton reviews or jenny nicholson deep diving into media for hours and its like theyre taking you on a journey #and you feel like youre watching them go crazy but steering the ship in a way only they can #or theres people like princess weekes who bring up their own experiences watching queer media and where they were at the time #she once was like “yeah i made i kissed a girl amv disney crossovers” LEADING ME TO REALIZE ID SEEN SAID VIDEOS 15 YRS AGO............#cuz i was subbed to her and she introduced me to all the things she said and we have a mutual queer experience from that kinda source lmao #anyway you can tell these people put themselves in their work!#and when it came to james that was just never there because nothing he ever said WAS his own experience #it was always money to him not passion or experience or community #idk this might be a nothing post but ive been thinking about it since watching the hbomb video

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kindlythevoid · 10 months

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Something about the way Ariel’s siren song saved Eric.

Something about the way Eric fell in love with her siren song first.

Something about the way that when Ariel gave up her song, Eric was finally given the chance to love her for her.

(And boy, did he fall hard.)

Something about the way that Eric’s love was finally made whole when Ariel herself became whole.

Something about the way Ariel was able to love him with her whole self after reconciling with her past with her father.

#Something something Ariel and Eric symbolize a whole healthy relationship #Loving each other as complete people #Enough of soulmates filling in gaps #More of soulmates filling in the spot where your hand meets mine #the little mermaid #prince eric #ariel #mermaids #So anyway just saw the remake of The Little Mermaid!!#CGI was iffy at some points #But the overall story was fantastic #Great character development #Wonderful songs #Incredible acting #Kiki does movie reviews in the tags #just yelling into the void #something something poetry #disney princesses #kiki writes a little

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adventuretolkienlover · 7 months

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My Atlantis The Lost Empire Review!🗺️🪖💎🏺💣🛞🧭⚓🛟

I finally got the courage to do it! Yay!

First I'd just like to start out by saying AOAHSJDJDHFBJFJFJFJFIGJGJDKSOXJVJFJDJUVJFUFJFUGUGHFHFUDIDJDJFHFHFUFHFJ!!!!!!!!!

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Okay, stimming done! I should note, I don't hold back in my reviews. I see something wrong? I can and WILL say it! Luckily, there's like, nothing wrong with this movie, so you won't hear much of that from me! Lol!🤣 This is first time doing this kinda thing. So I apologize for any errors or incorrect formatting.

Now, without further adu, the review! (Hey that rhymes!) Below the cut cus it's LOOOOOOOOOONG!!!! It's literally the longest post I've made. And there's SPOILERS! So beware!

Okay, I'm not even sure where to start cus this is one INSANE ride of a movie! I mean HOLY COW!!! IF ALL OF DISNEY'S MOVIES WERE THIS GOOD, I'D WATCH

EVERY

SINGLE

ONE.

I'm not even kidding. I don't know what I'm doing, so let's just start with the World building.

WORLD BUILDING

This movie ROCKS in the world building department. Everything is well rounded out and looks stunning. One of the things that I found most exciting was the fact that they made a WHOLE FRICKEN USEABLE LANGUAGE FOR THIS MOVIE!!!!!! They actually brought in a linguist to make it!!!! That's how committed they were!!! Do you hear about Disney doing this nowadays? NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Also, THE STEAMPUNK AESTHETIC.

LOOK AT THIS SUB!!!! LOOK AT IT!!!!!

It's so detailed and cool looking!!!! If I saw this in love action, I think I'd freak! How can steam powered vessel go below the crush depth?

I DON'T CARE!!! IT'S AWESOME!!! (I especially like that bubble in the front. How fun! I'd definitely be looking out of that thing all the time!) I heard people say that watched the scene with the Leviathan attacking the sub thought it looked so real, that some people who worked on army subs got FLASHBACKS!!! I'm not even kidding! Everything during those scenes felt so real and immersive! You can tell Disney did their home work!

Okay now Atlantis itself!

It feels like it's own culture. It's feels real. It doesn't feel or look like a lazy combination of two cultures. It's distinct and interesting looking. And the people are very unique in appearance too. With their blue eyes, white hair, and coppery brown skin. It's a beautiful combination. And their clothes are nice as well. Lots of bright colors. Mostly blues, purples, magentas, etc. Very beautiful.❤️

OH! OH! AND THEIR TECHNOLOGY!!!! Oh my gosh!!! That leviathan and those fish shaped flying machines?!! HECKIN RAD!!!! How are they made?!?? What are they made out of?!??? So many QUESTIONS!!!!!!

I especially love the use of crystals in the Atlantian technology. I actually studied stuff like that and from what I've found in my research, it was actually entirely possible that ancient civilizations, like Atlantis used Crystals in somes ways of energy. Which is amazing! I don't know if that's where they got inspiration. But I found it intriguing none the less!

And the Creatures were also cool! They felt almost alien or prehistoric in appearance! It was really cool. Some of the creatures looked like they came straight from Pandora from the movie Avatar! I'm a sucker for fantasy creatures and speculative biology. So I'd love to see If I could figure out everything about the ecosystem of Atlantis! To bad they didn't go into more detail about it, but the movie wasn't about the critters. Still, hats of to the crew for giving them such interesting designs!

Okay, Onto more stuff!

THE CHARACTERS

Milo. He's adorkable.

That's it. He's perfect. I love him.

Okay, lol. Actually I have a lot to say. They gave him SOOOOOOOOO much personality! He's dynamic and easy to read! He's allowed to push his expressions and be exaggerated! He's just so fun to watch! Big thumbs up to his animator(s). And look at those glasses! And that hair! Such a good character design! He's just so fun and loveable looking!❤️

And he's allowed to show a full range of emotions! I know this one sounds weird. But it drive me crazy when a character is only allowed to show one emotion and by completely defined by it. Like being sickingly happy go lucky, or dark and moody. It's like, that's all you're going to do with them? But Milo, goes through the full range of emotions in the movie. He's got excitement from going into the unknown. Sadness and grief from the loss of his grandpa and parents. Righteous anger at Commander Rourke's betrayal and utter disregard for the Atlantian people's lives. He experiences everything and it all feels so relatable. He's just the best. I also love how enthusiastic and kind hearted he is. He has the heart of a hero despite his first impressions. And his cute crush on Kida is the best. He's such a goober. He needs to be considered a Disney Prince. He deserves it more than most.

✨KIDA.✨ Just KIDA.🤩

Kida is GORGEOUS. 🤩🤩🤩🤩❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ LOOK AT HER DESIGN! IT ROCKS!!!! WHY THE HECK IS SHE NOT AN OFFICIAL DISNEY PRINCESS!?!??!? SHAME ON YOU DISNEY!!!! She has ALL the qualifications!!!!

She's strong! Mentally, emotionally, AND fricken physically!!! She cares deeply about her people and her culture!!!! She is ROYALTY. She is a WARRIOR!!! She is a QUEEN!!! If any of the "forgotten Disney Princesses" deserved the title of official princess, it HER! FORGET RAYA!!! You're telling me that the Disney heroin that taught people to trust their abusers, EVEN AFTER THEY'VE HURT THEM MULTIPLE TIMES and then GUILT TRIPS THEM, deserved the title of Disney Princess more than THIS WOMAN?!??! BULL! ABSOLUTE BULL! (Sorry for the rant. I have to refrain myself for going on a lecture about how Raya never deserved that title. She is my least favorite Disney princess. 😖👎 KIDA ALL THE WAY!!!!😄👍💕)

Oh, and her and Milo are the cutest couple. I heard people were upset because they didn't get a big kiss at the end. NO! They didn't kiss at the end of the movie! They didn't need to! They just FLIPPEN met!!! I wouldn't either! We're they still an adorable couple? HECK YES!!! They cared about each other and learned from each other and UGH! They so CUTE!!!!! And Milo gets to be King Consort of the Kingdom he spent his entire life searching for alongside his Queen who is also the woman he loves! How great an ending is that?! He knows they were both great rulers. You know it.

Commander Rourke. I hate this man.

I can't even find any good gifs of him. THAT'S HOW MUCH PEOPLE DESPISE HIM! Rourke is the DEVIL! Hidden under the guise of a good old American Army Commander! Which is why he is one of the BEST if not THE BEST Disney villains! He was about to let an entire lost civilization of people die, just because he wanted their LIFE FORCE!!! He definitely deserved to be transformed into a crystal creature then shattered. What a complete MONSTER!!!

I have to admit, I was actually already spoiled by the twist ending. I already knew about it from multiple sources. But somehow, that didn't matter! I watched it and I still felt connected to Rourke, even though I knew what was coming! It was so good! Rourke was written as the stereotypical brave army commander. Down to the last detail. Making a memorial for the lost crew mates. Being friendly with the main cast. Acting like a true gentleman. This is why he makes such a good villain. Nobody expects someone like him to be in league with the NAZIS of all things! Ultimately, he was an absolutely cruel and insane man, that nobody saw coming. It is probably the BEST twist villain I have EVER seen. Incredible writing. Wow.

Now, I'm not sure If I want to go through every single character. But I loved the all and definitely have thoughts on them, so I'm gonna speed run this.

Lieutenant Helga Katrina Sinclair. MA'AM??? Just what do you think you're doing in a kids movie?!!??

🤣 Okay, in all seriousness. She was actually a cool character. She was tough as nails, beautiful, confident. To bad she was that jerk Rourke's head lackey. I mean, she sort redeemed herself toward the end. But it was mostly because she was mad at Rourke for betraying her. Not because she cared about the Atlantis or Kida. Soooooooo... I don't know.🤔

Audrey Rocio Ramirez. LOVE HER!!!!

Her backstory his incredible. Her dad wanted sons. He got two daughters. Audrey and her sister. But you know what? That didn't stop them! He wanted someone to run the garage with him? HE GOT IT! And she's good too! I also love the little detail in her backstory that says her sister is a literal heavy weight boxing champion. You go girl! Show'm what's up! I wish they had given her a name. (I'm gonna give her the name Rosa. That feels right.)

Wilhelmina Bertha Packard. Honestly the most relatable character in the movie.😂 This one gif pretty much sums it up for me.

Somehow, I feel like me and old Mrs. Packard would get along just fine.🤣

Vincenzo "Vinny" Santorini. I'm not sure whether he's crazy or just like explosives a whole lot. Lol.

I actually thought he was Russian the first time I saw him. It wasn't until I found out he was Italian that I realized I made a horrible mistake in identifying his accent. 😂 His almost always neutral expression is helirious. I guess once you've blow up a lot of stuff, nothing phases you. Haha!

Dr. Joshua Strongbear Sweet. *Squeees*

As someone who has Native American ancestry, (my grandfather is Apache,) I was SO excited to see a someone who is half Native American in this film! I mean, half Black and half Native American?! That's INCREDIBLE! I can safely say I've never seen that type of representation in a film before. And he's also one of my favorite characters.

Gaetan "Mole" Molière. This dude is WEIRD... And of course I love him. Haha!

"You have disturbed the dirt." - Mole

I was laughing so hard when I first saw this guy come on screen. He's so dramatic! But he's french, so I guess that fits.

Jebidiah Allardyce "Cookie" Farnsworth. He said this.👇

That's one of the best lines in the film. ☝️😂 But seriously, what can I say? Crazy southern chuckwagon cook with as many unhinged stories as he has pounds of bacon grease. How could I not love him? 😂❤️ One thing I wondered was if this was such a high budget expedition, why couldn't they get like a five star chef instead? NOT THAT I'D WANT THAT BESIDES COOKIE!!! I'd be so mad if they replaced him. I was just curious. But I'm not gonna question it. He's the best and I love him. No five star chef could ever top Cookie.

Kashekim Nedakh i.e The King of Atlantis! WOW.

LEONARD NIMOY?!!?!?? That was pretty much my reaction when I found out who played Kida's father. Who would have guessed that Spock would end up playing a king from a lost empire?! The crew that worked on this movie said that while he was in the recording both, they were stunned. He put his whole heart into the role. They felt like the king was standing there in the room with them! And I FELT that. He sounded just so real! It actually sounded like I was listening to a real ancient king speaking. He was amazing for the role. I'm floored.

THE STORY

The story was amazing. I got a lot of Jules Vern Journey to The Center of The Earth vibes. It was clearly inspired by it.

Milo felt very much like the Axel of the story. Despite being much braver then him. The whole thing felt so cinematic and thrilling! Me and my family were either screaming with excitement or laughing super hard the whole way though.

As the for the moral? Well, it's actually kinda hard to pinpoint exactly. But I think that because unlike other movies, it lets the story show the moral instead of the characters telling us directly.

I would say it shows what happens when people value money and power over human life. Which is important in the time we live in. And that people's culture should be respected.

In all. A very good movie and I highly recommend it. It's a fun, bold, thrilling adventure that you will love.

✨Thanks for reading my review! Bye!✨

#Atlantis The Lost Empire #disney atlantis #disney 2000s #Disney reviews #movies reviews #H #JP speaks #cult classic #milo thatch #princess kida #commander rourke #atlantis disney #leonard nimoy #disney princesses #disney animation #disney princess #disney movies #Disney

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gardengirl222 · 27 days

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molly gunn!

sunshine, glass half full sweetheart molly gunn is who i want to be when i grow up! i just know that sweet girl has all type of eclectic fragrances for what's she's feeling like that day but for sure most are sweet, floral and bright! i love her sm - miss u brittany! 💜

☀️ Demeter Fragrance Apple Pie (if you look really close at her vanity you can see a bottle of Demeter perfume in the back!) 🍏🌸🥧

☀️Jo Malone London Peony & Blush Suede

☀️ Hermès Un Jardin Sur Le Toit

☀️ Gale Hayman Delicious Cotton Candy

☀️ Britney Spears Rainbow Fantasy

☀️ Byredo Sundazed

☀️ Donna Karan DKNY Be Delicious

☀️ Something Sweet - smells like rainbow sherbet!

☀️ Joop! All About Eve

☀️ Lush Snow Fairy

☀️ O Boticário Egeo Dolce

☀️ Lanvin Modern Princess

☀️ Carolina Herrera 212 Sexy

☀️ Nina Ricci Nina

☀️ Demeter Fragrance Sour AppleLollipop

☀️ Ralph Lauren Ralph Love

☀️ Mugler Angel Eau de Toilette (2019)

☀️ Givenchy Absolutely Givenchy

bonus! i did some research (re-watched uptowngirls lol!) and saw her vanity and found her little products so cute so i will list them here as well in case you really want to delve into the molly vibe!

💜 Kérastase Volumintense hair conditioner

💜 giant jar of Crème de la Mer

💜 a MAC compact (could be powder or blush!)

💜 MAC lipstick - (a close match! modesty C)

💜 BeneFit Flamingo Fancy shimmering body highlighter (sadly discontinued but here are some close matches! refy gloss for the face that suit all complexions! and 1. 2.)

💜 a MAC nail polish (I found some colors close to the one on her dresser! 1. 2. 3. )

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mmdisney200 · 1 year

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Ariel live action Limited Edition doll review & unboxing now on my channel 🧜🏽‍♀️😍🫧

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5geesegoose5 · 2 days

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So I finally watched wish and here are my thoughts

it’s not as bad as everyone made it out to be, I actually quite enjoyed it. Is it the best movie? No. Is it enjoyable anyway? Yes.

And I did actually like the songs, they were pretty good, yes the bad guy song was a disappointment of a villain song but all the others were great, especially the “so I looked up at the stars to guide me” one (or however it goes) I really liked that song it hit a bit deep with me.

As for the animation style, I did not think I would like it but once again I was pleasantly surprised when I didn’t mind it, it was kinda cute.

Also! The girl with the crutch!! Love that inclusion

(Sorry I don’t actually remember any of their names, other than Asha)

Over all, I quite liked it, it felt very Disney princessy and I enjoyed it.

8/10 would recommend at least once

(Bonus point because the line where the goat says “all I can see is feet” was relatable and funny because I’m short)

#wish #disney wish #wish 2023 #wish movie #princess asha #the goat was funny #ngl I laughed a little #movie review #would recomend #Disney

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azazel-dreams · 3 months

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Sleeping Beauty - Disney

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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juniaships · 10 months

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Curse of the Sea Witches

I thought to take advantage of scamazon prime day so I bought a couple of TLM books. This is a kiddie graphic novel that takes place after the events of the original movie. It's not as long as I expected and the ending was pretty anticlimatic. Otherwise it's a so read. Plus I love the idea of Ariel exploring other regions and cultures!

The plot is about Ariel and Eric meeting Eric's cousin Magnus as he builds a new port. But it comes into direct conflict with a bitter mer-Queen Arnaaluk. Interestingly aside from a few unnamed background characters Eric and Ariel are the ONLY white people in the story XD

Yes Magnus has Inuit heritage/looks, take that grifters! 😁😁

I wanna say the story sounds like it could be a better sequel than the actual sequel. At least the plot is original and not a complete rehash.

Even the merfolk are designed with Inuit cultures in mind. I do find the skin color odd sine the og merfolk had regular skin and hair colors, though this might be done to make them more unique.

The conflict is fairly interesting and it's clear there isn't any real villain in it (uh oh, the "we want real villains again" crowd won't like the sound of that). But it shows how not everything is purely black and white. Both Magnus and Arnaaluk make good points and *spoilers* do compromise. Anticlimactic as it is.

The biggest flaw is there's no actual sea witches :(

I assumed there'd be something like a sea witch taking advantage of both sides to try to take over the Artic. But it turns out to be just a term used by the humans to describe the merfolk.

Anyways, it's a pretty good addition to the Disney Mermaid lore. I hope there's more stories detailing Ariel's exploring more human cultures in the future!

I think I might use this as a fanfic now.

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randomalistic · 13 days

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Rewatched Princess and the Frog tonight: it’s got some GREAT moments, but it’s overall just fine. (With a few glaring issues but . Yeah 💚)

Ok first off the visuals are really great. I’m still sad Disney basically destroyed their 2D animation department after this movie. And also Pooh but whatever. The characters are so expressive and it’s really cool :)

I especially liked this style change during one of the songs :] it was unique!

Very beautiful visually and it focuses on being extravagant and fun! Which yknow sometimes you need something like that. But it’s also really really. Really surface level and sanitized 1920s New Orleans. Cuz like yeah it’s a Disney movie- they obviously care more about making it child appropriate than time period accurate

It had this whole ‘it doesn’t matter if you’re Black or white we’re all equal!’ thing going on and?? Pretending racism doesn’t exist outside of MAYBE TWO LINES is kind of fucked especially when your movie discusses class differences with rich Prince Naveen (who is from a made up country also) and working class Tiana. This is definitely an issue they could’ve dove more into but they were like. “Nooooo only a few white guys landlords are bad and rude... The black guy chef was also mean to her !” THATS VERY STRANGE. STOP PRETENDING LIKE ITS A “BOTH SIDES CAUSE THE PROBLEM” ISSUE GUHHHHHHHH

Not to mention Tiana is an absolute workaholic and they never really explicitly denounce that as a bad thing. Like sure Naveen is like "maybe you should chill out more" but she was working TWO JOBS AT ONCE, BARELY SLEEPS, and almost NEVER spends time for herself 😭 And it doesn't affect her performance at all?? Maybe Shes Just Awesome But IDK. They frame it as "shes such a hard worker! and if you work hard, everything will turn out ok!" which is a nice sentiment but not realistic. It being a kids movie doesnt make it exempt from criticsm cuz little kids watching it might get the expectation that working yourself to the bone is normal, when in reality that can be really dangerous. Basically Tiana Deserves A Fuckign Break

Anyways im dissing this movie way too much LOL. It does a lot right but I'm only focusing on the issues </3 I really admire Tiana's perseverance despite being overworked as Fuck and her ability to refocus on what's important to her, that being her family and her restaurant. ❤️ Also the whole ‘turning black person into cute marketable creature” trope thing unfortunately tries to push that issue away even further. So basically this movie follows a lot of bad tropes and the 2nd half when they become frogs slows the movie down quite a bit. Not that it was bad, it was just a different direction that was Arguably Less Interesting. although it gets points for being furry media (technically) I will not deny that.

this movie is 20% about a working class black woman facing adversity and 80% about frog romance. sorry

woaht the fuck theres4 of them

Best character alert?!?!!⚠️⚠️⚠️ Like yeah obviously it’s Dr Facilier he sort of carries the whole movie. EASILY the best musical number of the whole film and Friends on the Other Side is one of the best Disney villain songs PERIOD!!!!

(THIS MIDDLE GIF IS FUCKIJG INSANE.)

You can tell they had so much fucking fun making this scene and I love that so much 💚💜

Sentient evil shadow that can interact with the real world?? Cool as FUCK. Shady deals with the shadow realm that inevitably turn against him?? SIGN ME THE FUCK UP!!!!!! WHAT A COOL DEATH… Although there is the fact his black magic is a wide & inaccurate mishmash of different cultural practices to make him appear more Spooky and Evil TM. Is he good representation ? Who am I to say. People love him anyways.

(Maybe it was done that way to make him appear like a ‘Jack of all trades’ or like he’s dabbling in multiple practices when he’s not supposed to, getting him in dangerous business with the “shadow realm.” But that still doesn’t justify it)

Very petty complaint but i was watching this together with my friend who does tarot. As far as I know, NONE of his tarot cards Make Real Sense or have any correlating meaning with what number they are (except for The Tower, which was when he said Naveen’s funds were low.) it’s not like the average audience member knows tarot, but would’ve been cool if they went that extra mile :’)

Louis was perfect and I have no complaints. Just a big goofy guy AND he’s so talented ! 2nd best character easily

Ok. OKAY FINE I ended up liking Ray more than I expected. [BOOOOOOOOOOO] HEY. I’m just saying He was a happy little fellow. I might be stupid. I don’t think he ever Caused Problems for the main cast which would’ve made him more annoying . But also how wasn’t he Squashed to a pulp LOL. YOU LITERALLY HEAR HIM SQUISH … THEY SHOULDVE HAD A SHOT WITH HIS GUTS EVERYWGERE ON THE PAVEMENT !!!!!! 🙄 I was not attached to him but I didn’t hate him.

(Gif of him dying infintely anyways)

ALSO bro selfships with a star. And after death him becoming the star next to it … 🥺IM SO EASY.

Those 3 slapstick frog hunters were an absolutely useless threat. Facilier’s shadows were JUST established to be after them and that was enough of a threat!! The hunters ONLY existed for cheap comic relief and for Naveen and Tiana to bond and become heterosexual frogs 💔 WORST CHARACTERS !!!!!!!!!! I HATE CHILDREN’S MOVIES !!!!!!!!!

Naveen kind of sucks but at least he learned how to suck less through mincing mushrooms <3 yeah that’s called a character arc 😲’if I can learn how to mince you can learn how to dance’ IT WAS SORT OF CUTEE OK.

Ok I’m getting tired. Bird critique: when they arrived in the bayou for the first time they played Laughing Kookaburra calls. No offense but I dont think this native Australian bird belongs in southern Louisiana and It’s Actually Quite Lost

Anyways the movie is FINE. I probably wouldn’t rewatch it but Dr Facilier is awesome Also i watched this video and i liked it teehee

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"A Princesa e a Tosta de Queijo"

Sɪɴᴏᴘsᴇ Oғɪᴄɪᴀʟ: Lady Camembert quer viver a vida nos seus termos, sem ter de casar, ou melhor, sem ter de casar com um homem. Mas a lei impede as mulheres de herdarem, então, quando o seu pai morre, ela disfarça-se de homem e muda-se para a capital do Reino de Fromage para recomeçar a vida como Conde Camembert. Mas é difícil manter a discrição quando a bela Princesa Brie, com o seu ativismo feroz e grande sentido de moda, chama a sua atenção. Cam não resiste a conhecer melhor a princesa, mas à medida que os dois se aproximam, será ela capaz de manter o seu segredo? Uma comédia romântica em forma de novela gráfica, de temática atual e inclusiva, sobre identidades trocadas, amor verdadeiro e muitas tostas de queijo.

Aᴜᴛᴏʀᴀ: Deya Muniz.

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O Mᴇᴜ Rᴇsᴜᴍᴏ: Há meses que a Lady Camembert e o seu pai se debatem sobre a questão do seu casamento, "Tens de te casar" diz ele; "Não quero marido nenhum" responde ela. Cam rejeita vários homens semanalmente, aparentemente sem consequências, mas a situação rapidamente muda quando descobre que o Conde tem pouco tempo de vida à sua frente, e que a sua morte, mais do que uma perda emocional, pode significar uma perda de tudo à sua volta, deixando-a na miséria. As mulheres não podem herdar, a lei está convicta no que diz, e tendo a teimosia de Cam arruinado a opção de arranjar um marido que assegure a transição dos bens, resta apenas uma opção: Cam tem de se tornar no filho que o pai nunca teve para sobreviver. Inicialmente contra, ela acaba por ceder ao último desejo do pai e transforma-se no novo Conde, deixando tudo o que conhecia para trás e mudando-se para a capital, onde ninguém a conhece, com a única pessoa que sabe que não a vai denunciar, a Feta. Passam-se semanas, meses, sem que Cam saia da nova casa para proteger a sua identidade, mas irrequieta como é, a sua paciência chega a fim e, sorte a sua, na única saída que faz, ouve falar do baile real controverso que a Princesa Brie vai realizar no palácio e decide ir. Espalhafatosa como é, Cam decide causar logo impacto e, estupidamente, garantir que todos reparam nela (para que consiga partilhar o trabalho inovador de uma casa de moda, vá lá), chegando a um baile que proibe o uso de peles, com uma estola de pele falsa. Isto evoca imediatamente a raiva, e depois a admiração da Princesa Brie, que a convida para um chá no palácio, onde debatem ideias para o próximo evento e onde Cam conhece as suas amigas mais próximas, Lady Ricotta e Lady Gorgonzola que, olhem a coincidência, é a dona da marca que Cam publicitou e nativa de Gougère, a cidade de onde Cam fugiu depois de o pai morrer. A partir daí, Cam e Brie vão-se aproximando cada vez mais entre bailes, desfiles e chás acompanhados de tostas de queijo, até demais, começando a desenvolver sentimentos que podem arruinar a protagonista. O peso da decisão que tomou começa realmente a afetar Cam nessa altura, impedindo que esteja com a Brie como quer, e a Princesa, sem contexto sobre a situação, assume que a sua contenção tem a ver com a grande diferença hierárquica entre as duas, decidindo então que se quiser estar romanticamente com o Conde, tem de ser ela a pedi-lo em casamento. Mas depois as patilhas falsas de Cam descolam-se e vai tudo por água a baixo. A única coisa mais assustadora para Cam do que ter a identidade descoberta e ser presa é desiludir a Princesa, felizmente, ela tem muita mais raiva a descarregar do que tristeza então Cam nem consegue imaginar o que a espera. As coisas parecem não poder piorar ainda mais, Cam atingiu o fundo do poço, mas, oh, pioram, porque Brie aparentemente está prestes a ficar noiva do Duque mais aborrecido do mundo e não há nada que o nosso Conde possa fazer contra isso. Pronto a fugir outra vez, o Conde concorda em atender um último baile antes de abandonar a capital e tudo o que lá viveu. Será preciso um milagre para as coisas se reverterem...felizmente, a receita para um, não é um mistério: Gorgonzola + Gouda + Feta = Tosta de Queijo/Milagre. Agora só é preciso comer a tosta a tempo.

Cʀɪᴛᴇ́ʀɪᴏs ᴅᴇ Cʟᴀssɪғɪᴄᴀᴄ̧ᴀ̃ᴏ:

Qᴜᴀʟɪᴅᴀᴅᴇ ᴅᴀ Aʀᴛᴇ: A arte é DESLUMBRANTE, ADORÁVEL, ah... e TÃO COR DE ROSA, oh meu Deus (agradeçam todas à Brie, vamos). Mas a sério, é literalmente um mimo para os olhos: a palete de cores é felicidade pura, os designs dos personagens são perfeitos, a arte em si é consistente mesmo quando se altera por motivos cómicos...dá para ver que houve um esforço real em fazer algo que dá vontade de olhar durante horas. Ah, e para quem gosta da estética da Disney e de literalmente qualquer programa sobre raparigas com poderes, isto é para vocês.

Hɪsᴛᴏ́ʀɪᴀ: Já falei bastante no enredo, mas essencialmente ele conjuga a leveza de um conto de fadas romântico com a seriedade da viagem que é descobrirmos quem somos num mundo que não é propenso a aceitar-nos. Além da belíssima arte e dos momentos hilariantes (porque há muitos) a história segue uma protagonista que continuamente se encolhe e se contém devido às normais sociais, porque mesmo num mundo de anacronismos onde existem Nintendos e pijamas modernos, o sexismo e a heteronormatividade prevalecem com toda a sua força. Pode parecer que não, as cores distraem, mas todo o aparato que a maioria das personagens faz, especialmente a Cam, não é simplesmente comédia, muito é compensação pela falta de liberdade de expressão que têm nas áreas onde realmente importa. O livro vai introduzindo situações diferentes dentro do mesmo contexto, como a da Zola, que se opõe à experiência da Brie, e menciona como deve ser para as pessoas nas camadas sociais mais baixas viver num reino que se assenta num sistema tão limitante para as mulheres em particular. Se quisermos abrir os olhos, as mensagens estão todas lá, mesmo as que não são ditas em diálogo direto, e é realmente maravilhoso que se possa incentivar a conversa sobre tópicos tão importantes numa narrativa tão acolhedora como é a deste livro. O final acaba por não ser tão perfeito, apesar de ser o que todos queríamos (e merecíamos), foi apressado e as ações que a Brie teve de tomar para chegar lá foram demasiado abreviadas, fazendo parecer que todos os riscos mencionados a história inteira eram apenas problemas inventados e sem importância, o que acaba por desvalorizar a própria história e as suas intenções.

Pᴇʀsᴏɴᴀɢᴇɴs: São todas feitas para ser adoradas, nem dá para contrariar. A Cam é uma bola de energia e entusiasmo, uma conhecedora de moda e um espírito livre que tem a tendência a ignorar a imensidão das suas emoções pelo máximo de tempo possível. Enquanto o humor poder mascarar os seus problemas, a Cam evita-os. Depois perde todos à sua volta e é deixada com a Feta, uma mulher com demasiados instintos maternais, paciência e amor por Cam para o seu bem, que funciona sempre como a voz da razão na sua vida e a puxa a ser a sua melhor versão, desde que essa versão se mantenha nos limites do aceitável para a sociedade. Não é que Feta não adore quem a Cam é, mas sabe que há pouco perdão para pessoas como ela. Durante metade do livro tudo o que vemos da Cam são piadas, excitação e corações nos olhos então parece que a sua vida se encaixou e a perda do pai foi resolvida, mas depois a sua relação com a Princesa complica-se e a Cam perde a maior distração que tinha do seu tumulto interior, obrigando-a a olhar para dentro. Aí percebe que não está tudo bem, que sem a Brie tudo o que sobra é alguém que tem de se mascarar, mentir e comportar de uma certa forma todos os dias até ao fim da sua vida, só para não ser castigada por tomar medidas para sobreviver. Mesmo quando as coisas melhoram, é tarde de mais, a ilusão que a Cam criou dentro de si quando começou a nova vida foi quebrada e por mais que tente já não pode fingir que está feliz, que aceita as condições de nunca se puder apaixonar ou agir como lhe apetece para continuar em frente com uma charada que parecia muito mais simples do que é. Aí vemos lágrimas, raiva e humanidade na Cam, que como qualquer pessoa, começa a questionar a justiça e o sentido das coisas. É nesse momento, em que a fachada cómica cai, que a nossa protagonista começa a crescer, que se permite lidar com o que sente e, depois de ser incentivada pela aceitação da Brie, decide ficar e lutar por uma oportunidade de ser quem quer ser ao lado da Princesa em vez de seguir o primeiro instinto e fugir. Mesmo com as minhas críticas ao último painel da história, ver a Cam num vestido mesmo ao estilo dela com um ar confiante à frente de toda a gente é poderoso, ela parece uma nova pessoa e de certa forma é, conquistou-o. A nível da Brie, também é fantástico ver como evolui do lugar de medo onde acha que tem as mãos atadas em todas as matérias importantes para uma posição de poder onde, depois de processar o conflito interno vindo das crenças que lhe implementaram, percebe que tem de usar os seus privilégios de nascença para o que interessa e defender não só a sua felicidade, mas a de mulheres que possam estar em situações parecidas à sua mas com menos agência. (Ah e ela tem um closet igual ao da Barbie dos filmes antigos, é euforia pura) Ambas as mulheres têm jornadas muito completas de crescimento, o que eu não sabia se ia acontecer numa novela gráfica. Por último, a Zola é uma das minhas personagens secundárias favoritas de sempre: tem uma lealdade incrível, sabe guardar um segredo como ninguém, funciona à base da empatia sem precisar de o exibir, tem os pés na terra, é um génio inovador que lutou por tudo o que queria e não tem medo de colocar os que ama no seu lugar quando é preciso. Ela é complexa, icónica, e estou já a pedir uma novela gráfica sobre ela que fale um pouco mais do seu passado, mostre a sua perspetiva durante esta história e depois lhe apresente um interesse romântico que seja tudo o que ela merece e mais, não para a completar, mas para a complementar, porque não há nada que eu goste mais em termos de romance do que dar a uma mulher fortíssima que batalhou por tudo o que tem alguém que finalmente lhe mostre que ela não precisa de continuar a fazê-lo sozinha e ofereça um ombro para se apoiar. (Porque ser forte não significa não precisar de ninguém) Ah e claro, o Gouda é icónico também, ele também precisa de aparecer na novela sobre a Zola.

Rᴏᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ: O que posso dizer? A Brie e a Cam são de sentir borboletas na barriga, de ficar com cáries nos dentes e de querer abaná-las para perceberem que gostaram uma da outra desde o início. Encorajam-se a serem o melhor de si e são as maiores razões por trás do crescimento uma da outra. Têm o romance que todos queremos.

Iᴍᴇʀsᴀ̃ᴏ: Eu li o livro de uma ponta à outra, não o pousei até chegar ao fim, e isso deve dizer alguma coisa. A única coisa que me retirou do que estava a acontecer foi a dúvida sobre a temática do queijo, que apesar de adorável, não é explicada de todo e parece que a autora não se compromete totalmente a ela porque para algo tão presente, eu esperava que houvessem literalmente edifícios em forma de queijo ou feriados nacionais dedicados a tipos dele. Mas isso é algo pequeno. (E não gostei do ataque às couves-de-bruxelas, porquê associá-las com alguém aborrecido quando, e isto não devia ser controverso, sabem bem como tudo?)

Iᴍᴘᴀᴄᴛᴏ: É a minha primeira novela gráfica e sem dúvida o livro mais bonito da minha biblioteca, duvido que o esqueça ou que deixe de pegar nele com o máximo cuidado possível. Além disso, tenho um lugar especial no meu coração para a temática do conto de fadas, então arte maravilhosa e a ideia da troca de género em nome da sobrevivência estilo Mulan tornam este livro um vencedor para mim.

Cʟᴀssɪғɪᴄᴀᴄ̧ᴀ̃ᴏ Fɪɴᴀʟ: ⭐⭐⭐⭐+ ½

Iᴅᴀᴅᴇ Aᴄᴏɴsᴇʟʜᴀᴅᴀ: Não há nenhum tema particularmente forte nesta novela, mas tem mensagens importantes então a partir dos 12, 13 anos é uma leitura maravilhosa.

Cᴏɴᴄʟᴜsᴀ̃ᴏ/Oᴘɪɴɪᴀ̃ᴏ Fɪɴᴀʟ: Este livro deu-me uma fome imensa por mais novelas gráficas, se forem todas assim, não consigo imaginar como é que conseguirei voltar a adorar um livro normal outra vez. É quase como ver uma animação em papel, RECOMENDO.

Pᴀʀᴀ ᴏʙᴛᴇʀ: A Princesa e a Tosta de Queijo, Deya Muniz - Livro - Bertrand

Assɪɴᴀᴅᴏ: Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ 𝐿𝓊𝓏 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

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