Blog 10

In the movie that we watched in my Race, Gender, and the Media class, it discussed Disney movie characters and the Disney Corporation. The class discussion was based on whether or not we believed that Disney characters were innocent or not.

            When I was a child, I obsessed over Disney movies and still do to this day, only now they are Pixar motion pictures instead of the original Disney movies. While watching the video last week, I was surprised by all of the subtle imagery that Disney had created that was not innocent, but when I was a child I did not notice any of the harmful imagery discussed in the film.

            Now that I am older, I can see that Beauty and the Beast was not a fairy tale at all, but I do not think it is okay to think that Disney purposefully made their movies to be indecent for children.

            Another topic that came up in the discussion was the lack of black people in the film Tarzan. When I was a child, I was unaware that the first movie was so racist towards the people who lived in the jungle. I do believe that Tarzan was a wholesome children’s movie, but I am disappointed that they did not represent a whole minority in the film.

            Throughout the discussion and the movie, I was terrified by what Disney has displayed for children to watch, but because children are so innocent they are unaware of the terrible misrepresentation of race and gender in the Disney films. I do believe that something should be done to the original movies, but only to please parents and family members who do not approve of the movies in their entirety.