“Part of Her World”
Walt Disney’s The Little Mermaid, written and directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, is an animated fantasy and romance film. Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, it tells a story about a mermaid who falls in love with the prince who lives on the human surface. The film teaches the young audiences life lessons. The animated film makes the story feel realistic to young adults because it’s about struggles of a teenager becoming an adult. It helps teenagers to identify real life situations. Throughout the timeline in The Little Mermaid, the makers of The Little Mermaid use their imagination and Disney house style to visualize Andersen’s story and develop The Little Mermaid characters into modern people. In addition, the composers, Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, created witty songs that fully enhanced the movie.
The fascinating story begins at sea, depicting the underwater kingdom, and the glimmering lights reflecting on the water. Ariel, who is dissatisfied with her life as a mermaid. Ariel does not obey her father, King Triton’s commands and his adviser, Sebastian, who looks out for Ariel. She was supposed to perform at her father’s ceremony. She and her guppy friend, Flounder, swam and went to a sunken ship. Ariel found a fork inside the sunken ship. Ariel collects human artifacts and goes to the surface of the ocean to visit Scuttle the seagull, who offers very inaccurate knowledge of human culture. King Triton was disappointed at Ariel for going to the surface and he gave Ariel a serious warning. Ariel was upset and went inside her grotto, filled with her thingamajigs she collected. Apparently unique among her kind, she is fascinated by the human world, although Triton has a hatred for humans...
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...ll the wedding scene at the end of the movie, why would Ariel get married at age sixteen. I mean it’s happily ever after but not like this, until she’s 25. I just hardly believe that King Trition let her daughter go, because Eric truly loves her. As a father, did he know that Ariel is old enough to get married? Disney writers are not concern on legal age matters throughout those times...as long as a lady and a gentleman met, they are conceivable to be married...just to have a happliy ever after thing.
The Little Mermaid is a great, jolly, and creative animated film for everyone can enjoy. The film’s real artistry, great image, and strong modern characters with a revolutionary theme will fascinate grownups. Young children will be fascinated by the film’s great and radiant fairy tale, as well as the energy and fun from the great Disney songs.
Disney Princess movies target children and are none other than a transfigured fairytale story in which innocence and moral virtue are questioned. In pursuit of romance and having the mindset of doing whatever it takes for love, Disney creates this magical world and targets the youth, especially young girls. Walt Disney was a creative and “radical filmmaker who changed [one’s] ...
People take journeys for fun, to get away from things, or to succeed or gain something in return. A regular journey is somewhat different from a hero’s journey. The only difference from a regular journey and a hero’s journey is that a hero’s journey involves the hero going somewhere else to prove something to show what they are worth of, to prove they’re worthy enough. In the movie “The Little Mermaid.” and in the story “Sigurd the Dragonslayer.” The main characters both take a journey to prove something. They want to show others that they’re not just ordinary. Both characters take this journey to get something in return. A hero does something to save the world, to save others,
The first reason why Ariel is most like myself is because of her love for adventure. In the film, The Little Mermaid, Ariel wonders off to ship wrecks and swims up to the surface to speak to birds to identify human objects. She is always on the run for an adventure, much like myself. If I am not at home taking care of my family, we are out at the Kermit sand hills, taking last minute trips to Indiana, or spending the weekend at my families’ lake house. Like the quote in The Little Mermaid and on “IMDb” says, “If only I could make him understand. I just don't see things the way he does. I just don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad,” I too agree, the world is a beautiful, magnificent place and taking adventures and exploring is something that has always been appealing to me.
When Ariel kicked up her fins in The Little Mermaid (1989), she ushered in an era of spunky heroines. Like her, Belle in Beauty and the Beast (1991), Princess Jasmine in Aladdin (1992) and the title character in Pocahontas (1995) chaffed at the restrictions imposed on them. They sought to break the bonds of convention
...sms of Disney, these really can’t be validated as having any real effect on children and families. There is no harm in providing a fantasy and imaginative world for children to enjoy. Parents, along with the Disney Company, support the notion that a child should be a child. Children should have fun and enjoy the world of imagination while they are little. Parents also enjoy the world of imagination by providing it to their children.
According to Disney films, it is important for women to achieve the stereotypical characteristics of a woman, such as maintaining their beauty to capture a man, and being weak and less educated than male characters. The women in Disney movies are always beautiful, which help them to obtain a man. They are often encouraged to use their looks and their body to capture a man’s attention, and having a curvy, petite body is required in all good Disney women. The Little Mermaid is a 1989 movie directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, where “A mermaid princess makes a faustian...
Produced in 2009, The Frog Princess is a Disney animation inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ fairytale, The Frog Prince. Both The Frog Princess and The Frog Prince deal with a multiplicity of issues, all of which contribute to supporting positive messages and morals (Ceaser, 2009). However, though The Frog Princess is based on a classic fairytale, it is far from being the same. The writers at Disney have taken a classic fairytale and created a “Monster” (Prince, 2001). This essay will examine the evolution of the original Grimm Brothers’ fairytale, the messages both main characters represent, and how the adaptation to fit a modern child readership diminishes a classic fairytale. Through discussing these arguments, this paper will prove that Disney’s adaptation into The Princess and The Frog is counter-productive in representing the original story’s messages, morals, and values.
Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” tells the story of a young mermaid Ariel, who wishes to live on land with her love, Prince Eric. She learns from a sea witch, Ursula that the only way she will be able to do that is if she is given legs. (Livingston18) In return for her voice, Ursula agrees to grant her legs but ultimately tricks Ariel by telling her if she does not kiss the prince after three days then she will belong to Ursula. (Livingston18) In the end, Prince Eric kills Ursula and marries Ariel. Unlike Euripides’ Medea, the director’s of the Disney movie chose to create a physical appearance that failed to comply with society’s expectations in order to create the ideal image of a woman. In the movie,...
...depicts human love as a product of maturity, whereas Disney depicts it as a cause of maturity” (Trites 4). This fundamental change of maturity in Disney’s version is where the problem rests, teaching audiences that seeking a mate is the path to maturity and independence for women, when in reality love is complicated and ever changing. The “disneyfication” of The Little Mermaid perpetuates negative aspects of American cultural ideals, losing the moral integrity and lessons intended to be taught from the original fairytale.
Disney is a brand synonymous with magic and fairytales – their princesses play a huge role in that mysticism. In the debate considering which one is the best, we can examine the message of the corresponding film, the princess’s aesthetic, and the audience’s reception to their film. In comparing the princesses: Belle, Moana, Elsa, and Mulan, all post-modern Disney princesses – Moana is the best.
In both versions, the mermaid meets the prince and he falls for her beauty, but he’s already betrothed to another. However, Anderson’s mermaid has to endure not only physical, but also mental and emotional hardships. She is unable to communicate with the prince to reveal she was his true savior, and with every step the mermaid experiences agonizing pain. Andersen’s mermaid has to stand by and watch her love marry another and her chance of an immortal soul slips out of her grasp. Soon after the wedding, the mermaid is approached by her sisters with an opportunity to return to the sea, but she would have to commit a terrible, and selfish act. The story goes like this, “Before the sun rises, you must plunge it [a knife] into the heart of the prince; when his blood sprays on your feet, they will turn into a fishtail and you will be a mermaid again” (Andersen). The mermaid faced a difficult dilemma, one that all individuals face—self betterment or selfless sacrifice. Andersen’s mermaid chooses selfless sacrifice, tosses the knife overboard and cast herself into the ocean. This ending is not what most would call happy, but it reveals some remarkable life lessons and an incredible depiction of selflessness. Not all stories have to have happy endings to satisfy a reader (Whitty); this story for example holds so much more depth, substance, and emotion because it does not have one. Disney chose a happier, predictable ending where Ariel marries the prince in the end; this ending makes it easy to smile, but lacks in allowing the reader to develop much more emotion than
The tales, more often than not, were always about the life of a princess in search of her prince charming. In line with the stories, one can never deny the fact that there would always be a villain or an antagonist. Those were the characters that would do anything to destroy the lives of the princesses or protagonists. Walt Disney films are known as one of the most prominent developers of fantasy stories and characters, and most of these made use of films as a tool to expose such movies. Evidently, children have always been exposed to this kind of films, films that have the “never-ending-tale-of-love-story” concept.
“The mermaid swam with her prince toward the beach. She laid him in the fine white sand, taking care to place his head in the warm sunshine, far from the water. She also had to give up her voice, which she had done so willingly, endure tremendous amounts of pain to have the legs of a human, and give up her life as a mermaid as well as never be able to be with her sisters at the bottom of the ocean again. The little mermaid passed all of the tests that the universe threw at her, but in the end, she did not get to marry the prince and this is a great example of a message from the author that life can be unfair sometimes.
Over the years, fairytales have been distorted in order to make them more family friendly. Once these changes occur, the moral and purpose of the stories begin to disappear. The tales featured in the many Disney movies - beloved by so many - have much more malignant and meaningful origins that often served to scare children into obeying their parents or learning valuable life lessons.
First, the theme of The Little Mermaid really impressed me when I first read this story because it conveys a more realistic and cruel perspective about life. I always think this story is really special for kids because the end of this story is not as usual as normal fairy tales. From the original version of The Little Mermaid, readers can know that at the end of the story, The Little Mermaid actually became the foam because the prince got married with another girl. So, to make it simple, the whole story is about a mermaid who sacrifices her voice for feet in order to get married with her “Mr. Right”, but ends up her life miserably. I think the theme of this story is actually about “sacrifice”, and that is also what I’ve learned from this story. First sacrifice that The Little Mermaid had made is her voice, and what I learned from this is if you want something so badly you have to sacrifice although you may feel painful. And the second sacrifice The Little Mermaid had made is her life, and in order to see her lover...