Walt Disney is one of the biggest company in the world. It is know as a world of fantasy and innocence for kids and families.. Its movies are fascinating and are known all over the world.Disney seems prefect. Now the question come, it's really perfect?
After watching the documentary "Mickey Mouse Monopoly" my first taught was "Wow, why I didn't saw the movies with that perspective?.This documentary shifts in many ways my view of Disney. It opened my eyes to see the messages behind the movies. For example in the movie Beauty and the beast we can see violence and yelling towards the woman. In the Little Mermaid the way Ariel give up her voice so she could be with the man is likes, this shows that the outside beauty is more important that anything else to catch the attention of a man. In all of the movies women are portrait as seductive with a skinny body figure to attract men. In other hand men are presented as the strongest, with big muscle and always defending and saving the women, as if women has to always depend on men.
One of the first things you can notice is that in there are movies that black people doesn't appear at all, and in the movies that they do appear they are the bad ones of the movie. This is an aspect of racism black are portrait as inferior or as the malicious ones. What about advertisement? The movies itself encourage you to bye stuff about the movies. In the movie Hercules we can see advertisement within the movie. We can see how Hercules is promoted in order to be famous and sales souvenirs about him.
Over all, Disney movies always transmit a message to its audience some good and others not so good. This documentary encourage me to see movies more than for pleasure and to see the message behind them.
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