Life Itself is the Most Wonderful Fairytale......

Life Itself is the Most Wonderful Fairytale......

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Real life "princess" meets Disney princess.....



                                                   Real world..........

How does a real life woman/girl differ from Disney princesses was my question in mind? Disney’s characters have a given quality of being beautiful, but is there anything behind that…..not really, but in fairy tale movies   sometimes that is just what is needed to capture the eye of the beholder. In real life there are so many more aspects of women that matter other that beauty; inner beauty for example cannot be drawn on a paper, if reflects from the person’s speech, manners and beliefs. Real world portrays darkness in both people and environments; in fairy tale the darkness is colorful and evil people often silly, not so scary.

Article “Breaking the Disney Spell” by Jack Zipes points out the different views that the traditional fairy tales and Disney fairy tales provides us; “The diversion of the Disney fairy tale is geared toward non-reflective viewing. Everything is on the surface, one-dimensional, and we are to delight in one-dimensional portrayal and thinking, for it is adorable, easy, and comforting in its simplicity.” (Zipes 352) The traditional fairy tale women/girls are transformed into the big screen still much as domesticated, fragile things, but their beauty is exaggerated to a new level. These cartoon films cannot quite bring the female characters alive; multidimensional images are difficult to create so the concentration remains on the beauty, the beauty alone due to the fact that drawing beauty is easier that creating beauty with attempt to show the characters beliefs, dreams and feelings beyond the normal happiness and sadness. But this beautiful image attracts audiences, and for that Disney succeeded in transforming the fairy tale image to the screen. Real world and fairy tale stay apart; Disney fairy tale is the dreamy alternative reality that we will continue to fall from time to time as amusing it is. 

                                                       Disney.........

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