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Film Comparison
Tasneem Almohamad
Do media corporations (Disney and/or non-Disney) have a lasting impact on children?
Purpose
Children globally are influenced by Disney since it shapes their imagination and can be a big part of their life, making it important for Disney to provide acceptable messages. Disney as well as other media corporations have a lasting impact on children, because childrens' beliefs are shaped by what they watch at a young age and stay with them unconsciously or consciously even as they grow up.
The stereotypical messeges presented by both Disney and non-Disney media corporations have a lasting impact on children because
Argument 1
gender roles in the movies are believed to be the right ones by children, which pressures them to fit in the standards presented. If they do not fit in the specific standards that the stereotypes protray, they feel out of place. This can promote insecurities arising from children at a later age of their appearance, behaviour, etc.
The Little Mermaid
This movie shows some of the most unrealistic body standards in Disney. Ariel, the protagonist, has an extremely tiny waist and significantly bigger hips. The size of Ariel's waist is not a realistic human porportion, let alone having bigger hips which is a very rare combination to attain naturally without any type of surgerical procedure. Children watching the movie may feel like this is the type of body that women should have, and later feel dissapointment and insecure about their body since having such a body is unattainable. Women with nice bodies are shown as kind and good, like Ariel, while women who are bigger are protrayed as bad and villainous, like Ursula.
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Disney's unrealistic body proportions VS more realistic proportions
Even the innocent animal world of the movie Sing by Illumination Entertainment is not free of gender stereotypes. The movie protrays the same ideals in Dishpot Ads that show women only in the household and men working. Rosita, a female pig, is the mother of 25 piglets and is constantly shown doing household chores while being ignored by her husband who is at work all the time. When wanting to join a singing competition and becoming more independant, she isn't taken seriously by her husband. This promotes the image of women having to stay at home whereas men should work.
Sing
Rosita taking care of the kids while her husband is on his phone
The stereotypical messeges presented by both Disney and non-Disney media corporations have a lasting impact on children because
Argument 2
the body of female characters is portrayed as playing a key role in deciding their values. This is presented by media corporations using vague messages of the importance of body language or showing skin for females, which may lead young girls to think they are valued by their bodies and not other factors.
In the movie, Ariel gives up her voice to meet the man of her dreams. Ursula procedes to tell her not to worry since women's voices are no where as important as their body language to win over a man. This could clue the message that men prefer a voiceless women with a good body rather than an intellegent and talkative women. This can lead young girls to only feel valued by their bodies, and pressures them into having more attracrive bodies rather than focus on significant aspects about their personality.
The Little Mermaid
Sing
Contestant in the singing competition present their performance in diverse ways, however some suspicions arise when comparing female performance to male ones. It is obvious that female characters show much more skin when performing than male characters that are most often fully clothed. This can encourage the idea of women only being valued by their bodies, and can pressure young girls to show more skin to feel feminine or be more like a 'female' as they grow up.
Rosita's outfit compared to her dance partner who is a male pig and the twerking female bunnies
The stereotypical messeges presented by both Disney and non-Disney media corporations have a lasting impact on children because
Argument 3
certain stereotypes in media corporations might protray a minority in a bad way and promote hatred towards them and the race or ethnic group they represent. This might lead children watching those stereotypes presented to have prejudice or discriminate against the minority group in real life whether at school or anywhere else.
Darker colours represent evil in a lot of Disney movies and that is emphasized especially in The Little Mermaid. Ursula, the antagonist, and her underlings have a significantly darker colours than the rest of the characters and are protrayed as evil and creul. This might lead children to stereotype dark skinned people as evil and cruel and lead to discrimination against them in the future.
The Little Mermaid
Ursula and her minions vs Ariel and good creatures
Sing also has a very negative protrayal of darker colours. The antagonists in the movie are a group of gorillas, which could could be a refrence to the history of black people being compared to monkeys in the past. This could also be stereotyping all black people as thugs and gangsters, as the gorillas in the movie resemble black people in their bahviour and accents. This can also cause prejudice beliefs and discrimination in children later on against black people.