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STOP THE PRESSES
IDINA MENZEL IS IN FROZEN
Like, I went to see it because I'm researching Disney villains at the moment. I thought "oh, that's some interesting riffing on Elphaba they're doing there. And the voice actor is doing a really great imp.... HANG ON A SECOND"
If you have no interest in giving Disney money // seeing a Disney film in the cinema - you can watch the power ballad here.
So.. have Disney just really had to raise their game since Shrek? I mean, there's this awful trend of "we're doing celtic / scandinavian stories so everyone's white because history", so it's not like they've magically become unfail-y overnight... but this film just had:
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IDINA MENZEL IS IN FROZEN
Like, I went to see it because I'm researching Disney villains at the moment. I thought "oh, that's some interesting riffing on Elphaba they're doing there. And the voice actor is doing a really great imp.... HANG ON A SECOND"
If you have no interest in giving Disney money // seeing a Disney film in the cinema - you can watch the power ballad here.
So.. have Disney just really had to raise their game since Shrek? I mean, there's this awful trend of "we're doing celtic / scandinavian stories so everyone's white because history", so it's not like they've magically become unfail-y overnight... but this film just had:
- A plot-vital "act of true love" that was not about romantic love.
- An end-of-film climactic romantic kiss which was fully consensually negotiated.
- The story was entirely about the relationship between two women.
- There was Something Going On with troll gender (they seemed to act differently depending on the colour of necklace they were wearing... but there were several (4-6?) different necklace colour options, not just pink and blue)
- A character consistently got called out for the ridiculousness of getting engaged based on just having met their "true love" that day
- Did I mention the consensually negotiated kiss?
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