Snow White

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLuCoTgqM2E

Grimm's Version of Little Mermaid

http://www.yankeeweb.com/library/storytime/grimmbros/grimmbros_32.html

The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

Disney's Sleeping Beauty is based on Charles Perrault's "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood," but Disney doesn't tell the whole story...

Mulan

The original Mulan story is a poem.

Snow White... Queen goes dancing

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm053.html

The Princess and the Frog

The original Grimm Brothers short story "The Frog Prince".

A Cinderella Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBkrUVRoAY8

Beauty and the Beast

Here is a version of the original Beauty and the Beast.

Grimm's Version of Cinderella

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm021.html

Tarzan

 In the Disney movie, Tarzan and Jane end up together after Jane realizes that she'd rather live in the jungle with her true love. However, in the original book, she just stays with Clayton because she feels she has no choice in the matter. Tarzan gets the chance to save her and take her with him, but he thinks that she's happy with Clayton, and so he leave, with him and Jane being miserable. It's not until the next story that Tarzan and Jane actually get married.

Tarzan of the Apes

Hercules

The original Greek myth of Hercules, definitely a lot darker than the Disney adaptation:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/bio.html

The Little Mermaid

Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid

Paul Hobson's Twisted Disney Princesses

http://www.paulhobson.com/wordpress/2010/11/twisted-disney-princesses/

Twisted Disney Princesses

Gender Roles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8O8p0Ac1Rg

Disney

To show some of the leaps Disney has made in feminism, Mulan takes gender roles and throws them out of the window, This was a big step for Disney. But they still have "poor weak females" relying on males in films as new as Tangled, like when Rapunzel needs Flynn to take her on her adventure.

Real Courage

Courage isn't always putting up a fight with giant fireworks proclaiming independence; sometimes it's the ability to recognize that you, as a person, deserve more.

Never say never

Guys in Disney movies never seem to give up on what they want. They always find a way save the girl, or defeat the villian, and their methods are never questioned because, after all, they are saviors. Hercules song here is somewhat of an example of a man on a journey, willing to go any distance to get what he feels he's called to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cja4NvIR1UU&vhs=1
 

"My Little Wife Massaging My Feet"

Gaston is probably one of the clearest examples of unrealistic female gender role expectations (for example, his cringe-worthy wedding proposal). Belle is spot on when she calls him "primeval."

Disney Gender Roles: Crying

If you are a princess and something goes wrong, you should probably cry. Dramatically.

Gender Role - Gaston

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK3x2DOoJIc

Cleaning is so much fun

Snow White really loves to clean, and she should because she's a girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxu8aR4xDQo

Girls, guys are all you need

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yef1CoO_W8E

and just for fun....
and because it pretty much sums it all up into a nice, funny video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMB1SECUSq8

Disney Gender Roles: Wait for a Prince

I think this clip from Snow White speaks for itself.

-Rebecca

Disney Gender Roles: Cleaning

A big example of gender roles in Disney movies is that the princess, or any other lady cleaning the house, enjoys cleaning and household chores, singing cheerfully while she works. Also, it is always a woman cleaning in Disney movies, never a man.
In this video, Snow White is pretty happy cleaning up after people she doesn't even know yet:
Snow White's "Whistle While You Work"

Save me save me

An example of gender in  Disney is the role that the men take as the women's heroes. The almost always have to save the damsel in distress, like Prince Phillip in Sleeping Beauty.

Finding Nemo

One of the characteristics of a Disney movie I picked was actually a little more broad. I chose the setup in every Disney movie created and that is the movie starts off really happy, then the protagonist experiences some horrible trumatic event spends most of the movie trying to work it out, and finally in the end gets everything back to normal. This ending is also known as living happily ever after if it's a more princess oriented movie. The best example I can think of is Finding Nemo, I picked it because I'm sure all of you have seen it, and because it does not have a definite princess figure unless you really count Dorothy. The whole movie would be my example.

 



 

Completely Unpredictable Villains. Not.

It seems that in Disney movies the only people unaware of the villain's identity are the other cast members.

For example: Simba & Scar and Ariel & Ursula: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyFVG4VfPmg.

SINGING

Disney Dads

If there isn't an evil stepmother present somewhere in the story, then the princesses typically have a strong father figure or a father figure of some type; however, the princesses are often motherless.

Disney's Heros vs Villians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agzEdljgYs

Singing Princess

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9B_JPa4TKU

Happily Ever After...

Most of the Disney princess movies end with a "happily ever after" scene of the princess and her prince riding off towards their happy future.
Here's Cinderella's "happily ever after" ending.

Disney Princesses

All Disney Princesses like to sing while showing off their super beautiful body. Here's Ariel singing and floating around in a bikini.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGoXtSw0Ias

Oh, villians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MTJWTp9zsY

Some Disney villians... and their laughs.

Disney and its talented singers

A very important characteristic of Disney movies is the fact that almost every character can/does sing. Even ones you wouldn't expect to like Gaston in Beauty and the Beast.

The Supernatural

Whether it's used for good or for evil, Disney Princess movies always include some kind of magic or, in a broader sense, an element of the supernatural. Like Genie from Aladdin. 

-Rebecca