(May 24, 2017 at 2:28 PM)SODA FiZZ Wrote: (May 24, 2017 at 12:29 AM)zelma Wrote:
What makes you say Cinderella? If we're championing American animation, I feel like there's a number of other candidates too. Maybe not Sleeping Beauty (though that could contest as the most accurate depiction of White America), but even in the Disney/9OM repertoire.
Not to say Cinderella isn't EXTREMELY white, and an achievement of course.
Bigger than the general whiteness of the film, I feel as though Cinderella layed down the foundation of the basic mainstream movie princess story; in that, it is the original blueprint. Since then there have many renditions, and through time this has been improved upon again and again but in terms of overall impact, I personally give it up to Cinderella.
Though, I can also see why you would say Sleeping Beauty, my mind forgot about that movie!