Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 day ago
Superheros also just preach that you have to maintain the status quo, never tackle the root of the problem, just violently attack the symptoms and that only a small few special people can save you, so everybody else just has to get out of the way and cheer.
While this is a good narrative to make about Disney if we want to hate on them, it’s not true though.
The Disney movies for kids is almost all about not maintaining status quo and actually challenge it. Or being different than anyone else
Frozen and Moana are recent examples. Pirates of Caribbean for an older audience. There’s many more.
Disney kids movies aren’t about super heroes usually. But even Lion King is how you can’t escape adult responsibilities and have to continue the cycle.
That’s true, every movie takes on something different.
But then again there’s Pocahontas that came out at the same time that tackles racism and the importance of nature.
You forgot the peasants cheering the birth of their new predator
Also the very much incest.
What I see from farmers and the current usa president in my feed, that part was actually damn close to the truth.
Yeah, like Mulan showing that girls can also fight or Merida showing that girls have an opinion of their own.
No more like Mike Wazowski showing all Monsters that laughing is better than screaming. Or Lilo befriending an alien weapon. Or Captain Jack Sparr-oh…
Remember, we are talking about Disney heroes and A LOT of them question the status quo (not all, but a lot).
V for Vendetta
You’re talking about Disney movies. Intended for children. They’re not gonna go shoot someone in the head because they’re responsible for denied health insurance.
Why are you expecting kids movies to be an accurate intricate commentary of society in the first place?
It’s movies, for kids. Most people grow out of that. But some keep being obsessed with “superheroes”
I like Black Adam, he kills colonisers
Why are you expecting kids movies to be an accurate intricate commentary of society in the first place?
Because what kids watch will influence their sense of morality
That’s not even an answer. Kids do not comprehend the full extent of the world around them. That’s why you get silly kids movies with animals instead of people.
We don’t show kids fight club. And even if they saw it, they won’t understand what it’s about.
That sounds like the villains’ motive in My Hero Academia. A good series about superheroes, and what it means to be a hero. And what it means for those who aren’t qualified to work as heroes but do, or try to do heroic things (the fourth season addresses this, as will the upcoming final season (it was in the manga, which is complete), and the Vigilantes spinoff directly covers it.
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
Iron Man is about Iron Man realising that selling weapons is bad
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 18 hours ago
Also saying you need to be a rich prick to get anything done
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Captain America is about Cap beating up Nazis even though the government told him not to
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 hours ago
Would’ve been enlightening if Cap asked a few normal Germans along the way how the whole Nazi regime came to be instead of just pummeling people.-
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
And then giving an unbelievably hangout weapons system to some kid as a gift.