Disney Live Actions

Are the live actions Disney is creating for some of their animated films just a successful attempt to fix the wrongs and mistakes they made when they created the animated versions? In short, is Disney attempting to make all their wrongs, good?

No one knows the answers to these questions, but I think that Disney is, in fact, trying to amend those mistakes they made throughout their animated versions.

In general, Disney was not only racist but also homophobic and elitist. Disney animated movies, in general, were filled with green-eyed thin blond American princesses, and Muslim, black, or Latin fat, ugly, and sexually disorienting villains. Their movies were also, in general, discriminating and racist.

For example, in Aladdin, the intro song said, "where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face. It's barbaric, but hey, it's home."

Another example, in Pocahontas, there is a clear segregation between British people and Indians.

OH! I almost forgot! Look how the color of Aladdin's skin evolves through the movie! At the beginning, he was poor and black, and by the end, he was rich and white:

On the other hand, we could view the princesses in the first Disney animated films and notice that they all had one thing in common: they have white skin. Snow white, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, and Belle are all white! Not until the last two decades we began to see non-white Disney princesses! Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, and Tiana were the first princesses that their color or ethnic race was different.

Finally, Disney villains. Look at them, they are thin with sharp pointy body parts or fat. Either way they are not physically appealing (except maybe for Gaston and the most recent ones like Hans from Frozen). Also, look hard and try to find as many white villains as you can, because they are scarce!

I think Disney movie would have been way more interesting if the villains looked like this.

In order to answer the question from the beginning, we must now analyze recent Disney live actions, but here I will only analyze the most recent one: The Beauty and the Beast.

First, it is important to note that the animation version is the only Walt Disney animated movie that has been nominated in the Oscar category of Best Picture, so this movie is a big deal. But the most interesting parts of the live action are that it is not racist and it is daring.

At the end, we see interracial couples. Actually a lot of interracial couples. This is an aspect that was rare or maybe inexistent in old Disney animated films.

Additionally, we get a gay couple! I don't know about you, but I've never seen a Disney animated film (or even better a children's animated film) that has a gay or lesbian couple in it!! This is a game changer, and Disney played the cards.

In conclusion, if you ask me, Disney is, in fact, trying to amend the errors of the past with these new live actions of the old Walt Disney animated films. Hopefully, we will get Aladdin next (with a big apology).