Today, I had my best friend over, and we were watching Disney movies, eating ice cream (by the tub), eating strawberries, you know- typical girl stuff... We watched Mulan and Lion King, my two favourites.
I remember when I was young (and don't laugh), out of all the Disney princes, I had a crush on Simba. This sounds pretty funny because he isn't even a human, but I felt I could relate more to him than to any of the other snotty "royal" princes in the other stories. The other princes seem so shallow and boring, take for example Aladdin, he wants Jasmine, that's his only goal. And of course, he has to save her because Jafar also wants the kingdom. But otherwise, if he hadn't met Jasmine, he'd be chasing some other girl.
Same with all the other princes, they're only in it to get the girl.
Simba on the other hand, he has a dark past that he has to confront. He is interesting, compared to the other princes. The other princes seem boring and stuffy. I mean, come on... saving princesses? That is so overdone!
Simba though, he saves an entire kingdom, he bravely faces his past mistakes, is spunky, has cool buds (Timon and Pumba), and is fun-loving (see Hakuna Matata part of the movie).
The other princes simply cannot compare. Really, if you watch their movies, all they do is just stand there and then they fight some villian. They kind of lack depth.
I also relate well to Nala, which explains my childhood crush on Simba. Nala is a take-action type of character. When the lion family was starving, she went out on her own to hunt for food, which shows that she is pro-active, like me. I never sit back and wait for things to happen.
She also beats Simba in wrestling, which is a trait I find admirable, being able to beat the boys at things. She's independent, and not afraid to be unfemale-like at all, which is why I like her.
Movie #2: Mulan
When I was young, I also had an intense crush on Captain Li from the Mulan movie. Who wouldn't?! That guy is built! And he sings! And he is the Captain, and has a hot voice (like Simba). But if I were to pick one or the other, I'd pick Simba because Captain Li acts like a douche some of the time, he didn't listen to Mulan's warning when the huns were arriving at the end of the movie, and in the beginning, he embarassed Mulan infront of everyone.
I know someone in real life like Captain Li. He is gorgeous looking too. I wonder if being hot directly correlates to being a jerk. Actually, I'm pretty sure, there is some correlation, I'll write a blog about it sometime this summer.
Out of all the Disney princesses, Mulan is my favourite, for these reasons:
1. She takes care of her family. She went to war for her father, which is her way of protecting him.
2. She's brave. It takes guts to pretend to be a boy, and go off to war like that.
3. She's bold. She joined the army even though she wasn't supposed to.
4. She's intelligent. She thought of defeating the huns by blasting the last cannon at the mountain, which killed most of them off.
5. She's pro-active. Did any of the other princesses save other people by killing them? Nooo, they just sat back and waited to be saved.
So there you have it, my two Disney crushes, and my favourite Disney characters.
Who are your favourite princes/princesses from the Disney movies?
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number 5 about mulan. didn't Nala do something to save her clan? =P
ReplyDeleteoh and to answer your question. My childhood was spent riding bikes at dangerous speeds and tackling other guys off their bikes, and blind tag, and lots of other dangerous stuff.
ReplyDeleteDisney was too soft for me =D. HAHAHAHAAH
j/k, we were just poor and couldn't afford/didn't know where to get disney movies for me to watch. So i don't have any fav's
Yes, about number 5, which is why I love Nala and Mulan.
ReplyDeletebut isn't it sad that the good qualities in the female roles are considered "boyish" ones? why is anything supremely girly so weak? i mean, mulan pretends to be a man! and the rough and tumble nature of simba/nala is rather boyish. and only acceptable cos they're lions (roar).
ReplyDeletei love the disney movies, but i'm now i'm having the sad (and very obvious) revelation of the great number of gender stereotypes in them. it's 3am and i need sleep? haha.
jerk:hotness ratio. true fact. that definitely belongs on a graph.