I know you want to appeal to boys - but you need to appeal to GIRLS too! I mean - I have ZERO interest in seeing CARS2. I haven't seen Toy Story 2 or 3 and really didn't enjoy Toy Story 1. I didn't even buy that silly you got a friend song...
I know you think that the box office failure of the Princess and the Frog is a sign that no one wants to see Princess Stories - but did you ever stop and think - THATS BECAUSE THE FILM WAS SUBPAR? I mean - honestly, all of the advances in animation sing Disney introduced Oswald Rabbit were completely ignored! The character lacked physical weight and gravity, the character were stereotypical (really? I black girl whose goal in life is to make GUMBO?), the plot was odd, and the girl only got her "dream" (to make gumbo) AFTER she decided to give it up and be with her man. Oh yeah --- and I can't find a SINGLE PERSON who can hum me ONE line from ANY of the songs in the entire movie. Isn't that what Disney does? Gives you a musical hook? I was actually sad I spent money on it. BUT TANGLED! You were back on your GAME in TANGLED! Everything about it was simply BRILLIANT - even though I had to wear to those silly 3-D glasses. And notice - the box office numbers are actually RISING - because people go to see it and say - WOW! That movie was INCREDIBLE! Let me tell my friends! Beautiful ground breaking animation, relatable multidimensional character, hysterical "gags," (of which good old Walt would have been exceedingly proud!), beautiful music, great plot! I mean - make films like THAT - people will COME! Make films like Princess and the Frog - they won't.
Oh - and for everyone who says Princesses teach girls to be superficial and depend on boys...I would just like to say - I want to be a Disney Princess - but my long suffering mum has to basically fight to get me to wear cloths that look nice over being "comfortable" and I CERTAINLY don't depend on my "prince" to bring me happiness - and I am perfectly career oriented - and have not given it up to seek my prince - or do my hair...the princesses are all the odd-balls who are kind and generous and work really hard to get their dreams! O.k. their dreams might be to GET a prince - but let's give girls a little credit - and assume they can use the prince as an allegory for whatever they want. And to know they will undergo trials and tribulations but if they handle them with grace and poise and courage - they will get a glittery fairytale ending!
And if nothing else - give a wonderful beautiful place to ESCAPE to - not like BLACK SWAN which presetn this bizarre horrific world of self mutilation and sexual molestation - I don't want to pay to see someone's evil mirror twin ruing their life. I want to see that goals can be achieved without going absolutely psycho and stabbing myself with a giant piece of glass from a smashed mirror and imagining scary lesbian sex with my arch nemesis. I want to see a girl who has guts and courage and drive and dignity and smarts and isn't afraid of glitter!
DISNEY DON'T TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That being said - in an attempt to reach my career goals - I had a very frustrating morning running from audition to audition and not getting seen...BOOOOOO SINGER CALLS! But then one of my dance teacher put on his facebook that he was running the dance call for a regional theatre, so - I realized I had my leotard from yesterday in my bag, and hopped on over to be very smelly at a dance call. I actually had FUN at the audition - probably the first time in my life I had fun at an audition. I was just being silly - he said to find out "inner man" for the first half then ballerina princess for the second half - and I dug right down to the bottom of my soul to find my inner man - and boy did I find it - I even have lovely purple bruises on my thighs from it - and then could just show off for the Princessy Ballet part - oh look! You want me to SLOOOOOOWLY extend my leg in the air while doing pretty mermaid arms! Alright - if I must. Then - the director asked who sang - and all the girls got really timid and I LEPT up and said I REALLLLLLLLY sing! And the choreographer/my dance teacher vouched for it and said I was soprano and asked me what my top note was - and I gleefully said an E above High C. He started laughing because I was apparently being WAY too enthusiastic (BUT HEY - THEY weren't HEARING us sing - I figured if anything my confidence would be my backer!) Sadly - I don't think they are actually hiring non-equity. The theatre homepage has EQUITY ONLY all over it - and they hire noneq locally on a show by show basis - and they didn't even hear us sing! No one is going to cast anyone without hearing them sing. And the director gave us a very solemn speech about how we need to not be afraid to go to singer calls because that's where he casts - (At which point I nearly beat him up ! IF YOU WANT ME TO SING I WILL SING! SOMEONE ONLY MADE THEIR SINGER CALL AN HOUR AND A HALF SO GUESS WHO DIDNT GET TO SING! ILL SING NOW! I DONT EVEN NEED AN ACCOMPANIST! JUST LET ME DO IT!) - and then he started talking about how most us probably don't audition for directors - and I was just confused. But at least the choreographer knows I can sing - so well - who knows. It was super fun! A good warm up for the audition season to come!
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