It's the pictures that got small!

Everything Hollywood from the 1920s to 1960s.

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Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

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Every woman in every Disney/Pixar movie in the past decade has the exact same face

So when I saw this picture for the new Pixar movie Inside Out,

at first I thought the characters were three women and two aliens, but after seeing the trailer I realized the purple and red things were supposed to be dudes. After tracing their faces, I figured out why I was so weirded out: 

The two male characters have extremely distinctive face shapes, while the three female characters basically have the exact same shape; round with a small nose.

Now everyone has read about the Elsa/Anna/Rapunzel face debate, but I wanted to see just how far this face thing went. And boy does it go far.

I took pictures of both male and female characters from recent Disney/Pixar movies:

And then traced both of them. Look at the diversity of male face shapes:

AND THE ABSOLUTE FUCKING RIDICULOUSNESS THAT IS SHOWN HERE:

WHAT

THE

FUCK

Just take a second to scroll up and look back at the original pictures in case you think I’m joking. 

Apparently every Disney woman is a clone/direct descendant of some primordial creature with huge round cheeks and a disturbingly small nose, because there is no other explanation (yes there is(it’s lazy sexism)) for the incredible lack of diversity among these female faces.

DISNEY.

WHY DOES EVERY WOMAN THAT YOU HAVE CREATED IN THE LAST DECADE HAVE THE EXACT SAME FACE SHAPE? AND DON’T TELL ME IT’S BECAUSE WOMEN ARE HARDER TO ANIMATE. STOP ASSUMING EVERY WOMAN HAS A ROUND BABY FACE AND A SHORT CUTE BABY NOSE. YOU CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS. GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER. 

TL;DR: Boys in animated movies have faces that are square, round, skinny, fat, alien-looking, handsome, and ugly. The only face that girls get to have is some round snub-nosed baby face. That’s not right.

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Prima ballerina Alicia Markova in her dressing room, a 1959 photo by Serge Lido

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Marlene Dietrich striding onto the stage, 1957

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Margo Lion, 1929, cabaret artist in Weimar Berlin, friend and sometime singing partner of Marlene Dietrich

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Anna May Wong, 1938, photo by Eugene Robert Richee

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The last time I saw her (my wife and I called on her when she lay ill in bed) was only a few days before she died. Looking very pale, and clearly very ill, she sat up carefully and expertly arranging flowers in vase after vase. She carried on a bright and amusing conversation, talking of her plans and her impatience with what she insisted was a temporary setback. Willful as always, she mockingly and flagrantly disobeyed her doctor’s orders about smoking, leaving her bed, talking too much and tiring herself. Yet were she to have surrendered meekly in order to improve her chances, she would not have been her true self. Her beauty never left her - nor did her humour. Only her life. 

 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

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R.I.P VIVIEN LEIGH (5 Nov 1913 - 7 July 1967)

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Norma Shearer and Clark Gable in a publicity photo for Strange Interlude  (Robert Z. Leonard, 1932)

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Vivien Leigh, A Yank at Oxford, 1938

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He knew it was the end. So did you. Look at the picture! There’s as much pain in your face as there is in his! You haven’t changed, in spite of our marriage and your innermost feelings, you’re still the same. That’s why you stopped seeing him. (Victim, 1961)

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Dirk Bogarde in the British film Victim  (Basil Dearden, 1961), the first English language film to say the word “homosexual”.  The American Motion Picture Production Code refused its seal of approval, and the film could not be seen in the US for several years. 

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Rosa Rudami by Witzel, Hollywood

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Marlene Dietrich, publicity portrait for “Angel”, 1937.

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Angel indeed.

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Happy Birthday, Meryl Streep! [x]

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Vivien Leigh photographed by a fan, 1940s

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who would win in a fight: Shanghai Lily or Erika Von Schluetow?

!!!!!!!okay first, I want just want to appreciate how amazing this question is!

*APPLAUSE*

okay, ummmm I want to say Erika BUT  from the evidence showing in the films, Shanghai is more feisty and viscous it seems. (eg. When she puts up a fight against guards in Shanghai Express (1932) ) 

Although Erika does seem tougher to me, with a more aggressive personality, idk I kinda want to say Shanghai Lily would win. 

what does everyone else think? 

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If it’s a verbal battle, Erika will read you to filth. If I brawl erupts, however, my bet’s on Shankhai Lily because I’m hoping she learned a thing or two from the real hero on that train, Hui Fei.

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Marlene Dietrich meeting Maria Callas after a performance of Norma in 1957

That’s Callas’ husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini sticking his face in between them

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Marlene: “Maria, gurl, please defuse this photobomber by giving him a piece of your weave.”

P.S. This was maybe taken October 29, 1956? https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/00/1b/58/001b5817a402613ec76de061dda118b5.jpg See also http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/gisrch2k.r?Term=Callas,%20Maria%20%5BSoprano%5D&limit=2500&vsrchtype=no&xBranch=ALL&xmtype=&Start=&End=&theterm=Callas,%20Ma%72ia%20%5BSop%72ano%5D&srt=&x=0&xHome=&xHomePath= .

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