Disney Magic

“Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.”

[lieutkenny]

Day 18:Rapunzel

[mmcoconut]

Mulan themed life drawing

[penciltests]

“Lilo and Stitch” 2002

Deleted Scene

Lilo plays a trick on the tourists.

[leidis]

IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU’D UNDERSTAND

I desperately need to understand

WHY

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

Was this scene cut from the movie??!!

Fucking christ, do you know what this would have done? What this would have meant to SO MANY people??  The truth of this is devastating. And to think it almost found it’s way into a DISNEY film??

The inclusion of this scene alone would have made it the greatest animated feature the company ever produced. Easily. And if you think that’s hyperbolic clearly you don’t understand.

No, really, if anyone knows why this was cut PLEASE let me know. 

[snoozlebee]

oh man WHY WOULD they cut this, this is so great, holy MOLY

[coelasquid]

It was clearly something the crew was very reluctant to get rid of if it made it all the way to rough-clean (and in a few scenes clean!), fully inbetweened animation. That is like, thousands and thousands of dollars and weeks (months?!) of labour. Maybe a reluctant producer decided they would alienate their white middle-class American audiences by making them feel “too guilty” and pressed them to drop it? It’s unfortunate, it’s one of the most honest accounts of racism in a Disney movie (which is why it’s believable that someone got uncomfortable and made a case to get it chopped)

Designing entertainment by committee for maximum marketability is probably the most heartbreaking process in Hollywood.

[racebentdisney]

I’ve been seeing this around my dash and think it deserves some more recognition!

[brawltogethernow]

“Does girl control ocean?!”

[catastrophic-writer-deactivated]

THIS IS INCREDIBLE WHAT

[kengi-bengi-alt]

HOLY SHIT THAT WAS SO GOOD???

Oh my god that would have been amazing if they put this in the movie omg!

[byeeeeeeejfnfkekflekr-deactivat]

ok cinderella is truly the best disney live action adaptation because it so expertly just stays in its lane and minds its business…. no absurd CGI, no attempt to add some contrived “woke” subplot for clout, no terrible singing from people who aren’t trained in it… just beautiful costumes, cate blanchette being an iconic bitch and richard madden in tights?? what more could u ask for?

[jubpajub7]

About Mulan’s Not Cutting Her Hair

Some of you have been complaining so hard about Mulan not cutting her hair. Please allow me to explain.

THIS.SCENE.IS.SO.WRONG

(although it is poetic cinema, I’ll admit :P)

Ancient Chinese follow the Confucius Principles like gospel. The Emperors also use these principles as the basis of many laws and regulations.

And Confucius sees every part of the body as a gift from your parents, and Chinese people value filialty. Therefore, it’s an unfilial act to cut off your hair, almost a sin really. So the story about a filial daughter with a scene about her committing an act considered unfilial in her time is really inaccurate and doesn’t make any sense.

Everyone. I repeat. EVERYONE, regardless of gender, in Ancient China has long ass hair. Cutting hair short as symbolism of “masculinity” is purely Western ideas. I’ve always cringed at that scene in the animated version.

See how guys in Ancient China has long hair too in Chinese movies?

Not to mention the impracticality of tying hair that short into that high a bun, it doesn’t work. I’m glad this scene is cut out tbh.

[daohanfu]

This post makes several valid points about Mulan’s famous “hair cutting” scene from the 1998 animation. Thank you! As someone who has long hair, I’d like to share a few personal insights:

I use the traditional “zan（簪）” hairpin to keep my hair in a knot on a daily basis. In reality, the longer my hair is, the easier it is for me to tie the hair into a knot, and to keep the knot intact throughout the day. 

The same principle can apply to using ribbons, because a large bun/knot allows the person to tie the ribbon tighter, and the ribbon will not slip.

While I think the original Mulan still has a lot of classic scenes and characters that should be kept in adaptations, the “hair cutting” scene wasn’t very practical or culturally accurate. 

[kpfun]

Lieutenant Mattias’s and Yelena’s reactions to the events of Frozen as narrated by Olaf Requested by @nananaheyanna

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“Welcome Home”

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[caluanthes]

BAO (2018), dir Domee Shi

[mhaikkun]

once upon a dream

[loumovies]

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) dir. Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman and Clyde Geronimi

[sailorcuba]

so I watched mulan the other day *shakes* ooohhhh bbbBOyyhh!

[tinysnails]

some rough sketches for my Mulan piece. my lines are never clean because I have no patience 😅 gotta work on that

[arktham]

#quarantine ideas

[adeles]

“There is nowhere you could go that I won’t be with you.” - Gramma Tala

[kpfun]

[neechees]

Left: unedited Screencap’s from DIsney’s Pocahontas / Right: edited screencaps of a historically accurate, young teenager Matoaka. 

Changes made to make the film more accurate:

Matoaka and her friends are visibly younger and baby faced: Matoaka is about 14, when she would have gone through her coming of age ceremony according to oral tradition, and not long before she married Kocoum. 

Matoaka’s necklace is no longer turqoise, but shell, a much more commonly used material utilized by Powhatan people, and with likely more significance (as seen in other Eastern Woodland tribes)

Matoaka’s dress no longer has a v neckline and is less revealing and non-sexualizing

Nakoma no longer wears a tsiiyéé, a hairstyle worn by Dine/Navajo people, but instead a braid

Kocoum does not wear a feather (meaning he has not earned one) or fashion a Mohawk, but a half shaved head

Matoaka’s face paint (worn for her coming of age ceremony) is based on drawings of Powhatan women here.

some of the lighting has been changed to make the characters no longer so very redskinned

See just the edited, more accurate pics I’ve done here.

[laurens-german]

Cinderella (2015) dir. Kenneth Branagh