#brother bear

[sleepingboar]

"monster" Please, if you are reblogging, avoid the hashtag "dog". Because I portrayed wolves.

[laurens-german]

Come with me, I’ll take you now to a place that you fear. For no reason why, your heart has turned away from me, and I will make you understand. Everything will become clear to you when you see things through another’s eyes. Everything will become clear to you whatever’s meant for you, you will find. Come with me, I’ll take you there to a place where you’ll see everything you need to be the one you need to be, and all of those things that you feared will disappear from you in time.

BROTHER BEAR (2003) dir. Aaron Blaise, Robert Walker

[celestialowlryxs]

Brother Bear (2003) / Brother Bear 2 (2006) / Snow Bear (2025)

[down-in-dixie]

Sunrises & sunsets in Disney films

[viddletwst]

The parallels...

[thatonechocogirl]

Have you ever drawn Denahi as his wolf totem?

perhaps he'd look like this as wolf but idk

+ bonus w/ denahi finding kenai in the woods and they're happy to see eachother :]

[chasseychas]

Animation School's 3rd 2D animation class

The last of the courses is over, hooray!!! It was tough, but totally worth it Now I'm going to rest for next couple of weeks until next truly final project within school

[palezma]

Brother Bear was out there deconstructing toxic masculinity long before people online talked about it, and everyone slept on it

Kenai's journey is largely about what it means to be a man

At the beginning of the film, Kenai is trying to prove himself to his older brothers especially Sitka. He thinks to be a man he has to prove his worth by being tough and macho even when it's unhelpful (like riding a mamooth instead of fishing). That is how the whole conflict of the movie comes up

Kenai does a poor job of tying this basket

Why? Because weaving and tying baskets isn't as manly as getting a fierce totem and therefore he isn't interested in stopping and doing a good job of it. He brushes it off

He then gets a totem of love which he hates and even more, is embarassed by (because love is not 'manly') and discovers the salmon laying on the floor were stolen by a bear.

Kenai could (and should) have acknowledged his fuckup and maybe said "my mistake, I'll weave a new basket and catch more" even if it'd take a while

Instead, he decides to go after the bear. Which is stupid (there is zero chance the fish and basket are intact). And sure enough he gets so frustrated when he sees that they are gone that he taunts the bear, which is doubly stupid, but he thinks he's being a man by not letting the bear get away with it.

Then he loses his eldest brother in the ensuing struggle.

And again, Kenai could have acknowledged his mistake and learned from it, but in his grief he only doubles down on 'being a man' by avenging his brother by killing the bear. Which is not gonna fix anything or bring Sitka back, obviously. His living brother even tells him that.

And you know the rest

But here's the cool thing: Kenai was never cowardly as far as the usual meaning of the word goes. If manliness was defined as being macho, he'd have been one from the start! He did have the guts to fight a grizzly bear with nothing but a a spear! But the movie makes it clear that that's not what it is about. Just fighting the bear when nobody is gonna be helped by doing so isn't being responsible, isn't being kind, isn't taking the weight of his actions seriously and THAT makes a man.

Kenai only grows and gets to be regarded as a man by the narrative, when he starts taking responsibility and having more empathy by realizing that his actions have consequences and weight not only for him, but for others.

And I think that's a banger message against toxic masculinity. I think this movie would've gotten a lot more love if more people looked at with care when it was released

@thatonechocogirl