Featured Photo: Disney’s Prince Eric post corporate talks
In an earth shattering turn of events several headlining, animated, Disney actors have come out of the woodwork to initiate serious talks with Disney heads. The reason? Propagation of misandry, inequal pay and the lack of substantial cartoon roles and representation for animated men in Disney films. The rally began in a picket line across Disney computer screens as several famous faces joined in a strike that has rendered Disney 3D animation screens useless.
“We’ve had enough.” Prince Eric from Disney’s The Little Mermaid says in a statement. “When Disney began in 1937 retelling old folk tales and fairy tales the world was different. His support for predominant female roles in film and television was a huge move on the forefront of female empowerment. He was paving the way, right?”
But, even with Disney’s mission of bringing family values, joy and magic to the hearts and homes of families around the world, Disney lacked the foresight of what the next two generations would bring to pop culture and opinion.
The Little Mermaid star goes on to say, “We’re the bad guys now!,”
“We’re mocked, demoralized, the characterization of the chivalrous, naiveté that was once so charming about our characters has been abstractly redefined to signify the worst in toxic, masculine stereotypes.” Eric, Charming, Flynn Ryder and The Beast, to name only a few of the newly formed union, have begun talks with Disney about proper media representation. “We’ve been inundated with memes, I mean.. just awful misrepresentations of the innocence we were meant to portray. You should see my Twitter Tags.”
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The award winning fisherman continues saying the prince roles, other than Aladdin, Hercules and Lion King, were much smaller than the princess roles. He recalls that Prince Phillip, from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, has a mere 22 lines compared to the Princess who had a whopping 32 lines. “And she was asleep most of the film!” Eric states, “Ariel was paid, I think, three times as much as I was and she didn’t speak for two out of three acts. We were all supporting roles, with not enough screen time or dialogue to really give us the due character reveal that the princesses had. You never see a man in distress, locked in a tower. We don’t get saved by strong silent types. It’s an unfair depiction that subconsciously shapes the mind of the children who grow up and call us dead beat princes.”
Disney has a new film coming to theaters November 22, Wish is the enchanted story of a young woman who organically develops the supernatural power of granting wishes unconnected and disunified from the King of Rosas who usually does the wish granting under his discretion.
“It’s the age old wish upon a star theme,” The Mediterranean prince goes on to say, “But, there’s a strong, powerful, dominant male, control freak in the role of the antagonist, a male goat in the supporting role. There’s not enough main character male roles for good, modern, masculine representation anymore.”
The princes are hoping that future talks with Disney will pave a more definitive and inviting way for better character development and definition of male, royal, pop culture archetypes among the animated acting community. Other male character leads from major motion pictures such as Up, Onward and Big Hero 6 remain silent on the issue.
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