DAY 11: A favorite movie from childhood
“The Swan Princess” begins in a
traditional storytelling manner: The narrator introduces us to the main
characters in a once-upon-a-time format.
The rest of the movie appears to be a Disney princess movie at first
glance but it’s not. “The Swan Princess”
is not even a Disney movie – it’s made by Nest Family Entertainment and Rich
Animation Studios.
“The Swan Princess” differs from
Disney in the following ways:
The story is actually mainly from
Prince Derek’s point of view. We follow
him on his journey to find Princess Odette and we learn that he genuinely cares
for her. Disney princes vary in their
role to princesses – some are actively in the story and others are not – but Derek
is a different kind of prince. His purpose
in the movie is to find Odette and he does so because he cares for her as a
person and he can’t live without her.
Princess Odette is proactive. She constantly searches for a way out of
Rothbart’s spell. The “No Fear” song
adds to this: Odette is not afraid of danger and she’ll risk everything to
break the spell. When she was younger
and Derek and Bromley threw tomatoes at her, she threw tomatoes back at
them. Also, after Derek says that “you’re
all I ever wanted” and said to arrange the marriage, Odette asked him, “what
else?” Being treated like an object was
not all right with her. She needed to
know that he was in love with her and not her kingdom.
Derek is a prince and Odette is a
princess. Their parents want them
together to bring their kingdoms together.
Neither Derek nor Odette gains anything significant over each other by
marrying and neither loses anything significant (except for the merging of
their kingdoms). They are already equals
because they are in the same class.
Odette has purple eyes! How many people do you know with purple eyes?
Can you think of any more
differences?
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