[quote=“anon61221983, post:224, topic:100784”]Well, except being cases of arab stereotypes. In that case, it wasn’t far removed from the happy slave stereotype from Song of the South.
[/quote]I don’t disagree at all. I was making a joke about the verisimilitude of an incompetent ruler with sinister rival has a much lower bar than when I was 8 or 9 - when I saw the movie last.
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They’ve gotten better about the stories they tell about women. It’s not just all about find a man now. They’ve had some good films about young women wanting to defy their parents expectations for themselves, not because they’re following some guy.
[/quote]Absolutely, the recent Disney movies worked harder to build a relationship between any couple in the film when they have relationships at all - and explores other female relationships outside romantic ones. And I think that’s what I was surprised about in Aladdin. I didn’t remember Jasmine being the actual threat to the villain who had taken control of the kingdom from her father, that her and Aladdin did more than just him rescuing her when they meet, that she is the character that figures out everything going on, and that when she does use the feminine wiles trope-y behavior she is still in complete control of the situation and all the other characters in the scene are being useless. Aladdin’s trick to trap Jafar is much more like Fry’s victory over the brains in Futurama than I remembered. And saying I have a better impression doesn’t mean it was a good impression, she’s still an oversexualized racial stereotype with an anglicized face and despite the other background women having a wider range of body types hers is particularly extreme. She just had more to her than my child-self remembered.
