Comments on: Some Thoughts on ‘The Princess and The Frog’ http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/12/18/some-thoughts-on-the-princess-and-the-frog/ Blogging Postmodern Blackness Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:45:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Claudia http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/12/18/some-thoughts-on-the-princess-and-the-frog/#comment-1255 Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:34:12 +0000 http://thebottomofheaven.com/?p=3417#comment-1255 Hi Casey, thanks for your comment! I’ve been so busy this week that I haven’t been keeping up with my blog duties (smile). I need to go pick up my copy of Princess and the Frog on DVD. (Still haven’t gotten around to seeing Precious yet.)

]]> By: Casey http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/12/18/some-thoughts-on-the-princess-and-the-frog/#comment-1248 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:10:03 +0000 http://thebottomofheaven.com/?p=3417#comment-1248 I am late with this. But, I rented the video. I was glad to see it. What is better for little black girls to see? Precious: who (IMO) is a stereotype of everything about black women: poor, uneducated, victimized, etc. If black women want to look at women like Precious all the time, that is pretty easy: Just turn on the evening news or choose any sitcom out there.

The princess movie showed a black woman who had a good work ethic, was independent, had her dreams that came true *and* married the prince (judging by the way the wedding came out, it looked as though the rich parents might have sprung for it).

Someone said that the life of Precious was more common for black women than the life of Tiana . For that I strongly disagree.

My understanding is that the movie did much better overseas than it did Stateside. I chalk that up to people here in the US not accustomed to seeing black folks outside of being broke, busted or disgusted: but – oh well…

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]]> By: Claudia http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/12/18/some-thoughts-on-the-princess-and-the-frog/#comment-1060 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:12:22 +0000 http://thebottomofheaven.com/?p=3417#comment-1060 Thanks, Holly! I’ve heard about the Disney Animation Exhibit in New Orleans. Interesting about the description of Charlotte – what do you think would have been more accurate? The relationship between them is just vague enough to work for the movie, but anyone with a history book can read between the lines, I guess.

]]> By: Holly http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/12/18/some-thoughts-on-the-princess-and-the-frog/#comment-1059 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:14:42 +0000 http://thebottomofheaven.com/?p=3417#comment-1059 I am so, so happy to read this. (Albeit, a little late!) I embraced this movie before it’s release, but tentatively… I think I wrote something about us New Orleans folks being used to disappointment? And was so very happy to NOT feel disappointment that it was almost alarming. It is a fairytale, to be sure (hyperreal, in your much better description) and my children loved seeing their city and the people within it. In the Disney Animation Exhibit currently at New Orleans Museum of Art (which is absolutely fascinating) it describes Charlotte as “Tiana’s best friend” which I thought undermined the reality they were suggesting in the movie.

]]> By: Claudia http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/12/18/some-thoughts-on-the-princess-and-the-frog/#comment-1044 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:16:55 +0000 http://thebottomofheaven.com/?p=3417#comment-1044 You all are hilarious!!! I am loving that we have such divergent opinions about this. I was always partial to “Mulan” – but I guess she doesn’t count as a princess because I don’t see her face anywhere now.

]]> By: jo http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/12/18/some-thoughts-on-the-princess-and-the-frog/#comment-1043 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:12:57 +0000 http://thebottomofheaven.com/?p=3417#comment-1043 this a tremendously thoughtful and careful post (and lovely to read) and i’m not surprised to hear that it took you time to write it. it’s easy for me to play couch critic and tear down a film i haven’t seen. easiest thing in the world. it’s much more intelligent, balanced, and risky to like stuff than not to like it. :)

]]> By: carleen http://thebottomofheaven.com/2009/12/18/some-thoughts-on-the-princess-and-the-frog/#comment-1042 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:04:09 +0000 http://thebottomofheaven.com/?p=3417#comment-1042 I plan to see the movie. I find it interesting that it’s the black princess who sets the record straight on princess-hood altogether. That tends to be the black woman’s role in much of fiction. To be realists, to be strong. The whole thing reminds me of when Vanessa Williams became Miss America. My mother called me (while I was away at college) squealing and crying with joy. I was all, “Who cares about a black woman joining in something as lame ass as Miss America?!” and yes, I did talk to my mother that way. That’s a whole other post! Is getting to be a princess progress for us? Sometimes, I think yes and sometimes I’m all “Who cares about a black woman joining something as lame ass as Disney?!” But I do plan to see the movie and hope I like it. I really liked The Beauty and the Beast.

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