Dear Disney Enthusiasts,
While I don't think that Dimitri and Flynn look almost exactly alike (Dimitri sports an even more clean-shaven, young, less experienced physical appearance), bradhig, I will agree that The Disney Company COULD'VE made Flynn look even MORE different, and even less stereotypical, than he looks right now.
They could've added a mustache to him, given him red hair, etc. Honestly, MOST animated human Disney heroes sport brown, or dark hair, a typically lean, strong physique, a bare, Midwestern-esque, properly clean-shaven (for the 50s, anyway) face, etc. Note that not even one of Snow White's dwarfs sported a mustache, even though they almost all had beards! Try telling ME that all miners wear beards, but not mustaches.

Ha! I live in mining country, and everybody sort of has their own style; the grand irony is, of course, that most of the much older miners from this area ARE the clean-shaven types.
No. The Disney Company was always fearful of offending good Americans during World War Two, and ever since, they've been creating heroes who are, with regards to their LOOKS, at least, "morally sound, clean-shaven good guys".
I am all for going against the common stereotype, and I doubt that we've seen a mustached, animated Disney hero, so here's to such a new hero during the future! <toasts>!
Thank you in advance for your replies.
bradhig wrote:Another conman type hero. He looks like a near copy of Dimitri from Anastasia. Exterminate.