Upcoming Pixar film featuring NEW Disney Princess?

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Re: A Pixar Princess?

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Chernabog_Rocks wrote:I also agree with DisneyDuster about the points brought up in the first post, mostly about the marketing/genderizing etc. Too bad they don't have like a bottle of "Disney Dust" for sale that would be neat of course there would be a huge label saying SPRINKLING THIS PRODUCT ON YOU DOES NOT MAKE YOU FLY :lol:
I just wanted to say thank you for all of that! :)
Disney Villain wrote: What I don’t like is, holding Pixar and Disney as separate. I’m sorry but they are one. You don’t pay 7.5 billion dollars for something and have it separate itself from you. This is what is happening over at Disney though. Whenever I go into a store I see Pixar characters then Disney characters. I’m sorry, whether it is Buzz, Woody, Aurora, or Pinocchio- their all Disney characters. I don’t like how Pixar purposely distinguishes itself from Disney. They’re both one company.
Wait, so, I'm really trying to understand. Are you saying that we should forget a whole seperate company from Disney made Toy Story and Finding Nemo, but now that company is gone, and it's just Disney? So it's like history changed (like Cinderella's stepmother altered history!) and now Disney, not Pixar, made all those movies and shorts? If that's not how things are, is that what you are saying you want?!

I think Pixar and Disney should always be viewed as seperate. I will never consider Pixar movies Disney movies. They just weren't really made by Disney. And neither were the characters in those films.

I know that Disney bought them, but how I view Pixar and Disney seems to be how Disney itself still views them, as seperate. The trailer for Enchanted does puzzle as it included Toy Story with "all the miraculous adventures", but it isn't in with "of all the classic Disney stories." It's just the public that doesn't aways view them that way, and I really don't like that.
Disney Villain wrote:I’m disgusted with their lack of respect for the classic films. By this I mean Aurora from Sleeping Beauty. Not only has she turned into everyone’s preppy 16 year old blonde cheerleader but she gotten dumber and lost her voice. The complete character change bothers me. It’s not like Disney doesn’t have other woman, on their payroll currently recording other Aurora merchandise, who can portray Aurora’s voice in a similar fashion to Mary Costa. That there was obviously a deliberate attempt to change Aurora disgusts me.
I was wondering: what if the girl who sang for Aurora didn't want to change her voice because she wanted people to hear her voice as she wanted it to sound (which might be, in her opinion, her best sound), and hopefully get recognition for it and perhaps get signed up for record deals or what have you?
2099net wrote:Sexualising of Disney Princesses/Young Girls

I think this is nonsense really. There's only one Princess who could be classed as "sexualised" and that's Jasmine (and you can add the "non-Princess" Princess Kida, although despite being covered-up more than Kida, Helga was definitely much more sexualised in that film).
What I meant was that babies should not be decorated with or made to play with or constantly exposed to characters associated with romance, which automatically leads to sex. Even without the sexual part, the romantic ties the princesses have are too strong. Whether the princesses are dependent on men is debatable, but what can't be denied is that their stories are romance-focused and their goals and rewards often include men, or getting into a relationship. Infancy is way too young to even think about that, I think it would be sick to instill into their developing minds ideas about princes kissing them when they need a more pure love from their parents.
Escapay wrote:Nah, that's still a hard sell for me. I mean, I do believe that love at first sight is possible, but it's still a bit difficult for me to believe it with Cindy and Char. I can't put my figure on it as to why, but one of these days, I'll figure it out.
I just wrote about that because you said before because I know that's how you felt and others have change that after the movie. But if it'll help lead your finger in the right direction, Cinderella runs away from the man she just fell in love with, tried to get her slipper back which would prevent him from finding her (though she probably wasn't thinking pf that), and goes back to her miserable life until she finds out he's a prince and will take her out of her miserable life. The questions remaining are: does Cinderella suddenly want to try getting the prince because she didn't think he loved her, but he does ("They say he's madly in love with her"), or she'll get away from her stepfamily, or she'll get to live in a big castle? The expression on her face indicates she's probably thinking about the man himself, indicating she does love him, but...
Escapay wrote:Unless it's a soap opera that they're watching from the womb. The Young and the Restless, Days of our Lives, and Another World were how I spent my afternoons swimming in the uterus. :P
Soap operas are even worse for kids, of course. And that is why you are like you are today!

:P JK, of course.

No one knows if that classical music in the womb method works, but I'm thinking your mom watching soap operas with you after you were born helped develop your love of them. I don't know how old you were when you remembered watching them, and I don't know if you were exposed to them before you could even process them.

Sorry about The Ten CGIommandments not being so hot. And about your full miniseries' unavailability.

I don't know if I love myself. I certainly beat up on myself, but everyone does. I don't know if I've ever been in love, but I would LOVE to think so. And I read all you wrote about unconditional love and I think your translation of the text makes sense and that love is different for everyone and hard to talk about.

I bet you love your teddy bear. I don't know where my rabbit is. But, you know, I've always thought that when I was younger evrything was "real" to me. I endowed all my animals with emotions and loved them (and some I care about more than others, probably mostly my rabbit). Or so I think I remember.

So how now does Disney Duster feel about the main topic? I originally imagined Pixar was going to make a princess film in the Disney sense, in the Disney style, and perhaps even using the Disney formula. But if they don't strive for it to be a princess film in that way, and just want to make a story or adapt a fairy tale with a princess in it, I'm all for it.

From Animated News Forum:
Interesting. I actually do remember reading in DisneyWar a quote from Eisner saying that Lassetter really wanted to do a princess movie, and how he (Eisner) was also psyched for Pixar doing it.
That doesn't bold well to me because it makes it sound like Lasster wants to make princess movie in the Disny tradition! But I also must admit if he wants to do it that badly, he really should live out his dream.

I still don't want this Pixar princess being considered a Disney princess (barring Disney Princess sing-along DVDs, that has Alice and Ella Enchanted!). Disney and Pixar are seperate, and so are their characters.
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Disney Duster wrote:(barring Disney Princess sing-along DVDs, that has Alice and Ella Enchanted!). Disney and Pixar are seperate, and so are their characters.
I didn't even know ella enchanted was a disney movie :lol:
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Well,if Lessiter allways wanted to make a Disney Princess film,then he should (and i"m happy that there are more Princess films in theater),i just don't think that she should be a Disney Princess,she should get her own franchise.
About Ella Enchanted and Alice-Ella Enchanted was just a song and i"m actually suprised that Alice isn't a Disney Princess,she's the only Disney heroine who's the hero of her movie that isn't a Disney Princess,plus,she is a princess in Kingdom Hearts.
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the irony in all this is that Pixar vowed to stay away from the traditional "princess" style of storytelling when they first started making features.
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It could be that this new princess of Scottish ancestry is merely a secondary character, with the whole film not revolving around her perhaps? Has there actually been any concrete evidence to suggest that Pixar are making a princess centric movie, or are we just assuming this?
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Well after reading through everything (since i've been away from a computer for most of the time since I originally posted in this thred... it was a lot of reading) I have a few things to point out/say.

Sorry for the whole Disney = Pixar thing. It's not exactly the point i was trying to make. What i was trying to point out is that when Disney bought Pixar they bought ALL of Pixar. The Pixar employee's are Disney employee's. Pixar's founders have major influential positions in the Disney company now. Disney in a effect owns all of Pixars past present and future. Pixar is now a branch of animation off of Disney. Pixar is no longer a individual company at all anymore.

I have a personal suspicion that the reason why disney is so willing to go back to 2D isn't because some die-hard fans of 2D wanted it, but because now they have the security to go on a limb and try it. Pixar films have a pretty predictable success rate and since now Disney itself will more than likely collect from a blockbuster that Pixar will create, a flop from Walt Disney Pictures itself wont kill the company. It'll hurt, but it wont kill. If 2D is truelly dead, then they can go back to something that works. If a 2D production is successful then Disney would make twice as much money, and then they can go on do whatever. The way I feel about it is that, I feel like Disney is a big brother to Pixar, but that doesn't exactly mean they are more powerful.

To go into Pixar's past characters and how Disney influences/uses them. Like I said above, Disney technically owns them so they are in a way Disney characters now. A good example is Oswald the Rabbit. When Walt sold Oswald, he was no longer Disney at all. Now that Disney owns Oswald, he is again. Power Rangers is another example. They are now Disney, and Disney has the complete rights to show and sell any of the old episodes as well as the new. Another point to be made, If a company like Disney funds the creation and distribution of a character like Woody, then is it really just Pixar's anyway?

Overall I don't really 100% believe that Disney is Pixar, Pixar is Disney. I believe that Pixar is it's own seperate studio with it's own seperate ideas and ideals. At the end of the road though, Disney kinda sucks up everything. I personally feel that the only thing that belongs to Pixar is the creation and production of the film, and in that sence it is completely their own.

As for our beloved Princesses. I feel that the franchise is kind of running into a dead end. I can't imagine how they can keep it going for too much longer. So the best thing they could do is slow it down for a few years then start over again with a new generation. In the mean time, Disney fairies will more than likely take over, because at this time there is a endless potential for story ideas. That's my speculation anyway.

On a side note, I was in the Disney Store yesturday and Aurora is taking over it. I mean, i'm sure it's all build up for the Platinum release next fall and she might have gained a sudden surge of popularity because of encahnted tales but I was seriously surprised. I was also overjoyed is a sick way because I kind of have a weakness for Sleeping Beauty as a whole. If it has maleficent, phillip, aurora, the three fairies, whatever I feel like i must have it lol. I guess I don't help the whole anti-princess fanchise thing...
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About the Pixar thingy-Pixar is a different company and people should know it,or at least remember that the old Pixar shorts and films are Pixar.
I have no problem with seeing pictures of Mr. Incredibles and Remy with Aurora and Winnie The Pooh but saying that Dory or Lightning McQueen are Disney characters just like Giselle,Stitch and the Chshire Cat is worng.
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