Re: Stephen Anderson Left Disney
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2021 9:39 am
I'm confused. If you think she's better in the sequel, wouldn't that be due to Lee since Lasseter was no longer involved?farerb wrote:I don't want to be hard on Jennifer Lee, I think she's a nice and good person, and I do believe that there should be more women working in higher positions, but looking at the things she was heavily involved in: Wreck-It Ralph, A Wrinkle in Time and Frozen II. None of them are really good or amazing, Frozen seems to be the exception, and if Frozen fans on Tumblr are to be believed, they seem to credit Lasseter about it based on interviews from back when. Honestly if that's the case then it would explain why Elsa is barely a character in the first film, and just a shell for people with issues and anxieties to insert themselves into, she was far more interesting in the second film, it's just a shame that Anna and Kristoff were completely wasted.
Personally, I think Frozen was successful more because of Lee, because if Lasseter was the reason, I'd love all the films he had a part in. Generally, I dislike his work at both WDAS and PIXAR with only a few exceptions. TP&TF is another one I liked in spite of his involvement, and I attribute that to M&C--who I think went on to have much less control with Moana, which explains my ambivalence towards that film. And it was the same with PIXAR, at least half of those properties I liked (the Toy Story series, Monsters, Inc., Incredibles, Inside Out) involved Docter; half also included Lee Unkrich. I'm more likely to give them the credit for that since the ones I like are a minority. TBH, even PIXAR is looking better off without Lasseter, going by what I've seen of Luca and Turning Red, which surprises me since I thought his friends there would continue on in his foosteps more tightly than WDAS would. I never have been interested in PIXAR projects like with those Luca / Turning Red and I attribute that to the Ghibli (or almost Aardman-esque at times) aesthetic. It's strange, because Lasseter always acted like a major Ghibli fan, but that Ghibli-inspired look is only happening now he's out of the way.