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Alicia Keys wants to be the voice of the main character of the movie "The frog princess"! As you know, this character (Mandy) will be the first black princess in Disney History!

Jennifer Hudson (oscar nominated - Best supporting actress - Dreamgirls) has also showed interess in doing the part!

Have you heard about that?

she's going to be black? this is the first Ive heard of it. mind telling me me where you got this info?

Kyle wrote:she's going to be black? this is the first Ive heard of it. mind telling me me where you got this info?

I got this info from MTV Portugal Site: www.mtv.pt - the only problem is that the info is in Portuguese! Anyway you can also find info about the movie in the wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frog_P ... %28film%29

They did release an audition thing, describing what they wanted the caharacters to sound like. and Madie (i thinkthats her name) is going to be african-american, as well as more than half of the main characters.

Here is my question. How can she be considered a Disney Princess when the story doesn't involve royalty at all. It is my understaning that this is a tale on a southern plantation that may or may not be during slavery days and involves voodoo. JUst because it's called "The Frog Princess" doesn't mean it's about a princess or a fairy tale. To me this screams of being a PC campaign to get a black princess in there. I'd rather see them do a story set in Africa based on an African legend for a black princess that redoing a european fairy tale and making it take place in the american south with a black girl.



Plus, it's interesting how this film is said to be and is getting made at all and yet Song of the South is considered a racist movie and have similar but even more innocent content. Go figure...

Here is my question. How can she be considered a Disney Princess when the story doesn't involve royalty at all. It is my understaning that this is a tale on a southern plantation that may or may not be during slavery days and involves voodoo. Just because it's called "The Frog Princess" doesn't mean it's about a princess or a fairy tale. To me this screams of being a PC campaign to get a black princess in there. I'd rather see them do a story set in Africa based on an African legend for a black princess that redoing a european fairy tale and making it take place in the american south with a black girl.



Plus, it's interesting how this film is said to be and is getting made at all and yet Song of the South is considered a racist movie and have similar but even more innocent content. Go figure...

UncleEd wrote:Here is my question. How can she be considered a Disney Princess when the story doesn't involve royalty at all.

Also according to wikipedia, there is royalty involved, a Prince Harry.

Between Alicia and Jennifer, I choose Jennifer, but both women have deep voices, an attribute uncharacteristic of other Disney Princesses. Nothing against it, I'm just wondering...

Both premises being discussed here sound interesting. I think a Southern plantation setting with voodoo and mysticism seems like an area Disney has not ventured into. I would love to see that animation...the style could be very distinctive. A fairy tale setting could also work, since we know it's worked for Disney before, but I think the other would be more intriguing.

About the "racist" issue- I don't see the whole "taboo" surrounding the Southern plantation plot. Like it or not, it's a part of history. No reason trying to push it into ignorance. Personally, I hope they take it in that direction.

I wasn't saying that a plantation was a bad thing. I was merely saying it's ironic that Song of the South is often cited as being racist because it has a southern plantation. It's a glaringly double standard.


I'm sure the voodoo won't dgo well with the southern Christians who like to gripe about that stuff. Disney doesn't care about that group though but they cave to those who complain Song of the South is racist. Another double standard.

UncleEd wrote:Disney doesn't care about that group though but they cave to those who complain Song of the South is racist. Another double standard.

While I'm sure you didn't mean to, I'm a little insulted by that statement. I am a strong Christian and a hardcore Disney fan. I refuse to believe that the studio I put so much adoration towards doesn't care about me. Take a gander at The Chronicles of Narnia. Disney's chief audience for that film were Christian churchgoers and they embraced that. They greenlighted Christian music CDs and even Bible studies that coincided with the film's theme.
Perhaps voo-doo was the wrong word. Magic was what I was going for, but with a different, more mystic style. Disney's signature is magic, so we know it will be well-recieved.

numba1lostboy wrote:Between Alicia and Jennifer, I choose Jennifer, but both women have deep voices, an attribute uncharacteristic of other Disney Princesses.

That is true, but I think "Dreamgirls" showed how tender she can sound, even with a lower voice. She'd have my vote all the way.

they should cast INOJ, she has a very sweet voice, very disney princess like. does any one remember her?

UncleEd wrote:I'm sure the voodoo won't dgo well with the southern Christians who like to gripe about that stuff. Disney doesn't care about that group though but they cave to those who complain Song of the South is racist. Another double standard.

UncleEd obviously meant that he Disney didn't care for people who complain about their films' uses of other religions (or perhaps he meant magic, which is slightly controversial because it's supernatural). Disney obviously cares about Christians, but not the complaining, up-tight ones who take the Bible too literally, and usually live in the South. Or at least, that's what I think UncleEd was saying...

i'm so excited, its disney's first fairy tale since beauty and the beast, its sounds so much like an old princess movie, a little more modern but its the same concept.....i can't wait to watch this

rs_milo_whatever wrote:i'm so excited, its disney's first fairy tale since beauty and the beast, its sounds so much like an old princess movie, a little more modern but its the same concept.....i can't wait to watch this

I am specially excited because is not only the return to a fairy tale, but it's also the return to 2D animation and broadway's musical style!!!

I am personally pulling for Jennifer Hudson if it is between those two.

i would honestly like Raven Symone to voice her...i think it would fit ;P nut alicia keys would do great to.

not jennifer though...not for a teenage disney princess...maybe she could do one of the other characters?

caioloki wrote:i would honestly like Raven Symone to voice her...i think it would fit

man I hope not. I cant stand her.

caioloki wrote:i would honestly like Raven Symone to voice her...i think it would fit ;P

Oh, god, keep your voice down. We don't want Disney getting any ideas.

caioloki wrote:not jennifer though...not for a teenage disney princess...maybe she could do one of the other characters?

Jodi Benson was 28 when she voiced Ariel, who was 16.
Paige O'Hara was 35 when she was Belle.
Jennifer Hudson is currently 25. I don't think it's that big a deal.

SpringHeelJack wrote:Jodi Benson was 28 when she voiced Ariel, who was 16.
Paige O'Hara was 35 when she was Belle.
Jennifer Hudson is currently 25. I don't think it's that big a deal.

And don't forget this: Mickey Rooney (the spunky devil in my present avatar) was 60 when he was Adult Tod, playing the childhood friend of 29-year-old Kurt Russell!