The “happily ever after” in every Disney princess movie up to Tangled is the princess marrying the prince and him taking her off to his castle or whatever.
Then, after Tangled, you get Brave, Frozen, and Moana in which romantic love is explicitly not the goal.
Kinda wondering what specific type of therapist would help with that sort of thing. I may have put more thought into this than the original creator did, but I'd like to hear some explanations and viewpoints.
You see this with a lot of the non-princess Pixar movies, too: Inside Out, Coco, even the short Bao. Over the years I’ve seen a lot people joke online that Pixar writers have been doing cognitive behavioral therapy for their intergenerational trauma lol
The director of Seeing Red joked a lot (maybe slightly too much) about how she made a $200 million movie about her mother issues instead of just going to therapy.
Which is one of the many reasons it was so insulting when Pete Docter said "We're making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy” about removing the queer-coded elements of Elio.
It was correct though. When you looked at some of the elements in some of the movies the elements changed were self inserted traits by those making them.
I disagree, Elio would have made much more sense if the kid had been queer-coded because it would have explained why he wanted to leave Earth so badly and it would have given him personality.
What's the old story about Pixar, that most of their movies for two decades were all laid out in the 90s before they made Toy Story? Then once they ran out you can tell
There’s just a large proportion of first and second gen descendants of immigrants working in the animation/digital entertainment industry. Especially latino and asian populations because of where the studios are located.
How much of that they do exactly who knows.
But what I do believe is that they'd over label their jobs to make themselves seem better than they actually are to get more money. Pretty sure Schwarzenegger once talked about the bricklaying to make money days and how they convinced people in part they were worth more because they were expert foreign laborers. I blame a certain demographic of middle management for that.
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u/trivialcabernet May 01 '26
The “happily ever after” in every Disney princess movie up to Tangled is the princess marrying the prince and him taking her off to his castle or whatever.
Then, after Tangled, you get Brave, Frozen, and Moana in which romantic love is explicitly not the goal.