Comments on: Girls in Movies

By: Robyn

Robyn — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:10:03 +0000

Sorry, but although I’m sure she enjoyed and appreciated her “adventure” with Carl, I doubt that she didn’t still wish she could have gone to South America. I didn’t say she died “unfulfilled,” but that she never achieved her dream adventure. Which she didn’t. Fact.

By: Julie Clawson

Julie Clawson — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:32:32 +0000

Pixar’s upcoming movie Bear and the Bow is about a scottish princess.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:50:59 +0000

First things first, Pixar hasn’t made a single “Princess Movie”.

Second, Robyn, you most definitely missed the point much in the same way the Carl character did. Ellie did not die unfulfilled. As we see late in the film when Carl flips through Ellie’s adventure book is that her whole life with Carl was an adventure. The good times and the bad times.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:14:23 +0000

And the reason “Mulan” is my favorite Disney cartoon, despite the fact that she is initially rejected for being female. At least she is active, takes initiative, and accomplishes something besides getting married.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:12:55 +0000

THANK YOU! The only criticism I had of “Up” was the lack of female characters in active, main roles. The main story doesn’t include any human, female characters. Not one. The only female human is in the backstory, and then she dies never having achieved her dream adventure. Great.