If you love animation films, you are probably a huge fan of Pixar. Especially one of their latest Academy Award winning blockbuster, Frozen.
The visuals, the music, the story line just takes the movie experience to a whole new level and all of this is possible only because Disney and Pixar keep reinventing their characters. They are intelligent enough to not repeat the saturated stories of Cinderella and Snow White.
But with the release of Frozen, the internet has been ranting about the depiction of the female characters. Lots of people have noticed that the sisters Anna and Esla look so similar that they could pass off as identical twins. Here's a picture to prove it:
This made a lot of people talk. The only way you can perhaps identify them uniquely is by their hair colour and dressing sense. Disney fans went back to their drawing boards with their favourite characters (Rapunzel from Tangled and even the latest additions of Joy, Sadness and Disgust from Inside Out). Pixar's definition of a beautiful female face always seems to involve a small nose, while the men enjoyed all kind of face features and noses ! The telegraph gives you some graphic evidence here.
The Afictionado points out the Dreamworks has done things a little differently. They have given a variety of facial shapes in their meant-to-be-liked heroines, which not only help you distinguish them, but also make them feel more real. Imagine how awkward it would be if your mother and love interest had the same face !
The reason we are all here talking about Pixar and their faces is because we want them to listen. We are drawn to your movies anyway, but let's not contain female beauty to one design. Let me make things clear - I'm not treading the lines of objectification of beauty, I am more interested in identifying the characters uniquely on screen without much difficulty.
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Maybe it was the intention, to make them luk alike at least in the case of Frozen. Put two contrasting characters, with contrasting traits with same looks to signify something deeper-Dual nature of ppl...
ReplyDeleteThat is deep. But did Pixar really think that much - do you really give them that benefit of doubt?
ReplyDeleteAnimated movies sure do deliver the strongest philosophies any movie can. But the mere concept that they are animated movies makes us over look those philosophies. Ya by that logic, I really do give them that benefit of doubt, Pixar could have thought that much.
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