Friday 23 January 2009

Even animated stars are mostly men

This article brings up the fact that in almost all animated movies - Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks productions included - have male stars. No matter if they are animals, robots, insects, cars, toys or monsters, they are always male. The females are supporting roles and that's it. And it has grown worse since Disney got competition - before at least we got movies like Pocahontas, Snow White, the little mermaid which were not of the same quality as the new productions and which of course enforced stereotypes of how a girl should act, what she should look like to be pretty etc. But at least these were movies with female leading roles, with female heroines. No we get movies like the Ice Age, Kung Fu Panda, Cars, Ratatouille, Antz, Wall-E, Finding Nemo, Shrek. All of excellent quality but all sporting male leading roles.

I agree - here's for more female leading roles in animated movies! Please.

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