Media is a powerful entertainer for children. The power of media can be very influential in the minds of young children. The “Wonderful World of Disney” has been a part of America for a long time and Disney is the essence of children’s entertainment with all of its movies, television shows, songs, theme parks, toys, and fictional characters that they have created. A film review by McIlwain says how “Disney has always made “feel good” movies. Whether the good feelings come from the songs, the wonderfully animated characters, or the goofy antics, there’s no denying that on a rainy day, Disney is just the trick to make you feel good again” (31). However, does Disney stand for clean and innocent entertainment, or does it deliver alternative motives
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The group that I am in suggested it and they all basically said it was a great movie. A film review by Nashawaty, mentions how “If you’re the kind of movie goer who approaches animated kiddie films searching for deep sociopolitical metaphors, Disney’s Zootopia will provide plenty of food for thought regarding prejudice and tolerance” (68). The movie is set in a modern animal-kingdom metropolis where predators like lions, tigers, and bears live in harmony with the prey like the protagonist, Judy Hopps, a bunny that is both ambitious and energetic. She leaves her family’s rural carrot farm to pursue a career as a police officer. Judy sets out to solve a rash of missing animal cases that all seemed to be predators, with the unenthusiastic help of a sly red fox named Nick Wilde, who is a small-time con …show more content…
In the movie, Judy, questions the elephant who is a yoga instructor, and one of her clients went missing. Judy is trying to get more clues, but the elephant can’t help because she actually has an awful memory. However, the laid-back domestic yak who is the owner of the naturalist club, is the one who seems to recall everything about the missing otter. The yak even seemed to remember the license plate number on the car that the otter had got in before he went missing. These types of scenes in the film help show how it can be rude to judge an individual based on the stereotype of an entire race, (in this case species) even if the stereotype is considered to be a positive one. A great memory doesn’t sound like a bad thing, but I can imagine it would get old fast if everyone assumed you remembered everything when in fact you
The group that I am in suggested it and they all basically said it was a great movie. A film review by Nashawaty, mentions how “If you’re the kind of movie goer who approaches animated kiddie films searching for deep sociopolitical metaphors, Disney’s Zootopia will provide plenty of food for thought regarding prejudice and tolerance” (68). The movie is set in a modern animal-kingdom metropolis where predators like lions, tigers, and bears live in harmony with the prey like the protagonist, Judy Hopps, a bunny that is both ambitious and energetic. She leaves her family’s rural carrot farm to pursue a career as a police officer. Judy sets out to solve a rash of missing animal cases that all seemed to be predators, with the unenthusiastic help of a sly red fox named Nick Wilde, who is a small-time con …show more content…
In the movie, Judy, questions the elephant who is a yoga instructor, and one of her clients went missing. Judy is trying to get more clues, but the elephant can’t help because she actually has an awful memory. However, the laid-back domestic yak who is the owner of the naturalist club, is the one who seems to recall everything about the missing otter. The yak even seemed to remember the license plate number on the car that the otter had got in before he went missing. These types of scenes in the film help show how it can be rude to judge an individual based on the stereotype of an entire race, (in this case species) even if the stereotype is considered to be a positive one. A great memory doesn’t sound like a bad thing, but I can imagine it would get old fast if everyone assumed you remembered everything when in fact you