Amanda Marie Marcotte is a well-known blogger and author, who definitely keeps the political topic of feminism in mind when she writes her books and blogs. While writing an essay about Pixar and its movie that brought in political views, she brought up some very good points. These political points included Wall-E with the mass consumerism problem and Brave with the feminist topic. Even though Amanda Marcotte mainly speaks on the feminist topic, she hit on some very good points when she brought up the fact that Wall-E was about mass consumption. ‘Wall-e was definitely a good visualization of how the people’s greed and laziness and turning our planet, Earth, into one of formend’ (Amanda Marcotte, pg 240, 2013). It is a strong belief that Wall-E
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If one were to reflect on the overconsumption, clearing of land, and waste and as Shah puts it in her article, a “perpetual growth,” the people puts theirself in risk of being stuck in the development of a destructive to the environment, contribution to poverty, social/ecological problems, and hunger among the immense wealth (2015). Because of this it safe to say that Pixar did an excellent job in exaggerating with the amount of waste that was displayed on the screen of this movie and was great display of waste and overconsumption, but this was not the only point that was in Marcotte’s Essay. Moreover, the real reason why Marcotte this essay, The Shocking Radicalism of Brave, was to talk about her favorite topic; Feminism. According to Time, Brave was the first movie in 17 years that Pixar made a female the protagonist of a movie (Pols, 2012). The main character, Merida was a princess during the medieval time when females were to be married off at certain age and become domestic. However this was not the case Merida, a tomboy by definition, who was against the tradition of women being married off. Feminism has always and will always be proven a controversial topic until proven …show more content…
Pixar did a good job in making a visualization of what humans is doing to Earth yet not a good enough job on the visualization of how inequality between genders is changing for the better. Wall-E was just enough to make a loud and bold statement while Brave was more of a whisper a hint of the female role changing for more equality with men. Maricotte even said, “Brave did not offer a real challenge to male [privilege, but it does tell a story that that feels awfully familiar to those doing feminist work in the maddeningly complex real world” (pg 241, 2013). Brave was definitely different from what Pixar usually puts out and this movie was heavily critiqued about the quiet feminist theme it had. The question is not did Pixar mean for the people to read in to the movie, the critiques did” , but Is this only the stepping stone of Pixar putting out more movies that put females in a more powerful position than Merida was placed in in
If one were to reflect on the overconsumption, clearing of land, and waste and as Shah puts it in her article, a “perpetual growth,” the people puts theirself in risk of being stuck in the development of a destructive to the environment, contribution to poverty, social/ecological problems, and hunger among the immense wealth (2015). Because of this it safe to say that Pixar did an excellent job in exaggerating with the amount of waste that was displayed on the screen of this movie and was great display of waste and overconsumption, but this was not the only point that was in Marcotte’s Essay. Moreover, the real reason why Marcotte this essay, The Shocking Radicalism of Brave, was to talk about her favorite topic; Feminism. According to Time, Brave was the first movie in 17 years that Pixar made a female the protagonist of a movie (Pols, 2012). The main character, Merida was a princess during the medieval time when females were to be married off at certain age and become domestic. However this was not the case Merida, a tomboy by definition, who was against the tradition of women being married off. Feminism has always and will always be proven a controversial topic until proven …show more content…
Pixar did a good job in making a visualization of what humans is doing to Earth yet not a good enough job on the visualization of how inequality between genders is changing for the better. Wall-E was just enough to make a loud and bold statement while Brave was more of a whisper a hint of the female role changing for more equality with men. Maricotte even said, “Brave did not offer a real challenge to male [privilege, but it does tell a story that that feels awfully familiar to those doing feminist work in the maddeningly complex real world” (pg 241, 2013). Brave was definitely different from what Pixar usually puts out and this movie was heavily critiqued about the quiet feminist theme it had. The question is not did Pixar mean for the people to read in to the movie, the critiques did” , but Is this only the stepping stone of Pixar putting out more movies that put females in a more powerful position than Merida was placed in in