Kim Ernst
Hdev 25-KELLIE BLISS
March 17,
2012
Children's
Film Critique
101 Dalmatians was directed by Wolfgang
Reitherman, Hamilton Luske, and Clyde Geronimi.
The movie was released in 1992. The
movie is about a wicked old lady named Crudella Vil and henchmen kidnap the Dalmatians puppies
from their parents Pongo and Perdita.
Crudella wants the Dalmatians fur for her newest jacket.
She will stop at nothing to get what the
wants. Pongo and Perdita realized that
their puppies were missing they went out to find them. It is a very cute story. I watched it several times when I was younger
and then of course with my own children.
Now that I am taking this class I watched it again and noticed the
stereotypes and gender roles.
We have all watched and grown up with the
Disney movies of the 101 Dalmatians. Walt
Disney said, “Our heritage and ideals, our codes and standards-the things we
live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we
exchange ideas and feelings.” (Disney) Walt
Disney had the best intentions in all of his movies to support the best values
and expose the children to the best values. In reality though this is not true,
instead it has exposed our children to more bad values than good values.
One
stereotype in the 101 Dalmatians is the villain is portrayed as an ugly super
skinny old woman. She smokes cigarettes
throughout the whole movie. Not all villains
need to be made out to be old. Just because
they are old doesn’t mean they need to a villain.
It shows the children that if smoke and have
crazy hair then you are a villain. The
evil stereotype is written about Crudella Vil. Also
in the movie they focus on all the fancy things and how
you need to have everything that everyone else.
In
the movie Perdita, the mother of the dog is written to be weak and shows that
women need to be weak in the movies. We
should be having the women be strong and powerful women.
Older women are usually the villain of the
stories. The children need to see less
of this. There needs to more mural and
good things portrayed throughout the videos.
The children need to be taught that women of any age can be the
winner. There needs to be some villains
that are pretty. We need to be able to
teach our children that they don’t need materialistic things to make them
happy. It is what inside that makes you
so cool.
The little girls need to be seeing women in
powerful roles and not just doing housework or sewing. Women are business people too.
Disney movies have a lot of influence on our
children. The Disney movies influence
them by exposing them to subliminal messages.
The also influence our children with racist values, and sexists
thoughts. The Disney movies have a lot
of bad morals that they are advertising to our children. The children are the future for us. We should be influencing them with messages
that are showing them that can be whoever they want to be. We need to send the message that it doesn’t
matter what you are wearing or how you look.
It matters how you portray yourself and how you think of yourself. The children need to see movies that are
showing more successful and more achieving goals. That way when they get older they will
understand about having goals and achieving them. There is not better feeling that achieving a goal
and getting to set a new and even better goal to achieve. The movie industry needs to think about what
kinds of stereotypes they are portraying in the movies and who it will affect
and have influence upon. The movie
industry needs to be aware of the racist values that they have hidden in their
movies. They also need to be aware that
they are putting bad morals in the movies for the little innocent eyes of our
children. They need to be putting good
morals and showing more of that instead in the movies for the children to be
watching. The children go around acting out
these movies all the time and it’s all fun and games for now.
