Answer for question 4374.

[author_by_night]

[Error: unknown template qotd]I think "classic" might be relative... as I understand it, The Little Mermaid was kind of my generation's Frozen. So to me it's part of the classics, but probably not to someone who remembers the even older ones. Just a little nitpick.

I'm not a huge Disney person, though I did love The Little Mermaid (again, the Frozen of 1989) and I loved Pocahantas when I was about nine, when all nine year olds loved it. (Please don't judge me. I didn't know how inaccurate and slightly offensive it was.) I don't really have any feelings either way, though I have cooled down on my stance that The Little Mermaid is a horrible misogynist film. (I really don't think it is anymore. Ariel wanted to go to the shore long before Eric was in the picture. He was her anchor, not her compass.)

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[aggiebell90]

Ha, yes. "Classic Disney," to me, is stuff like Cinderella, Snow White, Robin Hood, The Jungle Book.... The Little Mermaid, etc? That's all New Disney to me.

But, you know, I'm old, so...

(I'd probably call Robin Hood my favorite Classic Disney, fwiw, and... either Mulan or Beauty and the Beast my favorites from the 90's. And Brave my favorite "recent" Disney.)

ETA: Thinking about it, there's a difference from Disney I watched as a child (what I'm calling "Classic") and Disney I watched as a parent (the stuff from the 90s on), and most of the difference is me. I really watch (and read) things differently as a parent than I did before I had the kids. I'm paying lots more attention now to the lessons kids might learn from the books/movies that we watch, and I always think about things I need to bring up with them when we're in the car on the way home.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

(Sorry, LJ apparently doesn't email comment notifications for writer's block.)

We're basically the same generation, I think, so not that old. ;) (Sort of - I'm in the middle landing of gen y, I think.)

I don't have kids, but I can relate on some level to how you take things differently. Although sometimes that's all the sadder! Like, "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" is sad when you're five, but when you're my age and have been the Anna to sooo many people who've closed the door for no reason you can understand, it guts you in a different way. (Then again, I also think a lot of kids have related to that with older siblings - maybe that's why so many want to be Elsa, not Anna?)