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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[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot all about The Lion King! I don't think I loved it, but it was another one people always talked about.

I have to ask since you brought up Sleeping Beauty - have you seen Maleficent? I actually didn't love it, though I appreciated what they were trying to do.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I really highly enjoyed it. I'm all for re-imagined versions of classic stories and this definitely was wonderful. I mean, I understand that people wanted unapologetic evil Maleficent like in the animated movie, but I really liked what they were doing with her character in the live-action Maleficent. I mostly love that Maleficent and Aurora became friends and that it was Maleficent's love that broke the spell, not some random prince. ♥

And I like that it was a deliberate choice to go this route, since the live-action Cinderella was just a straight-up adaptation. So it makes me hope that for their new live-action franchises that they'll switch things up instead of retelling the same story.