Princess and the Frog

In Gehlawat's article  The Strange Case of the Princess and the Frog: Passing and the Elision of Race, I found a lot of over-analyzed information. I truly think the author thought too much into The Princess and the Frog. The movie is the start of change. It shows a slow transition for Disney. This article says that by making the main characters into frogs, it avoids the racial issues. In my opinion, it's even better that Tiana And Neveen are frogs majority of the movie because it shows that race doesn't matter. Like we talked about in class, you can still tell the background of a character just by the way they are portrayed (even if they are an animal, a car, or anything else other than a human). If the movie would have shown Tiana as a black sassy character the entire time, someone would have had a problem with it being a racist movie. I think Disney did a lot of research and succeeded in both covering the issue while making sure it wasn't over-dramatic.

This article starts off over-analyzed in the very beginning. It talks about how the setting isn't properly portrayed and how the time period was before World War I where there were segregation laws on trains that were passed. Honestly, this information is useless. This is a Disney movie aimed at children. No child has any idea about any of this. Therefore, it does not matter and these parts are not fully relevant. No child will watch the movie and say this is racist because they are sitting in the back of the train! The movie did a wonderful job showing that race is not an issue (especially by showing Charlotte and Tiana as friends their entire lives). It also teaches a lot of other morals besides race which is why I think it will (and should) be considered a classic.