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Originally Posted by Sage Ninja
you know if the Disney wanted to do a story involving an African Princess they should have taken an actual African location with characters to the big screen instead of doing a typical fairy tale that ushauly has white protaganist and making her black, just so they can go "hey every one it's our first black Disney Princess" hur hur hur.
I was just watching an episode of Gargoyals where Goliath and Elisa are on thier journey around world from Avolan and they end up in Africa and they meet up with Elisa's mother, and Elsa's mother ends up telling some village kids an African folk story about a Panther who gets turned into a beautiful woman by a spider.
Well I was watching this, and I have no idea if this was just fabricated for just the show or if it's in fact a real African folk tale, but I thought "wow, wouldn't this make an awsome 2D animated movie involving an African princess"? The way it's told in the show was so awsome. A vain female panther angers a evil magical spider and gets turned into a human woman as punishment, and has to live out her life as a woman and sereve the spider by building a city to dedicate him and ends up marrying a Cheif to achieve this and has human children with him, but is torn between being a panther again and being seprated from her children, but is given the choice to turn one of her human children into a panter like her. That would have made an awsome theatrical Disney movie in the 2D animated style with an African Princess. It has all the elements of meaty plot and full length movie.
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That's exactly the problem... Isn't there some African tale about a Princess they could use instead of just taken one of the few stories they didn't touch and plopping some African Americans in it to look PC? European Stories= White cast. Not really a huge stretch. There are amazing tales all over the world without having to semi-modernize an old European tale.
Or HEY! They could make one up themselves. or an entire Non-fairytale story about African American kids...
But on the subject of Disney Princesses, why is Mulan up there? I recall her NOT being a princess... and she winds up marrying (as far as the story is concerned) a General, not a Prince....
All the others either were born or became princesses. though, Wouldn't Belle be a queen?