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Ever since Bambi's mum hit the clover in 1942, Disney, in particular, has been giving mothers the flick from their scripts, even if they existed in the source material.
The move provides an adversity in the plot for the central (young) character. Mother characters, by nature, elicit too much strength. By being there as the one to run to when things go wrong they steal the thunder. Much easier to kill them off - the earlier the better - and let the audience concentrate on the child. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...007146,00.html |
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Don't the Shrek movies still include Fiona?
Still, Bambi, Cinderella, Snow White, Ariel, Pochahontas and Jasmine had no mothers. |
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Shrek isn't Disney.
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I ran across a list of all the Disney animated movies and whether the main characters had parents. I wish I could find it again.
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As noted, Shrek != Disney. Even if it did, I don't think that's a valid counterpoint in that Fiona is a primary charechter.
101 Dalmations had Perdita (sp?) survive. After dropping a litter of 99 BYB puppies. ![]() And Mary Poppins, which, IMHO, is one of Disney's best films in terms of its social ethics, had a surviving mother. Still, the trend is rather unmistakable, especially in Fairy Tale based films. Of course, the death of the mother is a trope in Fairy Tales to begin with. |
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IIRC, most of the pups were the ones rescued from Cruella's fur coat project.
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That's been explained at least once in the thread already.
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