Blog Post# 8: Disney Evil character -Shan-Yu

Based on the Chinese legend Hua Mulan, Walt Disney Feature Animation produced the Disney movie Mulan. This movie takes place during the Han dynasty, where a young girl disguises herself as a man in order to take place of her father to fight the invading Huns. Shan-Yu is portrayed as an evil character in this movie, where he is the ruthless leader of the Huns. Of the Disney movies I’ve seen Shan-Yu is the most ruthless of all, because he is determined to conquer the entire country China by any means. 

Shan-Yu along with his army, managed to climb over the great wall of China and invade the Chinese. During this invasion, Shan-Yu, did not show any mercy to any of the Chinese people. He felt no fear and no hesitation to take someone’s life. He sometimes killed people for fun. Just by looking at Shan-Yu’s face, one could treble with fear. This character of Shan-Yu makes him the most ruthless and violent of all. But of course, evil has to be put in its right place, and Mulan (with a lot of courage and patience) is the one who finally takes down Shan-Yu at the end of the movie.  

 

Blog Post 7: Disney Princess Ariel

The Little Mermaid is one of the most popular Disney animated movies of all time. This movie talks about a young princess mermaid who is eager to attain human soul and give up her identity as a mermaid after falling in love with a human prince. Ariel is that young mermaid who falls in love with a prince. Though the young princess Ariel is a mermaid, she finds a way to attain legs. However, in return she has to pay a hefty price, which was to give up her voice. Of the Disney movies I have seen, The Little Mermaid is the worst influential movie for teenagers because it portrays a scenario where a person can disobey her father and yet have everything worked out well towards the end. I specifically disagree with the fact that Ariel’s father in the end realizes Ariel’s true love for the prince is a good deed.  

Ariel disobeys her father word and makes childish decisions on her own. Eventually she faces lots of trouble in her life, but somehow manages to end up doing fine towards the end. Due to this very reason many teenagers these days think that it is good to disobey their parents when they are immature, and still have a good life in the end. This is completely wrong, because parents have far more experience than their children and always look out good for their kids. It should be fine to take decisions on their own once the child matures. However, in the movie The Little Mermaid, Ariel clearly was not mature enough and made bad choices. None of this would have happened if she obeyed her father when she was young. This way the theme of the movie would have actually influence teenagers to obey their parents and not make senseless decisions in life.

Blog post 6:The Legend of Korra

The Legend of Korra is an American animated series which is a sequel to the series Avatar: The Last Air Bender. The series portrays fictional characters where some are able to bend or manipulate the elements of nature (water, air, fire and earth). Only the character ‘Avatar’ has the ability to bend all four elements  whereas the ones who are able to bend can only bend one of the element. The main goal of  the ‘Avatar’ is to master all four elements in order to maintain balance in society.

The Legend of Korra, showed true colors of animation with high definition contrast and amazing color ratios. The animation seemed very pleasing to the eyes as compared to Avatar: The Last Air Bender. As far as the story goes the writes did a remarkable job with building character detail and in depth interactions of each and every character among each other.  Avatar: The Last Air Bender involves a great story with an amazing theme and is mostly suitable for all kinds of audiences. However, The Legend of Korra’s story deals with characters which are suitable for more mature audiences.

The Legend of Korra season 1, did have an amazing story line as compared Avatar: The Last Air Bender. However, The Legend of Korra season 2 did not have a very pleasing plot and was extremely disappointing. The problem with this season was that the writers focused more on the romance between the characters than the actual plot itself. This made the show seemed too mainstream and extremely boring.  Therefore Avatar: The Last Air Bender is overall a better show than The Legend of Korra.