![]() ![]() Number of times named female characters saved from peril by male characters: Just the once. But there is definitely a male character saved by a female (more on that later). Number of named female characters wearing “men’s clothes” (pants instead of dresses): 0 (With 0 men wearing “women’s clothes”.) Main character male or female? Male Number of named female characters saved from peril by male characters: Technically one in Cleo, I suppose. Number of female mentors or rulers? 0, but the Blue Fairy is the only character shown with legitimate power. But Jiminy certainly had heterosexual lusts, which I’ll talk about. Number of named non-white characters: One (Stromboli, labeled as a gypsy… that’s as close as we’re getting to racial diversity here) Number of named non-white female characters: 0 Number of openly non-heterosexual characters: 0 Number of openly transsexual characters: 0 (Gonna be honest… pretty sure this one and the previous one will always be 0 with Disney’s current films.) Is there a heterosexual romance? Well… no. The only female characters with either lines or names in the film are Cleo the fish (no lines), the Blue Fairy (not really a name), and three female puppets that sing lines at Pinocchio during “I’ve Got No Strings.” Does the film pass the Bechdel Test? That’s a definitive no. Number of named female characters with speaking lines: Well… zero, really. Number of named characters with speaking lines: There are 7 characters given proper names and lines, 3 given names without lines (Cleo the fish, Figaro the cat, and Honest John’s sidekick Gideon), and 5, if we include singing, given lines without proper names. He gets conned into being an actor, captured, sent to Pleasure Island, nearly turns into a donkey, then gets swallowed by a whale named Monstro while looking for his father. ![]() Fairy shows up, gives Pinocchio life, and says he’ll be fully human if he’s good. Old man Gepetto makes wooden things like clocks, makes a puppet, wishes on a star that it were a real boy. ![]() I’m sure you all know the story, but here’s a refresher course. And since some of these movies are incredibly light on their feminist punches (or are simply bizarre and strange), I’ve decided to give you guys multiple film looks every once in a while. Possibly three, depending on when Wreck-It Ralph 2 comes out. And if I do one a week, then I’ll be doing this for 56 weeks, because there will be at least two NEW Disney films out before I’m done ( Moana, Gigantic). Speaking of that list, I decided to count up just how many movies there were… and if I count ONLY the Walt Disney Studio-alone films on the list, exclude the previously mentioned 41-minute film, the war documentary Victory Through Air Power, and possibly Songs of the South (which, if you know ANYTHING about that movie other than the only part Disney will admit exists, you’ll know it’s incredibly difficult to find), then I’m left with… 54 movies. So, following this helpful list, I went ahead and moved down the line. And somebody must really love Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney Animation’s first feature-length theatrically-released animated film (other than the 41-minute compilation of short films, Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons), because it’s been rented for a solid month. As such, having no BluRay player, I’m limited by what films the video store (yes, they still exist) has on DVD. I had hoped to do this in a chronological fashion, but no matter how well I duct tape my two PS2s together, I somehow cannot make a PS4. If you saw my post last week, you know that I’m embarking on a journey to carefully review and quantify, to an extent, the gender, racial, and sexual equality in Disney films, partly to try and find the one(s) with the best message of feminism/equality… and the ones with the worst. New to this series? Figure out what’s going on here ! The continuing saga of Sean is not a photo editor, especially with MS Paint. ![]()
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