Animals as the Famillar is Disney

I was just sitting here looking at this blanket with Disny's Pocohauntis on it with Meiko(the raccoon) draped over her shoulders, and well it just sort of got me thinking, to an intresting idea that had come to me, though perhaps it is just reading into things, or how I choose to interuput something nonetheless I thought it was worth some thought.

Disney movies always tend to strongly feature aniamals, most espcially thier cartoons, primiarly for the obvisous reasons of drawing in kids, kids on a whole love animals, and are mused by the idea of talking animals, and comidic animals and so forth and it gives the story the extra element of fantasy and wonder, but I could not help but to notice, that it seems in many disney cartoons, the aniaml play appears as a famillar.

That is to say an animal that seems to have a special bound/connection with the female protaganist or heroine, and in some cases the villian and antagonist, an animal that seems sent speically to aide that female and help her achive her goal becasue of special abilities it was granted (thought not always supernatural abilities) it could just be the animals inginuity and companionship, but the result is the same.

As I first mentioned and what started all this, Pocohauntis as Meiko, Mulan has the little red dragon whose name I cannot recall, that follows her when she ends up going into war to save her father, and stays by her side, aiding her in her quest and helping her keep her idenity hidden. To look at the other side, in Cinderlla the evil Step-Mother had the cat who was always with her and stalking around, and Cinderella herself had the mise in the house that came to help her. Even the Little Mermaid, had the crab whose name I cannot recall, and again on the other side, Ursula had the eels, and well I am sure there are others, but these are just the ones that came to my immidieate mind for the moment.

10:44 PM - 3/22/2007 - post comment

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