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Disney and Acts of True Love

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Walt Disney films are known for the idea that true love heals all, but what exactly is “true love.” Merriam-Webster says its “one truly beloved or loving: a sweetheart.” For many years Disney depicted true love as a damsel in distress waiting for her prince charming to come to her rescue and reverse the evil in her life with “true love’s first kiss,” with movies Sleeping Beauty and the classical Cinderella. Don’t get me wrong, movies like Mulan and The Lion King showed acts of love through family. But the newest Disney film, Frozen, shows how the same evil of the past movies can be broken by the true love of a family member. If you take two Disney stories like the classic, Cinderella, and the newest edition, Frozen, you’ll see that Disney stays true to the theory of true love being the cure to all evil. In Cinderella her new poverty-filled lifestyle is overcome when she falls in love with and marries Prince Charming. In the film Frozen, Anna’s frozen heart is only melted when her sister sacrifices herself with an act of true love. These movies along with most Disney movies are alike in the sense that there is an ultimate evil that needs to be eliminated. These evils eventually make it so the main characters Cinderella, Elsa, and Anna are locked away from the rest of their community. The movie’s “villains” are characters disguised as someone the audience would think would be someone with love for the main character. In reality the evil acts they commit are only for self-gratification. In all Disney movies there’s a “Happily Ever After,” and the good guy wins. But even when giving the opportunity to be evil back, Cinderella and Elsa choose not to. They choose to stay loving and let everyone live a happy ever after alongside with them. In both of these movies the main characters are faced with the tragedy of losing their parents, as in most Disney films; and at that moment the childish feel of the movies

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