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Disney Cliché

The Disney Cliché. An interesting concept used to describe a romance with a relatively happy beginning, middle, and end. But really why do we use it that way? Disney tales aren't just about the ends. They have a happy ending because the main character fights through the middle. You don't talk about how much the princesses or princes or whoever went through, you just acknowledge the romantic, simple ending. But Mulan had to fight a war and survive a lie to get her prince, and even in the second movie the perfect couple fought before they got married. Ariel sacrificed her tail, with that being her whole world, and her relationship with her father just to see a world that was so interesting and just to get the man she knew little of. Pocahontas' family was in a war with who she loved, she had to deal with every one being against her because she was in love with the enemy. Aladdin had to choose between his best friend and being a prince at one point in the movie, plus fighting for Jasmine to believe he was a good guy and save her from the awful hands of Jafar. Nemo's mom died and then he was kidnapped before he finally got to be with his dad at the end.
The Disney Cliché doesn't make much sense to me because to be in a relationship in a Disney world requires a fight of some sort that we may just look over because of how it's portrayed. They can't show how devastating and hard these wars were or how emotionally tearing these choices of love over family could've been. Its a children's show that we disregard as having a prominent moral of love, when it does, in fact, depict the struggles of keeping or getting a relationship. Would you have seen the struggle if Ariel had never worked it out with her family? Or maybe if none of them had a happy ending? They need those happy endings as part of the moral. Yes, the fight would have been even more on show but then there would be no hope of something good coming out of fighting for what you want or need. To fight for something you love is to succeed some how. If there weren't happy endings how were kids supposed to subconsciously recognize that with work comes reward? This isn't necessarily a pressing matter but it is a matter. I thought of Disney romance as easy romance just before I started writing this, when I read a line in a book saying that the characters love would never be a fairytale, it would never be the Disney Cliché. So why not show others just what I thought?

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I haven't watched these movies in ages sorry if I mixed it up or something.
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