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08-15-2009, 01:35 PM
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Ditto. I can't think of any Spanish folk tales, but I am sure there is something they could use from Aztec/Mayan/Incan culture.
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I was thinking the same thing. But first off, there isn't much to admired about those cultures. Yes they were advanced, but they were also incredibly bloody. Second while we do trace our heritage back to various tribes and nations that were here before the Europeans, we all have our own individual cultures, even if we are both descended from the same group of people.
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08-15-2009, 06:06 PM
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I was thinking the same thing. But first off, there isn't much to admired about those cultures. Yes they were advanced, but they were also incredibly bloody.
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Hmm... and you want them to do an African princess?
Why don't they do a Jew princess just so they can cover all 'em.
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08-16-2009, 06:33 AM
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Why don't they do a Jew princess just so they can cover all 'em.
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There's a not very PC joke to be made here, that I'm going to refrain from making. But y'all get the picture.  
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08-19-2009, 01:32 AM
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There's a not very PC joke to be made here, that I'm going to refrain from making. But y'all get the picture. |
Like making an animated version of her?
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Overall, though, it's the bigness of the car that counts the most. Because when something bad happens in a really big car – accidentally speeding through the middle of a gang of unruly young people who have been taunting you in a drive-in restaurant, for instance – it happens very far away – way out at the end of your fenders. It's like a civil war in Africa; you know, it doesn't really concern you too much. - P.J. O'Rourke
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08-19-2009, 12:55 PM
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Hmm... and you want them to do an African princess?
Why don't they do a Jew princess just so they can cover all 'em.
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They did, it was called "Spaceballs". Not that Disney would have gone anywhere near the subject.
A Disney treatment of the book of Esther might be interesting even though she was never a princess, though.
However I don't know if any actual Jewish Princess are identified by name in the Books of Kings, say a daughter of Solomon.
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08-15-2009, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito
I was thinking the same thing. But first off, there isn't much to admired about those cultures. Yes they were advanced, but they were also incredibly bloody. Second while we do trace our heritage back to various tribes and nations that were here before the Europeans, we all have our own individual cultures, even if we are both descended from the same group of people.
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Just wow, because no other cultures on earth ever killed or sacrificed people, or did (perceived) horrible things? How is the Aztec and Mayan human sacrifice better or worse than burning or drowning alleged witches in Europe and colonial New England? The people who conquered the Aztec, Inca, Maya, and everyone else in the Americas were not shining paragons of how to treat people either, and destroyed many people and societies in the process. There are still problems today from what happened five centuries ago.
How about a Disney Princess movie about real American royalty, Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii?
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08-15-2009, 06:45 PM
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But first off, there isn't much to admired about those cultures. Yes they were advanced, but they were also incredibly bloody.
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Are you serious? There aren't too many cultures that haven't, at least at some point in their history, been incredibly bloody. Considering the Disney movies that have been set in Medieval and Renaissance Europe that have managed to gloss over the blood and guts and all other general nastiness, I am pretty sure they could polish and pretty up pre-colonial American history enough to make a movie that wouldn't have any of that in it either. (After all, they've managed to do it with post-colonial American history. As others have stated, accuracy is not the goal here.)
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08-16-2009, 10:52 AM
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I was thinking the same thing. But first off, there isn't much to admired about those cultures. Yes they were advanced, but they were also incredibly bloody. Second while we do trace our heritage back to various tribes and nations that were here before the Europeans, we all have our own individual cultures, even if we are both descended from the same group of people.
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Such an ignorant thing to say.
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