AFI poll proves Disney isn't doing well.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Looking back at a 15-year-old AFI poll, it seems less likely that Disney will make a 2020s comeback with its animated movies. The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923, quickly becoming the king of animated cinema, and 100 years later, the studio is still producing tons of films. Unfortunately, it seems Disney's best movies, especially in animation, are in the past.
The closest the company has come since is the success of Frozen in 2013 and Frozen II in 2019, as these are two of the highest-grossing animated films of all time. However, despite the poll being conducted in 2008, the newest movies on the list are the 2003 Pixar feature Finding Nemo, which Disney distributed, and the 2001 DreamWorks Animation hit Shrek, the latter of which is the sole non-Disney release represented.
The company had received criticism for decades over its portrayal of women in princess films, and with 1991's Beauty and the Beast, Belle was a much more determined and headstrong character than characters like Aurora, who spent all of Sleeping Beauty asleep. Disney leaned further into feminism with 1998's Mulan and utilized its renewed creativity for films with male leads, too, like Hercules and Pixar's Toy Story.
A prime example of that is the controversy over Disney's live-action Snow White. Lead actress Rachel Zegler has set fans off with her comments about the new film leaving Snow White's love story behind to make her a more powerful princess. What the company doesn't understand is while it was necessary to make warrior characters like Mulan in the '90s, society is now moving into a place where women feel they deserve to fall in love without being perceived as weak.
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