Expert labels Disney’s Beauty and the Beast 'most dangerous film' to watch for one crucial reason
Topics: Disney, Film and TV
Callum Jones
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Topics: Disney, Film and TV
Experts have labelled Disney's Beauty and the Beast the 'most dangerous film' to watch for one crucial reason.
When you think of dangerous movies, the likes of the stunts involved in the Fast and Furious franchise and those performed in a horror movie may come to mind.
However, you wouldn't expect Disney's Beauty and the Beast to be one of those - but according to one expert, it's the 'most dangerous film' out there.
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Some argue that classic Disney films like Beauty and the Beast promote troubled messaging and even old stereotypes that could have an impact on young viewers.
Dr Victoria Cann, a lecturer in Humanities at the University of East Anglia, told the Sun: "This is the most dangerous because the Beast always feels on the verge of violence.
"What it shows is a classic case of Stockholm Syndrome, where the captive falls in love with their captor to ensure their survival.
"It also gives the unnerving idea that if a woman perseveres long enough, she can change an angry partner.
"At the end, the beast then turns into this blonde-haired white man for another happy ever after, giving the idea that now he’s good looking, he can’t possibly be angry or threatening."
In her discussion with the Sun in 2019, it wasn't the only Disney film the university lecturer raised concerns about.
Speaking of 1992's Aladdin, Dr Cann said: "Princess Jasmine is feistier as a princess. But she is still portrayed as a possession of wealthy, powerful men."
She added: "Dress-wise, she is basically in a bikini top to show off her very slight stomach which seem to be an attempt by white film-makers to make the dress of Middle Eastern women look more exotic and sexual."
UNILAD has reached out to Disney for comment.
While movies of the past have had their fair share of criticism, recent classics such as Frozen have been praise for including more 'progressive themes', including that of family loyalty and female empowerment.
And on the topic of Frozen, viewers are told Anna and Elsa's parents were lost in a shipwreck at sea.
But theories reckon that they didn't actually die but instead survived and washed up somewhere where they had a child, a baby boy, before finally meeting their fate with Sabor.
Yep, that means that Anna and Elsa's mom and dad, Queen Iduna and King Agnarr, are also Tarzan’s parents.
Chris Buck - who directed Tarzan and both Frozen movies - confirmed this theory in a 2015 interview with MTV News.
"Of course Anna and Elsa's parents didn't die," he explained. "Yes, there was a shipwreck, but they were at sea a little bit longer than we think they were because the mother was pregnant, and she gave birth on the boat, to a little boy."