Hello there Disney fans with the recent success of Disney films which have been getting more and more popular not only with the younger fans but also with the older fans i have to ask are we entering a new Disney Renaissance? Well lets find out.
Now the original renaissance started in 1988 and lasted all the way to 1999 and during those years the company released films such as The Little Mermaid , Beauty And The Beast , Aladdin and The Lion King to name but a few and all of these movies became hit films with there focus being on the characters and story rather then the jokes. Now people forget that there was a pretty dark time for Disney after that period had ended who here remembers Home On The Range , Treasure Planet , Fantasia 2000 , Dinosaur and Brother Bear all of those films flopped at the box office and gone was all the praise from critics and fans and i guess you could say this lasted until 2009 when something amazing happend.
In 2009 PIXAR and founder John Lasseter took creative control of the company's feature animation division and under his guidance we got films like Big Hero 6 , Tangled , Wreck It Ralph , Zootopia and the monster hit that was Frozen now that's not to say that he didn't make a few mistakes here and there after all he is only human as we also got The Princess And The Frog a film that got a good reception but didn't do well at the box office. Gone was the focus of jokes and traditional characters and in was the focus on characters and on telling great stories for the first time in years we got films that didn't adhere to the traditional Disney film and with Frozen we got a film that said girls don't need men to make them happy and that film focused more on the bond between the main leads while also poking fun and the older disney tropes.
I mentioned that Frozen did away with the traditional Disney tropes that's not exactly true tho as the company did release Mulan which tried to do the same thing however it doesn't do it as much as Frozen does tho as the girl still ends up falling in love and eventually marrying a prince. There is not doubt in my mind that we are now seeing more effort put into the characters and the world that they live in now i find myself caring for these characters i want to know what the next Frozen movie is and yes i even saw the hashtag #GiveElsaAGirlFriend so it proves that i'm not the only one that is caring more and more for these characters.
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Just like in this era of Disney films not everything in the renaissance era was perfect either does anyone remember Hercules because i don't but to that films credit trys to do a subject that most Disney films didn't do at that time and thats tackle Greek Mythology it still did well at the box office so well in fact it spawned a TV series and a straight to DVD movie.
So in short i would say that yes we are entering a new renaissance even if it is being called the "Revival Era" because now we are seeing movies that ten years ago no one would have thought to have made and because of that focus on creating interesting characters we now get to care about them and there journey and in the case of Frozen and Zootopia young girls now have characters that they can look up to so long may this period reign.