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Tinker Bell
Oct. 18th, 2013 01:20 amSpoilers!
After meaning to ever since I started working seriously on Forest War, I finally sat down and watched the Tinker Bell movie. I was dreading it--I never really got what Disney was doing with the whole Disney Fairies thing, and it always seemed girly and mindless and commercial.
Well, while it was definitely girly and its track record shows commercial success, the Tinker Bell movie is not mindless. It's a simple story told well, and a story with a some messages I can definitely get behind. It has the somewhat-standard "Accept and love who you are" plot, but it also adds a whole new dimension to Tinker Bell's character--mainly, emphasis on the tinker part.
Basically, Tinker Bell is a kickass inventor and engineer, and after screwing up a bunch of stuff trying to be a nature fairy, she goes back and uses her building and inventing talent to fix her mistakes. Even better, she does it in a whole new way, so not only is she 1) accepting who she is 2) which is a girl who is an engineer who is 3) inventing in new ways with objects previously thought useless, thus making her effectively The Best engineer.
Seriously, she saves spring with a bunch of re-purposed flotsam. Take that, Tony Stark.
After meaning to ever since I started working seriously on Forest War, I finally sat down and watched the Tinker Bell movie. I was dreading it--I never really got what Disney was doing with the whole Disney Fairies thing, and it always seemed girly and mindless and commercial.
Well, while it was definitely girly and its track record shows commercial success, the Tinker Bell movie is not mindless. It's a simple story told well, and a story with a some messages I can definitely get behind. It has the somewhat-standard "Accept and love who you are" plot, but it also adds a whole new dimension to Tinker Bell's character--mainly, emphasis on the tinker part.
Basically, Tinker Bell is a kickass inventor and engineer, and after screwing up a bunch of stuff trying to be a nature fairy, she goes back and uses her building and inventing talent to fix her mistakes. Even better, she does it in a whole new way, so not only is she 1) accepting who she is 2) which is a girl who is an engineer who is 3) inventing in new ways with objects previously thought useless, thus making her effectively The Best engineer.
Seriously, she saves spring with a bunch of re-purposed flotsam. Take that, Tony Stark.