Disney Gets It Right : Moana The Way Finder

The movie Moana is about a girl who lives on an island in the middles of the sea. No one has ever gone past the reef. She Needs to go past the reef to restore the heart of Tafiti. She meets a demi-god by the name of Maui. They encounter a crab which they have to fight to get back Maui’s weapon back. The eventually get it back. They then head to restore the heart of Tafiti. They have to fight a monster made of lava. They fail and are sent back miles and miles. Maui and her attempt to do it again. They succeeded and restored the heart and save her island. She becomes queen of her people.

“Without my [fish] hook, I am nothing!” (Moana 2016). Moana is about a young Polynesian woman, who is the daughter of the chief of her tribe. One day, the island’s fishermen are unable to catch any fish and the crops fail. Moana learns that many centuries ago, a demigod named Maui stole the heart of Te Fiti, a goddess, and this is the reason why her island is suffering. The only way to save her island is to find Maui and persuade him to restore the heart of Te Fiti. Moana leaves her island and travels across the sea to find him, an act that is prohibited on her island. Moana contains the elements of transcendentalism, such as the idea of nature being an escape, and inner spiritual connections.

The movie also seems to be extremely authentic to the real movie. The actor who played the voice of Moana, Auli'i Cravalho, stated this herself when she stated in Article 1 “ Does that still keep me Polynesian? Am I still grounded and rooted in the way that I want to be? And I can honestly say yes,” Auli'i says.” The speech Cravalho did depicts her as an honest person that cares about keeping her culture, so the arduous work that Disney put on making the movie is furtherly seen because of how it is viewed by Carvalho. The movie is also identical to the actual culture since its technically called a Polynesian movie by Carvalho even though it was done by Americans. Miranda, a musician, worked on making the movie as good as possible. As shown as when he stated in article 1 “I was 16 years old and living on 200th Street in Manhattan and thinking the distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large, so I got myself into that mindset to write her songs.” Miranda deeply cared about making the movie since he tried to relate to Moana. The directors of the movie must care about depicting it right since they hired a hard worker. Disney is a company that tries to relate to cultures and tries to bring out the best of them as good as

As a child, most children become infatuated with the newest Disney movie. Although Disney movies target children, watching them as an adult, we start to notice hidden messages and themes in our favorite childhood movies. A category of Disney packed with secret meanings is the Disney princess films. We watch in awe a young girl living, for the most part, the perfect fantasy life. She sings to animals, her hair is always perfectly in place, and there is always a prince to come and save her. In reality, there is much more to the princess persona than we realize. In 2014, Disney’s Frozen took the world by storm and became the highest grossing animated film ever. Frozen takes us on a magical journey with Princess Anna to find her sister, Princess Elsa, whose power to create ice has forever trapped their homeland, Arendelle, in eternal winter. Elsa is haunted by the memory of almost tragically killing her younger sister Anna because of her icy powers. Isolating herself from the world, Elsa dedicated her life to concealing her powers and learning to control them. The movie Frozen teaches the importance of social development among children.

One piece of interesting foreshadowing happens when Moana is a child listening to her grandmother’s stories about the

Moana is a unique film that is released by Walt Disney in 2016. A typical Disney film consists of a beautiful princess who wants to find a true love in her life; however, Moana, the main character of the film, broke all the stereotypes and expectations of a Disney princess since Moana’s conflict does not arise from a love interest, but from a desire to save her island. The story of the movie is that there is a girl who lives on the island, but her island is dying because Maui stole the heart of Te Fiti. Therefore, her purpose is to across the ocean to find Maui and make him return the heart of Te Fiti in order to restore life on the Motunui Island, but the chief of the island “ her father “ wishes for their people to stay within the confines of the island’s reef because he thinks beyond the reef is dangerous, but Moana went against her father’s

For assignment two, I have chosen the Disney movie Moana. Moana is a 3-D computer animated musical fantasy adventure film. The film music was composed by Mark Mancina, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa’I. Moana was released in November of twenty sixteen, the movie takes place in Polynesia Islands of Motunui, Moana is chosen by the Ocean to return the heart of Te Fiti, but her father forbids her from going near the ocean. After Moana grows older, she sets out on her own to find Maui the shape shifting demi-God who stole the heart of Te, Fiti to help her sail across the ocean to return the heart and save her Island. The scene that I have chosen for this assignment is the scene where Moana. Sings the “who you are” song to Te

Imagine that your parents abandoned and no one liked you, think about that no one cared for you or talked to you. Wouldn't you want people to talk to you, or love you. That’s what Moui felt like in the movie “Moana.” Moui was a mortal like us, but his parents abandoned him and left him. Then the gods took care of him then abandoned him too. Moui had nobody to love him or talk to. He wanted to do something to amazed man and make them love him and worship him. The main character Moana sets off the find Moui to save her village because he took the stone of creation from a god. In the film, “Moana,” the story teller use the archetype Hero to reveal how we as humans take the risk of saving others because we want to be loved and worship by others.

Overall, the creators of Moana made a good movie and studied good but,it still offended some

III. CONCLUSION A. Prepare audience for ending - Tangled definitely changed my perspective in Princess movies. B. Restatement/Summarization of main points - Although it broke the stereotyping on Disney Princess movies it completely forgot to make a change in female stereotyping. At the same time the portrayal and plot of gender in animated movies still have a long way to go.

When most people think about Disney movies, their mind often goes to the stereotypical princess movies in which the protagonist wears a pink ball gown. Time and time again these princesses must fight their way through the story in a luxurious ball gown in order to end up with a prince. However, there are many Disney movies that work to challenge these gender stereotypes. The movie Moana is a recent example of a Disney production that works to break the imposed stereotypes placed on children from an early age.

On November 3, I attended the Moana Artists Tour held in White Hall. This tour sends artists who worked on the newest Disney Animation film, Moana, to colleges to explain the process of making the film. The artist who visited Emory was Neysa Bové, the costume designer for the film. She talked to us about how the film was made and how she came up with the costume designs. She also showed us exclusive clips from the film that had not yet been shown to the public. After her presentation, she held a question and answer session with audience.

The movie Moana is directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. The genre of Moana is Animation, Comedy, Adventure film, Family film, Musical and Fantasy. The main character Moana Waialiki is a sea voyaging enthusiast, her mission is to go and find the Demi-God Maui who stole the heart of Te Fetti. She is to bring Maui along her mission because he must be the one to return the heart. This movie is meant to leave the viewers

In the Disney movie, “Moana,” the main character demonstrates her personal strength as a woman capable of determining her own future. “Moana” breaks the typical Disney mold of a princess being associated with a prince as the main character. Moana realizes she has the sole power within herself to take the lead role to save her village by returning the Heart of Te Fiti. The Heart of Te Fiti is what gives the world and most importantly her people’s island life. When the Heart of Te Fiti was stolen by demi-god Maui the world fell to darkness and the island began to deteriorate. The pop culture aspect of female empowerment is exemplified in the scene where Moana is visited by her deceased grandmother, Gramma Tala, after a moment of self-doubt about being able to return the Heart of Te Fiti in order to save her people and island. In the scene Gramma Tala is deceased but visits Moana in the form of a vision. Moana envisions her people sailing the sea and her father upon one of the ships. Moana was struggling with finding her inner self and utilizes her visit from Gramma Tala, to acknowledge her self-power. In the movie Moana, the “I am Moana” scene exemplifies the current cultural theme of female empowerment being actualized when the main character, Moana realizes her own inner strength after understanding her cultural heritage, receiving inspiration from her grandmother, and embracing her role in building her future.

To make it into Disney, a villain must be introduced at the beginning of the movie, who makes the journey of the main character seem impossible. For instance, in the Little Mermaid, Ursula wants to take Ariel's voice. Ursula is able to play mind games and truck Ariel into giving up her voice for a pair of legs. This makes it difficult for Ariel because she is not able to communicate with the prince. She can only talk through hand motions, which makes it hard for people to understand. But in Moana, she