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Gender Stereotypes In Pixar's The Incredibles

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A large audience of two hundred million children and adults watch Disney movies and videos every year (Gilliam, Wooden 7). When one thinks about Disney animated feature films he or she probably immediately have the image of beautiful princesses in mind, while when thinking about Pixar one may think of a narrative, which centers on a male character. According to The Pixar Story, The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Animation Studios have been collaborating together in many films since 2006; as one can see in many films the two companies draw distinctive gender dynamics, Disney adapts to old narratives while Pixar creates new ones. In Tangled (2010), a Disney movie, the masculine character Flynn Rider is a secondary character, an arrogant and crude thief. In The Incredibles, a movie born from the collaboration between Disney and Pixar, Bob Parr is depicted as the strongest, independent and the protagonist of the narrative. While Disney’s narratives center around a female protagonists such as in Tangled, where the main character is a princess, in Pixar instead everything revolves the male subject, such as in Toy Story, Cars and in The Incredibles. …show more content…

Both companies play with social construed gender portrayals where masculinity seen as a dominant figure even over other males. Mr. Incredible and Flynn Rider confirm stereotyped masculine of an alpha male features and behaviors; however, even if Mr. Increbible who has exaggerated masculine features will need the forthcoming of the two genders will reveal determining: Bob Parr and Flynn Rider need help from a female figure in order to solving the narrative with happy ending. Masculinity is opposed to femininity and this binary system reigns in cultural

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