Disney+ removes 'Peter Pan,' 'Dumbo' from children's profiles due to negative stereotypes. (WPDE) — Disney+ has removed several movies from children's profiles on its service due to negative stereotypes.
The Stories Matter team also flagged Peter Pan for its negative portrayal of Native people and the use of “redskins” in the film. Updated on May 16, 2024 to clarify the source of the report.
Disney Plus' Kids profile no longer features titles such as Peter Pan, Dumbo, The Jungle Book, Aristocats, The Lady and the Tramp and Swiss Family Robinson. Disney has removed several titles from Disney Plus Kids profiles as part of its efforts to tackle racist stereotypes and negative depictions, reports Polygon.
What is the controversy with the new Peter Pan movie?
David Lowery's “Peter Pan and Wendy,” a new Disney+ film out Friday, tries to sidestep the colonialism at the heart of “Peter Pan” by employing less uniformly White casting than other remakes. It's a worthy effort, but racism, unfortunately, is harder to disarm than Captain Hook.
Peter Pan. The film portrays Native people in a stereotypical manner that reflects neither the diversity of Native peoples nor their authentic cultural traditions. It shows them speaking in an unintelligible language and repeatedly refers to them as "redskins," an offensive term.
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Why does Peter Pan have a trigger warning?
Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland are among a collection of children's stories that have been given a university trigger warning for “white supremacy”. York St John University has added the disclaimer to a collection of historical children's books, including works by JM Barrie, Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne.
Critics have expressed concerns over the story's use of Orientalist stereotypes, while casting decisions also came under scrutiny, with Aladdin, Princess Jasmine and the genie played by white actors in the animation.
"What Made the Red Man Red?" is a song from the 1953 Disney animated film Peter Pan with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Sammy Cahn, in which "the natives tell their story through stereotypical dance while singing". Some modern audiences consider it “racist and offensive” due to its exaggerated stereotypes.
Evidence For: Like Steven Spielberg's Hook, Peter Pan and Wendy is woke. After all, both movies featured characters from different racial backgrounds. Peter Pan and Wendy is also full of the stuff that infuriates YouTube buffoons like Wendy knowing how to sword fight or a pair of girls calling themselves Lost Boys.
Before Tiger Lily can be killed by the Black Fairy, the Blue Fairy appeared and banished her to the Dark Realm. At some point, Tiger Lily gives up her fairy wings and relocates to Neverland where she has a history with Captain Hook.
A number of Walt Disney Animation and Pixar films are apparently deemed unsuitable for a Disney+ Kids Profile. These movies include the likes of Moana, Cars 3, Onward and even the original Fantasia. There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to the decisions.
Racist imagery and cultural stereotypes in six Disney animated classics including Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Lady and the Tramp, The Aristocats, Dumbo and Swiss Family Robinson are being flagged on the Disney+ streaming site with warnings and detailed explanations of the “negative depictions” in each title.
Since 1935, Disney had intended to make a movie about Peter Pan and had finally acquired rights to it in 1939 from the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London — to whom Barrie had given the rights to the play.
As the name suggests, the Lost Boys were all male characters. However, this temporarily changed in Return to Never Land, where Wendy's daughter, Jane, becomes the first Lost Girl (although she later leaves the group). Slightly is the second in command.
Parents need to know that Peter Pan is Disney's classic take on J.M. Barrie's story of The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. It's a tale of courage, magic, and imagination -- and a reminder that growing up means taking responsibility -- but it's also occasionally a disturbing, violent story of what…
The creators of Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, Jagged Edge Productions have officially released a first look image at the upcoming horror film, Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare. Martin Portlock is slated to play the evil and murderous disfigured version of the beloved children's character.
In the original draft of the novel, Peter is a villain, kidnapping young children from their beds. The Little White Bird is a semi-autobiographical tale, considered to be a thinly veiled novel about George Llewelyn Davies, one of the boys who inspired Barrie's Lost Boys.
Tiger Lily is the daughter of Great Big Little Panther, the chief of the Piccanniny tribe, the fictional tribe of Native Americans living in Neverland. Barrie describes her as "a princess in her own right.
Peter Pan has whisked audiences through the nursery window before, but they'll meet his newest incarnation in the upcoming Disney+ event movie, Peter Pan & Wendy. The reimagined live-action tale follows 13-year-old Wendy, who declares she doesn't want to leave home nor become an adult.
The 1955 animated comedy “Lady and the Tramp” carries an advisory because of its depiction of Siamese cats in a way that perpetuates anti-Asian stereotypes. Disney says the advisory is not new, but it has now been updated and strengthened for this and other films.
After receiving criticism last year, Disney is changing the way it addresses racism in its older animated films. On Oct. 15, Disney Plus introduced a new disclaimer that appears before older films like Dumbo (1941) and Aladdin (1992), warning viewers that the films include harmful stereotypes.
In addition to “Peter Pan” and “Dumbo,” the warning plays on films including “The Aristocats” (1970) and “Aladdin” (1992), and directs viewers to a website that explains some of the problematic scenes.
Some readers may see Peter Pan as a story of how we lose imagination and freedom as we grow up. However, other readers may see the story as demonstrating how growth and change can be hard, but it are a necessary part of life. Motherhood: Motherhood is represented by Mrs. Darling and Wendy.
Disney's Peter Pan is well in line with the expectations for an American child in the 1950s: resourceful, spunky. As the decades have passed, similar changes have kept him similarly relevant. Most recently he has become an adult symbol of eternal childhood, an appeal to the inner child who never truly goes away.
The main message of Peter Pan is that children, while wonderful and fun, are also innocent and heartless, and this is why it's ultimately better that children do grow up.
