Time Network features Disney's first Southeast Asian princess "Raya" as the protagonist of the animation film "Dragon Quest Legend", starting today on the big screen of Chinese mainland to meet the audience!
Before Raya's appearance, Disney's 12 princesses were household names. Of course, not all the heroines in Disney cartoons belong to "Disney Princesses", since the birth of "Snow White" in 1938, until "Dragon Quest", 11 Disney cartoons and 1 Pixar animation princesses, make up these 12 disney princesses.
The concept of "Disney Princess" comes from the 1990s, when Disney Products realized that female characters in its own cartoons were very popular, and the series was born in order to sell princess toy peripheral products. Disney carefully selected a number of heroines who fit the definition of "princess", who were either born into the royal family, married into the royal family, or like "Mulan", neither of which matched, but were selected for their extra bravery.
The "Wonderful Fairy" in "Peter Pan" and the "Esmeralda" in "The Freak of the Clock Tower" were both selected as "Disney Princesses" at one time, and both were later expelled from the "Princess" for "tonal discrepancies". In 2005, Wonder Fairy launched his own series, "Disney Fairies", "Jane Potter" in Tarzan of the Apes, and the familiar "Frozen" Elsa and Anna sisters, all of which were once expected to join the ranks of the "Fairies", but this plan was unsuccessful. In particular, Elsa and Anna, contrary to the perception of many fans, are not the official "Disney Princesses", but they can still appear in "Invincible Destruction King 2".
Although the Disney princesses come from different cartoons, they have a lot in common, such as being friendly to animals, having a more beautiful heart than appearance, and a very good singing voice, each with their own classic theme song, with one exception, Melida in "Brave Legend", who only sang with her mother when she was young and did not sing when she grew up. This is also the only Disney Princess from a Pixar movie, and this was also mentioned during the "Princess Party" of Invincible Destruction King 2.
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Of the 12 princesses before Raya, except for Merida and Moana in Ocean's Edge, each princess will be with her favorite Prince Charming at the end of the film - they form the "Disney Prince" series.
With different times, Disney princesses have also developed different types of personality traits, the earliest of which are Snow White, Cinderella and Ello in "Sleeping Beauty", who are elegant, noble, kind, compassionate, full of beautiful fantasies about love, and suffer from the bad luck from the outside world.
1989-1999 was the famous "Renaissance" period of Disney animation, and Disney princesses from then on were more active, including Ariel in "The Little Mermaid", "Bell" in "Beauty and the Beast", "Jasmine" in "Aladdin", "Bulgar Contie" in "Stranger in the Wind", and our Mulan.
The princesses of this period were determined, adventurous, active and charming, their focus was more on adventure and freedom, love often had to stand on the sidelines, and they dared to fight for their dreams more than the first princesses. The world they live in also shows the changing roles of women, such as Ariel being told that women on land should "keep silent"; Bell being told that "it is wrong for women to read"; and Mulan, not to mention, "How can women fight".
The latest batch of princesses has become more modern, including Tiana in "The Princess and the Frog", Lepe in "The Troll", and Merida and Moana.
Of the 12 princesses, Snow White, Aero, Ariel, Jasmine, Lepe, and Melida were born into the royal family, With Bulgarconti being the chief's daughter and Cinderella, Belle, and Diana marrying into the royal family. Although Moana is the daughter of the chief, she clearly states that she is not a princess, and like Mulan, she was classified as a "heroine" for saving the world from fire and water, and then joined the "Disney Princess".
1. Snow White
Disney's first princess first appeared in 1937's Snow White, from the famous Grimm fairy tale, voiced by Adriana Caselotti. Snow White is essentially a German princess, and her stepmother, jealous of her beauty, poisoned her in the apple, and the 7 dwarfs failed to save her life. And the prince who passed by her crystal coffin, seeing her beautiful face a year after her death, saved her life with the kiss of true love (this part cannot be thought of). At the age of 14, she is also disney's youngest princess.
2. Cinderella
Cinderella is Cinderella, adapted from an ancient European legend, the most famous of which is included in the 1697 fairy tale collection "The Story of Mother Goose" published by the French writer Charles Perot. When the 1950 cartoon Cinderella came out, Irene Woods dubbed it. The 19-year-old Cinderella is also the eldest of all Disney princesses and is generally considered the "boss" of the princesses. After Cinderella's father died, her stepmother made her a domestic servant. With the help of the fairy godmother, Cinderella attends the Royal Ball, eventually marries Prince Charming, and ends her life as a domestic servant.
3. Aurora
"Arlo" means "aurora", appeared in 1959's Sleeping Beauty, the story is also adapted from Charles Perot's "Sleeping Beauty in the Woods", the older Italian version is darker (the king meets the sleeping Ailo, who "reaps the first fruits of love"... Arlo gave birth to twins in a coma and woke up unaware of what was happening).) In the film, due to the different opinions of the good fairies, Arlo's skirt often changes between blue and pink, but she is usually shown in a pink skirt.
At birth, Arlo was cursed by the evil Maleficent (the heroine of "The Sleeping Curse"), and on his 16th birthday, when the sun set, he would be stabbed to death with his finger touching the spinning wheel needle. Growing up, Ello fell in love with Prince Philip of a neighboring country, but neither of them knew each other's royal identity. On his 16th birthday, Ello, who was stabbed by the spinning wheel needle, did not die, but fell into a deep sleep until Prince Philip lifted her spell with the kiss of true love. American actress Mary Costa dubbed Ello, but gave her a British accent. Arlo is the disney princess with the least screen time.
4. Ariel
1989's The Little Mermaid, based on Hans Christian Andersen's Danish fairy tale The Daughter of the Sea, voiced by Judy Benson for Ariel. Ariel, 16, the youngest daughter of King Trangon under the sea, falls in love with the land prince Alec, who satisfies all her fantasies about life on land. Ursula the Witch offered to give Ariel her voice and have 3 days to go ashore and become a human. If within these 3 days, Ariel can't make the prince fall in love with herself, and the two don't kiss, she will return to the bottom of the sea and become Ursula's eternal slave.
At the end of the film, with the help of the prince and her father, Ariel becomes a human forever and marries Eric. Ariel in the original fairy tale is very miserable, and when she comes ashore, she has to endure the pain of a fish's tail turning into a human leg, and also accept the painful fact that the prince does not love her and wants to marry other brides. The sisters gave all their hair to the witch in exchange for a knife, and Ariel could not bear to insert the sharp knife into the prince's chest, and she eventually turned into a foam in the sea. The film director felt that this ending was too cruel, so he changed the ending of the film to a fairy tale and a complete one.
5. Belle
1991's Beauty and the Beast, based on a French fairy tale of the same name released in 1740, was voiced by Peggy O'Hara for Bell. "Bell" means beauty in French, and at the age of 17, she was born a commoner, and in order to save her father, she resolutely volunteered to become a prisoner/guest in the castle of the beast. She soon saw the goodness and goodness beneath the beast's ugly exterior, and when she confessed to the beast, she broke the curse in the castle, the beast and his servants were restored to human form, and Bell married Prince Adam, who had become a human.
6. Jasmine
Princess Jasmine is from 1992's Aladdin, with Linda Larkin voiced her voice and Leah Salonga singing the songs from her film. Jasmine, an Arab princess of Agraba, had always dreamed of seeing the world outside the palace and getting rid of the arranged marriage arranged for her by the Sultan's father. Jasmine falls in love with aladdin, a street gangster, and when aladdin becomes a "prince" due to the elf's wish, Jasmine once again falls in love with the one who takes her to the "A Whole New World", although at first she does not recognize that the prince and the little bastard are actually the same person.
Aladdin eventually reveals his true identity to Jasmine, saving the country from the villain Jaffa and saving her, and Jasmine's father eventually agrees to her marriage to Aladdin. The story is adapted from Aladdin and the Lamp in One Thousand and One Nights, but not in the original Arabic book, but later added by the Frenchman Antoine Garang, who is based on the book's "BadroBadu" princess, meaning "full moon in the full moon", who is Disney's first non-white/Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian princess.
7. Pocahontas
Boca Conti is the heroine of 1995's "Stranger in the Wind," based on the true story of the daughter of a tribal chief in Povatan, Indian, whose real name is "Matoaka", nicknamed "Bulgar Kanti", meaning "naughty man". After the British colonists came to the United States, Bulgar Conti met the Englishman John Smith, told him a lot about Indian culture, and the two fell in love. When Smith was imprisoned by the Chief, Bulgar Conti saved him and prevented a war between whites and Indians. At the end of the film, the injured John is sent back to London for medical treatment, and Bulgar Conti does not follow him. She chose to stay and be with her people.
In real history, Bulgar Conti married john Rolf, a tobacco farmer, after saving John Smith. She went to London with her husband, converted to Christianity, as an example of "barbarians" being "civilized", and even met king James I of England at the time, before falling ill and dying at the age of 21 as she was preparing to return to the United States. Indian actress Irene Beda dubbed Her voice for Bulgar Conti, and Judy Kuhn voiced her vocals.
8. Mulan
The story of Hua Mulan is well known in China, she served in the army for her father, dressed as a man, fought on the battlefield, and returned home honorably. In the 1998 cartoon "Mulan", Wen Mingna voiced her voice, and Leia Salonga sang it again, and the story was adapted from the Chinese Northern Dynasty folk song "Mulan Ci". In the cartoon, Mulan disguises herself as her father's son Hua Ping and joins the army led by General Li Xiang. After being injured, Mulan discovered her daughter's true identity, and because she saved Li Xiang's life, she was exempted from military punishment.
In the final moments of the film, Mulan, who fights alone, defeats the Huns and saves all of China. The Chinese emperor called her a hero, and Mulan Rong returned to her hometown, and determined their mutual love with Li Xiang, who came later. Mulan is the only Disney princess whose blood and marriage are not related to royalty, she has the status of a "heroine", and she is Disney's first Chinese princess.
9. Tiana
2009's "The Princess and the Frog", the story is derived from the novel "The Frog Prince", and the earliest is also from the Grimm fairy tale. Tiana was Disney's first black princess and the first American princess, voiced by Anika Noni Ross. She dreams of opening her own restaurant through hard work. In the film, Tiana kisses a frog, but not only does she not turn it back into Prince Nevin, she herself becomes a frog, and the two frogs embark on a journey to find a way to break the spell. Eventually she found herself in love with the prince, the spell was finally lifted, and the two returned to human form.
10. Rapunzel
2010's "The Trolls" brought Rapper, voiced by Mandy Moore, adapted from Grimm's fairy tale "Lettuce Girl", "Lepe" means "lettuce". Her hair is more than 20 meters long, which not only has healing functions, but can also be used as a weapon, but her favorite weapon is the pan (cue is also found in Invincible Destruction King 2!). ）。 The magic of Lepe's hair comes from a golden flower, and in order to use her hair to maintain her youth forever, the witch Ge duo kidnapped Lepe in her infancy and raised her as a daughter.
Eighteen years later, Lepe and the thief Flynn Ryder escape the tower used to close her in search of the sky lantern that floats in the air every year on her birthday. In order to save her from The Clutches of Godot, Flynn cut Lippe's hair short, and Lepe, who had lost her magic, eventually returned to her biological parents, and at the end of the film, she and Flynn were happily married. Lepe's blond hair, royal origins, and the experience of being taken away from her parents' upbringing are all very similar to Sleeping Beauty.
11. Merida
The only Disney Princess from a Pixar movie! In 2012's Brave Tales, 16-year-old Merida has red hair like Ariel, voiced by Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald. Melida's mother is cold and distant, and the two are constantly conflicted. She grew up to be a Scottish princess with a wild hairstyle and personality, very good at archery, swordplay and horseback riding. As an adult, Melida almost caused a war in order to avoid arranged marriages.
After a heated argument with her mother, Merida mistakenly turned her into a bear, and the mother and daughter began to look for a way to break the spell. They finally resolved years of conflict, settled disputes with other countries, abandoned arranged marriages, and returned to human form. Merida was the first disney princess to be completely original, neither adapted from literature, nor from a legendary or real character, and the first to have no "boyfriend" at all. She didn't even sing a serious song! Just a little bit of gaelic ballad with my mother.
12. Moana
In 2016's Ocean's Adventures, Moana is the daughter of a Polynesian tribal chief, voiced by Native Hawaiian actress Orie Caravaggio. The sea has chosen Moana to return the Heart of Tefiti, a pebble that had been stolen long ago, and save her island from darkness. The chieftain's father forbade Moana to go to sea, but she secretly plucked up her courage and embarked on the journey. With the help of the demigod Maui and under the guidance of her grandmother Tara, Moana returned the Heart of Tefiti to its original owner, lifting the curse on the world.
The process of Moana's character becoming a Disney princess did not have a grand "coronation ceremony", but slowly infiltrated in 2019, and she was also the first princess who did not join the series for the first time after the release of the film. Moana was Disney's first Polynesian princess and another without a boyfriend after Merida.
Once a Disney princess
These princesses were previously characters from the Disney Princess series and were later removed from the princess ranks.
The Wonderful Fairy – Peter Pan (1953)
Esmeralda – The Bell Tower Freak (1996)
Jane Potter – Tarzan of the Apes (1999)
Unofficial princess
These characters meet the criteria for joining the Disney Princess series, but are not part of the series.
Anna and Elsa – Frozen (2013)
Nana – The Lion King (1994)
Giselle and Nancy – Magic (2007)
Vanellope – The Invincible Destruction King (2012)
Minnie Mouse – Mickey Mouse series
Fei Lin – Bambi the Fawn (1942)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Shanti – The Prince of the Forest (1967)
Trish – Toy Story 2 (1999)
And many, many other female characters. And will the "Raya" in "Dragon Quest" join the ranks of "Disney Princess" in the future? Let's wait and see.
Author/Editor: Zhen Zhen