It's incredible, looking at the trend of Disney Princesses over time. Even up to the early 2010s, with Tangled and Frozen and the like, they were still cordial and friendly to their male co-stars. It's like a switch was flipped in the last decade to turn everyone as nasty as possible in film.
You could still see the change happening then though. Looking at your two examples, consider how the female characters still did most of the saving and action sequences themselves. The male characters were allowed to have one or two scenes where they actually acted like heroes, but even in Tangled and Frozen the male heroes were not allowed to actually outright save the day. They were there to sort of help the female characters along in them saving the day. Still friendly and cordial yes, but the "Don't need no Man" attitude was already starting to fester.
Don't forget Frozen needing to turn its male antagonist into a retard who became comically evil and admitted to all his plans minutes before they couldn't be stopped, after years of being a perfect mask-on schemer.
Because they wrote themselves into a corner where their female antagonist was poor girl who just killed infinite people in an endless winter because she was sad and a victim of.....her parents being a little paranoid. Since we all know women dindu nuffin wrong ever if they are victims, and are in fact feminist heroes. they had to full 180 a male character to be the evil one.
It's incredible, looking at the trend of Disney Princesses over time. Even up to the early 2010s, with Tangled and Frozen and the like, they were still cordial and friendly to their male co-stars. It's like a switch was flipped in the last decade to turn everyone as nasty as possible in film.
You could still see the change happening then though. Looking at your two examples, consider how the female characters still did most of the saving and action sequences themselves. The male characters were allowed to have one or two scenes where they actually acted like heroes, but even in Tangled and Frozen the male heroes were not allowed to actually outright save the day. They were there to sort of help the female characters along in them saving the day. Still friendly and cordial yes, but the "Don't need no Man" attitude was already starting to fester.
Don't forget Frozen needing to turn its male antagonist into a retard who became comically evil and admitted to all his plans minutes before they couldn't be stopped, after years of being a perfect mask-on schemer.
Because they wrote themselves into a corner where their female antagonist was poor girl who just killed infinite people in an endless winter because she was sad and a victim of.....her parents being a little paranoid. Since we all know women dindu nuffin wrong ever if they are victims, and are in fact feminist heroes. they had to full 180 a male character to be the evil one.
And then in Frozen II they flooded the kingdom with browns, + White People Bad, Brown People Good, narrative.