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.
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.
Yep, Frozen was the feminist darling of its day. The plot was a fairly obvious subversion of classic Disney fairy tales a la Sleeping Beauty.
Still don't have a problem with Frozen in isolation, just the motives behind it.
They cold-shouldered the hero in the end. She instead started hugging her sister.
Yeah that was pure feminism. They'd rather imply incest than show a heterosexual relationship forming in a happy ending.