So I guess I'm a little perplexed why Pixar is getting singled out in the media as if they were the only ones with this problem (although I'm beginning to think it's part a backlash phenomena starting to hit Pixar since they haven't had a flop yet, and that tends to make media writers cranky).
I haven't seen many Dreamworks films, not nearly as I have with Pixar. I've seen Shrek, and the Moses one... but looking at their computer animated film list on wikipedia, of the 12 movies, 2 have female leads (Bee Movie, Monsters vs. Aliens.) That's....16 percent, about. Which is, when you get to it, 16 percent better than Pixar's 0%.
I think that the fact that there's been none in the fifteen odd films is why it bothers me so much. I expect it to be a low number. But NONE? That's why I target them for this particular rant. And when their stories are, in other ways, so delightfully human and aware and sensitive and filled with people of all colors, it makes it stand out more, to my eyes.
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Date: 2009-06-06 06:42 am (UTC)I haven't seen many Dreamworks films, not nearly as I have with Pixar. I've seen Shrek, and the Moses one... but looking at their computer animated film list on wikipedia, of the 12 movies, 2 have female leads (Bee Movie, Monsters vs. Aliens.) That's....16 percent, about. Which is, when you get to it, 16 percent better than Pixar's 0%.
I think that the fact that there's been none in the fifteen odd films is why it bothers me so much. I expect it to be a low number. But NONE? That's why I target them for this particular rant. And when their stories are, in other ways, so delightfully human and aware and sensitive and filled with people of all colors, it makes it stand out more, to my eyes.