I lived right outside Annapolis, Maryland for four years- and as said actually visited Williamsburg and the Jamestown reconstruction (It was about a mile or so from the real site because on-going archealogical dig). So while I will say Appaliachian Mountians are dramatic and gorgeous- especially the Cumberland Gap- Jamestown was founded on the bit of swampland Pohatawan's empire (and those English settlers had the misfortune of picking the one area on the Eastern Seaboard where the Native population has recovered -remember the exposure to European diseases had just swept through North America and there are estimates that put the population extinction in the 90%- and was carving out a strong nation of conquest through the area. Bravo, Virginia Co.) In a word- geography = flat. (And the folkloric reason Pocahontas was such a figure in American mythos was her conversion to Christianity...)
On the true to location-ness: that's one of the best things about Lilo and Stitch. And the making-of background info in Lion King and Mulan where they point out parts of the film that came from the location scouting (That song Rafiki sings? Silly song sung by their guides and the children when in Kenya. Flags along the Great Wall and fluttering before the stampede scene? Yep. And the hair styles of the other girls in the matchmatching scene actually came from period architectural details...)
Emperor's New Groove was once a very different film. And Eartha Kitt is a boss.
My sis and I had summer-long quips about 'Odin's School of Parenting', with appearances by John Winchester and others. (I love Thor. Even if I have to adopt the headcanon that this pair of Thor and Loki are actually named for 'older dead red-head brother Thor' and 'we don't really talk about him uncle Loki'. Which would totally fit the 'have no plan on how to divulge family history' parenting style of movie!Frigg and Odin)
Oh boy- biting and sarcastic senses of humor that turn like wolves after a lame pack memeber and other internal issues of living with a dysfunctional family... I know. I'll spare any details- but the only point my holidays felt like the holiday season was when I was sobbing upstairs because of fallout from the first of not-the-last family fight I sat through. And I tend to graviate to characters in those dysfunction-junctions just as much as I love stable family supportive love stories. Brave, for an example of an excellent parent-child relationship film. All my sympathies were with the mom, even when I could see Merida's frustrations.
Rapunzel's bio-parents? Okay, feeling flat here, give me more. Because, yeah, the political reprocussions are the most interesting part. And Eugene was raised by his momma Chel and two daddies Tulio and Miguel. I think it was Max the doghorse that broke me.
Now I do want to start gushing about the finer points of Princess and Frog....
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I lived right outside Annapolis, Maryland for four years- and as said actually visited Williamsburg and the Jamestown reconstruction (It was about a mile or so from the real site because on-going archealogical dig). So while I will say Appaliachian Mountians are dramatic and gorgeous- especially the Cumberland Gap- Jamestown was founded on the bit of swampland Pohatawan's empire (and those English settlers had the misfortune of picking the one area on the Eastern Seaboard where the Native population has recovered -remember the exposure to European diseases had just swept through North America and there are estimates that put the population extinction in the 90%- and was carving out a strong nation of conquest through the area. Bravo, Virginia Co.) In a word- geography = flat. (And the folkloric reason Pocahontas was such a figure in American mythos was her conversion to Christianity...)
On the true to location-ness: that's one of the best things about Lilo and Stitch. And the making-of background info in Lion King and Mulan where they point out parts of the film that came from the location scouting (That song Rafiki sings? Silly song sung by their guides and the children when in Kenya. Flags along the Great Wall and fluttering before the stampede scene? Yep. And the hair styles of the other girls in the matchmatching scene actually came from period architectural details...)
Emperor's New Groove was once a very different film. And Eartha Kitt is a boss.
My sis and I had summer-long quips about 'Odin's School of Parenting', with appearances by John Winchester and others. (I love Thor. Even if I have to adopt the headcanon that this pair of Thor and Loki are actually named for 'older dead red-head brother Thor' and 'we don't really talk about him uncle Loki'. Which would totally fit the 'have no plan on how to divulge family history' parenting style of movie!Frigg and Odin)
Oh boy- biting and sarcastic senses of humor that turn like wolves after a lame pack memeber and other internal issues of living with a dysfunctional family... I know. I'll spare any details- but the only point my holidays felt like the holiday season was when I was sobbing upstairs because of fallout from the first of not-the-last family fight I sat through. And I tend to graviate to characters in those dysfunction-junctions just as much as I love stable family supportive love stories.
Brave, for an example of an excellent parent-child relationship film. All my sympathies were with the mom, even when I could see Merida's frustrations.
Rapunzel's bio-parents? Okay, feeling flat here, give me more. Because, yeah, the political reprocussions are the most interesting part. And Eugene was raised by his momma Chel and two daddies Tulio and Miguel. I think it was Max the
doghorse that broke me.Now I do want to start gushing about the finer points of Princess and Frog....