The intrepid Polynesian Vaiana is back on screens in Vaiana 2Disney animated film nominated for the 2025 Golden Globe. This character discovered in 2016 in Moana The Legend of the End of the World (or Moana in Quebec) presents a model of an adventurous heroine. A modern character highlighting a reality often forgotten in history books: the existence of women explorers.
Sandrine Aragon, Sorbonne University
The heroine of the first feature film of DisneySnow White in 1937, is the victim of a stepmother jealous of her youth and her beauty. She takes refuge with seven small old boys, for whom she does housework, before being poisoned and “saved” by a prince who kisses her without her consent, asleep in her coffin. We are expecting the new live action version, in 2025, with Rachel Zegler. Disney is announcing a combative modern heroine, but can the story still touch girls today?
Vaiana shakes up the gendered pattern of the prince coming to rescue the princess.
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