Find out who was the first Disney princess who didn’t have a love interest in her story!
In Disney princess stories, it is common for the characters’ plot to end in a somewhat classic way: with the dream “and they lived happily ever after”. This is because, after facing evil stepmothers, curses and even wars, these girls earn the right to remain by their princes’ side until death do them part.
Still, this narrative is repeated in stories such as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937), “Cinderella” (1950), “Sleeping Beauty” (1959), “The Little Mermaid” (1989), “Beauty and the Beast” (1991), and even in the more recent “The Princess and the Frog” (2009), ended up being in the past with the arrival of new plots in which the princesses are presented as much more empowered and independent figures.
The first among these new plots is “Brave”, a 2012 film in which Princess Merida has no love interest. In the film Brenda Chapman It is Mark AndrewsMerida is a skilled archer who is not willing to have her destiny fixed by an ancient tradition that forces her to get engaged even without any romantic interest in the chosen young man.
In this way, Merida fights for her own hand, although in a desperate measure, she brings problems to the Scottish kingdom of DunBrochAttina and to her own family, as she brings a witch’s curse to her home and ends up being responsible for transforming his mother, Queen Elinor, and his younger brothers, the triplets Harris, Hubert and Hamish, in bears. As a result, the princess will have to race against time to undo the spell before it’s too late.
With that, “Valente” paved the way for stories in which princesses don’t need princes to get their happy endings, since after that, the studio released “Moana – Um Mar de Aventuras” (2016), where the daughter of the boss of a community of the Motonui ethnic group from Polynesia becomes the savior of their tribe after a curse threatens everyone’s lives.
This is because, the princess embarks on a solitary journey across the ocean in search of the demigod Maui so that he can help her find Te Fit, the goddess who created life and turned into an island, to return a small greenish stone, called of Heart of Te Fiti, which had long ago been stolen by Maui and given as a gift to humans.
Finally, there was Raya, the studio’s most recent princess. Introduced in ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ (2021), the character is a lone warrior who must track down a legendary dragon to restore her people and peace to the land.
“Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, the same evil has returned and it is up to It’s up to a lone warrior, Raya, to track down the legendary last dragon to restore the shattered land and its divided people. However, along her journey, she will learn that it will take more than a dragon to save the world – it will also take trust. and teamwork”, says the film’s synopsis.
Source: Recreio
