My Problem with Raya and the Last Dragon
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- If I hear “dragon nerds” one more time I’m gonna scream
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Remember, kids, always trust the guy in the beat up windowless license-plate-less van handing out candy.
Ok! ;3
With Raya telling kids you should always trust everyone even if they openly threaten your life, and Wish telling kids they're entitled to anything they want regardless of the potential harm some people's desire would cause, I'm wondering what Disney is trying to achieve
There's no way that's what the lesson was balanced to be in the end 💀 it was a great movie but it's biggest flaw is it's unfinished lesson
They're trying to appeal to Gen Alpha who thinks the most evil thing in the world is being told no.
@@WobblesandBean Ironically I kind of see the king’s action in Wish as something like Communism.
“Sure, I’ll protect yah, at a price!”
World domination, that's for sure.
@@GODZILLA2915 he wasn't evil
My biggest gripe in this movie: when the druun are attacking and Raya and her dad are fleeing instead of bear hugging her and diving off the bridge together so he can protect her he stops, stares behind them, stares at raya, smiles, gives some inspirational BS, and tosses her.
SHUT UP AND JUMP OFF WITH HER SHES LIKE 10
Right?!
Just one thing I might add is this. In the scene where Sisu shares her plan of giving Namaari a gift, at first I thought it was just a joke. "Just walk up to Namaari and give her a gift, and she'll give us the gem piece and be best friends!" Of course, not a super funny joke (just like most of her jokes), but that's all I thought it was. Somehow it didn't even cross my mind that they would actually go with that plan. I actually thought to myself "What if someone made a parody where they actually followed Sisu's plan?" But when she proceeded to figuratively twist Raya's arm into going with her plan, I was like "oh... wait WHAT??? Are you kidding me right now?!" Although, in their defense, they didn't just walk straight into the palace like the original plan. What they actually ended up doing was slightly more logical.
Disney did manage to make a compelling, childishly annoying mysterious figure with Peter Pan. In the animated movie, Wendy is initially enamored and mystified by him because of the stories, but the mystery starts to unravel as the film progresses. At first, he seems rather gentlemanly saving her from falling, but then he starts laughing as the mermaids try to drown her, and Tiger Lily turns his face red. Wendy starts to realize how much of a child Peter really is and how much of a grown-up she has already become, and so she decides to go home.
Yeah, Peter Pan was kind of a massive donk. Plus the way Disney treated the child actor he's based on so horribly.
@@WobblesandBean I think lots of actors back in the day weren't treated that well.
@@ThePrincessCH You're not wrong, but Bobby Driscoll was treated even worse. I suggest looking him up, if you want to get really angry. But not Wiki, they sanitize a lot of it. For example, they say he "left Disney studios", but he didn't, Disney forced him out cuz he hit puberty and Disney didn't think he was cute and marketable anymore.
It's especially messed up because Disney not only contributed to him getting hooked on the substances that directly led to his...ugh youtube won't even let me say it, his "not alive" by plying him with uppers and downers on film shoots and then later dumped him like he was nothing, but they insulted him further in the Chip and Dale movie by making him the villain. The character wasn't even Peter Pan, it was just...Bobby Driscoll. Same backstory and everything.
people tend to forget that Peter Pan was originally written that way - even the very last line of the book says "...so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless." Peter will never grow up, so he will never understand when he's being cruel to people around him.
Sounds like Disney has doubled down on going about the business of teaching children precisely the opposite of the morals and wisdom that they need. Thanks for the update and grats on the milestone!
There was NO character development. The main character immediately decided to trust an enemy, too. Such a weak movie
The moral is that you're supposed to trust people... But they take EVERY OPPORTUNITY to show how trusting people is a bad idea. Literally _every time._ Whatever happened to "show, don't tell," the NUMBER ONE RULE OF STORYTELLING? Instead they _show_ the opposite of what they are trying to _tell._
For the culture-review, watch Xiran Jay Zhao.
She does not make the video by herself but gave the space to other people from the cultures represented, so I think of that one as a respectful and honest critique in good faith.
I was about to comment this, her videos about Raya (well, collaboration videos, but I mean that they are on her channel) are so interesting, definitely worth the watch!
I tend to hyper-analyse movies and their plots when I watch them, so I for one am glad to have only heard of this movie twice. XD There's no way I would be able to sit through this.
Honestly, as a huge fan of the original Beauty And The Beast, which has one of the best, most well-organized plots of any movie I can think of, it's sad to see how far Disney has fallen.
Me: Simple it’s Akwafina
I cannot for the life of me understand why she keeps getting cast to voice animated characters. Her voice is AWFUL.
They trusted Sisu... and she failed... HARD. Proving that their trust in her was misplaced.
Wait, hold on. This video should not be getting merely 15 views a day. For some reason RUclips really doesn’t want to recommend this to your 600 subscribers
"Hey kids, you should trust everyone blindly and without question! That way, you'll turn into good little consumers - er, I mean children.
Thank you, this video is incredible!
So glad you enjoyed it! ☺
@@thepurplejellothing Director Don Hall also directed Big Hero 6, he might one of Disney's weakest writers.
I genuinely can not stand the fake out death trope, like if your going to kill a character kill them, not only is it a cheap way out (I might be a bit dramatic here tbf) I feel like way too many children movies do this and I think it's bad, like children shouldn't being taught that when people die the magic of friendship can bring them back to life like wft
I remember that a lot of people compared trusting in this film as forgiving. Which sounds like they go hand in hand, but not really.
Yeah, I’ve seen that too. But I agree, the reason that doesn’t work is because the film treats trust and forgiveness as if they are one and the same, and refers to both of them as “trust”. While they have some similarities, trust and forgiveness are two completely different concepts.
Forgiveness is when you choose to let go of your grudges or anger toward a person or thing. Trust is the belief in the reliability of a person or thing.
The film is correct that Raya should let go of her grudge toward Namaari. But she should not trust her. To believe in Namaari’s reliability and dependability would be to accept to believe in a lie.
😳 Woah.....I used to like this movie..... not anymore 😅 I'm one of those kids who had the trust message fly over their heads 😂🤣
I hope u can reach 1k subs soon!!! Ur SUPER underrated! X3
Messages in Disney movies before: Be nice and others will do it too (Snow white) Your kindness and hard work will be rewarded (Cinderella) Follow your dream (Rapunzel) Be honest and brave (Aladdin) Your family is important, take care of her (Lilo and Stitch)
They can help us to become better peoples and are easy to understand.
The message in Raya and the last dragon: Trust anyone... even the persons who betrayed you or try to kill you.
Yeah, that's not stupid and dangerous at all 😂Thank's for the advice disney!
Hey it's up again!
i think what would have gotten the message across better more if Namaari gave Raya the broken stone in the final scene instead of the otherway around, like as a show of being "sorry that everything happened because of me" or something along that line cause we didn't get to see Namarii character arc and didn't get that many scenes for us to see who she is as a character so it isn't really impactful of having her fix the stone it would've made more sense of having Raya doing it making it more impactful final scene cause we saw her gaining trust in people again and losing it, making her fixing the stones as her final character arc and fully trusting everyone again.
Great video, and congratulations on 600 subscribers!
I can’t wait to a wish movie review😈
This is kinda random but I really love your little amoeba icon and how it's in 4:3! It feels nostalgic 😭
I thought it was a Ditto?
...wait, hearing this now, it seems like gaslighting for kids.
I haven't watched this film, however a 'seeing eye to eye' message would have been a better idea than blindly trusting everyone. Not only should Raya learn to trust those that wish her no harm, but Sisu should learn that people can be cruel. And yes, this movie is already a total rip-off of ATLA, but here me out.
I think Sisu should have found out that the real reason the dragon's had all died out was because of human cruelty, causing her to question everything she knows in utter shock. Eventually, she comes around and takes what she has learned to grow and become less naive.
Really great and entertaining video!! Quality made me think ya had way more subscribers~~
I like your insight.
Such a good video and overview!
I'm going to leave my list here of every dragon better than Sisu
Book Toothless from how to train your dragon books
Movie Toothless from the how to train your dragon movies
Furious how to train your dragon books
basically most dragons from the how to train your dragon books
Haku from spirited away
The Dragon from Shrek
Mushu from Mulan
Sapphira from Eragon
Falkor from the neverending story
Smaug from the Hobbit
All the Dragon ball dragons
Every Zelda dragon
Spyro the dragon
The Gringotts dragon from harry potter
Spike from my little pony
All the Pokemon Dragon Types
The Ender Dragon
*EVERY SINGLE WINGS OF FIRE DRAGON*
Maleficent when she turned into a dragon
If you have any more suggestions ask I will edit the list because there's infinite amount of better dragons than Sisu
Ditto. :)
Did nobody noticed that this movie ripped off Avatar : the last airbender?
Lindsay Ellis did. So did Honest Trailers (parodied ATLA opening at the start of the films expo dump) but they didn't get dragged off the internet like she did.
@@Doubtfulgrace101yea and Lindsay got cancelled for it, which I will forever be mad about.
I think lots of popular kids' media these days are like that.
@@Doubtfulgrace101 That's cuz Honest Trailers is a dude and Lindsay is a woman. I wish it wasn't that simple, but it is.
Frozen was an awful movie if you're looking at some of its messages.
Har Har. By this logic, Ratatouille justifies theft, murder, and all manner of ruthless pursuit.
You are way too hard on this movie. The film means that you cannot live an entire life without trusting anyone at all in the whole world. Sure, there are people you can't trust, but NOT EVERYONE is completely untrustworthy. There are actually people you can trust! 😮💨👎
Umm, sure, but the movie literally said trust everyone, including the person who repeatedly betrayed you. Raya's distrust (and btw she has a normal amount of distrust for others, it's not like she's paranoid about some long term allies) is repeatedly proved right by what happens in the movie, she doesn't meet a single person on her journey that's worth her trust (not even Sisu, she is an idiot who got herself killed with her own plan, so Raya shouldn't have trusted her plan). There are trustworthy people in the world, but you need to know how to make the difference between them and the people who will take advantage of your trust, otherwise very bad things can happen to you.
She wasn't hard enough, imo. You Disney cultists really are incapable of rational thought.