Disney Characters

While celebrating V's birth with a dinner at Dos Caminos (Gramercy), me and a friend of V's noticed something profound. Most Disney movies involve a father daughter pair. The mother is always gone. This is expecially devestating in Bambi (shot dead) - and then that horrible forest fire. Evil step mothers rule in Snow White and Cinderella. Ariel, the little mermaid, has 20 shell clad sisters but never makes a mention of a mother, same for Jasmine from Aladin. Bell of Beauty and the Beast also lacks a mother figure, just a little twirling fat father. Now, Pocahontas the New England indian princess gets a crappy mother - a freaking willow tree named none other than "Mother Willow." Who probably gets cut down by John Smith's amigos anyways after she leaves for the UK.

Now, the The Lion King totally throws my theories out the window - because little Simba (also the name of a revolutionary movement in the French Congo in the 60's; it means Lion in swahili) watches his father die, trying to rescue him no less, and is simultaneiously seperated from his mother (Scar tells him he can't go back).

I'm still waiting for Disney's mother son pair to rule the roost in the son's coming of age experience. He can have a symbolic "Father Pine" to complement Poco's mother (anyone getting the reference, eh? eh?).