Disney Redheads

[animaniac]

Do you think they have too many, or not enough?

We have Ariel from The Little mermaid, Giselle from Enchanted, Hercules, Jessie from Toy Story, Quasimodo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mrs.Incredible from the Incredibles, Princess Merida, and now Anna from Frozen.

I saw this video on youtube, where they discuss Disney Redheads
 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ED0JC3oo-c

and it got me thinking that redheads are disproportionately present in movies as compared to real life. I guess orange hair is a nice bright colour and all, so it looks good in cartoons. But far to often, redheads are side characters (Anastasia from Cinderella is a good example) but recently MANY have become main characters too.

What are your thoughts?

[Silver]

Redheads for the longest time always took the backseat to blondes and brunettes in the entertainment medium or advertising form.

Now they are being viewed as just as common just like their counterparts.

With Disney each had their own reasoning behind creating the redhead character.

An example is Ariel. After the film Splash was such as successful hit in the 80's. Disney had two reasons not to create another blonde mermaid character. One is the coloring technique in dark locations or shadows passing over. The shade of red is easier to mix up as opposed to yellow which looks unappealing in darkness. Second is this sets Ariel apart from Daryl Hannah's character from Splash so it would not appear Disney copied from an earlier film.

[Butterscotch]

It's common in fiction for a character's hair (and eye color) to be a sort of visual shorthand for their personality. Smart brunette, dumb blonde etc.

Red hair tends to represent a passionate person, someone with a bad temper, a warmhearted personality or awkwardness. Red hair is also fairly common for villains.




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[Silver]

Those qualities do represent a few redheads.

Passionate= Merida

Warmhearted= Quasimodo

Feisty= Ariel

Awkward= Anna

I wonder what Hans from Frozen would be under?

[Butterscotch]

Hans would be evil.

[Silver]

Laughing hysterically at that Butters! ^^

I think Perky= Giselle

[icyheart16]

You all are cracking me up!

As a natural born red head, I am personally ecstatic will lol the red heads that are hitting the Disney screens. As mentioned, red heads always got the back seat. So it is quite refreshing to me.