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《海洋奇緣》：迪士尼這位第14任公主是個(gè)干大事的

Moana: The 14th Princess in Disney Is Really Something

文◎Brent Lang

The box office success of Moana confirms Disney's status atop①atop 英 [?'t?p] 美 [?'tɑp] prep. 在……的頂上the pecking order of major studios.

It owes its apex②apex 英 ['e?peks] 美 ['ep?ks] n. 頂點(diǎn)；尖端predator③predator 英 ['pred?t?] 美 ['pr?d?t?] n. [動(dòng)] 捕食者；[動(dòng)] 食肉動(dòng)物；掠奪者status to the way it has deftly bolstered and built on the power of its suite of cinematic brands, as well as its ability to create stories featuring diverse protagonists④protagonist 英 [pr?'t?g(?)n?st] 美 [pr?'t?ɡ?n?st] n. 主角，主演；主要人物，領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者that reflect the changing face of the moviegoing public.

《海洋奇緣》票房大熱，再次確認(rèn)了迪士尼作為大型電影工作室翹楚的江湖地位。

迪士尼之所以能常踞食物鏈頂端，是因?yàn)樗擅畹刂瘟艘幌盗杏耙暺放撇⒔柚淞α繕?gòu)建了自己的王國(guó)，與此同時(shí)，它總是能通過(guò)創(chuàng)作故事來(lái)刻畫各種各樣的主角，而這些人物恰巧反映了影迷們變化的面孔。

Moana is the latest Disney film to be based on a strong female protagonist. Though the studio has long featured women in lead roles dating as far back as 1937's Snow White, and has minted money from its "Princess Collection" of consumer products, its female characters have adopted a more assertive⑤and empowered⑥empower 英 [?m'pa??; em-] 美 [?m'pa??] vt. 授權(quán)，允許；使能夠stance over the past few decades. Whereas earlier Disney heroines waited around for their prince to come and save the day, Moana takes it upon herself to embark on a perilous oceanic voyage in order to lift her island home from a curse. It's the kind of adventuring that would have been left for the guys in Disney fi lms of yore.

In another feminist⑦feminist 英 ['fem?n?st] 美 ['f?m?n?st] n. 女權(quán)主義者adj. 主張女權(quán)的twist, Moana is one of the first animated fi lms not to feature a love story. Her journey is about fi nding herself, not landing a husband.

Nor is Moana alone in its progressive nature. Frozen, Zootopia, and Brave are just a few of the recent animated offerings to have focused on women and girls who are assertive, emancipated, and the equal to any man. Moreover, Moana is populated by Pacific Islanders, a far more diverse set of people than the ones who pop up in the lily white worlds of the original Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast.

At a time when the entertainment industry is engulfed⑧engulf 英 [?n'g?lf; en-] 美 [?n?ɡ?lf] vt. 吞沒(méi)；吞食，狼吞虎咽in an ongoing debate about the lack of meaty roles for women and minorities, Disney has thrived by creating vehicles for females and people of color.

《海洋奇緣》是一部最新的迪士尼影片，故事主角是一位強(qiáng)壯的女性人物。盡管該工作室刻畫女主角的歷史由來(lái)已久，早在1937年就出品了《白雪公主》，并通過(guò)向消費(fèi)者出售“公主系列”產(chǎn)品獲利無(wú)數(shù)，但在過(guò)去的幾十年里，迪士尼的女性人物越來(lái)越果敢強(qiáng)大。早期的迪士尼女主角總是等待王子前來(lái)英雄救美，《海洋奇緣》里的莫阿娜卻自力更生，不畏艱險(xiǎn)楊帆遠(yuǎn)航，拯救自己的島國(guó)免受詛咒之害，這樣的探險(xiǎn)故事在從前的迪士尼影片中只會(huì)落在男主角肩上。

從女權(quán)主義者角度來(lái)看，《海洋奇緣》是一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)，因?yàn)樗堑谝徊繘](méi)有愛(ài)情故事的動(dòng)畫影片。莫阿娜的探險(xiǎn)之旅是為了尋找自我，而非覓得佳婿。

《海洋奇緣》并非唯一一部體現(xiàn)這種變化的影片?！侗┢婢墶?、《瘋狂動(dòng)物城》、《勇敢傳說(shuō)》這幾部新近出品的動(dòng)畫影片都聚焦于果敢、強(qiáng)大、與男性平等的女人或女孩。此外，《海洋奇緣》中的莫阿娜生活在太平洋小島上，從多樣性的角度來(lái)看，它遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超越了從前的《仙履奇緣》或者《美女與野獸》，因?yàn)楹笳叩墓适露及l(fā)生在純種白人的世界里。

當(dāng)今時(shí)代，娛樂(lè)業(yè)正因缺乏有血有肉的女性和少數(shù)族裔角色而受到越來(lái)越多的指摘，而迪士尼卻因?yàn)槟転榕院陀猩朔N創(chuàng)作而欣欣向榮。