the moral i expected from zootopia: if you work hard you can achieve your dreams
the moral i got from it: we all have internalized prejudices and while that doesn’t automatically make you a cruel person, refusing to acknowledge and attempt to work past them will inevitably hurt others no matter what your intentions may be.
[Zootopia directors on designing this scene]: It was just one of those things where, when we would talk about them finding the nighthowler flowers being distilled into a serum, we would just kind of add to the end of it, ‘Like Breaking Bad.” We’d say, ‘A lab…like Breaking Bad’ or ‘Blue flowers, like Breaking Bad.’ And little by little, it just became like Breaking Bad. At a certain point, the scene just wanted to be that scene, so we said, screw it, we’re just going to name these two characters Woolter and Jesse. Not Walter, but Woolter. For a ram.
I was thrilled to pieces when I saw this scene. Disney could have written Gideon off like some bully character who never really amounted to anything, or got what was coming to him like a lot of those characters do in their movies. Gideon made something of himself. He’s a pastry chef, something that’s not traditionally a job for men in media. And as soon as Judy speaks to him, he immediately apologizes to her. He doesn’t try to shrug it off as no big deal, or say that it was just boys being boys or whatever; he knows he hurt her, and he owns up to it. And Judy immediately forgives him.
Well done, Disney.
Also the language that he used is not something that he would have most likely grown up hearing/using. Describing his failings as self-doubt that manifested into “unchecked rage and aggression” sounds SO MUCH like therapy speak. So he’s either gotten counseling to help him with some of his problems, or sought out literature to help himself. A++ disney :)
It is so important to me that a kids movie had this conversation in it
This movie gave an entire generation of children a script for how to handle this issue. It showed marginalized kids that it’s okay to call people out, and gave them a script for how to do so firmly but with compassion
It also gave privileged kids a script for how to respond to being called out– which is to listen, have compassion, apologize, and never do the problematic thing again
It also managed to convey this to all the adults who brought their kids to the movies, and all the rest of us who just went because we wanted to
ive been waiting for AGES to post fanart of zootopia! i absolutely LOVE love love! this movie so maybe youll see more art from me in the future who knows
so nick is black american and judy is chinese american! more development under the readmore! so, sorry for those who are on mobile
