102: Princess Indiana Jones

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2012

⏱️ 88 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Pixar takes on princesses with the new film “Brave.” We discuss Pixar’s mother/bear-daughter story, but also the larger issues of female characters in animation and film in general. What’s wrong with the Disney Princesses? Why can’t girls play Belle or Ariel as if they were an action hero, anyway? How does Merida compare with the female protagonists in Miyazaki’s work? Did Pixar change its own fate?

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Where's the Merrill Street action movie?
0:01.5	I demand it.
0:04.8	The Incomparable Podcast, number 102, August 2012.
0:13.4	Welcome back, everybody, to The Inconparable Podcast.
0:15.7	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:16.8	And on this episode of The Incomparable, we're going to be talking about the latest Pixar movie, Brave, which came out a few weeks ago or maybe more than a month ago.
0:29.8	And we're going to follow that path and probably talk about female protagonists in other animated movies and maybe even beyond.
0:37.4	Joining me to talk about this subject tonight are for esteemed. female protagonists in other animated movies and maybe even beyond.
0:42.3	Joining me to talk about this subject tonight are four esteemed panelists.
0:45.1	First up, Serenity Caldwell.
0:46.2	Hi, thanks for being here.
0:49.2	Hello, thanks for inviting me, Jason.
0:54.1	I'm more than happy, and also I was happy that you could provide some female representation on this episode, since Lisa couldn't make it, and all the rest of them are dudes.
0:58.9	So thank you.
0:59.4	Yeah.
1:00.1	Yeah.
1:00.4	So here's a guy who I haven't checked with the Olympic officials who are in charge of gender
1:04.4	testing, but I'm pretty sure as male.
1:06.4	Andy and Otko.
1:07.1	Hi.
1:07.7	Welcome.
1:08.8	Hello, Jason.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jason Snell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jason Snell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.