In film, the male gaze develops when the audience is put in place of the heterosexual male behind the lens and displays the female as a sexual object for both the characters in the film, as well as the audience watching the film. ... The audience participates by watching and enjoy in the character watching. ...
Singing Caribbean crabs named Sebastian, a fish named Flounder as a best friend, and most important, a little princess mermaid called Ariel, these are the images that come to the mind of the millions of people who have enjoyed Disney's movie entitled The Little Mermaid. I myself have watched this movie with delightful glee repetitively as a child. ... A simple answer which took fifty-four articles and texts, an untold amount of movie watching, and hours upon hours of psychoanalysis to come to. ...
As he pronounces this the camera makes a final setting cut-away back to the 1983 version of the hotel where The Author and Zero enjoy a Mendl's chocolat, a recurring prop in the film, after having shared the story of M. ... And although the audience may believe the story is heart-warming the first time around, upon watching the film multiple times and knowing the ending, the film becomes more and more melancholic with each viewing because of the emotional attachment to stylized characters within the movie....
The idea of this film was not create a commonplace movie for the family to enjoy, but to overstep the boundaries and allow the audience to experience behaviors that were considered to be vulgar without the repercussions. ... In fact, many inappropriate movies are deemed acceptable for children only 13-years-old to watch; this would cause a societal outrage just decades ago, but in the modern day, it is completely normal. ...
