Wow, did you know these things about your favorite Disney princesses?

22 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Favorite Disney Movies

Yes, we enjoy Disney movies. Splendor, grandeur, a smile and a tear, glitter and glamour: they have it all. But did you know that behind all the beautiful animations there is often much more than you think? You probably didn’t know this about your favorite Disney princesses!

1) Merida refuses to sing

Of all the Disney princesses to date, Merida is the only one who doesn’t sing. The Scottish princess is just a little too busy rescuing her mother and riding around on her horse.

2) Mutilations

You may have heard about the dark stories that originally hid behind the kid-friendly fairy tales that Disney has created. This also applies to Cinderella’s stepsisters. In the original story, they cut off pieces of their feet to fit into that coveted glass slipper. Ooh!

3) No footwear

One princess who likes to do things differently is Rapunzel. She goes through life barefoot for most of the film. Her voice actress, Mandy Moore, does that in everyday life too. This inspired the creators of Rapunzel.

4) Native princess

When you think of a princess descended from the native inhabitants of North America, chances are you immediately think of Pocahontas. But she was not the first native princess. That would be Peter Pan’s Tiger Lily. Unfortunately, she is not on the list of official Disney princesses, so Pocahontas takes the honors.

5) Tiana or Madeline?

Did you know that the original plan was to call Tiana Madeleine or Maddy? However, this was widely criticized. ‘Maddy’ used to be a commonly used name for slaves, critics said. And that wouldn’t be good, with her being Disney’s first African-American princess.

6) Recycled Dance Scene

Disney has a large portfolio of beautiful fairytale films. It takes quite a bit of work to perfect all these animations down to the last detail. That’s why some handy tricks are used here and there to speed up the work. For example, the dance scenes in Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast are practically the same. Watch and compare:

7) Tattooed princess

Maybe you hadn’t even given it a thought, but did you know that Pocahontas is the only Disney princess with a tattoo?

8) Brothers

And of all the Disney princesses, Merida is the only one with a bunch of brothers! None of the other Disney princesses have brothers. Ariel, Elsa and Anna have sisters, but that’s about it.

9) Children

Of all Disney princesses, Ariel is the only one with a child. You may not have known because the film was not nearly as successful as the original, but there is a second (and even a third) part of The Little Mermaid. In this film, Ariel is married to Prince Erik, and they even have a daughter together: Melody.

10) Very Young Princesses

While the movies themselves are of course timeless, the princesses are not. But did you know that these brave ladies are often very young? Jasmine is only fifteen years old in her story. The youngest princess, however, is Snow White. She is only fourteen years old! Most of us had just settled in high school at the time, but she’d already left her parental home.

11) True story

Did you know that of all the beautiful Disney fairy tales, only Pocahontas’s is based on a true story? Pocahontas really existed. Her real name was Matoaka. Here too, Disney has made the story just a little more beautiful: although Pocahontas is a beautiful love story in the film, it was not so beautiful in real life. In reality, she was taken hostage by the settlers and was forcibly married to John Rolfe when she was about seventeen years old. She eventually died at about age twenty.

12) Walt Disney’s Favorite

The big man behind the current Disney empire is, of course, Walt Disney. His favorite scene? Cinderella’s transformation. In this beautiful animation she changes from kitchen slippers to glamorous princess.

13) Rapunzel has the scoop

Before Rapunzel, all the Disney princesses were drawn rather than animated. The long-haired heroine was Disney’s first big leap into the world of 3D animation.

14) The kiss

Jasmine was already having a hard time: she’s only fifteen, and then an old man with bad intentions and magical powers started coming after her! Therefore, she is the only one who shares a kiss with the main villain of the film. Well, she couldn’t do much against Jafar…

15) Belle or Oz?

Princess Belle wears a blue dress. No coincidence: she is inspired by Dorothy, the main character from The Wizard of Oz.

16) Sleeping Beauty stays out of the picture

Of all the princesses so far, Sleeping Beauty has the least amount of screen time. In her film she can only be admired for eighteen minutes. For the rest of the film she was in a deep magical sleep anyway.

17) Non-human Princess

You may not realize it, but Ariel is the only princess who was not born as a human. Half fish, half human, but fully mermaid. That sure is different.

18) Hairy Job

Merida has been blessed with a big head of red curls. Incredibly beautiful and incredibly Scottish of course. But it’s such a painstaking job to animate those curls properly! The makers worked on this for no less than three years.

19) Mulan is not a princess

Even though she is invariably on the list of official Disney princesses: Mulan is not actually a princess. All other famous leading ladies are born princesses or end up in princess marriages, but not Mulan . In Mulan II she marries General Li Shang . So, whichever way you look at it, royal blood is not involved in this.

20) Adriana Caselotti

Who? It’s no wonder you don’t know this name. Yet she deserves the same spotlight as actresses Kristen Bell (Anna from Frozen), Idina Menzel (Elsa from Frozen) and Mandy Moore (Rapunzel). Caselotti actually recorded the voice of Snow White. It’s no surprise that you don’t know her name. She was paid less than a thousand dollars for her contribution. In addition, she was banned by Disney from taking on other roles. What a contrast to the famous voice actresses of later Disney movies!

21) Anna and Elsa are missing

Interesting: despite the huge success of their movies, Anna and Elsa from Frozen are not official Disney princesses. What? You don’t believe it, but it’s true. The two sisters are Disney heroines, but they are not on the list of the thirteen official Disney princesses.

22) List full of stars

Well, Anna and Elsa may be missing from the list, but in the end there are a total of thirteen official Disney princesses. In order from first to last, these are Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Moana, and Raya. Previously, Tinkerbell, Jane Porter (from Tarzan) and Esmeralda (from The Hunchback of Notre Dame) also featured on this list, but they lost their status as official princesses for various reasons.

And, how many of these things did you already know?

Source : Vroegert | Image : Pixabay