"That said, I feel like there is room for people that don't get the spotlight put on them," Porath says. The blog and the premise quickly took off, he says.īut Porath says Rejected Princesses isn't meant to bash Disney and the work they do on their mainstream animated princess stories. The project started as a bit of a lark, Porath says, and was born out of a lunch conversation he had while working at DreamWorks about unlikely stories to be given the animated princess treatment. "There are people who are heroes, there are people who are villains and there are people who are just weird." "I didn't want it to just be everybody is shiny, happy, kick-butt heroines," he says. He says he didn't want to only include one type of female character. He also wrote a spirited defense of Bathory's innocence.īut Porath's also includes some non-heroic Rejected Princesses, like Elisabeth Bathory, who he says is possibly the most prolific female serial killer in history. Porath drew Elisabeth Bathory washing her hair before a dresser strewn with references to her reputation as a torturer. She named the tank "Fighting Girlfriend." The illustration shows her sitting atop her tank, anthropomorphized in Cars-like fashion, amid a battle. Porath says Oktyabrskaya's husband was killed by the Nazis, so she sold all of her belongings in order to buy a tank and fight. One of his favorite examples is the aforementioned Soviet tank commander, Sergeant Mariya Oktyabrskaya. "It's sort of an alternate-reality glimpse into, 'What if they got their moment in the sun?' " "I take women, sort of unsung heroines - usually from history, but a lot from mythology and some from literature - who wouldn't necessarily make the cut for mainstream animated princess movies, and give them that style," Porath tells NPR's Arun Rath. Each week, former DreamWorks animator Jason Porath adds a new illustration and write-up about a woman who is, as the blog says, "too awesome, awful or offbeat for kids' movies." Theirs are not the kind of stories you find in a Disney princess flick, but they're in the spotlight on the blog Rejected Princesses. But put Snow White, Cinderella, Belle and Ariel aside for a moment and consider these characters: A transgender Native American, a tank commander and a Mexican revolutionary. Many of us have come to know the tales of Disney's princesses by heart. Oktyabrskaya was the first female tanker to ever win the Hero of the Soviet Union award. Sergeant Mariya Oktyabrskaya is one of the women featured on Jason Porath's blog Rejected Princesses.
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