Tarzan

Time period: it was released on jun.18th,1999. Main Characters: Tarzan: a man raised by gorillas who finds out he is a truly human. The protagonist of the movie. Jane Porter: the girl who is the first of the group to meet Tarzan and then fall in love with him. The daughter of Professor Porter. Kala: Tarzan's adopted mother who found and raised him after losing her last biological son to Sabor. She is Kerchak's mate. Kerchak: Kala's mate and the leader of the gorilla troop.
Storyline:

The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...

Setting:
The movie Tarzan takes place in the jungle. Presumably in Africa. Tarzan's parents were shipwrecked and found refuge in a nearby jungle. But when he was just a baby, his parents were killed by the leopard Sabor. That's when he was found by Kala, the wife of the leader of a gorilla clan. She raises Tarzan as her own.

Role of genders: The appearance of Jane Porter, the female who fall in love with Tarzan, makes Tarzan to realize that he is the same as Porter, a human. And Porter as Tarzans girlfriend encourages Tarzan to struggle with the leader of gorillas Kerchak. And males play a biggest role in combat.

How the movie relates to the culture at the time:

Tarzan is described as a man who can communicate and interact with gorillas, this setting of character somehow express the emotion that people want to live in a peaceful world and can make friends with animals.

WALL-E
Time period: The film was released on November 18, 2008. Main characters: WALL-E: a robot who has developed sentience, is the last robot still functioning on Earth. EVE: a sleek robot can probe plants on Earth to verify whether the earth suit for human to live. Captain McCrea: the commander, and apparently only officer, on the Axiom. The Axiom: a spaceship that human live in after they escaped from earth.

Storyline:
After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve. Eve comes to realize that Wall-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to Report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, Wall-E chases Eve across the galaxy.

(http://www.starpulse.com/ Movies/Wall-E/Summary/)

Setting: the earth. Role of genders in the movie: Actually in this film genders are not important because robot cannot be regarded as boys or girls. But in a way we can regard WALL-E as man and EVE as woman. How the movie relates to the culture at the time: In 2008, it is pretty close to our life nowadays and the environment is not good as before. People produce more and more garbage and our earth is destroyed by unreasonable human activities. Many disasters alter us that we should protect our earth right now and this movie image the future -- in 2805, the earth is covered in garbage and human cant live in the earth. In this period, many environmental protectors appear and this movie affects this Environmentalism.

The Princess and the Frog

Time period: it was released on 200911-25. Main characters: Tiana: a 19-year-old waitress and aspiring chef/restaurateur. The first black Princess in the history of Disney movies. Prince Naveen: the prince of Maldonia. Naveen is a ne'er-do-well and playboy who has been cut off from his family's riches until he learns the value of responsibility.

Storyline:
A modern day retelling of the classic story The Frog Prince. The Princess and the Frog finds the lives of arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana crossing paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician and Tiana, following suit, upon kissing the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams.

Setting:
The setting is 1920s New Orleans with all the jazz, voodoo and gumbo soup that suggests and the heroine, for the first time, is African American a factor which can only help with publicity.

Role of genders in the movie:

Tianas father, James, the viewer is never told what exactly it is he does. However, what is apparent is his love for cooking. Tianas mother, on the other hand, is never shown doing any kind of domestic work. That is the idea that men work and women do domestic labor . Here, the gender roles are completely reversed.

How the movie relates to the culture at the time:

People arguing about the main characters race and think Disney has racial prejudice. My personal viewpoint is: As the first African-Americans Princess, Tiana shows racial Equality. And we should believe That in our contemporary society, the American dream will come true.