What's more, the specific setting of Raya - a land divided into five nations - potentially allows for a degree of specificity, with respect to discrete Southeast Asian cultural touchstones.
Nationally and globally, that means more enthusiastic butts in (real or virtual) seats.
Kids yearn to see themselves onscreen more representation of different cultures means more kids can more directly avail themselves of the Disnefied thrills that white kids have taken for granted for decades. That's a noble goal, and an unalloyed Good Thing - but of course it also happens to be good for Disney's bottom line.
And the last dragon movie series#
Much will, and deservedly should, be made of the setting of the gorgeously wrought Disney film Raya and the Last Dragon: A fantasy world drawn from a variety of Southeast Asian cultures.įor a company that's been setting so many stories in the same Generically European Fairy Tale Kingdom since 1937 (most recently in 2010's Tangled) it's another in a series of long-overdue steps toward making the world depicted onscreen look more like the world off of it. Raya (voiced by Kelly Marie Tran) faces off with her lifelong foe (voiced by Gemma Chan) in the rich, gorgeously wrought Disney film.
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