As a 7-year-old I was excited to see a movie where the girl was the hero who had adventures. The movie was The Three Lives of Thomasina. It turned out that Thomasina was a cat belonging to a little girl. The cat dies leaving a broken-hearted little girl and the DEAD CAT goes off to have adventures! What a rip!
Carl Jung finds that the hero's adventure is is fundamental to the collective unconscious. I didn't know about Jung at 7, but I did have a well formed notion of heroes and adventures, and I knew that girls did not act as heroes and go off to have adventures and quests. Cartoons such as Mighty Mouse were just plain insulting telling girls that you need to be rescued, you cannot solve the problems you face yourself. So I was hungry for this movie. I can only imagine how my tiny face dropped in the dark as I realized that the dead cat living the remainder of its nine lives was the premise of the film.
Carl Jung finds that the hero's adventure is is fundamental to the collective unconscious. I didn't know about Jung at 7, but I did have a well formed notion of heroes and adventures, and I knew that girls did not act as heroes and go off to have adventures and quests. Cartoons such as Mighty Mouse were just plain insulting telling girls that you need to be rescued, you cannot solve the problems you face yourself. So I was hungry for this movie. I can only imagine how my tiny face dropped in the dark as I realized that the dead cat living the remainder of its nine lives was the premise of the film.