Dwayne Johnson, who is part Samoan, gives a suitably larger than life performance as Maui, a trickster deity or demigod in Polynesian mythology. A shape-shifter and culture hero, Maui is known for such exploits as discovering fire, hauling up islands from the sea floor, and roping the Sun ...
One of the latest Disney films,Moanais a lovely adventure rooted in Polynesian mythology. The movie follows Moana (Auli’i Cravalho), the young daughter of the chieftain of an island called Motonui. When a blight strikes her island, Moana sets out on a journey to cure it by returning the...
Digging into Polynesian mythology, they discovered hordes of legends discussing a shape-shifting character named Maui. While different islands have different versions of the tale, Maui is often credited with giving humans the knowledge of fire, slowing down the sun and using his famed...
Disney and Representation: Moana and Floyd Norman: Avec Aisha Harris. Aisha Harris digs into Moana, Disney's new musical film inspired by Polynesian mythology, with New York Times and Jazz Times music writer, Nate Chinen.
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Moana’s first encounter with Maui depicts him as coasting on the laurels of his earliest accomplishments (creating the sky, sun, and wind; inventing or discovering coconuts; stealing humanity fire like Prometheus) while trapped in a cave. Moana doesn’t appreciate these ancient achievements a...
Respect for the ocean was a major lesson during this trip and it led to them making the ocean itself a character in the film. Image via Disney Maui was originally the focus of the story, but that focus shifted to the navigator-in-training, Moana, a name from a Polynesian word that mea...
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Is an Oceanic Demigod in Disney's 'Moana': The Rock stars as Maui in this upcoming animated nod to Polynesian mythology.
And the genesis for Moana (directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, the team behind The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Hercules) came from Musker’s interest in the world of the South Pacific. Digging into Polynesian mythology, they discovered hordes of legends discussing a shape-shift...
The film opens with a Disney-invented legend that frames the ancient Polynesian legend of Ma¯ui as well as Polynesian creation myths within a Western framework". (Ching and Pataray-Ching 2017, p. 183) The overall reframing of Polynesian mythology at large, and Maui as a figure within ...