The Miracle of Ellie, Adventuress Extraordinairé ♫ ♪ ♫ ♩ ♪ Disney Pixar UP!

In under 4 minutes Pixar created a brilliant imaginative positive super fun role model for children everywhere. She is proactive, engaged in the world, exploring on her own terms, inviting others to join adventures in her clubhouse with minds wide open.

Ellie is unencumbered by ideological baggage, social conventions, burkas or glass ceilings. She is 1,000 percent: Center of Action. Her mind is alive and she is animated by it.

There is no excuse for not being inundated with such female characters. Ellie should be the norm. Instead role models for girls -- particularly in children's animation -- are virtually non-existant. That is the result of decisions which can easily change.

Maybe the concern has been young boys not being interested in films about princesses and fairies. Fine. Ellie is the girl every single guy has fallen in love with, some of us over and over and over again. Guys dream Ellies. Dads will take their children to see movies with all sorts of female characters embodying Ellie's fun, proactive, inviting spirit. She is a phenomenon. A precious archetype. She is the embodiment of a philosophy which must be woven into the fabric of culture worldwide -- and ultimately the reason some of us believe in the power of Art.

Ellie is a MIRACLE.

It is conceivable Ellie may become the most important character Pixar ever creates. We need more Ellies, less excuses.

(Congratulations to Ronnie del Carmen, Peter Docter, Bob Peterson and the whole story crew for creating such a profoundly important character.)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Ellie
• Carl
• Young
• Meet
• Disney
• Pixar
• Role Model
• Women
• Girls
• Children
• Girl
• Peter Docter
• Ronnie del Carmen

[crb0129]

I think every little boy dreams of meeting a girl like Ellie. She's outgoing, adventurous, imaginative, full of wonder and not tied down to stereotypes of how girls are supposed to act. The part when she was in the hospital and Carl tried to cheer her up by bringing her her Adventure Book and she pushed it away knowing she was going to die was enough to make a grown man cry.

[j24800]

@crb0129 actually when Carl visits in the hospital Ellie has the book with her which presumably contains the "stuff I'm going to do" section already filled in with the pictures of their life together. Maybe she had just finished that section since she was close to death and was giving it to him to look at which he only does much later... So many subtleties in this movie keep popping up upon multiple viewings...

[EllieAndFriendsClub]

@j24800 right, Ronnie and crew are super, duper smart

[EllieAndFriendsClub]

@crb0129 those little boys grow up still dreaming of Ellies and hopefully marry one too, just like Carl -- such a wonderful, powerful archetype, huh?

[roronoazoro61]

i love ellie's voice!

[EllieAndFriendsClub]

@roronoazoro61 you know her voice is the director's daughter's : ) Also I believe named Ellie : )

[LOLlipoopzanga]

it's like america BUT south =)

[daynasorcutemoxy1]

CROSS YOUR HEART YOU WILL THUMBS UP THIS

[DoraDead101]

It's like America, but south!

[Za3rour]

@crb0129 I hop you find your Ellie <3

[EllieAndFriendsClub]

@KRLHSRDA ha ha ha, that's fun -- glad you are an Adventuress Extraordinairé!

[EllieAndFriendsClub]

@ArticBreakup wow! that's really well said, very blunt and honest and to the point. Hopefully more crazy and awesome will keep such flowers vibrant and flourishing. Best regards!

[ArticBreakup]

Girls like this do exist. They're just not appreciated by many until they're too old to still be close to. The rareist and most beautiful flower of all just happens to be rooted in a deep pile of crazy and awesome.

[pberrios0223]

i dont like the movie, but seeing the two of them meet and fall in loveis priceless, and yes i do like ellie and the boy, they're so cute.