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Something I found interesting was the attention to certain details like the boats, tattoos, and wayfinding, but not to Maui, kokamora, and Pele. it seems Disney tailored their accuracy to get views. I also found it interesting that they had a board of islanders to "culturally authenticate" the film. What gives a corporation the right to "authenticate" a culture, or for that matter anyone the right to authenticate a culture? It was also "interesting" to see the subtle racism Disney films intentionally or unintentionally have.

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In both of the articles, the author argues that Disney presented throughout Moana was simply for their viewers entertainment, rather than an accurate representation of Polynesian culture. Diaz explains that this world that Moana is a "culturally fortified re-animation of modernity's romanticized primitivism and colonial and postcolonial nostalgia".  Diaz is claiming that Disney portrayed that time period because it'd make it's viewers more entertained, for modern viewers are more intrigued by by purity because it's the complete opposite of what we live with on a daily basis. In the Smithsonian, the author talks about how Disney glorified the native people's desire to save their island- which goes back to their audience wanting to watch something pure and completely different from their everyday lives.

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Seeing how the Kakamora are represented in this movie surprised me, after finding out the meaning behind it. For a kids show it wouldn't be appropriate to address people as a slur and display them as violent beings. There could have been a better approach for introducing these people. In the article Doug Herman states, "the Kakamora bear no resemblance to the Disney knock-off"

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Something that I have gathered from both watching the movie and reading the articles is that Disney does a great job describing the wayfinding and the pause period of the Polynesians. But shown in the movie they didn't dig enough to understand more about Polynesian culture and because of that, they make many mistakes. Such as the coconut people, making Maui act kinda like a buffoon and stupid, and not putting tattoos on the women when all Polynesian people have those and they mean a lot to each person, and these things really hurt and offended the Polynesian people. Although Disney made many mistakes and a few big ones I don't think they intended to do that but for the future should definitely do the digging and get all of the information and get the information right than just getting part of it right and offending a culture.

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"For years, we have been swallowed by your culture ...; this one time, can you be swallowed by ours?" This coming from the Don't Swallow (or be Swallowed) article I believe really shows what people think of this movie. Many take this as another attempt for Disney to make money off of a culture they don't really know anything about. Prior to the movies release there was discussion that "Moana" would be the movie where Disney may get it right, but people still came out wondering how this movie was approved and authenticated.

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A main focus of the article "Don't Swallow (or be Swallowed by) Disney's 'Culturally Authenticated Moana'" points at the idea that Disney's adaptation of Moana is just a form of colonialism. By showing Polynesia as a tropical paradise of innocent culture, Disney ignores it's past with colonialism. Disney profits off of the native culture while depicting a false narrative of how colonialism hasn't changed Polynesia. This idea of "colonial nostalgia" misrepresents how Polynesian culture actually is.

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In the magazine article handed out in class entitled, "How the story of "Moana" and Maui holds up against cultural truths," the author questions, "Who gets to authenticate so diverse a set of cultures and so vast a region as Polynesia and the even more diverse and larger Pacific Island region that is also represented in the film?"

The authors main point is that in order for the movie to be taken seriously, more qualified producers and directors need to be involved. Do you agree with this idea?

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Wayfinding is an essential component to Polynesian sailing culture. To wayfind, Polynesian people utilized the stars, currents, animal migration, and the colors of the sea and sky. Similarly, both Moana and Maui demonstrate some of these techniques. They are depicted measuring stars with their hands to determine direction. Additionally, they dip their hand in water to detect the currents. In this specific aspect, I believe that Disney accurately represented a piece of Polynesian culture that would have been largely unknown to the general population.

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something that seemed important to me after reading and comparing the two articles was how would the movie reflect on the actual Polynesian culture. it did a good job of displaying the great pause which was the time period where they stopped traveling, and i think that helps us get a sense of the time period. however one of the things that is talked about in the article¨ dont swallow or b swallowed by Disney culturally authenticated moana¨ was how the seem to have steryotypical chareters in the movie.

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I thought that the tattooing shown in the movie was well shown because there was a part showing how painful it can be, and that its not fun to experience. Many of the people were getting there tattoos around their achievements like Maui, All of his tattoos were the things he accomplished. Many of the tattoos were sleeves down their arm as well.

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The Smithsonian article had mentioned, "The film's story has a different angle with a powerful revelation". This is because Moanas people had put a taboo on going past the reef. This played an important part in acknowledging the 'long pause' the Polynesians had taken from voyaging.

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Something I think should be noted about the movie is that Disney could have included the facets they excluded. They did not need to remove those critical aspects of those characters and the culture at large. They could have portrayal Maui as Lithe and as smart, They could have included Hina, they could have portrayed the Kakamora more accurately, they could have demonized Pele less, but they didn't. They chose to remove those parts and I think that sparks an interesting question: Why did Disney exclude these parts of Polynesian Culture and Mythology?

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A point that I want to stress when it comes to Moana is the poor depiction of Polynesian culture. The articles give good examples of how reality is very different compared to the movie such as our characters and their legends. Although this is an important point I belive it is important to take into consideration that it is a kids movie and the soul purpose of it is entertainment. For entertainment wise it does a decent job at depicting the culture and keeping viewers interested at the same time.

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"who gets to authenticate such a diverse set of cultures and a vast region such as Polynesia" I found this interesting and agreed that the movie though clams to be a authenticate move about the culture. Who really has the right to say that it is or say that this is a movie that is spot on with said culture.

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I really liked that in Moana they including the Polynesian Sailing Culture as one of the main ideas and the star-finding and wave-finding was the few tools they used to help guide them on their journey. It's pretty spot on when you look at ancient sailing culture

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I really found Moana confusing on how the represented Polynesian males. What I mean by that is that they only presented males body build fat and muscular.  They aren't wrong the way they presented them but they are wrong on the fact of having all men in the movie fat and built.

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In the movie, "Moana," Disney does a nice job of portraying the Long Pause, an important historical moment when Polynesians stopped their voyaging. This is seen as Moana is discouraged and it is seen as taboo for any members of her village to go beyond the reef. This opens the door for people to learn more about the Long Pause and spark interest for the Polynesian culture.

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An important conclusion I found was how how Disney knows that they have been wrong about cultures in the past and have not yet apologized for it. Diaz states, "Critical scholarship has shown that Disney's response to charges of racist and sexist representations has not been to apologize contritely and desist."

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Moana should not have been marketed as culturally authentic. Moana changes things in order to appeal to a wider audience, which would have been fine if the film was marketed instead as culturally inspired.

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I really found it nice that Moana included a tattooing scene and they did it spot on to how its done in real life. The traditional method is with a tap stick and boars teeth dipped in ink. Moana portrayed that along with the guy being in extreme pain since it is so painful.

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one this I found interesting that i saw in the movie and read in the article's is the image on the samoen people in the the movie maui and even moana's dad is shown as a big huge strong guy which is not alwayas the case and creates stereotypes and i can admit i have fallen for for example when i hear samoen i think of a huge line man that plays football because that's just all i saw and heard. so in that way i understand were stereotypes can be made when companys like disney picture somoens as big strong people.