Talk:Prince Phillip/@comment-25732247-20160618105822

I know that some people might complain about all the "love at the first sight" films, but they really did try to improve the original fairy tales (which were all written at a time where love at the first sight was normal and "ideal romances")

Snow White met her prince at first, instead of him randomly deciding to bring a corpse with him home. Also, they're implied to have been childhood friends or something similar.

Yes, Cinderella and Charming only talked for one night, but they both knew that the other wasn't as shallow as many other people (Cinderella didn't even know that he was a prince, she was just interested in a better life than the one with her abusive stepfamily)

Aurora and Phillip had met in a dream (whether you believe in dreams or not depends, but considering that Disney loved dreams at that time and had it as a main theme for most of his films, it most likely is "true" in-universe in this film [also, it has fairies, so why not "dreams come true"?]) and one time in the forest, unlike the original fairytale, where he kisses a sleeping stranger who is much older than he is.

Ariel had a few days to get to know Eric, which was her intention in the first place. Also, she had seen some of his behavior before falling in love with him.

Belle slowly got to know the Beast, and he also developed into a nicer person during his film. Some people call it Stockholm Syndrome, but I don't think it was. That was also the case in the original fairytale, however, so it's technically not an "improvement".

Aladdin and Jasmine had a lot of chemistry during the carpet ride, which makes up for the love that would otherwise feel a bit rushed.

Pocahontas and Mulan weren't based on fairytales, but Pocahontas and Smith didn't even marry, and Mulan got a few months to get to know Shang (even if she was disguised as a boy)

Tiana's film was based on a book (which I haven't read) which was based on a fairytale. She didn't immeditely fall for Naveen, but had them slowly developing love (most of it as frogs)

Rapunzel had several love scenes with Eugene (boat scene, campfire scene, dance scene, nearly-drowning scene, "new dream" scene...). Her age was also changed from 12-13 to 17-18 partly to make their love seem more serious.

Also, the whole "marry a man you just met" thing was way more normal in the 30's, 40's and 50's than it is today, so maybe the romances from the classic films were the norm and maybe "cute" back then.