Three articles were revealed, while discussing the Movie, Moana, was stereotypical to the Polynesian culture. There was much controversy on this subject. Disney was justified in creating the Moana film and was not culturally insensitive to the Polynesian people because they hired authentic Polynesians to work for the film, they tried not to stereotype and generalize and, they went to different Polynesian places to study for the movie.
The actor for Moana, Auli’l Cravalho, and the songwriter, Opetaia Foa’i, were both raised in Polynesian culture. When the author is pointing out that they needed to find a voice actor for the film it is shown in Article 1 that “The teen grew up in a small town and attended an all-Hawaiian school where she learned the folklore of Maui, which is one of the islands of Hawaii.” This explains that this actor knows the whole background of this culture, so she would how to act and what is going on. This further makes the voice of Moana more realistic than if a person from the city was the voice actor. When the author starts talking about the songwriter for the music it states in Article 1
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This is shown when they talked about how it was a long journey to make a new character, which in Article 1 it states “Every word is chosen carefully, every color discussed and every motion debated.” This shows they did not generalize anything. Furthermore, it was hard for them to do this because almost every culture has their own stereotypes and people to generalize. Also, when the author of Article 2 starts to talk about their counter argument it states “Others, however, read Maui's size in the film not as obesity, but as strength.” This shows that they didn’t try to stereotype mostly all other movies on the size of one of the heros. They did not only just not stereotype this they found out that most from the earlier Polynesian culture did look similar to