Brother Bear (Blaise and Walker 2003, directors) balked at that particular
jump in logic. Instead, the odd side-kick characters – two moose – speak
with the caricatured Canadian accent made popular by the fictional Great
White North SCTV hosts Bob and Doug McKenzie (comedians Rick
Moranis and Dave Thomas). Note also that in all of these cases, the
characters who speak with stigmatized accents appear in animal or
inanimate form, a pattern that will be seen elsewhere as well.
Original study methodology
This body of animated films was chosen because the Disney Corporation
is the largest producer of such films, as seen in Figure 7.2 Together Disney
and the rest of the Buena Vista empire^15 produced about half of the one
hundred top grossing animated films between 1980 and the present, which
means that they took in about 6 trillion US dollars in that time period, for
one set of films only. Clearly Disney reaches many people, and a good
proportion of them are children. This would be reason enough to study
their films, but they are also the most highly marketed and advertised of
the field.