This is the story of how Glenn Milstead, a big-haired, poo-eating Charm City drag queen named Divine, came to inspire a Disney villainess. She is a real-life Ursula with a crimson mouth, eyebrows sharp as switchblades and a homicidal gleam in her eye. And, until that inevitable moment when heroes destroy them and restore order, witches have the upper hand.Īlthough the sea witch is singular among Disney villains, there is a person behind this character. She’s the only one who actually gives a young princess what she wants.īut witches want stuff, too. Among the coterie of evil queens, stepmothers, and sorcerers who terrorize out of jealousy and greed, Ursula is unique. Like Ursula’s tentacles, the stakes spread out before us: this is a first-rate scam and Ariel is out of her depth. And don’t underestimate the importance of-” the witch shakes her hips lustily as she swims past- “body language.” “You’ll have your looks,” Ursula assures the young mermaid in her husky snarl, “your pretty face. Though Ariel is sweet and naive and in love, she worries that, without her voice, she’s got little more than a clamshell bra and a dream in her heart. This master manipulator offers the princess a deal: I’ll give you a shot at landing your prince, the witch tells the princess, if you give me your voice. Inside her lair of fish bones, hidden in a dark patch of ocean, the corpulent cacaelia exploits Ariel’s dreams-swiftly, surely, and almost successfully. So who will help a horny teenage mermaid in search of a transformation guaranteed to horrify her loved ones? The aggrieved and scheming sea witch Ursula, of course.Įven the witch’s name evokes a sinister glamour. This is such an obviously bad idea that the other sea creatures try to discourage her with a carefully choreographed musical number. She wants to eat with a fork, hang out with humans, and live happily ever after with a wide-eyed terrestrial prince. Though she’s the belle of the ocean, with a doting and muscular mermaid king for a father, six fashionable older sisters, a beautiful singing voice, and the undivided attention of a wry, musically gifted crab who risks his life and livelihood to protect her from harm, Ariel is consumed by ill-informed notions of walking on land. Mermaid princess Ariel has dreams of somewhere else.
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