Think tiki torches, hula skirts and lu’au. Whereas, by their own admission, their research for Aladdin consisted of a visit to a Saudi Arabian expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center, for Moana, they worked with a hand-selected group of cultural consultants, later dubbed the Oceanic story trust.īut the veneer of “culture” has always been an important part of colonial profit-making in the Pacific. In the midst of a heated conversation about whitewashing in Hollywood, Moana’s creators Musker and Clements have touted their efforts, encouraged by Disney’s creative chief, John Lasseter, to get Polynesian culture right. Standard room rates start at more than $500 a night. This bastion of luxury sits at the gateway to the predominantly native Hawaiian communities of the Waianae coast, one of the most economically disadvantaged areas in Hawaii.
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