Several scenes (like when he was flying with Marahute) seemed to focus a great deal on Cody's legs. Heck, he spends the whole movie wearing shorts and even is shirtless at the beginning. There were also several scenes focusing on his midriff, come to think of it...
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I first saw this as a kid and noticed this at the time, too, although I didn't think much of it other than that it was cool that Cody slept in a hammock. Now watching as an adult it's a little hard to see why they made some of these choices especially considering that not including it wouldn't have taken anything away from his character. He was meant to be an aboriginal apparently before higher ups dictated that he be a blonde white kid... I guess it's very possible he was animated originally as ethnic, in which case there's a greater tendency to exoticize those characters, before just animating him over as a white character in which case it comes off as a little more out of left field. It's nothing against the film, it was just an odd way to introduce a kid protagonist especially given that it was animated by grown adults ...
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