"Disney's Princess Ka'iulani"

Walt Disney presents:
"A Hawaiian Fairytale: Princess Ka'iulani"

 

Preview: Introducing Walt Disney's newest princess! Princess Ka'iulani! A fairytale, less told about. When Princess Ka'iulani is 13 years old, she gets forced away from her island home by evil governor, Governor Captain Robins, who wants to turn Hawaii into one big hotel and home empire for himself. He sends all the Hawaiian children to schools throughout the world and Princess Ka'iulani gets sent to England and is put into a boarding private school. By the time she is 19 years old, she hears word that her Hawaiian home and people are in danger of being over ruled by Captain Robins and he wants all the Hawaiians off of the island. In an attempt to save her island home, Princess Ka'iulani abandons the boarding school in England and sets off on an epic journey along with the help of her gecko friend Mo'o, wise owl Pueo, orphan friend Phillip, and old, sailorman Mr. Henry. As time races out, they embark together on an adventure of a lifetime full of fun, laughter, misfortunes, and embracing the spirit of aloha together. Can the Princess save her Hawaiian home before it's too late? Join Disney's newest Hawaiian princess as you relive a Hawaiian fairytale!

 

Characters: Princess Ka'iulani

                  King Kuhio

                  Queen Makamae

                  Governor Captain Robins

                  Mo'o

                  PueoPhillip/Phil

                  Mr. Henry

                  President Grover Cleveland

                  Random Hawaiians

                  Random American crew

                  Random England characters

 

Setting: Hawaii

            England

            Washington D.C.

 

Plot: (Brace yourselves...this is waaaaay long...lol!) The first scene in the beginning of the film shows the evil Governor Captain Robins as he studies a map of the Hawaiian islands. The map displays the island as it is undisturbed, green, and paradisiacal. Upon staring, he casts the map aside to make way for a 3-D map of little towns and hotels which dot the island. His dream is to create the biggest hotel empire and industry for himself and to rule the islands. He writes up a treaty and seeks out the President's signature. Upon the meeting together, the President denies the signing of the treaty because of the good and peaceful terms that the American nation has with the Hawaiian nation. He does not see fit for the Americans to take over land that the Hawaiians owned. Unhappy with the denial, Governor Captain Robins seeks to bring about his desires in his own hands. At a president banquet dinner party, the Governor secretly poisons the President's food and the President goes home very sick. Once in the hospital on a bed trying to get better, the Governor visits him and forces the limp, sickly, non-alert and inattentive President to sign the treaty. Satisfied, Governor Captain Robins sets out with his own crew of men to Hawaii.

 

The next scene takes place in Hawaii as the Hawaiian people are enjoying a lu'au feast. There is hula, music, aloha, and food (poi, kalua pig, fish, lau lau!!!). Upon celebrating, Governor Captain Robins sneaks ashore with his American crew and they surround the village where the Hawaiians are having a lu'au. They then surprise ambush the Hawaiians using weapons as a threat. The Hawaiian King Kuhio is completely confused because they've always had a good and peaceful relationship with the American people. The captain holds up the treaty that states that President Grover Cleveland agreed to taking the Hawaiian islands from the Hawaiian people in order to establish a more populated coast of attraction--full of hotels and homes. In addition to submitting to the treaty, the Hawaiian children would be sent away to schools throughout the nation in order to learn proper behavior and the parents would remain on the island to become slaves to help build up the new establishment.  If they didn't submit, the Hawaiians would be forced to leave the islands or suffer death by war. However, the Governor promised that if they submitted to the treaty, the Hawaiian people could remain on the islands and after finishing building the establishment, all of the Hawaiian children could return to the islands and their parents. Unhappy but left without any choice, King Kuhio and Queen Makamae submit to the treaty and sign in agreement. The children are torn from their parents but 13 year old Princess Ka'iulani strong-spiritedly tries to resist. This in turn raises up some opposition and resistance amongst the Hawaiian children and parents. Seeing her strong heart to resist, as well as the courage she could muster by her Hawaiian people to oppose him, Governor Captain Robins feels threatened and binds her using the threat to hurt her parents, so instead of fighting back anymore, she is forced to give in. Governor Captain Robins decides to send her to the most toughest, strict, boarding private school for girls in England as a result of her bravery and rebellious spirit to him.

 

As the Princess is forced onto the ship, she cries in the old, creaky, damp ship room that she is locked into. Upon crying, she discovers that her little gecko friend Mo'o had tagged along and she takes comfort in her little friend. (He can't speak though. He's just a smart gecko who can understand but not talk.)

 

Once in England, Princess Ka'iulani is forced to study at the boarding private school for girls and she is very mistreated by the instructors and fellow study mates. As she learns how to properly behave and follow the school rules, she meets an orphan boy from the streets named Phillip who is a year older than her. They become fast friends.

 

Jumping back to the Hawaiian islands, King Kuhio worries about his daughter and writes a message about how the Hawaiian people are doing and his love for her. He sends Pueo (a wise owl who also can not talk but understands lol) to deliver the message to the Princess.

 

Back in England, the Princess receives her father's message and she sends one in return about how she is doing. They continue this exchange and 6 years pass.

 

Flash forward to 6 years and Princess Ka'iulani and Phillip are still friends and a romance starts to build between them as they like each other more than friends, however, they remain as friends. Princess Ka'iulani receives disturbing news from Pueo that instead of keeping their promise, the American nation was forcing the Hawaiian people to move off of the island and that they only have a month to do so. As the Princess discovers these news, she determines with Phillip to set out to save her people. She decides to head home to the islands to meet with the Governor Captain Robins himself and to demand his end of the treaty by keeping the promise that he and the American nation had made to the Hawaiian people. Princess Ka'iulani sneaks out of the boarding private school for girls and her, Phillip, and gecko Mo'o head to the seaside where they try to stow away on a huge boat. They end up getting caught and kicked off the boat. In distraught, Princess Ka'iulani doesn't know what to do. Overhearing the sad feelings that the Princess shares with Phillip and Mo'o, an old sailor man named Mr. Henry (scruffy and thinks he's useless because of a past fault and history he had made as a sailor man) realizes the opportunity he has to redeem and make something out of himself so he offers to help them. Jumping into his old, rickety boat, Princess Ka'iulani, Phillip, Mo'o, and Mr. Henry set out at sea and head to Hawaii!

 

Along the ocean ride there is singing and they have fun and they encounter storms and survive lol. While at sea, Princess Ka'iulani receives one last disturbing message from her father King Kuhio and it says that Governor Captain Robins has now forced the Hawaiian parents to leave the island in one week instead of a month. He informs his daughter that the Hawaiian people were considering of running away on the island to hide in the caves and as soon as they did, he would send another message informing his daughter of where they would be.

 

Jumping back to the island of Hawaii, we see how the King Kuhio sneaks out at night to write a message and to give it to Pueo to deliver. He has a message to send that informs the Princess of where the King and the Hawaiians would be hiding on the island. But instead of sending this message gets caught by the Governor Captain Robins who arrests the King for sending secret messages to his daughter and then locks him and all the Hawaiians in a cave. He rewrites a message to mislead the Princess to her family home.

 

The group finally arrives at the island and Princess Ka'iulani is shocked at what she sees. She sees many buildings which dot the beach side and she is unhappy because of how much it reminds her of England coasts and dock landings. Saddened by the change in her island, she rushes to her home to find her parents. When she enters her home, she discovers that it is a trap and there inside of her home and awaiting her, is the Governor Captain Robins himself (and not her parents). He binds the Princess and her friends and unfolds his plan of how he lied to the Hawaiians and forced the American President to sign his treaty and how he is going to take over the Hawaiian islands to rule it himself. No one would ever know and there is nothing that the Princess or any of her friends can do about it. He locks the Princess and her friends in another cave on the island, threatening to them that they, along with the Hawaiian people locked in another cave, would be locked until death, never to return out to the Hawaiian sun and island.

 

Saddened, the Princess doesn't know what to do to save her people. Suddenly Mo'o works to unlock the Princess and her friends and the three decide to give it one last shot to save the Hawaiian people by heading to Washington D.C. to see the President themselves and to reveal the evil plan that Governor Captain Robins had fulfilled and was going to fulfill. They sneak away on a boat but almost get caught by the Governor and his American boat crew. He is reluctant to follow but settles on the thought that there was no way the President would see the Princess or listen to her. Satisfied, he lets them escape.

 

Traveling all the way to Washington D.C., the Princess and her friends encounter the guards who protect the President and who refuse her to ever meet him. It was just not allowed. Distraught once again, and feeling the impossible, they feel defeated. Suddenly Phillip comes up with one final idea of how to get the President's attention. He encourages the Princess to embrace her culture and to go onto the lawn of the White House and to dance Hula right in front of the President's window while Mr. Henry and Phillip sing and play ukulele, in order to get the attention of the President. The Princess musters the courage to do this and the group sets out on their final attempt. Just as the guards are about to arrest the Princess and her friends, President Grover Cleveland spots the princess on his lawn and moved and soft-heartened, he sends for her and her friends. The group meets the President and reveal to him the things that Governor Captain Robins had done to the President, to the American nation, and to the Princess' Hawaiian people. Enraged, the President sets out to sea with the group to arrest and punish the Governor himself.

 

Once on the Hawaiian island, the President arrests Governor Captain Robins, rewrites a treaty to restore the land to the Hawaiians, gives Hawaiians the right to the new establishment, sends for the return of all the Hawaiian children to their parents, and puts Princess Ka'iulani and her royal family back in charge of the Hawaiian nation. The peace is restored!

 

At the end of the film, we see everyone reunited and in attendance, having a lu'au and enjoying themselves and the aloha spirit (including the President himself lol). And we see Phillip and Princess Ka'iulani kiss as they start their lives together in Hawaii. And then we see that everyone lives happily ever after, The End. Lol! :)

 

And there you have it! Disney's newest princess, Princess Ka'iulani, a fairytale less told about! Mahalo!!!