Easter Eggs You Missed In Raya And The Last Dragon
Easter Eggs You Missed In Raya And The Last Dragon
By Désirée I. Guzzetta/March 17, 2021 1:00 pm EDT
Whenever you watch a Disney movie, you can be sure there will be an Easter egg or 10 hidden within it. It s no surprise, then, that
Raya and the Last Dragon continues this proud tradition.
Raya and the Last Dragon takes place in the separated lands of the fictional realm of Kumandra: Heart, Tail, Spine, Talon, and Fang. Raya, our young heroine, is searching for Sisu, the last dragon of Kumandra, in order to unite the disparate nations. Human discord tore them apart, and feeds the amorphous evil known as the Druun, a rolling black wave that turns every person and animal into stone. A star-studded cast brings this tale to life, including Kelly Marie Tran as Raya, Awkafina as the dragon Sisu, Daniel Dae Kim as Chief Benja, Gemma Chan as Namaari, and a whole host of others.
Asian Americans as a whole are underrepresented in media, but Southeast Asians are often even more overlooked. Disaggregated data and more representation in movies like Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon can change that.