Lindsay Lohan's Legacy: A Disney legend and cultural icon

Lindsay Lohan, who overcame the transition from a child star to an inalienable component of pop iconography, is an indisputable Disney Legend. Disney was her first employer and the work she performed there is the work through which she defined her career and contributed to the entertainment industry. Many consumers still regard her as their favorite personality.

Lohan’s first major performance was in the 1998’s Disney’s The Parent Trap. Only at the age of 12, Lohan played both Annie James and Hallie Parker; two sisters separated at birth who get to meet at camp and devise a plan to get their parents back together. She was magnificent in the way she handled the two prominent roles of the feministic characters with insights which could only a thoughtful and strategic performer can intent and despite her youthfulness. The film was much acclaimed and hence well received and it was evident that Disney had stumbled onto a talent of the years.

After making The Parent Trap, Lohan was still working on films of Disney production, for instance, Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis in 2003. This film about the body-switching mother and daughter became another blockbuster and collected more than $160 million in the global sales. To some degree, Lohan’s portrayal of a teenage girl moving around in her mother’s literal footsteps was applauded for comedy and acting. This role also contributed to enhancing her as a famous actress of her time and the world's most popular.

In 2004 Lohan was in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, and this is yet another Disney production that grew in popularity with her fans. The film was her opportunity to take complete control of a movie and set her as one of Hollywood’s most flexible and dependable actors. It was her part in Mean Girls later that year, though not a Disney picture, that really broke her into the scene. Mean Girls was written by Tina Fey and the director was Mark Waters; Lohan’s portrayal of an outcast girl in the budding high school social jungle became more or less a cultural symbol.

Although Mean Girls was not a Disney movie it represented Lohan’s Disney identity and her role in the picture has become rather symbolic. The success of the film together with Lohan’s great reprising meant that her place was cemented in Hollywood and pop culture making her a steady icon.

Looking at the impact that she had on the Disney Channel and the whole entertainment business it is impossible to overlook her role there. But her early Disney works are appreciated by the viewers and her movements have not fallen out of fashion hence those who have been raised watching her; she is quite emblematic. Disney’s work and experience are a great influence on Lohan though her career was reconstructed through the years and met serious challenges and negativity. She was helpful in defining a set of Disney movies that are still relevant and loved to this day making her a rightful Disney Legend.

She was a star kid growing up to her teenage stages in moving to the cultural icon, all these make her stand the test of time. What Disney took from Lindsay Lohan is the young star and the sweat and what stayed with her is the talent to reach the public.