Posted on 07/03/2019 3:18:30 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Disney’s forthcoming live-action Little Mermaid is set to star actress and singer Halle Bailey, of the R&B duo Chloe x Halle, as Ariel, Variety reports. That means that one of Disney’s most iconic princesses is going to look quite different. This Ariel will be black.
That’s a giant deal, and not just because Ariel is a popular Disney princess with arguably the best “I Want” song in the Disney canon. Ariel is also the princess whose character design set the mold for the astonishingly homogenous run of giant-eyed, small-nosed Disney princesses we’ve met since The Little Mermaid debuted in 1989.
In 2015, a Tumblr user named Alex made a post titled “Every woman in every Disney/Pixar movie in the past decade has the exact same face.” She traced the face shapes for male and female characters from the past 10 years of Disney/Pixar movies, and she found that while the men had a variety of face shapes — square jaws and short noses! round jaws and long noses! the list goes on — the women’s face shapes were nearly identical: they all had round cheeks, giant round eyes, and tiny button noses. In extreme close-ups, it was almost impossible to tell the difference.
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Yes they do, but Frozen 2 is worse
For what was the original premise with Disney, which was Fantasy/Cartoons, the last high point was the original Lion King. With the Beauty and the Beast remake, they wanted to make some money off of Emma Watson, as she was reaching her "sell by" date, and made a bundle for Warner.
It looks like the Marvel series is pretty much over, not expecting much from Phase II, and Star Wars is a lost cause, so all Disney has left is to mine the old stuff, cause the whole place is just a SJW hive mind now.
Ariel isn’t a human. She’s a mermaid.
Maybe there’s diversity under the sea.
Why is this “a giant deal”?
And the original Tiana wasn’t dark enough.
rwood
Seems to me that now you have a choice.
I don’t think that anyone’s ‘nostalgia’ is going to be bothered by a new product featuring a Black Ariel.
And that matters because........?
It’s not. It just roils the waters here, which some seem to have a deep investment in doing.
If it offends, people should just buy the original - or better yet, buy their kids the original story and get them to reading.
“a redneck Uncle Remus?”
Uncle Remus was a wise, experienced man. Ever seen a redneck like that?
rwood
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Halle Berry doesn't not look all that black in her features, but a black "Ariel" is a little annoying. Ignoring the part about this being a Hans Christian Anderson tale from Denmark, they had already cast Ariel as white.
One of my pet peeves in movies is gender changes, or race changes to an already existing character. If they want a character of a specific gender or ethnicity, they need to just begin with such a character and not try to put their "woke" bullsh*t on the rest of us.
Another thing that makes it annoying is this is Disney which is just doing this for the purpose of their "woke" virtue signaling, and not because they think this will improve the story or the character.
It's more of that "Diversity Uber Alles!" bullsh*t.
I'm tired of them sneak preaching at me with these poorly disguised efforts to promote their politics.
Will the villian still be based on Divine in drag?
So will cosplayers have to do the character in blackface going forward or surrender the character to the black community and not cling to the past of a white mermaid fish girl
“The Princess and the Frog” cost $105 million and grossed $267 million, that’s not called a bust.
BTW it’s a cute movie, I bought the blu-ray.
The fact that they will only cast someone who is coffee with creamer colored instead of tar baby black will eventually make the SJW upset.
There is no end to this idiocy.
You always have to walk a careful mean, to make $$$
So Disney has a problem with white people, but not with monarchy.
“I don’t think that anyone’s ‘nostalgia’ is going to be bothered by a new product featuring a Black Ariel.”
Have you seen what happened to Star Wars?
Disney’s other live action reboots have a mixed record already.
Actually, that’s not a bad idea.
Believe it or not, there used to be black FReepers once upon a time. Better FReepers than most in some instances. The swelling waves of comments hostile to black Americans may very well have driven them away.
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