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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He was the only black out there on the slopes.
Also used to see a gay guy, with a stinkbug style, like he was always trying to straddle a stump. Not sure black leather and chains is the best ski outfit...
How many white NBA players are there?
You known we are being watched, all the time. Their "reactions" are of dwindling importance. The race card is dead.
Ok to appropriate white cultural things, eh?
A high percentage of black midshipmen at Annapolis were/are classified as “aquarocks.” They had to learn to swim and pass all the yearly tests required for graduation. Even so, a high number selected/select the Marine Corps to stay away from the wet stuff after commissioning. Of the four black classmates in my company, two made it to graduation, and both became Marines.
Look, I was a adolescent when that movie came out, so the movie was lame “baby movie” even back then.
But the chick was a soulless ginger! THAT IS WHAT THE LITTLE KIDS BACK THEN KNEW HER AS!
And I do know that this movie is a major part of their nostalgia. So why the heck alter it like that for no reason at all?
Heck, there are young women that do the character in cosplay, and they nail the look and voice to the letter.
This is just sooooooooooooo stupid, Disney.
“How many black Olympic swimmers are there? Sorry if it’s illegal to point out the truth. “
It’s a movie about a half fish/half person, dude.
As goofy as the casting choice is, you are taking it way to out there.
the Little Mermaid is a culturally Northern European story. Written by Danish author Hans Christian Anderson it is a story in the cannon of Northern Western Civ.
Therefore it is cultural appropriation to use anything but a northern Eurpoean in the story.
I would never want a white to replace a black in the pantheon of African stories, or to replace Dot-Indians in their ancient and revered pantheon. Nor ever replace an Eastern Asioan with a white in any of their legendary stories.
So it is more than wrong to replace the rightful northern European with an African descent or other race.
Make “her” a tranny. To not do so is both tranny-hate and tranny-phobia.
Isn't there an original idea in Hollywood anymore?
I heart black Danes. Hans Christian Anderson goes to Africa
Meh - she’s got the face for it.
So long as they don’t put her in bright red hair.
(In fact, is long flowing red hair an insult to the black race?)
Hey, no one knows what was really under that fish tail! LOL!
Frozen 2 has a dyke Elsa so this black Ariel is a minor point. She is still straight
Apparently, that doesn't matter.
But, I'll be the first to admit that I couldn't ID any NBA players, or NFL, given the same criteria, on a bet.
My understanding is that blacks do not have the genetic predisposition toward body fat, that allows most white people to float.
No big deal, but to mention it, is "raciss..."?
Yeah, being called a racist is meaningless to many of us, so pee on them.
both matter.
The only one of these I ever saw was Black.
Disney did their first animated black princess feature film (“The Princess and the Frog”). It bombed.
Jamie Fox started in an all black remake of “Annie”. It bombed.
Queen Latifa starred in all black remake of “Steel Magnolias. It bombed.
There’s a really good chance casting a black actress as the red-haired Ariel will result in another bomb. But Disney will be very proud of their virtue signaling.
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