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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I’ll be Amsterdamned!
Revisionist history
Yeah! Blacks are notoriously excellent as swimmers...
Hans Christian Andersen, what are they going to change that name to? Mohammed X?
Can Disney remake Song of the South with a redneck Uncle Remus?
jonascord wrote:
Yeah! Blacks are notoriously excellent as swimmers..
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90% of the time liberals paint conservatives with an insane brush… Typecasting us as racist…
.....And then I go and read your post…
The actor playing Jesus was white; the actor playing the Apostle John was black. It didn't matter to me nor anyone in my party, and I didn't see anyone rioting in the parking lot.
Perhaps....people on the Believer/traditionalist side of the political spectrum are..more TOLERANT!?!
I think the swimming comment needed a big sarcasm alert based on old stereotypes, which is the way I read it.
Oh no. The incels will never go see out now.
More diversity nonsense that will no doubt be used to attack anyone who dares criticizes Disney for being greedy, lazy, and safe with its films lately.
Stereotype?
Nope. Reality:
Just under 70% of African-American children surveyed said they had no or low ability to swim. Low ability merely meant they were able to splash around in the shallow end. A further 12% said they could swim but had “taught themselves”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11172054
Why doe’s this come across as cultural appropriation?
That’s based on a true story.
How many black Olympic swimmers are there? Sorry if it's illegal to point out the truth.
This will only work if she is Gay or Transgender...
Yes. I know. Great movie. Great Candy.
I have black friends who I was in the shooting sports with. Nice guys. Looked at me like I had 2 heads when I suggested they might like snow skiing
What I remember at L.A. beaches, they rarely go deeper than the knees. So “swimming” is very rare.
Concern troll?
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