Quite a reach to suggest Tolkien was in favour of inclusive revisionism of his work.
Mommy, she’s brown like me,” said no kid ever....so obviously said by an adult
I DEMAND that Jeremy Renner be the KING OF WAKANDA in the next movie featuring that place. It needs a dollop of inclusion.
Really?
I think they are finding a problem that doesn’t exist.
“they should be a princess in every single way”
How many boys want to marry a girl who has been raised to think of herself as a princess?
Their terms are acceptable...
(I don’t care what color a mermaid is, but if that person wants to leave. lets support their choice)
“Mommy, she’s brown like me,” trained one adult to make their child say.
Perhaps it is time to remake black panther but with a white cast. Maybe call it white cougar. A society isolated in the mountains free of crime. Powered by energy as a result of decades of research and development as opposed to the discovery of a magic substance that can literally do anything the plot requires.
The only racism happening in our society is blatant racism against white people.
“While, yes, there’s an argument to be made against Hollywood’s recycling of old intellectual properties rather than creating new ones,”
But that is the entire point; isn’t it? I suspect that the objection isn’t to the color of fictional mermaids, but the self-conscious and self-righteous substitutions. People don’t consider it entertaining to be lectured at, and are quite aware of the reaction of these smug hypocrites if the color substitution were made in the other direction.
I say they should do a new movie of “Snow White”, only make her black because being white is racist today and call her “Coal black”. When she comes across the 7 dwarves have her talk like a black rapper which so the children can relate “Yo! What the F is these 7 mofo Hobbit doin’ around me yo? Git the F outta my face yo mofo rapist mofos!”
Disney in particular and the entertainment industry in general clearly hate White people.
Exactly. This issue is that these works are be changed ….. just because. The narrative that we need to rewrite a book, film whatever to “right” a “wrong” is plain virtue signaling. Nothing more nothing less
If we were to take a traditional African fairy tale and depict it with White characters, the Wokesters would be screaming "racism" at the top of their lungs.
Why isn’t Ariel Latino or Asian if you really want diversity?
Gingers, redheads, are also “an oppressed minority.”
I think Disney ginned this up themselves for publicity to help their failing company.
So, my objection is purely based upon replacement, rather than creating expansion for purposes of inclusion.
It was inevitable that this sort of dismissive approach is intended to cover objections to Amazon's butchery of Tolkien's world as well, which is quite a different thing. Grafting 21st century social ideology over Tolkien's exquisite 20th-century treatment of the very same issues is not only first-level literary hubris but it isn't done well enough to look anything but clumsy and ignorant. I don't think the writers read the books.
A mermaid that won’t get her hair wet??
