The characters don’t even look like Disney.
Posted on 05/30/2023 5:18:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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This feels lousy to say, because I was rooting for a huge success to follow the noxious backlash to the trailer last year: Some people apparently couldn’t handle the audacity of reinventing a cartoon character as a Black actress. But star Halle Bailey, in the role of Ariel, has nothing to apologize for: She’s the best thing about this movie. Unfortunately, that’s faint praise.
A lot of ink and pixels have testified to the value of Black children and their moms being able to see themselves in a Disney heroine, and that’s a powerfully admirable goal – as well as a long-overdue one, given the brand’s still overwhelmingly White majority of characters.
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Then there’s the running time: Two hours and fifteen minutes. The original was an hour twenty-three. The time expansion is such a comically bad decision, I still can’t get my head around it. Nothing little kids like more than sitting still for over two hours! Most recent Disney remakes have kept it at least under the two-hour mark, with the exception of 2017’s “Beauty and the Beast” and 2021’s “Cruella,” both of which were, at least, livelier than this one.
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Somebody needs to throw the mermaid in a briar patch.
Didn't they go see "The Princess and the Frog"?
Or what about “Encanto”, “Reya And The Last Dragon” or “Mulan”?!
Or Moana...
Oh yeah, I forgot about that movie.
Or “Pocahontas”.
Does anyone else see the irony in remaking TLM with a black actress when 95% of black Americans can’t or won’t swim?
“Black children and their moms being able to see themselves in a Disney heroine, and that’s a powerfully admirable goal – as well as a long-overdue one...”
Right, cuz you NEVER see blacks in any roles on TV or in the movies /s
Oh there's Aladdin.
They are like the black folks who complained that they allowed one white guy to be on the Olympic basketball team.
“A lot of ink and pixels have testified to the value of Black children and their moms being able to see themselves in a Disney heroine, and that’s a powerfully admirable goal –“
So come up with one . What’s so hard about it? You’ve got the template of every Disney movie ever made. Don’t appropriate White mythology. What happens next a White male English king being played by one hell of a nasty looking black woman….? Oh….wait…
The characters don’t even look like Disney.
ALL Disney movies turned to drek when they stopped using animators to hand-draw painted cels.
The fact of the matter is there really aren’t many roles for black people that they want to play. In many movies, shows etc. they always look like ‘add ons’ rather than fit the actual scripts. There are exceptions but generally not.
I liked the cartoon movie. See no reason to remake it
“Some people apparently couldn’t handle the audacity of reinventing a cartoon character...”
I dislike it, also. The characters invented in the past were in most cases consistent with the surroundings of their stories, and were developed with an individual personality and appearance. So why reinvent it and change it for a political purpose. It’s artificial.
“Black children and their moms being able to see themselves in a Disney heroine...”
There are heroines of color in many Disney features. Of course the Princess and the Frog, Wish, Little Mermaid TV series Gabriella, X-Men Ororo Munroe, Aida on Broadway, Queen La of Opar From Legend of Tarzan, Shuri from Black Panther, and Sade.
We put too much weight on color. I’m Irish, basically, and I don’t have but one female character to root for and that was from Darby O’Gill and played by Janet Monroe, Katie O’Gill. (And Monroe is British in reality)
Why do we have to place politics in fantasy? It’s far from the truth to begin with. What color was Dumbo? Does it matter?
wy69
The only reason they remake these is to tear down anything white, and replace it.
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