Posted on 05/20/2026 8:52:02 PM PDT by Red Badger
Alright, who had Betty Boop for Hollywood's next skin-color swap?
This is reportedly a live-action film, by the way, and Brunson will play Betty Boop as herself.
From Variety:
The film will trace the origin and evolution of Betty Boop through the perspective of her creator, Max Fleischer, examining the relationship between the artist and his creation as he navigates the creative and commercial pressures of building one of the world's first animated icons, particularly as that icon begins to take on a life of its own.
You just know this is gonna be super woke 😂
(I can't wait to learn how Betty Boop was actually a Marxist struggle icon in the fight against white Christofascism!)
I jest, but don't discount the rewriting of history that could happen here. Fleischer is on record telling his artists that he wanted a caricature of flapper-girl Helen Kane, who was known for her "boop-boop-a-doop" routine.
I'll link the Wikipedia source here before the woke editors inevitably change history:
One day [in 1930], Dave Fleischer handed Grim a photograph of singer, Helen Kane and asked him to design a caricature. Fleischer had found a sound-alike, and planned to use her in the upcoming Talkartoon, 'Dizzy Dishes'. Grim exaggerated Kane's wide eyes and rosebud mouth, creating a slightly coarse, but strikingly original design.
An excerpt from film magazine Photoplay in April 1932 compared the two. One month later, Kane sued Fleischer for more than $6 million in today's currency for using her likeness.
Despite this, you will see wokies and black revisionists in the comments painting an entirely different picture:
Factoring into the production of this film for the illusive modern audience is a thing called the Third Generation Curse, where the grandkids of notable public figures ruin the legacy/inheritance of their forebears. Fleischer's grandson is involved in the production of the film:
The 'Abbott Elementary' creator and Emmy winner will develop and star as Betty Boop in a feature film adaptation of the nearly century-old animated icon, Variety has learned exclusively. Brunson's company, Fifth Chance Productions, has partnered with Mark Fleischer, grandson of Betty Boop creator Max Fleischer, and Fleischer Studios on the project, which is currently in development and overseen by Fifth Chance's head of creative affairs, Erin Wehrenberg.
I have to include the Redditors making fun of the critics (you and me), because it made me laugh 😂👇
As we like to say around these parts, it's not just about swapping skin colors or genitals. It's about the purposeful Marxist strategy of hijacking and destroying the stories that unite us as a culture and as a nation.
Anyway, that's your Hollywood update for the day!
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It’s all so tiresome
Fleisher created a white character. He was influenced by a black woman it seems.
??
Which one?
Not Helen Kane.
I like Brunson. She is a funny woman.
I doubt this would have been a movie I watched in the first place. I never liked “Betty Boop.”
At best, this would be a Netflix watch on a snowy Tuesday afternoon. And that means it would never happen.
You are a libtard. Betty Boop is white, always has been, but nice try though
Baby Esther Lee Jones 
Popeye getting him some Boop action.
Which black woman was he influenced by? What was her name?
See post 60.
See post 65.
I never watch any movie that has a black lead or any movie with the woke cast of an asian chick, with a female lead, a token gay white guy, and a black tough guy with maybe a snotty redheaded chick.
Soon a remake of Star Trek: TOS and Mr Spock will be played by a black, Scottie will be played by a black Transgender and James T. Kirk will be played by an Alaskan Native... 😀
Already done................
mebe cast sydney sweeny in black face with polio and a trans friend.
did i miss anything?
It was my understanding that the first Betty Boop was black.
I did....that’s the post I replied to!
Check
...and you are a regular, low-based @ss.
and James T. Kirk will be played by an Alaskan Native...
Well the original was played by a Canadian, so that’s bad enough. ;)
“Illustrating absurdity by being absurd”….that “poster” is worth downloading!
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