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‘Little Mermaid’ Director Says Disney Needs ‘Course Correction’ From Woke Message
New York Post ^ | May 26, 2024

Posted on 05/26/2024 11:18:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Legendary Disney filmmaker John Musker called out The Walt Disney Company for putting political messages ahead of story in its recent films.

Musker, who co-directed some of the studio’s most popular films in recent decades, like “The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin” and “Moana,” commented on the state of Disney in a recent interview, saying the company needs to steer away from pushing a woke message and focus on characters and story above all.

“I think they need to do a course correction a bit in terms of putting the message secondary, behind entertainment and compelling story and engaging characters,” Musker told Spanish outlet El País while at the Animayo International Summit in Gran Canaria last week.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: disney; littlemermaid; woke

1 posted on 05/26/2024 11:18:29 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe Disney should stop grooming and transing the kids too?


2 posted on 05/26/2024 11:20:16 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: nickcarraway

No Shiite.


3 posted on 05/26/2024 11:23:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: nickcarraway

Focus on characters and story. What a concept.


4 posted on 05/26/2024 11:23:41 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: nickcarraway
Maybe in the future the Walt Disney company will have to file a Chapter 11 notice?
5 posted on 05/26/2024 11:27:28 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: All

Disney is more “woke” than ever. One beloved Walt Disney legacy after another is being turned into politicized DEI dreck that has fans hysterically laughing and with-holding their money from whacked-out neo-Disney at the same time.


LAUGH BREAK Disney’s “long-awaited” live-action revamp of Walt Disney’s beloved tale of “Snow White” has been delayed til 2025.

According to The Hollywood Reporter last October, Disney has decided to push back the release date for its redo of the Walt Disney classic.....now known as “Snow Woke.”

The delay is no doubt in response to the drubbing Disney got when they released images of Snow White alongside her reconstructed dwarf pals.

While the lead actor looked more or less as expected, her seven companions all appeared to be portraying the DEI’ed seven dwarfs as a racially and physically diverse group of people, as opposed to a septet of people with dwarfism.

At the time, Disney scurried to emphasize to Vanity Fair that while those early photos were from Snow White’s set, they were not “official,” and depicted “stand-ins” for some cast members.

Obviously, set photos aren’t always indicative of how a movie turns out, but does seem to indicate that the new live-action Snow White is not going to take notes from the beloved 1937 Walt Disney film.

But given the approach Disney’s taken to updating its other remakes, it wouldn’t be at all surprising to see the new Snow Woke’s dwarfs looking like tricky woke cuties...... not like the story that made them famous.

It also did not help when Snow Woke Disney star, Rachel Ziegler (Rachel who?), made some deplorable feminist-facist statements about her “woke” movie character.


6 posted on 05/26/2024 11:31:32 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: nickcarraway

The WDC is not going to listen to him. They are so committed to forcing, “The Message,” down the public’s throat that they think that the worst they’ll get a pyrrhic victor from this.

The best thing people can do is what they have been doing...walking away. Don’t watch any of their movies at the box office or stream them (or watch on TV), don’t attend their theme parks, and don’t buy any of their merch. Cut them completely off from your hard-earned dollars.


7 posted on 05/26/2024 11:41:22 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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No more entertainment it’s just the money losing message now until they’re out of money


8 posted on 05/26/2024 11:43:03 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: nickcarraway
‘Little Mermaid’ Director Says Disney Needs ‘Course Correction’ From Woke Message

In other news, legendary Disney filmmaker John Musker will no longer be working on Disney films and is said to be considering suicide (even though he has publicly proclaimed that he isn't suicidal).

9 posted on 05/26/2024 12:01:46 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: Liz

Has the release been pushed back to 2026 or later yet? We’re getting into that time of the year when a specific date in 2025 should already be announced, if it’s actually going to happen.


10 posted on 05/26/2024 12:06:19 PM PDT by Bernard (“God's cruelest punishment is to let you reap what you sow.”)
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To: nickcarraway

“I think they need to do a course correction a bit in terms of putting the message secondary,


just rearranging the furniture..................


11 posted on 05/26/2024 12:08:26 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Bernard

Hah......good question.

My guess is they dumped it to avoid more bad press.


12 posted on 05/26/2024 12:22:45 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: RoosterRedux

Will probably “shoot himself twice”......in the back of his head.


13 posted on 05/26/2024 12:24:26 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: KC_Conspirator

I agree 💯.


14 posted on 05/26/2024 12:30:30 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Bernard

And hopefully it avoids theaters and goes straight to Disney plus.


15 posted on 05/26/2024 12:31:20 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway

They have guys dressed as women at the parks greeting kids.
Gay characters in every movie and tv show.
They have this and wonder why they lose billions!....

Disney’s Hulu to Stream Gay Dating Reality Show ‘I Kissed a Boy’ for Pride Month
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/05/26/disneys-hulu-to-stream-gay-dating-reality-show-i-kissed-a-boy-for-pride-month/


16 posted on 05/26/2024 2:00:49 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Liz
Disney is completely bereft of actual talent, and has an extremely limited ability to do anything creative to speak of. Of course, Disney has borrowed very heavily from the public domain throughout their entire history. This really made their hard push towards perpetual copyright to be a particularly weird position to take (IMO) since they benefited so massively from it.

At this point I would really love to see Disney file for bankruptcy.

17 posted on 05/26/2024 3:26:04 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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