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Ariel cast in live action Little Mermaid Movie
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lock2k
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Tesseract
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Papa
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Am I allowed to say I find Colin Kaepernick’s absurdly ostentatious afro ugly?
Papa
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Nymphae
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I can't find the clip right now, but this reminds me of the Louis CK joke where he talks about how saying "N-Word" is a cop out because it's just forcing the people who hear it to say it in their head.
Like if I were to verbalize the thought process of understanding the joke, it would go something like this: "If he's dyslexic, then ginger must...N--WORD!" He's not saying it, but the entire point of the joke is to infer that word was chosen for a black person (or rather incorrectly written and then acted upon by casting)
I have no problem with the joke and as usual NI is being a clown, but I think it's a bit disingenuous to throw it back at NI saying "he didn't say it". Well yeah, but come on.
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Wimbledon
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If Tiana from princess and the frog was white , how do you think people would react? lol
Legitimate question here.
I don't care about disney films, nor have i seen any of the live action atrocities but the double standard and pandering by disney is getting ridiculous.
Just cast a red head, white chick. The world won't end from casting the correct choice.
Legitimate question here.
I don't care about disney films, nor have i seen any of the live action atrocities but the double standard and pandering by disney is getting ridiculous.
Just cast a red head, white chick. The world won't end from casting the correct choice.
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guggnichso
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The science of mermaids.
Hold your horses, this dude has it all figured out
Look, I won’t ask you about your stance on global climate change, I‘m not so asinine, but I‘ll ask you one thing:
Do you know the original Andersen’s original story and how Disney actually americanized and bent and re-shaped it?
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Javthusiast
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To take from another popular thread in off topic today.
Simply put Belle Delphine in a red wig and let her be Ariel, lmao.
Simply put Belle Delphine in a red wig and let her be Ariel, lmao.
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TGO
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Well the original story The Frog Prince she was white and Disney's rendition changed it up and I think everyone enjoyed their version of it.
I don't think I could see Tiana as a white girl, just like I couldn't see Ariel as a Black girl
Ironically who they cast for Ariel would be a perfect fit for Tiana
Funny enough
Question thou.
This is obviously gonna follow the original Cartoon to some degree.
And Melissa Mccarthy is in it.
Are we gonna see Melissa turn into a Black Girl?
DeafTourette
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No, that's cultural appropriation!
As punishment, you must now bow down and subjugate yourself to my future wife and become her bro-maiden.
lock2k
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He is an ugly mofo, with that hair or not. It's better to embrace it. lol
ExpandKong
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Hulk_Smash
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I told my Disney-loving daughters (10 yrs old and 8 yrs) who have seen every Disney remake in the theater about The Little Mermaid and they got all excited.
I then asked them if they cast a black girl as Ariel what would they think. They paused, noses scrunched up, scratching their heads, and basically said, “Why?” “That doesn’t seem right.” “But Ariel is a red head.” Then I showed them her picture and now they don’t want to go see it.
I hope Disney has a plan to market to just blacks and progressives. Because I have a feeling a lot of white people are going to sit this one out.
I then asked them if they cast a black girl as Ariel what would they think. They paused, noses scrunched up, scratching their heads, and basically said, “Why?” “That doesn’t seem right.” “But Ariel is a red head.” Then I showed them her picture and now they don’t want to go see it.
I hope Disney has a plan to market to just blacks and progressives. Because I have a feeling a lot of white people are going to sit this one out.
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DeafTourette
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Every time someone says the bolded, that turns out not to be true.
Javthusiast
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Billy Dee Williams was Harvey Dent, Halle Barry Catwoman.
We also had Bane go from hispanic to white Tom Hardy.
lock2k
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I don't even think that's an issue, the race thing, I think people are going to watch it regardless. I know my daughter doesn't care about the color of any protagonist, she just likes characters who are charismatic to her (she loves Doc McStuffins who looks entirely different to her). But the issue, here, is that it is purely a virtual signaling thing from Disney. The whole reason is to "show these retrogrades that they are wrong, we are woke as fuck" and stuff like that. This is what is really annoying.
Hell, they could make an entirely new friend for Ariel as a black mermaid, everyone would be cool with that.
One thing I gotta give them though... they are being talked about, a lot, the strategy pays off.
Generic
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These characters weren't popular, maybe with the exception of Catwoman.
WinterIsComing
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Michael Clarke Duncan as Kingpin?
Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury?
Generic
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They weren't popular outside of comic book fandoms.
WinterIsComing
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Lawrence Fishburn as Perry White, who had always been played by white actors. Not a lead character, but even if people aren't that much into comics, if they saw previous Superman movies, there was a white P.W.
Michael B Jordan as Johnny Storm in that F4 movie i'll never watch lol
Hulk_Smash
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The new Annie bombed. They replaced the white red head lead with a black girl and it failed hard at the box office.
The new Ghostbusters bombed hard.
The new Ocean’s bombed hard.
The new Karate Kid bombed hard.
The new Fant4stic bombed hard.
If it were true that messing around with the formula for SJW reasons doesn’t effect the box office, then we’d see black Ariel falling in love with Chinese Princess Erica.
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Hulk_Smash
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MCD was picked for his size. And the fact he can act.
SLJ as fury is comic book canon. sort of.
Whitesnake
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A big reason it still has power is because people like you treat it like some sort of dark incantation that will summon forth an eldricth spectre the moment it is uttered.
Joking about it gives it less power, not more.
Birdo
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It's more the hypocrisy that people don't like.
Disney made sure to keep the races all authentic in their other remakes, but they suddenly decided to throw that out of the window when it came to a white character.
Tesseract
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whatever dude, casting should try to stick to source material wherever possible
the witcher is all fucked up because some dopes decided to cast a bunch of cum chumps
WinterIsComing
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I know, not complaining about the MCD choice, just giving examples of race swap. SLJ is sort of canon... now, not when he first showed up
Javthusiast
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Idris for King Triton.
Hulk_Smash
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I know, not complaining about the MCD choice, just giving examples of race swap. SLJ is sort of canon... now, not when he first showed up
Yes he was. He was black in the Ultimate Avengers comic. He was even drawn to look like SLJ
kunonabi
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Not even close to the first time.
DeafTourette
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I know, not complaining about the MCD choice, just giving examples of race swap. SLJ is sort of canon... now, not when he first showed up
Yes, when he first showed up. Because it was in the ultimate line before they ever cast him.
What hypocrisy is there of a mermaid being depicted by a black girl? Again, there is no authenticity, she could have been orange had Glen Keane wanted to. He based her off Alyssa Milano. The original story makes no mention of her complexion. Disney's Little Mermaid is not the original story. Thus in another adaptation, Ariel can be based on whoever they decide, race not a factor.
I mean, Vanessa Williams played Calypso in the Odyssey miniseries. Calypso is a nymph. A made up mythological creature. Should we be upset because in paintings she was portrayed as having fair skin?
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Birdo
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Read it, have you?
Literally every depiction of her since the 1800's has her as a pale skinned woman. From statues, to classical artwork.
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Vicetrailia
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I'm sure they will one day.
And.....?
They can do whatever they want with their movies, they don't have to do anything consistent just because you want them to.
This is yet another internet man storm to weather, and it'll all be fine. I'm not gonna watch the movie, but it's really not a big deal. It's just reactive whining, you'll get over it.
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Schrödinger's cat
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Post #485 in this thread.
Had you read this thread with a shred of sincerity you wouldn't be asking that question.
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Birdo
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And people are free to criticize it.
Hans Christian Andersen described her complexion as clear and delicate as a rose petal...Read it, have you?
Literally every depiction of her since the 1800's has her as a pale skinned woman. From statues, to classical artwork.
DeafTourette
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Out of all of those, I liked 2 of them. Haven't seen the new Ocean's yet (which is set in the same universe, from what I've heard). But Ghostbusters? Wasn't funny and the story wasn't good. Fan4tastic? Wasn't good. Annie? I liked it but it didn't have the charm of the original and Jamie Foxx was horribly miscast. Karate Kid? It had a completely different story and not enough Jackie Chan kicking butt... Plus it wasn't believable seeing Jaden Smith doing any Martial arts (didn't he have a stunt double for most of the fights?)
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Rentahamster
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I didn't realize Hermione wasn't white anymore what a revelation.
Birdo
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Girl looks like she has soft, clear and delicate skin. Good casting that's faithful to the original work!!Well, there you have it
Stitch
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Birdo
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TGO
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Really?
“clear and delicate as a rose petal”with “eyes as blue as the deepest sea”
They also had a problem with Ariel's red hair but the creator was insistent on it.
Can't decide
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Disney's cast for the next 101 Dalmatians remake.
