Posted on 03/26/2023 7:52:53 PM PDT by Rummyfan
As is typical of Disney, a live-action remake of a classic animated film cannot simply be a faithful adaptation. Instead, they deem it necessary to adjust the original material to appeal to current sensibilities and to make casting less white. The latest example is the new live-action/CGI remake of The Little Mermaid, which has black actress Halle Bailey playing the title character.
As expected, there were Disney purists who love the classic 1989 animated film who were no doubt hoping for a more faithful adaption of the original, complete with the classic look of Ariel, the mermaid—but were taken aback by the race-swapping of the main character. On the other hand, I wasn’t bothered by Bailey’s casting at all—probably because I was never a massive fan of the original—and upon seeing the trailer, it was evident that she has exceptional talent and was a good fit for the role. But let’s not pretend that race wasn’t a factor in her casting.
This is what Disney does.
For example, in the Lady and the Tramp remake, the characters Jim Dear and Darling were depicted as an interracial couple, even though such marriages were illegal in the time and place where the story takes place. Was it worth making the film more diverse by whitewashing the institutionalized racism that once existed in our country?
The remake of the classic Pinocchio also altered the character of the Blue Fairy. Although the original Disney version of the fairy was white with long blonde hair, the remake featured a black woman in the role—which may not have been so jarring to so many people had she not also had a shaved head.
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Isn’t casting Halle Berry, who is pushing 60, as a teenager an example of cultural appropriation?
Disney should have to cast an actual teenage mermaid.
Biden: “Did you say TEEN mermaid?”
That is if they didn’t get a kick out of it when Cheech and Chong did it. ;)
Are you suggesting that Halle Berry isn't "in her prime"?
LOL! Your post made me laugh!
Malcolm X starring Vin Diesel.
I heard Disney was making a new movie about a transgender whale.
It’s called “Maybe Dick”
It is my understanding that Disney has already worked up a story board for Carbon Black and the Seven Trannies.
And rename it to Gayzan
This guy is good! He is getting a million views per video. He can make a million per year via Tube monetization, issuing at his frequency.
not also had a shaved head.
I would have gone more Jamaican with dreads...
I guess Pinocchio could be ebony instead of white pine...
I get it...its all fiction and its their storylines for the most part [Pinocchio was an old tale but one few ever heard of until Disney]. But these “remakes are anything but “inclusive”. They are meant to denigrate and marginalize white people. Its meant to be punitive and feed a general unease.
Parents would be wise to say “NO” in droves.
Perhaps they should put a blue-eyed blond on the Aunt Jemima pancake products...
A “diversity” hire..
Until they cast the Black Panther as a white South African, I’m not interested in Woke Disney.
What would be REALLY interesting would be an adoption of Tarzan from the original books.
Burroughs’ Tarzan had the son of aristocrats teaching himself to read from primers in his late parents’ hut in the jungle.
Rather than the “Me Tarzan, you Jane” of the 1930s movies, the book Tarzan is a literate aristocrat. The thesis of the book is that you can put a British nobleman into the jungle, have him raised by apes, and he will still turn into a gentleman.
The only “real” Wakanda, a technologically advanced outpost in sub-Saharan Africa, was South Africa during the white-rule years.
For true “diversity” they need to put a blue- eyed blond on the”Aunt Jemima” pancake products!
Get rid of that stupid “Pearl Milling Company”
They remade That Darn Cat years ago w/out a Siamese cat, and it was a horrible mess.
I wonder what they have against Siamese cats.
That is the only way this crap will stop. A very risky great producer will have to hire white actors for traditional black characters. Maybe then Americans will see how absurd things have become.
LOL! Love the moniker.
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