Making the new live action Little Mermaid watchable.
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Mary Poppins remake. This time in da hood.
Mary'd be strapped.
what, you thought i'd come to the hood with just an umbrella?
Mary Poppins + Harlem Nights + Dirty Harry let's do it
Dirty Mary.
Part of me wants this just to see the retards crying about blackface due to the chimney sweeps because I know they're that retarded the connection will be made.
The original story, The Little Mermaid, is by Hans Christian Andersen. It's based on Danish folklore. Andersen described Ariel as having blue eyes and white skin (I can't find any info on her hair color). Here's the story.
Passage describing her skin color:
Passage describing her eye color:
There are lots of myths and folklore about sea creatures and mermaids in the Middle East, Africa, and India. Disney could've pulled from any of them. They're not. They're intentionally changing a white character to black.
Are there? Why have I never heard about any of them? Does Africa really have folklore?
This is the crux of their problem. Low IQ peoples never wrote anything nearly as engaging as European literature. They mainly didn't even write anything at all.
So you can't easily make movies about African folklore, because the lore they have is at the level of European fables, it doesn't translate well to movies just like how you wouldn't want to make a "hare and the rabbit" movie.
To use the terms of woke faggots: I'm here for this.
I wonder whose model they used. If they do the whole movie I might have to watch out of curiosity/admiration.
I think the more grievous issue, is that of making this live action. Animation is used to help make unrealistic plots and actions more acceptable. It's why the Avatar movie was an uncanny valley of nightmare fuel.
Did the movie Splash work? Yagh sure, for the most part, for a romantic comedy. But you need to show that fish body as little as possible. Because lets face it people, fish people is silly cartoon nonsense. And per usual, this live action remake will in no way stand up to the original.
I was about to ask you which one you meant, but then I realized it doesn't matter; this principle applies to both.
The funny thing is also about those two movies: either left the impression of penis hair or none at all in the general Zeitgeist. Show me ANYONE talking about either movie. On occasion you will hear people mentioning Shamalans atrocity but I have yet to hear anyone talk about the one with the blue aliens.
There are two Avatar movies?
There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
You're talking about the "uncanny valley" phenomenon, aren't you?
And I agree, some things are meant for traditional animation.
CGI will eventually look old. Animation never will.
I'm also touching base on the concept of "the picture plane". Which allows more abstract images to be accepted on the merits of their concepts, and not their abilities to look realistic.
Never heard of that one, interesting. Thank you.
I recently saw Snow White again, old as fuck and still an amazing movie with so much love behind it. I doubt we will have people talk positively about most of those live action remakes in 20odd years. They already know how to make something remembered for decades to come, yet they choose to date themselves by making it cgi live action which will look like shit in a couple years at best.
One...frame...at a time.
And yet so incredibly smooth.
The traditional ways are still the best.
This is the way.
I generally think "AI" is a meme, and an artificial one at that, but widespread use like this would be hilarious.
I was gonna try my hands at ebsynth and trying to "paint over" Death with matching frames from the comics. But this, this is leaps and bounds better than anything I can accomplish.
They should do Sandman while they're at it. And dubb over woke narrative with poop sounds.
"Waiting for mods to fix the game" except for movies.
My dream of having an all Chris Tucker Rush Hour is slowly drawing closer
lol
That is all.
L'epic based
Even if it wasn't woke, the live action will never replace Renaissance era disney animation.
Static Shock John Stewart Mari Jiwe McCabe- Vixen Cyborg Mr Terrific
Plenty of black characters this old white man would watch in a good movie
race swapping is just lazy and racist in it self
https://nitter.it/vandalibm/status/1569383039892873219
They do this anyway, and will always do this regardless of what you do or how you respond.
I'll personally ignore both versions of the movie but I'm glad that there are people out there doing stuff like this, because fuck the woke racists who've completely ruined all of the forms of entertainment that I enjoy.
What's bad about it?
OH SHIT NOT THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS WEBSITES!!
You trotted this one out with a little too much confidence. "They accuse me of bad things, so I better behave myself extremely well and never slip up" is your version - which acts like the accusations of bad behaviour are avoidable, logical or made in good faith, rather than a single-minded attempt to gain behavioural control over you, which you happily grant. Time to join the galaxy brains, my friend.
And its fucking hilarious.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with disliking propaganda that takes the stories of some people and replaces those people with others.
It would be equally disgusting to take some African tale and cast a white in the lead.
They will do that anyway. What kind of naive rock have you lived under where you think they need real, solid evidence to create narratives and boogeyman from?
You've opened by assuming my intents. Already a bad start to be wildly off by that far. Especially as you keep doing it all the way through. I brought no race or memes up, I only called your foundational statement ignorant.
This may be hard for you to understand, considering you went off on a wild tangent with no provocation, but people can disagree with your ideas without being the unhinged racist strawman you constructed.
Yes, and the other side has proven time and time again it can just make up stories wholesale to sell their products and do it quite successfully. It doesn't matter what we provide, if they are lacking in the necessary reality than a completely fabrication is more than enough for their purposes. Even when its found to be a fabrication, its simply buried and baited away from to sell the new one. Their "hearts and minds" are fickle and easily manipulated. Especially to an enemy who has not only mastered manipulating them without care for the damage or basic ethics/morals, but has control of all the most powerful weapons.
This implies its only done because they are accused of it. Which is simplifying the motives down considerably and I think loses sight of a lot.
In this case specifically, someone could prefer the white version for entirely non-racist reasons. Stickler for adaptational accuracy, the less weird looking of the actress' eyes, the improved color aesthetic from the more clashing of white/red vs blue instead of brown/brown on blue. None of those are anti-black or from a place of hate really, but can draw people to this option regardless. The color one is my personal beef, because christ its so washed out and plain looking.
There is also the simple reversal of "you race swapped it in the first place, doing it back is only fair." Which is what I wager this instance is more than any racism itself.
I'm not a man for optics, simply because I've been in this "culture war" for nearing three decades now and seen more ground lost to trying to keep up the PR facade than actually doing anything else.
And don't worry about the misstep, its easy to do when you get engaged in a mass argument.
Well yes, but we've moved on from the old fable type source. Now Disney's The Little Mermaid is the source material to people for this movie.
That's not even on people either. Disney isn't redoing it from the original material to make a "similar but different" version (like Mulan tried to do), this is them adapting their own work again. So accuracy to source is a valid complaint.
I still disagree on point 1, but that's just our worldviews not being congruent and we won't come to an agreement there.
I do agree on 2, people need to stop hate watching garbage. Its especially bad because they prop up an entire industry of clickbait outrage farmers who watch it and obsessively talk about it. I liked a lot of people in the "Fandom Menace" at first, but they are an example of why this kind of thing is a problem and is being used against us to monetize our outrage.
Let's be serious here. Nothing discussed here will make a big difference in the culture war. Nobody here is winning the minds of normies. This is an echo chamber like every other online community. If you want to make a difference, you need to engage with people IRL.
The enemy doesn't care what we do, they'll target anyone who doesn't actively support their cause. The AI modification of a movie is interesting and funny, but won't make any difference either way. The enemy will accuse their opposition of being racists no matter what they do.
I just hate black people (niggers).
It's just funny, and it needs no justification nor explanation beyond that.
If other people having fun with some modern blackwash fish-girl remake creeps up your ass so bad, it's time to touch grass.