In case you don't remember, the original animated Disney film was a train wreck of leftist shit that completely stripped the source material of everything that was culturally significant in it.
No longer did the lead become a saint who watched over and interceded for her siblings from heaven, but instead she ascended beyond her nature, like a transhumanist wet dream, leaving behind her penis-towered palace beneath the sea to be married to a vapid billionaire by a priest sporting a boner.
Sure, you may have really fond memories of its catchy tunes and cute sidekicks. That's expected of unthinking children.
So, yes, they race swapped a main character. But before they did that they raped a Christian fairytale of everything that made it good and turned it into trash. It was an entertaining cartoon for kids. It was not a significant part of western white heritage.
No, that's expected of a culture that does not respect existing stories. The culture war we're fighting today is temporary for this reason. If you look at Star Trek, the people that are kids today looking into it will find Nu Trek. The previous series might be in some wiki somewhere, but who cares other than a bunch of nerds?
Their fondness will be for the woke series, and anyone thinking about it will completely ignore Roddenberry's Trek, much like how no one thinks of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid.
I rolled my eyes when I saw it since they have an obsession with race swapping. I have a book of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. I’m going to reread it
I can't waste my time with Pedowood's perpetual obsession with virtual white genocide.
At this point, I would expect them to come out with a race-swapped version of Toy Story where Buzz Lightyear is black (and now gay, cannon); and Woody is the primary antagonist because he wasn't race swapped because he's a clansman cop, and he gets violently murdered and eaten in the end of the movie. The after credits scene probably show an even darker version of Mr. Potato Head singing "Kill The Boer" in full.
Seriously, what else would they even do, make a decent movie?
My expectations literally can't get lower.
I mean, they could try to re-boot Cuties or something, but I wouldn't be surprised, just repulsed.
Most people weren't familiar with the source material.
True. I just commented that the race swap obsession is dumb and the vultures on Facebook attacked me lol.
I guess I don't get into these spats anymore, but frankly I'm mostly offended by the creative abyss that Hollywood appears to have collapsed into. When was the last time they tried making anything novel?
Novelty is overrated.
None of Shakespeare's plays were original. I guess the Merry Wives of Windsor or something. But they did express "what oft was said but ne'er so well expressed".
So there was something novel in his work.
I thought we were talking about novel/original content. If The Little Mermaid does not qualify, Shakespeare will not either. That is what I meant when saying that novelty is overrated.
Was Shakespeare busy making inferior remakes of the most recent popular plays? No? Then your comparison is retarded.
Then you acknowledge that it is not "novelty" or "originality" per se that matters, but quality. Thanks.
Not exactly making an argument for why it is 'bad'. They changed the original story to make it appealing to modern audiences, but that always happens. The difference being that it was appealing to everyone, not just one political faction.
Halle is a succesful actress and singer, she appeals to everyone except racists. If you think PoC people are political you missed the hint when they made Princess and the frog about a black princess. Fyi, mermaids are africans and live in the bottom of the sea, that's two reasons for them to have more melanin
Edit: Downvotes but no counterargument? so much for the "tolerant" right 🤣🤣🤣
Successful singer, sure. You might have even heard of her before this week if you ever listen to R&B. Successful actress? Hardly. She's been in the same Disney child
pornstar pipeline that produced such admirable role models as Miley Cyrus and the Olsen Twins, though her screen presence has been pretty lacking compared to them. She's in a show that appeals to apparently no one and which she's not even the star of. Other than that, not much to speak of. Sure she can sing. I wouldn't say she appeals to everyone though.As far as mermaids being black Africans who need dark skin to live at the bottom of the sea, that's the most laughable thing I've heard all week. Mermaids are indoeuropean myths, with stories and images of them appearing all over the ancient civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean sea. None of those civilizations were black, not even Egypt. Also, sunlight doesn't penetrate the ocean, so things living there don't need melanin to protect themselves from uv exposure. Heck, some deep sea creatures experience so little light that their entire bodies and all their organs are completely transparent.
I don't get the point of the first paragraph. Disney is le bad, but only when it's convenient? I hope you hold the same standard for movies like Peter Pan since they did Bobby dirty. Besides, I don't think the same actors getting most roles is a good thing, but I'll humor you, name a well stablished ginger actress in her early 20s who could be the little Mermaid
Never heard of Mami Wata? Mythology must be padering to PoC, they made it political!
I don't think you understood anything I wrote.
Disney's always bad. I have nothing good to say about them, ever. "Admirable" was completely sarcastic. Halle does not have broad appeal because her work overwhelmingly targets sexualized black teens, and is arguably racist against non blacks. But anyways, I'll humor you. How about Sophie Evans, Colette Lush, or Jeni Ross? I just discovered then with a cursory 5 minute web search. I'm sure Disney has much more potent talent scouting systems than that.
Mami Wata is from nowhere near the Mediterranean and is not a Mermaid? This is the same ignorant shit that takes a mythological fantasy history of ENGLAND and fills it with gay black people.
It's all really a moot point as far as I'm concerned, though, because Disney is gonna Disney, and they've already raped the original story. Arguing about whether Ariel should be black or red is like arguing in 2050 about the newest depiction of Aragorn and Frodo being tri-racial and demisexual rather than a mixed race gay couple, like they were in the 2030 version. Either way, Tolkien's spinning in his grave and you're shitting all over the culture that produced those characters in the first place.
Good, at least you are consistent. Much more than those complaining about black people at least
You could make the same argument you did with Halle 🥱
She's a mermaid, don't forget the cultural exchange that took place in that region
Is it all the sunlight at the bottom of the sea that turned them tanned?
For most children, particularly boys, that's pretty much the only reason any of them enjoyed this movie, 'cause they sure as hell didn't give a crap about this princess and the guy that made her cloaca wet.
One thing I will give Disney slight credit for: they no longer name their movies after the classic stories they claim to be based on. They now just throw a single generic word on the box and call that the title. So now it doesn't feel like a sanitized version of a classic, and no one will mistake something like Frozen as an accurate telling of The Snow Queen (in fact, most won't even know it has anything to do with The Snow Queen at all).
Mermaids are Indoeuropean lore. Mermaids can be Mediterranean, Nordic, Indian or even Kurdish but what the fuck is that shit ?
"Christian fairytail" predates christianity by about 5000 years.
True. But I guess it’s easier to race swap the cartoon. At this point I expect every new project to be black or female. But like you said with all that folklore it would’ve been easy to adapt some other mythology
Black or female that can do no wrong are recipes for shitty stories.
Exactly and then add in the shill media
I guess you make a good point to read the original
I just ordered his stories.
Fair warning: it does have a bittersweet ending.
I vaguely remember. Haven’t read it since early 90s
The Animated film literally kicked off the disney Renaissance, complete with crisp animation, iconic moments, and butchered source material. It paved the way for disney's golden age all the way until Tangled, the last disney classic imo.
None of the remakes have come close to recapturing their predecessors, and the woke shit is just scratching the surface.
I've read all the Grimm Brothers fairy tales. I'm fine with Disney making sanitized versions for kids. I have a problem with this because it's Disney making a deliberate removal of white characters because they're white. It's the intent that pisses me off. Same with LoTR being "deconstructed" by Amazon
I'm much less a fan of the sort of Christian fairy tale that focuses on the premise that the character in question is the soulless other. Give me The Lord of the Rings, not "Ariel tortures herself in pursuit of that which all humans receive as their birthright."
I never saw The Little Mermaid, so I don't have any fond memories of it, nor do I care enough about the new one to be pissed about it.
Turn your back on shitty media and unburden yourself.