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.
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.