All of these Disney remakes are ass anyway
No, because Aladdin is Arabic and Ariel is a fantastical creature called a mermaid. One has some basis in reality, and the other is Make believe.So are you ok if they made Aladdin white looking instead of how he looked in the animated film?
I feel like you're missing the point though. Ariel, the mermaid is fantasy, with no basis in reality. Therefore I feel she can be whatever color they want her to be. they can make her rainbow colored for all I care.Yes, of course. I'm not "outraged" or anywhere near as irked as when George changed the SW OT and then tried to deny anyone from ever watching the originals again. I thought that Will Smith Genie was a terrible decision as well and that's a big reason I passed on watching the new Aladdin despite the animated version being my absolute favorite of all post-50's Disney cartoons.
If you end up loving "Black Ariel" then I won't have the slightest problem with that. But you're right, I don't like these types of changes, especially when it's nothing more than political pandering. The only time I'm in favor of characters' races changing in a remake is when the story is re-localized. It would have been silly to have had a Japanese cast for A Fistful of Dollars just because it was a remake of Yojimbo. Likewise The Ring or Godzilla 2014. I'm fine with a change of race if there is an accompanying change of geography BUT they better at least rename all the main characters (like they did with the three films I just mentioned.)
So if they want some underwater Wakanda starring Ebony the black fish girl that otherwise followed the same general story of The Little Mermaid then fine. Hayao Miyazaki did exactly that with Ponyo and I love that film so obviously I'm not against "change." I'm simply against change that is poorly done or done for the wrong reasons.
Disney remakes are ass
I feel like you're missing the point though. Ariel, the mermaid is fantasy, with no basis in reality. Therefore I feel she can be whatever color they want her to be. they can make her rainbow colored for all I care.
No, because Aladdin is Arabic and Ariel is a fantastical creature called a mermaid. One has some basis in reality, and the other is Make believe.
So you'd be fine if "Ariel the Mermaid" was a bald Japanese man with a propeller for a tail? Ariel is a white redheaded girl with a fish tail. If you say that well the fish tail is sacred but not her skin color then I could just throw the same defense right back at you that "mermaids are fantasy so it doesn't matter what her tail is made out of." Wouldn't you have to agree?
And yes, I'd think it was just as silly if she was rainbow colored. I'm just now curious as to where you draw your very arbitrary line (because it really is) as to what can and cannot be changed when it comes to retelling a classic fantasy story or portraying a classic fantasy character.
So are you ok if they made Aladdin white looking instead of how he looked in the animated film?
But a mermaid is defined as a half human with a fish like tail. But if you can find where it says a mermaid must be white, then I guess you'll have a point. As for a bald Asian man? Well, Asian fine, but by definition a mermaid is female. A merman can be bald and Asian, won't hurt my feelings.
Your point is like saying, a unicorn can therefore have no legs and be snake like, and still be a unicorn. I'm simply saying the unicorn can have different color hair, and still be a unicorn.
Let's be honest. Disney's Never doing a Live Action version of the Princess and the Frog. Their first and only black princess who spends a good amount of the movie as a frog.
Also the movie may have lost them some money judging from this box-office.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=princessandthefrog.htm
This obviously upsets you. I'm just going to back off. I personally don't really care what color she is. I care about how she acts, and if she sings, how well she does that.Are you really going to continue to switch the name "Ariel" with "a mermaid" as if people are saying that literally every mermaid in folklore has to be white with red hair? No one is saying "a mermaid" except you my friend. We're all talking about Ariel. Ariel is white with red hair. Those features are as much a part of her as her being "a mermaid" is.
Ariel is white. Lando is black. Do ALL mermaids have to be white? No. Do ALL humans in space movies have to be black? No. But those two fantasy icons have established looks/identities which includes their race/skin color.
This obviously upsets you.
I'm just going to back off. I personally don't really care what color she is. I care about how she acts, and if she sings, how well she does that.
Why was this Iconic hoe playing Evita?
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