psychicscubadiver said:
I had not seen the side-by-side. So he's tall and wide. That provides even less reason to assume he's fat. Look at the people that win strength contests. It's not the dudes with pretty sculpted muscles, it's guys that look more like Maui. Just as a reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerlifting Chuckle, seriously their physical attributes are the only things you care about? Disney re-writes significant amounts of the original material, including turning Hades (a generally good god in the Greek pantheon) into a backstabbing devil, completely altering the villain and ending of the Hunchback, and turning the genie of Aladdin into a wise-cracking comedian. Don't get me wrong, I like their movies, but pretending like they've never done this before, or that Maui being 'fat' is somehow the worst sacrilige to the original material that they've ever perpetrated is ridiculous. |
Of course not. But in this case we are talking about the physical representation of characters, not the character's personality or the story. And the characters raised in the previous list simply serve to highlight the difference here. Disney was visually consistent with historical imagery with those character, whereas in the case of Maui Disney is reflecting the modern physical presentation of one of the negative health outcomes of colonisation and exposure to modern western diets.
There is no assuming he's fat. He is fat. Just because those powerlifters can lift heavy weights doesn't make them not fat. It just makes it really unwise to call them fat to their face.
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