Idiots complaining about Moana

[psychicscubadiver]

binary solo said:

psychicscubadiver said:

LOL! Have you never seen Heracles and compared it to the actual myths? 

Or the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the actual book?

Or Aladdin and the original folklore?

This is nothing new from Disney. They will take something from mythology/folklore/literature and put their own spin on it. Also, anyone seeing Maui and thinking 'obese' is looking to get offended. The dude is short and wide, but he looks built as hell, not fat.

If Maui is short, does that mean Moana is a midget?

So is Heracles not a hot, muscly dude in Greek Mythology? Pretty sure he is.

Disney's visual portrayal of the Hunchback is pretty consistent with every visual portrayal of him in popular entertainment.

Is Aladdin not a poor young Arabian man? (It's also apparently not one of the official tales from 1001 Arabian Nights, could have been totally made up by a French dude).

Fact is, all those examples you cite of Disney artistic licence are still largely based on the physical imagery of the original character. 

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.