JRPGfan said:
Cobretti2 said:
You can't over correct because of past mistakes, you learn from them and not repeat them. Over compensation just creates a negative effect. The issue with Ariel is like any Gamer who grew up in that time, nostalgia. When you remake something it will always be subject to some argument just like with games. You have to wait long enough for the people to die off before it really becomes a non issue, or just accept there will always be backlash and just ignore it. The biggest problem with Ariel is the media, they went out and found all the reaction videos of black people say shit like "oh may God she is black" and getting excited about, rather then OMG they picked a great actress for the roll. I mean you fuelling a race agenda war there and demeaning the actress, basically implying she got the work cause she's black. It seems to be fuelled mainly by Americans. In 80s 90s 00s, it wasn't a big issue, people didn't seem to make a deal about black actors being in movies etc now every movie seems to be under a public microscope to a point these movies are starting to feel like token gestures to be inclusive. The movies from the 80s 90s 00s, I never felt when watching "oh look here is our token coloured person", for some common sense reason those movie scripts were written in a way that politics of race didn't appear in them and guess what they were enjoyable to watch because those actors did a great job. I didn't have one single thought about a coloured person being out of place. Now we get stupid statements like we made Cleopatra black in a documentary series cause well you know she lived in Africa so she couldn't be white". Lot of scientific evidence based arguments went into that conclusion. It is so hard not to think these new movies are token gestures when they slam it in our heads via media outlets. |
Also the Little mermaid was based on the faerie tale, by H.C Anderson (1805-1875). A danish writer.
orignal text had stuff like :
"They were six beautiful children; but the youngest was the prettiest of them all; her skin was as clear and delicate as a rose-leaf, and her eyes as blue as the deepest sea; but, like all the others, she had no feet, and her body ended in a fish's tail."
Also depictions of mermaids from sailors thoughout time.... basically always depicted them as being fair skinned.
Having a person of colour play the arial, was like "black washing" (if white washing is a term?) a white role.
Also because of the cartoon, if you google Arial, 99% of what shows up is from the cartoon (which is the most popular, searched for item with arial).
Kids grew up on it. Thus everyones "idea" of her, is what the cartoon movie shows.
This is what most people think, when they think arial:
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Who gives a shit. Does every James Bond look exactly the same?
There's nothing wrong with Disney wanting to make like the 4th or 5th Little Mermaid movie they've made a bit different.
Brad Pitt's character here is supposed to be Asian in the book. I don't recall any big outcry or whining about this:
