re: 'The Little Mermaid' Official Trailer | Disney

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Disney have no originality

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Lol. I'm no Disney apologist, but you do realize most of their content was derived from very old fairy tales, right?

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but also changed her iconic fire red hair to brown with a slight red tint. And gave her dreads on top of that.

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This is the part that does bother me. Im fine with her having dreads. But I would have much preferred if they gave her that fire red color. I get the feel they wanted a more natural realistic color, but I don't think that was a good idea.

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They seem to delight in provoking a response from fans of the original material.

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this is what this ALL boils down to.

1. antagonize your historic (white) fanbase
2. rile up the woke idiots
3. create a fake controversy for publicity
4. hope like hell that the controversy publicity translates to ticket sales to make a profit before everyone realizes the content is pretty average, and notably worse than the original

I mean I guess it's a business model that works

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Think they have the balls?

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Disney has already announced that Snow white will be played by Colombian-American actress Rachel Zegler, who starred as Maria in the recent West Side Story remake.

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Melissa McCarthy might end up being the most spot on casting decision.

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She was the only part of that trailer that looked good. The rest of it looked like shite.

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Lol. I'm no Disney apologist, but you do realize most of their content was derived from very old fairy tales, right?

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Yes I am fully aware. But retelling classical stories built with their own original songs and characters is more creative than take those exact same stories and rebranding it with CGI and actors.

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what they have done to my boy Sebastian

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Where the frick is Flounder

She’s pretty, but it’s just weird and takes you out of it that that is Ariel. Every time they showed her i wasn’t thinking about the trailer/story I was thinking “that’s who they chose? Lol.”

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Uh, of course it is. Being white is a "central premise" of the little mermaid in that in every visual telling of said story, the FICTIONAL character is white just as the FICTIONAL characters of Blade and Black Panther are black. But one is an ok target to race change and the others are, undeniably, not. It's no big deal, ultimately, but it's absolutely apples to apples. Both are fictional characters. Of course, even if they aren't fictional, Hollywood will still do what it does, like with Hamilton. I seriously doubt we will get a "reimagining" of Harriet Tubman's story starring an asian actress.

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It feels like you're intentionally missing the point here. Being white isn't the premise of Ariel's character....largely because she's half fish after all. Her being portrayed as white was only done because that tends to be the "default" portrayal for most western stories, but beyond that there is nothing about Ariel's story that requires her to be white or any specific race for that matter. She can be white, black, asian, native, etc. and nothing about her story has to change. Where as the character of Black Panther and Blade are explicitly black stories written to describe black experiences. Everything from their character origins, their stories, how they interact in society is all written with the backdrop of being black. Same is true of characters like Steve Rogers, Magneto, or Charles Xavier. Changing their race would require changing their origins and major points of their story (e.g., a black person would have never been presented as the face of the US Army in 1940 for Rogers and Jewish people in concentration camps were primarily white eastern European in origin).

With regards to Hamilton....it's not meant to be a history play. It's a reimagining for the purposes of telling a broader story about race and immigration. It isn't nor is it intended to be a biopic of the actual Hamilton. Even still, white people have been cast as people of color from real life and fiction for decades and I doubt you cared.

Harriet Tubman was a real person whose entire story is about being a former slave and helping other black people escape slavery. Her race is central to every story one would tell about her. Even with that in mind, there was a legitimate push by a hollywood producer to cast Julia Roberts in a HT movie.