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re: Zendaya Reportedly Offered The Lead Role In Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
Posted on 8/23/18 at 9:26 am to LouisianaLonghorn
Posted on 8/23/18 at 9:26 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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I'm praying that they don't completely ruin The Lion King.
Favreau will not screw it up
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Posted on 8/23/18 at 9:27 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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praying that they don't completely ruin The Lion King
Of all the remakes this one doesn’t make sense to me. There are no humans so it’s not really a “live action” remake in the least bit. The only thing they can do with this film is make money and ruin the original. There’s nothing to gain other than CGI updates. It was a perfect film.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 9:28 am to meeple
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Of all the remakes this one doesn’t make sense to me. There are no humans so it’s not really a “live action” remake in the least bit. The only thing they can do with this film is make money and ruin the original. There’s nothing to gain other than CGI updates. It was a perfect film.
agreed. oh well.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 9:37 am to meeple
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Of all the remakes this one doesn’t make sense to me. There are no humans so it’s not really a “live action” remake in the least bit. The only thing they can do with this film is make money and ruin the original. There’s nothing to gain other than CGI updates. It was a perfect film.
Same can be said of Dumbo. I was disappointed that they re-cast the voices of all of the Lion King characters except for James Earl Jones. It makes sense that Matthew Broderick wouldn't voice Simba, but what's wrong with having Jeremy Irons voice Scar? He is white, so there's that....
Posted on 8/23/18 at 9:47 am to LouisianaLonghorn
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Same can be said of Dumbo.
There are humans in Dumbo. That's why Lion King makes no sense.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 10:11 am to bamafan1001
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but this has gotten obnoxious redoing movies with white actors and replacing them with black ones. Blacks are 13% of the US population
The only thing obnoxious is the people who constantly bitch about it like it matters. Why do you care about the color of an actor's skin. It has no bearing on anything in this movie considering the part is playing a damned mythological creature.
If she's the best actor for the part then by all means cast her. Yet here you are getting upset because the shade they used in a damned animated movie 27 years ago (which again had no bearing on the story whatsoever) is different than the shade of the actual person playing the part.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 10:17 am to mindbreaker
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Yet here you are getting upset because the shade they used in a damned animated movie 27 years ago (which again had no bearing on the story whatsoever) is different than the shade of the actual person playing the part.
No kidding
Posted on 8/23/18 at 10:18 am to RLDSC FAN
Because nothing says Hans Christian Anderson and Scandinavian folklore like Zendaya!
Posted on 8/23/18 at 11:42 am to mindbreaker
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Why do you care about the color of an actor's skin.
Why does Disney?
It’s annoyingly obtuse of you to say this kind of thing is a matter of white people being overly concerned with race, when it’s just a reaction to the unmistakable effort by studios to make movies less white.
Disney should have to justify their unnatural agenda; we shouldn’t have to justify our natural reactions.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 11:51 am to uway
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It’s annoyingly obtuse of you to say this kind of thing is a matter of white people being overly concerned with race, when it’s just a reaction to the unmistakable effort by studios to make movies less white.
Disney should have to justify their unnatural agenda; we shouldn’t have to justify our natural reactions.
So in essence you beef isn't against the color of a person skin. It's with this agenda you think a corporation has you have no proof actually exists beyond mere speculation and your personal bias. Fair enough.
seriously "Unnatural" agenda so anything unwhite is unnatural? And that is "Natural" to dislike it. You said it there chief not me.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 12:00 pm to uway
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Why does Disney? It’s annoyingly obtuse of you to say this kind of thing is a matter of white people being overly concerned with race, when it’s just a reaction to the unmistakable effort by studios to make movies less white. Disney should have to justify their unnatural agenda; we shouldn’t have to justify our natural reactions.
Zendaya has shown she can handle a musical role. Would you rather them do another Belle and cast a pretty but terrible singing white girl?
She did well in Greatest Showman, she has shown she can handle the role and is a big name. Who would you cast?
This post was edited on 8/23/18 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 8/23/18 at 12:05 pm to uway
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It’s annoyingly obtuse of you to say this kind of thing is a matter of white people being overly concerned with race, when it’s just a reaction to the unmistakable effort by studios to make movies less white.
They couldn't possibly be thinking of casting her b/c she's very popular with people in her age range that this film is being made for. It has nothing to do with her already having a hit show on the Disney Channel or the fact that she has singles that have gone platinum on the music charts. It really is unnatural for a movie studio to pick a very popular famous person with success in music for a musical who their tv division has worked.
This post was edited on 8/23/18 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 8/23/18 at 12:10 pm to Dam Guide
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Zendaya has shown she can handle a musical role. Would you rather them do another Belle and cast a pretty but terrible singing white girl?
She did a great job in Greatest Showman, both acting and singing. That said, I don't think that you should assume Disney's only other option is a white girl who can't sing. I'm sure there are plenty of young white actresses who can sing. If they cast her as Ariel, I'm curious what they'll do with Ursula.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 12:11 pm to uway
You know what disney's agenda is? making F'ing money. If shes popular with the kids (their target audience, not your adult grown arse) then their gonna do it.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 12:24 pm to mindbreaker
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seriously "Unnatural" agenda so anything unwhite is unnatural? And that is "Natural" to dislike it. You said it there chief not me.
No I wasn’t saying that.
It would also be unnatural to have an agenda that led you to replace beloved black characters with white ones. That’s not a natural thing to do.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 12:26 pm to imjustafatkid
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Miscasting with Belle
I thought Hermione did a good job.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 12:28 pm to uway
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It would also be unnatural to have an agenda that led you to replace beloved black characters with white ones. That’s not a natural thing to do.
no more unnatural than casting someone with a different hair color or eye color or height or foot size. I'm pretty sure mermaids are more progressive than us. Their only race is mermaid.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 12:29 pm to RLDSC FAN
Redheads get blackwashed again.
All the way back to Shawshank.
*Kicks can*
Taking all my People's roles.
All the way back to Shawshank.
*Kicks can*
Taking all my People's roles.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 12:30 pm to meeple
Soooo, not great then.
Posted on 8/23/18 at 12:31 pm to caro81
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You know what disney's agenda is? making F'ing money
You honestly believe that their agenda doesn’t include “social justice” goals?
If they could make billions off of a movie that glowingly promoted the KKK, you think they would do that?
You don’t think that, because you know that Disney, like all companies, is influenced by the beliefs of the decision-makers, sometimes even when it goes against their money interests, and ALWAYS when a decision would align with their moral leanings while not harming the bottom line.
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