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re: Disney’s live-action Little Mermaid will star a black Ariel

Posted on 7/8/19 at 12:38 pm to
Posted by elposter
Member since Dec 2010
26498 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 12:38 pm to
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Gonna be a bunch of sad little redheads with no princess to look up to.

The only one they have now is the shrek princess


Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
25517 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 12:47 pm to
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Y'all whities mad.


Indifferent would be more accurate.
Posted by RealityTiger
Geismar, LA
Member since Jan 2010
20543 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 12:55 pm to
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I simply suggested she could've been hired for her talent and got the replies that it was absurd to suggest that.
I'm not saying that the young lady isn't talented. But when they were auditioning the cast, they knew going into it that they needed a pretty young white girl (preferably with red hair) who fit the persona of Ariel from the cartoon and could sing. It's not like this was just a mermaid movie. It was a reboot from a cartoon.

Are you gonna sit there and tell me with all the fricking broke/unemployed/up and coming/currently working and seeking a new project actresses out there that they couldn't find one(just as talented if not more than this girl)? Come on man. Use common sense here.
Posted by RealityTiger
Geismar, LA
Member since Jan 2010
20543 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 12:59 pm to
Except make King Neptune a transgender who was at one time Queen Neptune. Then Ariel can get knocked up by the prince and decide she really doesn't want a baby, and go have an abortion.

It would give the liberal community a collective boner.
Posted by tilco
Spanish Fort, AL
Member since Nov 2013
14272 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 1:02 pm to
Prince Eric isn’t gonna kiss a black girl. Shell never get her voice back!!!!!
Posted by MightyYat
StB Garden District
Member since Jan 2009
25029 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 1:09 pm to
Well, King TRITON is actually Ariel's dad and it's going to be really interesting if Disney completely re-writes Greek mythology and makes him a brotha.
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
171949 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 1:10 pm to
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But when they were auditioning the cast, they knew going into it that they needed a pretty young white girl (preferably with red hair)


Did they also need to cast a talking crab?
Posted by Salmon
I helped draft the email
Member since Feb 2008
85353 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 1:15 pm to
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Well, King TRITON is actually Ariel's dad and it's going to be really interesting if Disney completely re-writes Greek mythology and makes him a brotha


let's not pretend that the cartoon Triton was loyal to Greek mythology either

quote:

"The Tritons have the following appearance. On their heads they grow hair like that of marsh frogs not only in color, but also in the impossibility of separating one hair from another. The rest of their body is rough with fine scales just as is the shark. Under their ears they have gills and a man's nose; but the mouth is broader and the teeth are those of a beast. Their eyes seem to me blue, and they have hands, fingers, and nails like the shells of the murex. Under the breast and belly is a tail like a dolphin's instead of feet."
Posted by RealityTiger
Geismar, LA
Member since Jan 2010
20543 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 3:16 pm to
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Did they also need to cast a talking crab?

Yep.
Posted by SECdragonmaster
Order of the Dragons
Member since Dec 2013
17296 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 6:06 pm to
Flippin' your fins you don't get too far
Legs are required for jumpin',dancin'
Strollin' along down a
(What's that word again?) skreet.
Posted by BigOrangeBri
Nashville- 4th & 19
Member since Jul 2012
12769 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 6:50 pm to
Posted by MrLSU
Yellowstone, Val d'isere
Member since Jan 2004
28941 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 7:03 pm to
First Disney production where the lead character drowns in the opening scene.
This post was edited on 7/8/19 at 7:04 pm
Posted by mindbreaker
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2011
7822 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 7:20 pm to
All I know is if that don't cast a purple skinned overweight woman to play Ursula I'm going to really lose my shite
Posted by LouisianaLonghorn
Austin, Texas
Member since Jan 2006
15633 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 7:46 pm to
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Prince Eric


Since Disney is going with a black Ariel, I will be surprised if Eric isn't also a person of color. Not necessarily black, but more likely Asian or Latino.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
133025 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 7:47 pm to
Gotta make Triton and her sisters black too.


In fact if they are going with anything slightly plausible, all the mermaids would be black.



Why not just make an original black mermaid movie instead of a hand me down white movie they pallete swapped?

Kind of patronizing
Posted by habanos
Alabama
Member since Feb 2014
1937 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 7:53 pm to
Because Beyonce worked a deal with Disney. They had to use a girl on her label.
Posted by Ancient Astronaut
Member since May 2015
37060 posts
Posted on 7/8/19 at 7:55 pm to
The douche bag characters will be white
Posted by RealityTiger
Geismar, LA
Member since Jan 2010
20543 posts
Posted on 7/9/19 at 8:17 am to
I mean it was a bad joke when TH03 said it. You're gonna go in the same direction?
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
171949 posts
Posted on 7/9/19 at 8:18 am to
How is it a bad joke? Because it makes your point stupid?

You're melting over a black chick being casted in a fantasy love story of a mermaid with her talking crab friend and her enemy, a purple skinned guy fieri.
Posted by LSUFanHouston
NOLA
Member since Jul 2009
40148 posts
Posted on 7/9/19 at 8:24 am to
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How am I going to explain this to my daughter?


How old is your daughter?

Most kids don't care about such things as race.
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