Disney making live-action remake of 'The Little Mermaid'

[ChosenOne]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Hey man - it's a whole new world!

I see what you did there.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Cowabung-Gal

Well, a “real” mermaid would look more like this:
https://hyperallergic-newspack.s3.am...ummermaid5.jpg

Or like this:

[Coola Yagami]

I thought mermaids were supposed to look attractive and don't reveal their true selves until it's too late and then they kill you and eat you.

[ChosenOne]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

I thought mermaids were supposed to look attractive and don't reveal their true selves until it's too late and then they kill you and eat you.

That’s sirens. Mermaids can be and often are f*cking terrifying, depending on which mythology/folklore you ask. Think the Celtic merrow. More Creature from the Black Lagoon than Ariel, yet somehow the two terms got mixed up and muddled together over time.

[ranger_scout]

A new TV spot debuted. It's a lot more colorful than the previous trailer. I liked Melissa McCarthy's cackle even though it's not as deep or as memorable as Pat Carroll's.

[Sumac]

Ima usually not one to say something about actors faces, but...
This preview on a video is unfortunate.

[ranger_scout]

Halle Bailey did an interview where she talked about the racist backlash she’s received and the advice Beyoncé gave her which is, “Don’t ever read the comments.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...ng-1235332110/

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by ranger_scout

Halle Bailey did an interview where she talked about the racist backlash she’s received

We're going to see a lot of press about this kind of stuff. It's how they're going to push the movie and it's going to fail.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by ranger_scout

Halle Bailey did an interview where she talked about the racist backlash she’s received and the advice Beyoncé gave her which is, “Don’t ever read the comments.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...ng-1235332110/

Again, something most people don't consider in their galvanized "fight against evil" - and this post isn't about you, but more about the nature of the media today.

-Let's take 100% of the commentary out there.
-Of that 100%, let's say that it's evenly split (which we know it isn't) but 50% negative and 50% positive for this movie.
-Mouth-breathers and manipulators would have you believe that the 50% negative is comprised of 100% racism. But that's just bull$#!(.
-It's more like 10% of the negative comments are pure racism and 90% are normal people who don't like these things for a variety of reasons - of which not supporting "race swaps" does not mean that you are a racist.

But that's what the manipulators, agenda flingers and virtue signalers would have you believe.

A lot of you people have to realize that when a movie fails it wasn't because of "the racists". You are forgetting that a failed movie means that something like 99% of the population didn't support it financially - but let me guess? You would be amongst the "pure" 1% on Earth, right? Bull$#!(.

It's like people can't wrap their head around this simple structure:

-when a movie makes a billion dollars a large amount of people saw it, maybe multiple times and only a few rejected it
-when a movie fails your logic is what? That all of the racists on Earth took what action exactly? They extracted money from it? NO.
-when a movie fails it means that a large amount of people rejected it and a very few didn't. It does not mean that somehow the BILLIONS of racists all came out and did something to harm the movie.

Ya f'n simps.

[Andrew NDB]

Don't like? Racist.



It's the Obi-Wan Kenobi thing again. It's getting real old now.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Don't like? Racist.

I'm not going to take away from her at all that some @$$hole somewhere has made racist comments to the actress or that she'd have feelings about that. I understand that completely and it's disgusting. She shouldn't have to deal with that.

But the ongoing narrative that rejection of these movies, or not supporting "race-swaps", or not supporting woke agendas can only mean that "you are a racist" is nothing more than tired, manipulative nonsense.

And again - if a movie fails and someone calls you a "racist" because you didn't support it, then take no heed because that person is living a life where they think then that 99% of the human population is racist against "black people". Which simply isn't true.

[TurtleManiac]

Coulda sworn I heard early on that this movie would be banned in China cause they didn’t like the race-swap or something, is that still happening?

[robertfiduciary]

Matthew Broderick (white dude) was the voice of Simba in the 1994 movie, Lion King.

In the 2019 remake, it was Donald Glover (black dude).

Were you "men" all upset about that, too?

Just curious.

[Cowabung-Gal]

Originally Posted by robertfiduciary

Matthew Broderick (white dude) was the voice of Simba in the 1994 movie, Lion King.

In the 2019 remake, it was Donald Glover (black dude).

Were you "men" all upset about that, too?

Just curious.

No. Movie still sucked though. Most live-action remakes do.

Both the Fred Wolf Shredder and Samurai Jack were voiced by black dudes despite their characters being Asian, and they did a great job too. Voice acting is a whole different ball game. A middle-aged white woman, if she’s talented enough, can sound like a twelve year old anime boy. I assure you though, identity politics activists would lose their s*** if a black character were to be voiced by a white actor.

Now say a live-action movie of Samurai Jack is in the works and the main character is to be played by a black actor, that would make absolutely no sense. The same would go if Shredder were to be played by a black, Hispanic, or white guy. But pointless raceswapping like this is done because white filmmakers want to prove to minorities that they “care” about representation, when all they’re doing is giving minorities sloppy seconds. And most of the time their films end up being garbage.

Taken from Hans Christian Andersen’s original book in regards to the mermaid’s description:

“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;”

“When something like a black cloud passed between her and them, she knew that it was either a whale swimming over her head, or a ship full of human beings, who never imagined that a pretty little mermaid was standing beneath them, holding out her white hands towards the keel of their ship.”

“He fixed his coal-black eyes upon her so earnestly that she cast down her own, and then became aware that her fish’s tail was gone, and that she had as pretty a pair of white legs and tiny feet as any little maiden could have; but she had no clothes, so she wrapped herself in her long, thick hair.”

And what is Hollywood’s beef with redheads anyway?

https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/...-race-swapped/

[ranger_scout]

At the Kids' Choice Awards, Ursula got slimmed by Ariel and Scuttle.

https://www.cinemablend.com/movies/s...-and-awkwafina

This past week I just found out that I might not be able to see the film on opening weekend. I am going to North Carolina that weekend for my niece's baptism. I have three options: I can either see it on the Thursday night before Ieave the following day, see it in North Carolina if I have any free time, or wait until after I come home and see it the day after Memorial Day.

Also, one of my concerns about the film is that so far Flounder looks like he's going to appear as a generic-looking fish. The problem with that is that in the animated movie, his first scenes are golden and the creative team might not be able to recreate them. The way he reacts to a skeleton in the sunken ship, the shark chasing him and Ariel, and calling the shark a "big bully" and then sticking his tongue out at him never get old. Neither does the scene where he recaps what happens to King Triton and Sebastian while trying to defend Ariel for missing the concert.

[Cowabung-Gal]

Originally Posted by ranger_scout

Also, one of my concerns about the film is that so far Flounder looks like he's going to appear as a generic-looking fish. The problem with that is that in the animated movie, his first scenes are golden and the creative team might not be able to recreate them. The way he reacts to a skeleton in the sunken ship, the shark chasing him and Ariel, and calling the shark a "big bully" and then sticking his tongue out at him never get old.

Yeah, that won’t be as cute with a “real” fish. Most likely the only thing that would stick out of his mouth would be a tongue-eating parasite:

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by robertfiduciary

Matthew Broderick (white dude) was the voice of Simba in the 1994 movie, Lion King.

In the 2019 remake, it was Donald Glover (black dude).

Were you "men" all upset about that, too?

Just curious.

I don't think anyone really cared about that movie enough to care.

Personally I haven't seen a single live-action Disney remake film because there is honestly no point.

[ranger_scout]

Honestly, I am underwhelmed with how Flounder and Sebastian look. They both look a little too realistic to me, especially their eyes. Another big concern I have is that the scene where King Triton confronts Ariel for rescuing Eric and destroys her human treasures isn't going to be as dramatic as the animated film. During that scene in the original, Ariel looked both very frightened and angry at her father before the grotto is destroyed. Halle looks like she's sort of phoning it in a little bit and isn't showing as much emotion as the animated Ariel did.

The new poster has also been released.



https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news...atrical-debut/

[TurtleManiac]

It appears that the trailer for this remake is getting alot of dislikes and negative comments on Youtube, to the point where they can’t even show you the dislikes now, they’re hidden. Obviously the Twitter mob blames it on “racism”. And they really can’t just say “Americans are racist” as people all over the world have access to Youtube and dislike the trailer. So maybe there’s more to people not liking this remake trailer than just simply calling someone “racist”.

https://twitter.com/ThePopTingz/stat...Cz2fms9bMtAAAA

I get that they wanna have more diversity going forward, but they are going about it the wrong way. This remake could of had potential, but virtue signaling was more important than finding an actress who actually looks like the cartoon Ariel we all know. It seems kinda forced, instead of making new stuff they want to race swap classic characters, can’t help but wonder who’s next. And keep hearing that the film studios get paid more for meeting a “diversity quota”. Disney is revealing themselves to be the real racists.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by TurtleManiac

It appears that the trailer for this remake is getting alot of dislikes and negative comments on Youtube, to the point where they can’t even show you the dislikes now, they’re hidden.

Youtube has had dislikes hidden for a good couple of years now. I guess there's a desktop app you can install and then you can see the dislikes, apparently.