Posted: 9/18/22 at 6:20pm
Plannietink08 said: "gives off the impression her blackness is the issue, despite her blackness not being part of the performance you’re intensely critiquing."
The problem is in your head, because indeed, her blackness is not part of the performance I am critiquing.
I love that she was cast and have been very enthusiastic about it. Again, not because she was black, but because I think she is the right type for Ariel, which is a very specific type, and also because I think her voice is extremely beautiful, which is essential for the role. I have not seen anyone that would suit the role better, or that I would rather see being cast, type and voice quality wise.
So please stop involving blackness whenever someone is critiquing the film in the slightest. Because there are actually other factors in a film, in case you were not aware of that.
I think the mental state of the world is deteriorating in a fast pace. Look at the people here who insist on thinking in color first. Even when a discussion has nothing to do with that. That is bad. Bad beyond words. That is actually creating a bigger separation in race than ever before. That is basically racism.
Sometimes I long for the time how it was in the 1990's. For example when the black Morgan Freeman played the role of the white, redhead, Irish man in the film adaptation of the book "The Shawshank Redemption". Nobody made a sound. It was just a human who played a role. I loved his performance, and any critique on the movie was content-, story or acting related. Nobody said anything about his color and people loved his performance and that was that. Black people were everywhere, making success, and were seen as any other person. He was praised for his wonderful performance. The most popular people in the world were Oprah and Whitney and Michael. But today, people are acting as if they see water burn when a black person plays something. Kids that grew up with the black Disney princess Tiana are now suddenly acting surprised as if not everything in the world is played by black people too. As if we did not have a black Disney princess before. That is weird, because actually, everything is. For many years. Black artists leading the charts, black president, black glinda, black annie, black sesame street characters, black everything. When are those people going to stop acting surprised that black people are normal people? That do normal things and have bigger successes than anyone I know since I grew up in the 90's? And very importantly, accept that they are actually judged by people on fora just like any other person, because of their performance, choices, things they do, etc. Without people frantically demanding that she is not a normal person because any critique on the film she is in is immediately labeled as racism? That is bizarre. We now live in a time where people start screaming and tearing down buildings should the new James Bond be cast white. That is not normal. People are deciding which race can use certain words and which race can not. They are even deciding what subjects a race is allowed to talk about. I hope you realize what your behaviour is causing and I will kindly ask you to stop those world alienated remarks and change your attitude towards people and color. I am half POC. If you react on me in the future, please make sure it is about the actual points that I discuss. Thank you.
Updated On: 9/18/22 at 06:20 PM
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