Live Action Little Mermaid- Ariel

When I saw the headline on BWW I thought it read Halle Berry to play Ariel! LOL

Jordan Catalano said: "My problem is that Disney needs to be spending their money on NEW films and getting back to animation and stop it with these unnecessary remakes that nobody is asking for and, going by the critics, are just not very good."

You would think after basically becoming an unstoppable monopoly Disney would be willing to take some risks on animated and live action films to engage audiences, yet here we are with primarily remakes and sequels on their production slate for the next two years. I can't even find myself too excited about this Ariel casting because I remember McCarthy is playing Ursula, and I'm a big Chloe x Halle fan.

How do you explain to little girls and boys that the red haired white girl is now a African American and not the same as the dvd they have watched.

Does Disney plan to pull the original cartoon and pretend that it never existed, do the rides in Tokyo , Orlando , Anaheim need to close.

so many unanswered questions

rosscoe(au) said: "How do you explain to little girls and boys that the red haired white girl is now a African American and not the same as the dvd they have watched.

Does Disney plan to pull the original cartoon and pretend that it never existed, do the rides in Tokyo , Orlando , Anaheim need to close.

so many unanswered questions"

It's a cartoon half fish. I think the little boys and girls in today's generation are significantly more evolved on race than we were, not to mention they understand the word "remake". They'll be fine.

Having said that, agree with Jordan. I want new stories. :/

BrodyFosse123 said: "As for the remakes I heard somewhere that Walt Disney himself wanted the classic Disney movies remade every however many years so every generation gets to experience (for the first time) like the kids did when the disney classics first came out. Not sure how true that is but I believe it. And it makes sense. Otherwise disney would have just made the most popular movies live action and not the less popular ones like Jungle Book and Dumbo.

You misunderstood Walt Disney’s mission. He wanted to re-release his films theatrically every 7 years so a new generation can see them, which is how many of my generation saw these classic films like MARY POPPINS and PETER PAN in movie theatres in the 1970s.

This mission was carried over when home video surfaced in the 80s and his animated classics started making their home video debuts. Every 7 years the films are re-released on home video (then VHS and Beta; now it’s DVD, Blu-ray, download, etc.).

Film remakes didn’t exist during his lifetime (he died in 1966) so that idea was never on his radar. "

They stopped vaulting when bluray came along, they are now available all the time. Thought they do still release a new edition every 7 years x

magictodo123 said: "rosscoe(au) said: "How do you explain to little girls and boys that the red haired white girl is now a African American and not the same as the dvd they have watched.

Does Disney plan to pull the original cartoon and pretend that it never existed, do the rides in Tokyo , Orlando , Anaheim need to close.

so many unanswered questions"



I hope this is sarcasm. I guess then all productions of Wicked need to implement changes as well, ever since Brittney Johnson went on for the first time as Glinda, and ever since she was promoted to standby. How are you going to explain to audience members why Glinda looks different? Maybe try to learn how to raise people with open minds and don't promote racism or the idea that characters have to look a specific way. I saw something on Twitter that said the original Hans Christian Anderson tale had Ariel as being GREEN. So I say deal with it. Unless this is sarcasm. Then ignore what I wrote.

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I hope so too. Let's see...How do people adjust to a black actor playing Kristoff on Broadway in Frozen? Or that the primary understudy for Anna is also black (and is the adult Anna follows a white child actress Anna)...when they look nothing like the animated versions in the original movie. They say...oh the actor is black and move on. Who cares? If they are talented, you just forget in like two minutes and just go with it. These are dramatic representations of the animated film..not clones.

You can say what you want about Disney but I have to just applaud their efforts to diversify their actors as we move forward in time.

Updated On: 7/4/19 at 01:03 PM

KathyNYC2 said: "magictodo123 said: "rosscoe(au) said: "How do you explain to little girls and boys that the red haired white girl is now a African American and not the same as the dvd they have watched.

Does Disney plan to pull the original cartoon and pretend that it never existed, do the rides in Tokyo , Orlando , Anaheim need to close.

so many unanswered questions"



I hope this is sarcasm. I guess then all productions of Wicked need to implement changes as well, ever since Brittney Johnson went on for the first time as Glinda, and ever since she was promoted to standby. How are you going to explain to audience members why Glinda looks different? Maybe try to learn how to raise people with open minds and don't promote racism or the idea that characters have to look a specific way. I saw something on Twitter that said the original Hans Christian Anderson tale had Ariel as being GREEN. So I say deal with it. Unless this is sarcasm. Then ignore what I wrote.

"

I hope so too. Let's see...How do people adjust to a black actor playing Kristoff on Broadway in Frozen? Or that the primary understudy for Anna is also black (and is the adult Anna follows a white child actress Anna)...when they look nothing like the animated versions in the original movie. They say...oh the actor is black and move on. Who cares? If they are talented, you just forget in like two minutes and just go with it. These are dramatic representations of the animated film..not clones.

You can say what you want about Disney but I have to just applaud their efforts to diversify their actors as we move forward in time."

Because many people don't applaud diversity, they want 'the good old days' and 'making things great again' remember x