People Use ‘Science’ To Prove Disney Has To Change The Lead Actor Of The Little Mermaid ‘Cause She Can’t Be Black
It’s 2019 and 182 years have passed since the first publication of The Little Mermaid. However, some people appear to be stuck in 1837. Or the middle ages. You see, Disney has announced that Halle Bailey will star as Ariel in The Little Mermaid remake, and they’re pointing out her skin color. As most of their arguments have been quickly exhausted and proven invalid for multiple reasons, the most persistent protesters have turned to “science” to support their claims. But their newest attempts to ignite racial tensions have failed just as miserably as the initial ones.
Recently, Disney announced that singer Halle Bailey will star as Ariel in The Little Mermaid remake
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Not everyone was happy with the decision
Some people are trying really hard to find a reason why Ariel cant be black, and they even turned to “science”
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However, they were instantly shut down
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People simply aren’t buying their “theories”
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Okay. A mermaid can be Black or White. Literally does not matter other than, I think, for the viewers to have a better connection with the character. I am completely for that, but I think it would be better to make NEW stories, NEW movies, NEW CHARACTERS to emphasize change and connection with the audience. Let's make less of the remakes and bring in new princess stories, one that can bring in women (HECK, I WANNA SEE A PRINCE MOVIE FOR ONCE) of color and different ethnicities. Yes, we have Tiana in "Princess and the Frog" and Mulan in "Mulan," but I think making new shows/movies based off of a genuine connection to the audience would be better. A lot of the old princess movies were based on European novels and culture, why not try basing NEW princess shows/movies on cultural references from African countries, South American countries, Asian countries, etc. Let's stop changing old characters and start making genuine new ones.
Thank you! Fully agree!
no one that try to out her down says "I'M RACIST" :( and that's what they are actually saying in every thread.
I'd love to see a completely diverse collection of Disney Princesses (and Princes) within the next decade with different ethnicities, body shapes, backgrounds and pluralistic traits.
I agree! I love Disney animated movies but I don't care about these live action versions of the old classics. I hope that Disney would just make new animated movies and introduce us new pricesses (and princes). :)
YES. Good grief. I'm so tired of these remakes- I can hardly shrug my shoulders harder about them. They lack the magic of the originals. I would MUCH rather see a whole NEW movie, featuring this lovely young woman as a mermaid, doing mermaid things in a mermaid world under the sea. I feel like that would be so much more interesting.
Exactly!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Why not? Because casting a character based on the color of their skin is segregation. Let's mellow out and accept all colors.
AMEN
I WANT to see a PRINCE movie. With Prince. And dove's flying through purple rain. That's the Prince movie they should make. Elton and Freddy got theirs, let's bring on the champ!
And maybe where the princess's main object in life is something other than scoring a handsome man.
Well said.
I agree! New movie concepts! Why are we remaking old stuff, that is still perfectly good?!?
The thing is there are not any new stories, my friend.
That's true, but we also don't need to write new stories into a form of a book. We can make movies based off of imagination and no prior novels. It's been done before, why not now?
But that would force them to do actual work! Everyone is gunna pay for the remake anyway, and it’s easier. Why bother? Why spend more money on an original storyline that has to be written from scratch when they can just redo that one for the second or third time? Ariel is too iconic to change from a red haired white girl. Too many generations know who the little mermaid is. The entertainment industry makes so much off us everyday with bad remakes that cost millions and we pay them for it every time! Anyone remember avatar the last air bender??? Lmmfao. I had a lot of other issues with the movie like the lame bending and bad acting but changing the race of the main characters threw off the whole feel of the movie for a lot of people!
Yeah, isn't it funny, why don't black people create their own stories with black characters instead of gang wars. That would be the day.
"(HECK, I WANNA SEE A PRINCE MOVIE FOR ONCE)" Damn. Now I want it too.
Discussing the fact that Ariel has a belly button makes more sense to me :-)
Indeed!
It's clearly where the chalazae attached to the egg inside! Because she's part fish and part mammal, it's a distorted version. IN MY TED TALK I WILL -
Or lungs and no significant gills. It could be that her hair plays some kind of role in oxygen/carbondioxide exchange.
Wait until they find out she has an outtie belly button. Lol This is all stupid Halle has the perfect demeanor and voice to play Ariel. she is super adorbs.
Seriously? This is the third article on the subject in the last two days and it's not even that big of an issue.
You've forgotten all the hoopla surrounding Finn, the "black" storm trooper, in Star Wars. Haters are always gonna hate.
not many people were upset about fynn being black. people were more upset about rey being a boring, no personality, mary sue. the people who were upset about fynn being black, were using the argument that troopers are meant to be clones of Jango Fett, who had a maori actor. So it wasnt about race, even then. XD it was about accuracy, even if those people were not being accurite in that the clone project was shut down after the old republic was crushed, and all troopers became slaves or enlisters, and fynn was part of the slave portion. POINT BEING that most anti-fynn people were -mostly- not racists, but mislead accurists. lol If they were racists, they wouldnt have accepted Temuera Morrison as the standard for clone troopers in the first place. which everyone fucking loved him as jango.
What's even weirder is that haters seem to feel extremely uncomfortable when other people don't agree with their opinions. It's almost as if it makes them feel insecure about their beliefs.
Just to the Alan Smith in the comments, Rey isn't a Mary Sue. Pilot, salvages hazardous shipwrecks for valuable parts. Melee, seen fighting with a staff. Force, no evidence she doesn't know about the force where ironically Luke didn't at first.
Yes, I haven't actually heard any thing about this aside from Buzzfeed and BoardPanda.
Just the usual Americans thinking nothing in the world exists outside their country. The deep obsession with all things Disney is actually more worrying to me.
The "deep" generalizations you are using concerning 340 million American people should be more worrying to you...news flash: we Americans live in the same country, however we are not, in fact, all the same. SHOCKER, I know....
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It ruined my Fourth of July
If that ruined your fourth of July you lead a sad existence. If you were trying to be funny you fell short
Okay. A mermaid can be Black or White. Literally does not matter other than, I think, for the viewers to have a better connection with the character. I am completely for that, but I think it would be better to make NEW stories, NEW movies, NEW CHARACTERS to emphasize change and connection with the audience. Let's make less of the remakes and bring in new princess stories, one that can bring in women (HECK, I WANNA SEE A PRINCE MOVIE FOR ONCE) of color and different ethnicities. Yes, we have Tiana in "Princess and the Frog" and Mulan in "Mulan," but I think making new shows/movies based off of a genuine connection to the audience would be better. A lot of the old princess movies were based on European novels and culture, why not try basing NEW princess shows/movies on cultural references from African countries, South American countries, Asian countries, etc. Let's stop changing old characters and start making genuine new ones.
Thank you! Fully agree!
no one that try to out her down says "I'M RACIST" :( and that's what they are actually saying in every thread.
I'd love to see a completely diverse collection of Disney Princesses (and Princes) within the next decade with different ethnicities, body shapes, backgrounds and pluralistic traits.
I agree! I love Disney animated movies but I don't care about these live action versions of the old classics. I hope that Disney would just make new animated movies and introduce us new pricesses (and princes). :)
YES. Good grief. I'm so tired of these remakes- I can hardly shrug my shoulders harder about them. They lack the magic of the originals. I would MUCH rather see a whole NEW movie, featuring this lovely young woman as a mermaid, doing mermaid things in a mermaid world under the sea. I feel like that would be so much more interesting.
Exactly!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Why not? Because casting a character based on the color of their skin is segregation. Let's mellow out and accept all colors.
AMEN
I WANT to see a PRINCE movie. With Prince. And dove's flying through purple rain. That's the Prince movie they should make. Elton and Freddy got theirs, let's bring on the champ!
And maybe where the princess's main object in life is something other than scoring a handsome man.
Well said.
I agree! New movie concepts! Why are we remaking old stuff, that is still perfectly good?!?
The thing is there are not any new stories, my friend.
That's true, but we also don't need to write new stories into a form of a book. We can make movies based off of imagination and no prior novels. It's been done before, why not now?
But that would force them to do actual work! Everyone is gunna pay for the remake anyway, and it’s easier. Why bother? Why spend more money on an original storyline that has to be written from scratch when they can just redo that one for the second or third time? Ariel is too iconic to change from a red haired white girl. Too many generations know who the little mermaid is. The entertainment industry makes so much off us everyday with bad remakes that cost millions and we pay them for it every time! Anyone remember avatar the last air bender??? Lmmfao. I had a lot of other issues with the movie like the lame bending and bad acting but changing the race of the main characters threw off the whole feel of the movie for a lot of people!
Yeah, isn't it funny, why don't black people create their own stories with black characters instead of gang wars. That would be the day.
"(HECK, I WANNA SEE A PRINCE MOVIE FOR ONCE)" Damn. Now I want it too.
Discussing the fact that Ariel has a belly button makes more sense to me :-)
Indeed!
It's clearly where the chalazae attached to the egg inside! Because she's part fish and part mammal, it's a distorted version. IN MY TED TALK I WILL -
Or lungs and no significant gills. It could be that her hair plays some kind of role in oxygen/carbondioxide exchange.
Wait until they find out she has an outtie belly button. Lol This is all stupid Halle has the perfect demeanor and voice to play Ariel. she is super adorbs.
Seriously? This is the third article on the subject in the last two days and it's not even that big of an issue.
You've forgotten all the hoopla surrounding Finn, the "black" storm trooper, in Star Wars. Haters are always gonna hate.
not many people were upset about fynn being black. people were more upset about rey being a boring, no personality, mary sue. the people who were upset about fynn being black, were using the argument that troopers are meant to be clones of Jango Fett, who had a maori actor. So it wasnt about race, even then. XD it was about accuracy, even if those people were not being accurite in that the clone project was shut down after the old republic was crushed, and all troopers became slaves or enlisters, and fynn was part of the slave portion. POINT BEING that most anti-fynn people were -mostly- not racists, but mislead accurists. lol If they were racists, they wouldnt have accepted Temuera Morrison as the standard for clone troopers in the first place. which everyone fucking loved him as jango.
What's even weirder is that haters seem to feel extremely uncomfortable when other people don't agree with their opinions. It's almost as if it makes them feel insecure about their beliefs.
Just to the Alan Smith in the comments, Rey isn't a Mary Sue. Pilot, salvages hazardous shipwrecks for valuable parts. Melee, seen fighting with a staff. Force, no evidence she doesn't know about the force where ironically Luke didn't at first.
Yes, I haven't actually heard any thing about this aside from Buzzfeed and BoardPanda.
Just the usual Americans thinking nothing in the world exists outside their country. The deep obsession with all things Disney is actually more worrying to me.
The "deep" generalizations you are using concerning 340 million American people should be more worrying to you...news flash: we Americans live in the same country, however we are not, in fact, all the same. SHOCKER, I know....
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It ruined my Fourth of July
If that ruined your fourth of July you lead a sad existence. If you were trying to be funny you fell short