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Some Chinese filmgoers unhappy with Disney's Ariel casting
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Will kids give a shit? No. Should adults give a shit? No.
Frankly I'd like to see them go back to the original source material where her feet constantly bleed as though walking on knives, the prince falls in love with someone else and the mermaid's sisters try and trick her into murdering the prince and his new bride whilst they sleep. Fun for all the family!
Frankly I'd like to see them go back to the original source material where her feet constantly bleed as though walking on knives, the prince falls in love with someone else and the mermaid's sisters try and trick her into murdering the prince and his new bride whilst they sleep. Fun for all the family!
Sound like clickbait articles.
I mean they are just quoting some weibo (twitter) comments. Would be the same as me writing an article "German moviegoers are mad about the casting of Mulan", then find 5-6 twitter posts of some alt-right asshole to paint an article.
I mean they are just quoting some weibo (twitter) comments. Would be the same as me writing an article "German moviegoers are mad about the casting of Mulan", then find 5-6 twitter posts of some alt-right asshole to paint an article.
Fuck them. Some people have too much time in their hands and care too much. If you get offended that the little mermaid is black, you are an idiot snowflake.
How can I, a white man, possibly relate to an ocean dwelling fish maiden unless she is also white?
At least seems that Disney is a pretty advanced company in this regard and will keep ignoring these assholes. If you don't have anything better to do than complain about the fact that a fictional character from a movie is played by a black woman, your voice doesn't deserve to be heard.
The problem is Disney's seems very care for China a lot (Look Mulan)
Time will tell, I guess?
what about mulan? what does that film have to do with this situation??
I dont fucking care. How can people be upset about a skin colour of an old story that was adapted into a cartoon. Also who gives a shit about Chinese viewers, that country bans or restricts movies and games. Stop pandering to them. Remake Red Dawn again with China as a villain you cowards rather than North Korea!
For me, It looks like china history action wars movies (No Mushu, No Music)
What do the citizens of China have to do with the censorship laws of their government?
Besides, like I said. Those two "news reports" cherrypick some weibo comments and then say "Chinese moviegoers arent happy" or the other article "Chinese Disney fans" arent happy...
Its stupid and clickbait imo.
The same happened with Black Panther, when some websites posted Douban user reviews out of 241421 reviews and found like 10 who said some racist shit.
but what does disney making mulan have to do with them caring about some chinese tweets regarding ariel???
for the record, i don't for a minute believe disney didn't anticipate this kinda backlash, regarldess of location. they're not going to recast ariel because of china
The land setting looked pretty european to me and under the sea Sebastian seemed to be the foreigner with an accent. But whatever, she's a mermaid, it doesn't matter what her skin color is or where it's set.
I hope they cast a black Eric and a bunch of white people as servants just to fuck with racists.
Honestly not that social media isn't real but I do wonder whether the general audience in China really give that much of a shit
Like Captain Marvel got a lot of shit online but it's obvious based on box office the general didn't give a shit and even liked the movie enough to push it to 1 billion
(Not saying racism in China doesn't exist)
Like Captain Marvel got a lot of shit online but it's obvious based on box office the general didn't give a shit and even liked the movie enough to push it to 1 billion
(Not saying racism in China doesn't exist)
The implied insult is "wait, you aren't good enough to do that lolololol".
See: all the shit racist flung after Jordan peele comment about not casting white people anymore.
It's probably because besides the obvious clickbait that China is the biggest market international market which is why Hollywood sometimes or at least used to pander to them a lot.
To give the articles the benefit of the doubt it's kinda relevant how the potential audience might feel about the movie
Correction not casting white leads because there's not enough black leads
China is where Hollywood most Profit comes from.
It depends on China Gov.
Yea, we Chinese are quite racist.
The worst thing? It doesn't get challenged ever, so there is literally no progress. People still casually throw out dated racist stereotypes as jokes like it's nothing, reading Chinese online communities and it feels like I'm reading 4chan in Chinese... That's why even after reluctantly move back to Macau (a man gotta live), I still stay in English speaking communities online, their unified toxicity and unchallenged outdated thinking make me feel nothing but shame.
... Please don't let them have any effect...
The worst thing? It doesn't get challenged ever, so there is literally no progress. People still casually throw out dated racist stereotypes as jokes like it's nothing, reading Chinese online communities and it feels like I'm reading 4chan in Chinese... That's why even after reluctantly move back to Macau (a man gotta live), I still stay in English speaking communities online, their unified toxicity and unchallenged outdated thinking make me feel nothing but shame.
Likely because we're unfortunately the biggest market, and our likes and dislikes often do have an effect on things...
... Please don't let them have any effect...
Is it confirmed that there are songs at all? Damn, I love the soundtrack of the animated movie.
Btw, i gotta say, when I was in Macau, the people I came across were fucking awesome. I loved everything about Macau. Got treated well. I enjoyed it more than Hong Kong.
No it's not but it's an important market.
The argument makes sense in a vacuum, but not in a White dominated Hollywood where most of the Disney princesses are White and Belle, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty have had Live Action adaptation's with White actresses.
Confirmed a while ago it's not a musical.
Look, it's a live action musical made in 2019. The entire soundtrack will be influenced by the biggest genres of today, most likely Hip Hop, RnB, Rap and Dancehall. All African-American or afro-caribbean dominated genres. I'd much prefer a black woman who has roots in one or more of those genres than a white woman with classical singing training who'd inadvertently make all the hip hop songs feel comical