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Ariel cast in live action Little Mermaid Movie
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Vicetrailia
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I respect you for calling yourself out
DeafTourette
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Funny thing is... She looks like her beautiful self in the top pic. And it makes it seem dude just doesn't like black girls.
DeafTourette
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A racially ambiguous woman who might be black with no black facial features (isn't that the euro porn chick?)
ExpandKong
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Oh what she’s not black enough for you? How dare you question her racial identity. Sex work is real work reeeeeeeeeeeee
Dacon
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Yet she has a hairstyle that is commonly seen amongst african women. What's the point of this line of dialogue exactly?
brap
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Looks black to me. What else would she be? Asian? White? Mexican?
Papa
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Manbabies*
Helios
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Silent Duck
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Disney’s The Little Mermaid 3000
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DeafTourette
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OMG! I love this! And I need that Emotional Support Beer sleeve!
DeafTourette
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Got her confused for another chick. My bad. She's a British actress. This chick and the porn chick look nothing alike other than being light skinned (and this girl looks more black than the porn chick)...
I've been stressed this week something bad. Just a lot going on with family and friends.
Dr. Claus
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That would require him to admit he is a massive hypocrite, which is clearly never going to happen. He will probably respond with some half assed hand wave to try to justify why it was wrong then but okay now.
DeafTourette
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ExpandKong
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Chill out with the personal attacks.
Oh they look so distinct from each other that you got them confused huh?
This one looks black enough for you huh? You’ll allow her to have that hairstyle huh?
Whatcha got going on with your family and friends? Y’all busy marginalizing POC whose particular ancestry doesn’t line up with your acceptable definition of blackness?
You make me want to puke, bigot.
CyberPanda
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I can't breathe. lmaooooo
Dacon
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omg im fucking ded
CyberPanda
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You would've seen it faster if you weren't so damn dehydrated from all that working out.
Elcid
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Took me a second. Fucking dying. My wife and I were talking about this earlier, she looks like a damn hammerhead.
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Deleted member 738976
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They should just hand it over to Japan and let them try again in anime form.
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Enygger_Tzu
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Weren;t you the guy that tried to lecture others not to wear any "cultural appropriating" and/or racist costumes in Halloween?
GreyHorace
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I actually watched this a long time ago, way before the Disney film. It was true to the original fairy tale's tragic ending and I was disappointed that Disney didn't have the balls to follow suit.They should just hand it over to Japan and let them try again in anime form.
Papa
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Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
When DC does a better job at imitating Ariel in Aquaman than Disney in this movie
This!
Who is the bastard that choose the cast?
OK, can someone explain for me?
CyberPanda
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5secondrulesucks
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i imagine
Nobody_Important
crawling on his ceiling at all these pics licking up flies with his lizard tongue
Nobody_Important
crawling on his ceiling at all these pics licking up flies with his lizard tongue
Elcid
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CyberPanda
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Naw, he’s busy photoshopping pictures of woke Ariel and putting her eyes closer together.i imagine
xrnzaaas
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For me it doesn't matter if it's a cartoon or not. We're still talking about a character who had the same appearance characteristics for many years before someone decided to change that. Plus it's actually easier to introduce new cartoon characters without having to worry too much about their background and explaining where they're from.It's a remake ... A live action remake.
She's established in the toons ... Not live action.
And they kept true to the other live action remakes (mostly... Only partly for Jasmine in Aladdin) as far as race goes... Though Emma Watson was miscast, IMO, for Beauty and the Beast. One black girl and the internet loses their minds.
Edit: I guess if they made a new mermaid that didn't follow the original story or even if it DID follow the original story, you lot would be complaining about it anyway.
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davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
I mean... they have to give her red hair still. Right?
Or are they going back to the original source material for this one
Or are they going back to the original source material for this one
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mcjmetroid
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Like.. it's gonna be terrible anyway so why wasting your energy.
Disney blatantly did this for so people would chat about it.
I'm looking forward to the same thing happening with James Bond when the Box Office starts dwindling on the movies.
Disney blatantly did this for so people would chat about it.
I'm looking forward to the same thing happening with James Bond when the Box Office starts dwindling on the movies.
Schrödinger's cat
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Oh look. An expression of disbelief leading to a mocking dismissal.
Don't worry, we all know how sincere your engagement is and that you're in no way a hypocrite when you try to demand others give a damn about your own histrionics.
Using my phone at the moment. Will update shortly with a NI quote about the importance of race in a casting decision in a Harry Potter movie.
EDIT: Here we go:
This example is actually more contrite than the focus of this thread - because the objection was to the casting of a certain race in a role of a villain, not just about casting and race in general.
Odd how there's no hint of the derisive, dismissive mockery in that statement?
As we see time and time again, especially in this thread, those that can't argue with substance and honesty just seek to shutdown and dismiss other people.
Yet they will scream blue murder should the roles be reversed.
This is hypocrisy. This is double-standards. This is demanding preference above equality.
Such people are not interested in the bigger picture or anything the is ethically beneficial to everyone.
The simply want their own way. Like a child demanding attention.
For many, as has been pointed out repeatedly, the issue is the hypocrisy, double-standards and disengenous goalpost moving to justify them.
Your post is a fine example of the third item in that list.
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5secondrulesucks
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Nobody_Important
what you up to man
Ixiah
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I think its not so much the fact that they cast a black Girl as Ariel, its more about that Ideas ala "Replace White Character with Diverse Character! Its easy, effortless Virtue Signaling that will bring tons of Money in to boot!"
spring from a Mind that cant write a Story that gets 4 Votes on Fanfiction.com, let alone a Movie Script.
If you have an Diverse Casting, everything else becomes low Priority, your gonna have tons of ethnic groups roll into your Theater anyway, why bother with Plot or good Writing ?
So yeah, Ariel is black ?
Who cares.
But again, its an strong indicator this Movie is gonna be a poorly written Shitfest.
spring from a Mind that cant write a Story that gets 4 Votes on Fanfiction.com, let alone a Movie Script.
If you have an Diverse Casting, everything else becomes low Priority, your gonna have tons of ethnic groups roll into your Theater anyway, why bother with Plot or good Writing ?
So yeah, Ariel is black ?
Who cares.
But again, its an strong indicator this Movie is gonna be a poorly written Shitfest.
Papa
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Ariel looks like Belle Delphine pretending to be Joe Biden
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Deleted member 738976
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Enough with using the human race. It's time to use gray/green aliens using cgi for these Disney classics.
I'm sure they would wanna visit the planet after we virtue signal them to come here!
On second thought maybe not...
I'm sure they would wanna visit the planet after we virtue signal them to come here!
On second thought maybe not...
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
False equivalencies don't do anyone any good. Scarlett Johanson being cast as an asian character in an asian series is not the same as a person of color being cast as an imaginary mermaid. Ariel can be any race or ethnicity and it still wouldnt matter in terms of her overall story. Her being white, black, or asian would have literally no effect on the story that is being told. You all are making a fuss over nothing. If you dont like the decision then dont watch the movie. The movie wasnt even directed at you in the first place. Its a kids movie aimed at mainly young girls and yet we have 14 pages of people acting as if Disney personally dropkicked their grandmothers. Its absurd.
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Silent Duck
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Needs JJ Jimmy Walker as Saruman.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Hermen Hulst Fanclub's #1 Member
According to Disney, we are racist because we criticize the girl who will play the role of ariel?
Not so good response from Disney.
Why they have to do this?, the same happened with Ciri from The Witcher
Not so good response from Disney.
Why they have to do this?, the same happened with Ciri from The Witcher
DeafTourette
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You are so wrong for that... Got skills... But so wrong .. LOL