I don't want to say "no one cares" about the casting changes in The Little Mermaid. I'm sure there is someone out there who is shocked and appalled that the real life movie of the Little Mermaid is a person of color. However, the people making the most noise about this are the people claiming that everyone is offended. No, not everyone is offended. In fact, it's not a big deal to 99% of people out there. The bigger deal is a deeper question-why does Disney keep remaking movies that were already wonderful to begin with? True, my dislike of remakes is notorious and this is going from a cartoon to a real life movie, so those are different.
Back to the race issue.
Leftists often forget what year this is. In 2019, race isn't a big deal to the overwhelmingly majority of people. Inter racial couples are commonplace. There has been an African American president. A Hispanic person is running for president now (several of them, actually). Leftists love to see the world as a much more racist place because it makes them feel like they are fighting against injustice and for harmony.
Is there racism in the world? Yes, there always will be. However now, if you are a racist, you better be really, really quiet about it because society doesn't accept it like it did back in the 1950's. So yeah, virtually no one cars that the Little Mermaid won't be white.
*amazingly, Spectrum internet is working, but my cable is still down. So no Big Brother for me tonight or last night.
Color doesn't matter to me, just keep bond and indiana jones male, and we're cool. Ariel could have been any friggin color, if merfolk even have races. But lets leave gender specific characters alone. The two gents mentiined above could not exist as females. They rely on there masculine charms to make those characters work. Ariel wouldn't work as a dude, nor would wonderwoman etc. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteI think you make great points, actually. To me 007 (and I've only seen one Bond movie. I don't even remember which one it was.) is a man, so is Indiana Jones. Oddly, no one talks about changing Lara Croft from Tomb Raider into a man, or Laurie Strode from Halloween to a man (two amazing female protagonists). It's only male characters who are forced to change.
DeleteAnd speaking of 007, the greatest video game of all time might be Goldeneye for the N64.
Dude...yes. Even now I believe I could run through that game like a champ.
ReplyDeleteJames Franco would make a great Laura Croft, for what it's worth.