cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13588273
it’s even worse than that cos the original text never said ariel’s human version race, they just assumed it lol.
and before anyone says yes but its written by a dane, my response is yes but it’s a fairy tale, anything is possible. why assume and then get angry based on your assumption?
I don’t know if anyone outside Australia knows Fern Gully… But anyway, years ago, watching that movie with friends I casually suggested that possibly fairies in Australia would more likely be indigenous looking than white, and got told off for “making everything political”. And by migrant friends.
One of whom used to get quite offended at any implication that they were anything other than Australian.
it’s funny, i visited there once with a friend, we also discussed fairies in that area. i wonder what is the cause of such a seeming coincidence.
I seem to recall some anger about the Ancient One casting.
If copyright didn’t last forever, anyone could make a little mermaid movie with the main character as whatever race they prefer. Its been 35 years, time to release this into the public domain.
Marvel were big on Romani character = witch in the 70s and 80s.
The one’s labeled tibetan and romani, what are those? I’m familiar with the rest
Both whitewashing and turning a ginger character black are time honored traditions.
turning a ginger character black
iirc, a lot of the times in old media creators would use red-haired people as stand-in for minorities, basically if they wanted to make a character BIPOC, but the studio wouldn’t let them, they’d make them red-haired instead
got this from hearsay so take it with a grain of salt. but if it’s true, it’s nice that the original visions can be fulfilled now!
(and even if it’s not true, more BIPOC in movies is never a bad thing, even if it comes at the cost of red-haired characters, which whatever it’s not like we’re systematically oppressed)
edit: also I’ll note that Ariel is still red-haired in the remake
I don’t really care about this though tbf, most comic book heroes have multiple incarnations often with gender-swap and different ethnic groups, Ariel on the other hand is a character from a traditional European fairy tale. It bothers me more to see Tom Cruise as “the last samurai” than some random modern comic book character with slightly off skin color.
Tom Cruise wasn’t the last samurai in that film. He witnessed the last samurai, Katsumoto, played by Ken Watanabe.
It’s confusing because Tom Cruise is on all the posters.
race is a social construct
Hmmm… I do mind that they look the part so you can at least recognize them.
Avatar the last airbender movie was the worst offender of this,
because at least one cast member looked like another character from the show.So the 1st one I have no issue with.
2nd needs a tan and spraying his hair to gray/white,
5th needed more red hair like this:
https://images8.alphacoders.com/127/1272798.jpgThe 3rd and 4th ones look ridiculous though.
I don’t know from which movies they are but
If #3 has an iconic beard, then #3 needs a beard and some better clothes if those clothes are iconic as well.
#4 is a no.
