Little Mermaid tanks in both China and South Korea amid a racist backlash over the casting of #HalleBailey in the role of Ariel

[Low End Derrick]

You keep trying to use race & ethnicity interchangeably. That’s the problem here

An Asian mermaid would flop in China regardless Unless said mermaid happened to be Chinese.

Little mermaid May have performed terribly in China but what about the Phillipines where it was well received?


I’m not saying you’re wrong but would remaking already existing characters into black face make the situation any better instead of having original characters?

Semantics.

The problem here is that the Chinese hold these views in the first place.

 

[Bop Gun]

I would make a movie about Chinese racism in the United States and have them shown as extremely weak during the entirety of it. There would not be one scene of a Chinese man standing up and being courageous for his people, they will all be shown as cowards, and have scenes of Chinese people watching Black Americans on tv fighting back against white people and winning. And when the credits start rolling, I'd have Chinese Men kneeling pathetically in front of a white man, as he pats them on their heads after a hard days work on the railroads "good boys".

fukk them.

 

[Micky Mikey]

I would make a movie about Chinese racism in the United States and have them shown as extremely weak during the entirety of it. There would not be one scene of a Chinese man standing up and being courageous for his people, they will all be shown as cowards, and have scenes of Chinese people watching Black Americans on tv fighting back against white people and winning. And when the credits start rolling, I'd have Chinese Men kneeling pathetically in front of a white man, as he pats them on their heads after a hard days work on the railroads "good boys".

fukk them.

Someone should use AI to turn this into an actual movie

 

[The Wall Is Undefeated!]

nikkas so happy to have representation by a company whose founder was a full blown racist
Keep up the blackity black y’all instead of wanting original ip’s faux coli militants
Straight out a comic book

The best statement of this thread.

I wholeheartedly agree with you.

 

[The Wall Is Undefeated!]

What do you mean? They are 100% right

“The controversy surrounding Disney’s forced inclusion of minorities in classic films is not about racism, but its lazy and irresponsible storytelling strategy,”

This is lazy, race swapping original characters just to have some kind of forced inclusion is lazy writing.

Give us original characters with original stories

You say that but again look at black panther. You already counted yourself out, before giving yourself a chance

Also the rest of Asia doesn’t consists of only China and South Korea. You telling me an original black ip wouldn’t pop in a country like Japan?

Man I don’t give a fukk it is LAZY, it’s like when a bytch gives you some “here nikka damn” p*ssy

If that’s your steeze cool but some of us actually have standards, I know you love low hanging fruit. keep the rest of us out your trash taste buds

Again you are counting yourself out before even giving yourself a chance, when a solid black IP pops out then maybe you can talk but as right now everything has just been a copy of western shyt in black face. If that’s your steeze cool but that’s honestly low hanging fruit

These quotes absolutely eviscerated the typical coli faux militant whiners' positions. They have such low standards that just holding a 'We need to make our own with original characters and stories.' is seen as an extreme or even worse, 'c00ning' position.

 

[The Wall Is Undefeated!]

@GrindtooFilthy

Is right, it is laziness. Aren't mermaids of white origin anyway?

Sort of.

While it's true that one of the origins of mermaids in Europe came from classical Greece (Triton(s)), the concept of Merfolk is found in many cultures around the world and went by different names: Iara (Native Amazonian), Jengu/Miengu (Sawa peoples of Cameroon), Mami Wata (Nigerian), Yawkyawk (Northern Indigenous Australian), Nibiinaabe or Nibanaba (Anishinaabe peoples of the Great Lakes region), Matsyāṅganā (South and Southeast Asia - India, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Burma, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam), and many more.

Black Panther was an original. That's what we need, more original.

Indeed.

Sometimes it works, Idris Elba was the perfect James Bond.

Idris has never played James Bond.

Other times, it's sloppy and obviously catering

True. Nevertheless, we must strive for originality.

 

[Hazel Brown]

hope it tanks in africa too

if they was going to make the mermaid black, they should have made her human prince charming black too.

#saynotoswirl

also, fukk east asia







.....besides Japan

So you want a fellow black sister to fail based off her fictional love life, meanwhile she’s booed up with a black man in real life. This is the epitome of being a hater. Fix it.

 

[Premeditated]

I

So you want a fellow black sister to fail based off her fictional love life, meanwhile she’s booed up with a black man in real life. This is the epitome of being a hater. Fix it.

I don't want her to fail. This aint about her. She's unfortunately collateral damage.

 

[The Wall Is Undefeated!]

On a side note. Spiderman: Across The Spider-Verse did ok in China... Hold up. According to thecoli militant loony lefty pets/shills, this shouldn't happen because an Afro-Latino (black kid) is the star of the movie. Maybe, just maybe, people regardless of race. ethnicity, nationality, etc, prefer original ideas and characters!?

 

[Low End Derrick]

On a side note. Spiderman: Across The Spider-Verse did ok in China... Hold up. According to thecoli militant loony lefty pets/shills, this shouldn't happen because an Afro-Latino (black kid) is the star of the movie. Maybe, just maybe, people regardless of race. ethnicity, nationality, etc, prefer original ideas and characters!?

Ariel's race in the new film was the problem in China. The Chinese themselves said it was the problem.

No amount of MAGA whataboutery is going to change that.

 

[Premeditated]

The world said they're not here for black women/white men relationships.

THIS IS A GREAT DAY

 

[VoxSphere74]

Ariel's race in the new film was the problem in China. The Chinese themselves said it was the problem.

No amount of MAGA whataboutery is going to change that.

China went as far as to make Ariel Blue on the Little Mermaid poster because they weren't going to show her as Black

On a side note. Spiderman: Across The Spider-Verse did ok in China... Hold up. According to thecoli militant loony lefty pets/shills, this shouldn't happen because an Afro-Latino (black kid) is the star of the movie. Maybe, just maybe, people regardless of race. ethnicity, nationality, etc, prefer original ideas and characters!?

Across the Spider Verse is an ensemble movie with more cac spiderman characters to outweigh Miles.



Also that's probably why they made what should be a Miles franchise a multiverse franchise (with tons of non-Black spiderpeople) so cacs would accept it

 

[Burned Verses]

China went as far as to make Ariel Blue on the Little Mermaid poster because they weren't going to show her as Black




Across the Spider Verse is an ensemble movie with more cac spiderman characters to outweigh Miles.



Also that's probably why they made what should be a Miles franchise a multiverse franchise (with tons of non-Black spiderpeople) so cacs would accept it

The picture of blue Ariel was used for imax releases in all countries

And spiderverse has like 5 notable black characters and did better than the little mermaid which only has it’s title character so I’m not getting the logic here. It’s just another disney cash grab & a lot of people didn’t care for it.

 

[Jazzy B.]

Ain’t NOBODY trying to see a movie about a SEA BEDWENCH but A BEDWENCH

 

[The Wall Is Undefeated!]

Ariel's race in the new film was the problem in China. The Chinese themselves said it was the problem.

It was in relation to the fact it was an unoriginal palette swapped character. They like Miles Morales Spiderman.

No amount of MAGA whataboutery is going to change that.

Wow! Absolute babble. Keep defending palette swapped unoriginal BS.