Why the fuss is live-action Ariel black?!?!?!

I mean no offense and I am no racist but changing pale-skinned to black mermaid? I like black people for their kinds but changing race of a beloved Disney character?! This is outrage!!! Literally every character in the animated movie is white, why do Disney make a change like this is just nonsense and dumb! Fuck off with that!

PS. Not to mention I have seen black people on Reddit, IGN, Gamespot, and other community websites agreed to the news that's really uncalled for.


The war has begins!

 

That's dumb. Can you imagine if they cast a black woman to play Mulan or something? It's just silly pandering. Ariel is white. She's an already established character, who is white. Why do they need to change it? Why not just make a new character who is black if they want to showcase a black actress?

 

I never really cared for Disney. I do remember people losing their shit a couple months ago over Will Smith playing the genie in the live action Aladdin. If I were a Disney fan I personally would be angry that they’re just re-hashing old movies to squeeze more money out of their fans. Why would you want two Aladdin movies one animated while the other one live action? If the scripts are the same you’re now paying for the same movie twice. That seems more ridiculous than casting a character who’s skin doesn’t match the original.

 

Agreed

 

That one I didn't care about, because the Genie isn't white. He's a magical creature with no discernable race. So they can dow whatever they want with that. Personally, I don't think Will Smith was good casting for that role, but it doesn't bother me that he's black.

 

But the character isn't black though....

Ariel already exists, as a Character, and she isn't black. Personally, it's not even a race thing to me, so much as a "she looks absolutely nothing like Ariel" thing. I mean if they cast some white woman who was super fat and ugly, I would feel exactly the same, because that's not what Ariel looks like. And some people were mad when the person cast to play Jasmine wasn't exactly the same race as the character, but I didn't care about that at all, because she looked exactly like Jasmine.

The only reason this is any more than a minor annoyance is because they are CONSTANTLY pushing political garbage down our throats, and I'm just tired of it. It's also the hypocrisy that bothers me, because people lost their freaking minds when Scarlett Johanson was cast to play The Ghost in the Shell, because she's not asian. And they were angry about Jasmine. But none of those people are mad about this. On the contrary, they're super stoked about it and think it's the best thing that's ever happened. So that makes them huge hypocrites.

 

Exactly, well said

 

It's called white messiah syndrome. SJWs do it all the time to over-compensate for their own racist bs. They don't care about black people, they just use them to feel better about their own white guilt.

 

The world thrives on controversy and publicity, the bad, the better. Anything to avoid the real issues works fine. They are a business, and they are doing it for that and that alone!

 

Exactly. The only color Disney cares about is green and they don’t have a problem doing anything to get it it. They’re also probably trying to still make up for Song of the South, lol.

 

Right and that’s where we differ on our opinions since I’ll never buy a remastered game. I don’t see the point in it.