Right, but the ratchet only turns one way. YES, in the way of privilege and Caudascity.

Give her a role that is deserving. Don't push her into a traditionally white character's role for shock value. That's all this is. It isn't honoring her talent or beauty. It's using her as a prop for social justice. That's not good. That's not creative. Write a new story that is befitting her talent. Don't make her fit the mold of an already established character. That is what you're not seeing. This actress is nothing but a publicity stunt to Disney. It's gross.

And yeah, I would love to see just one movie depict Jesus as an actual Jew with correct historical context, but I don't hold out hope because the entertainment industry at large doesn't care about historical context. They care about $$$.

@@NyssaOwens Please this just brought out the true racist of people. This a fictional singing fish. Jesus real BRONZE SKIN,WOOL HAIR. NOT WHITE,blonde silk hair, blue eyes like it's depicted in all the books or Cleopatra being played by many white women in movies when clearly she's not. Between 1992-1994 there was in fact a black mermaid who taught Ariel sign language name Gabrielle. There is no need for people to be bashing this young lady who has done not a dam thing to people over a role in a fictional dam movie. White fear is at a all time high in these racist folks. Shouldn't be hard to believe it could be a black mermaid after all white folks did throw 2 million blacks into the ocean off ships. If y'all complaining about following the original content then where part 2 come from when in original fairytale story she almost killed the prince and she died. Shows how many miserable people in the world.

Exactly. I wouldnt mind Halle plays a new black mermaid character... Give her a new name, Marina or even Ariella just to change up the version. Everyone would be absolutely cool with that but to use her to play Ariel is doing a disservice to such a great talented amazing individual who don't deserve this flak just because of the shill's left winged agenda. Brandy and Whitney's version of Cinderella is actually the Roger's and Hammerstein's play version not the Disney... (NOTE THAT) So no one complained about the race swapping characters. I didn't even care if Whoopi Goldberg is the queen, Victor Garber is king and Dean Cain, an Asian for a Prince. It's a different story from a different production. Disney shoot itself in the foot this time. I can't wait to see Disney destroy itself when introducing the Latina Snow White in Years to come... That's absolutely embarrassing.

I get what you're saying, it is very interesting when they shake up things in either movies or an entertainment World in general if it's organic and a person is truly talented. And just like you said, when people have Shady motivation behind doing some of this stuff and it is revealed, it puts a sour Twist on things and personally I would get turned off. You can't help but to feel like someone's trying to mess with your head. These movies nowadays are cranked out by skin color and race obsessed nut jobs that have no problem coming out attacking the potential audience or fans before the movie even get out into the theaters making threats and slinging accusations, it is really disgusting. Viola Davis threatening black folks to come and see this slave trading train wreck movie is annoying and disgusting also. I won't touch the movie with a 10 foot pole even a bootleg copy from Roscoe down the street.

Can't wait for a play about African tribes enslaving other African tribes where the victims are played by non-blacks and chosen for their acting skills. LOL

I have no problem with colorblind casting so long as it doesn't fundamentally change the story or the characters. I also find the casting of little people in a Jane Austen play to be intriguing.

Dude Hollywood has been whitewashing characters since their inception. Cleopatra played was by Elizabeth Taylor, Genghis Khan was played by John Wayne, Mickey Rourke was in Asian face for Breakfast at Tiffany's and blackface was a staple of any Hollywood movie during Hays Codes so you're a bit late trying to make a point. This is course correction and let's not forget a REBOOT? You can changes in reboots: Wild Wild West, the Equalizer, Men in Black, Nick Fury were good raceswaps. Funny how white girls get up all in their feelings when their characters are changed but they were petitioning to replace MALE characters like ghostbusters

@@suezcontours6653 And I say the next remake of Blade should be cast using Brad Pitt.

@@loriwyoming835 Vampires movies with white leads already exist... You have Edward Cullen. No need to swap Blade. What's' with the white fragile egos?

@@suezcontours6653 „It doesnt matter“ when it’s white washing. But when it’s the other way around they freak out. And it’s mostly grown white men. Yet the Main consumers of Ariel are little girls… they are weirdos.

@@suezcontours6653 Why do POC need to appropriate things already existing instead of creating totally new things? Or is it that you ignore that what you want to do is coopt already existing leads? So in that case coopting Blade would be perfectly fine.

You're late. She sang the theme song of the show with Chloe. They have a group named ChloexHalle and have nominated 5 times at the Grammys.

She started off with singing and later got into acting. In this movie she will combine that.

A Dane here. You are on to something. Want my take and reflections? The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen are one of the most translated, in number of countries, in the world. As a Dane that is just great. Some nations have integrated His fairy tales deeply into their child upbringing. Japan are an example of such a country. If the Japanese would make a local theatre play or a movie based on these fairy tales it would make sense to use their own actors for that. I not only have no problem with that, I find that completely natural and desirable. When the British author, Shakespeare, wrote Hamlet, that takes place in Denmark, it are obvious the characters are white, since the Danes are white, but nevertheless Hamlet have been set up all over the world, with all kinds of races in the roles. I see no problem with that at all. HOWEVER I DO have a problem in relation to Disney and the little mermaid and many of the adaptations they have made, of many of his fairy tales and MY problem are, that they always butcher the stories IF they do not have a happy ending. The morale of Andersen's stories differs and make children and their parents think and communicate, allow them to experience sadness and anger in a safe environment, where these emotions can be experienced and dealt with, in a human and developing manner. In USA, both last generation and now the new, learns nothing by watching "The little mermaid". It all ends well and are so sweetened and plastic like that the original story and its teaching and purpose have vanished. It is sad that American children grows up and thinks all things end happy in the end and then have no ballast to reflect, when they begin to be faced with real life choices as they grow older. They are as children feed either "happy endings" or vicious mass killing murderers. I have read more than once that when an American child reach puberty they have watched an average of over 10.000 murders/killings on TV. Imagine having such a competent fairy tale writer, that his stories allows children and parents to cry together over a sad story, a bonding and learning experience. And Disney butchered it to harmless calorie light candy floss. Just look at Americans absurd discussions about this. The level of that debate are the best proof of WHY they had been better served with Andersen´s original stories and not Disney sugarfilled blur. I though do recall when predomiantly black in urban USA invented rap. It had a global appeal and fast spread as a cultural and musical phenomenon. Then I remember that many blacks did not recognise other cultures attempt of their rap. They trash talked a lot about that and it really did not make sense to me at the time. Why did they not find pride in others taking their musical frame to heart? As a Dane I am proud, if other cultures can be enriched by fairy tales written by a Dane and I embrace if they want to take it to heart locally and make local adaptation BUT changing the very fabric of the story to always provide a happy ending makes no sense to me. I feel sorry for the debate level that have surrounded this. First Disney adaptation were a crime and so are the new, but because they butcher the story, not because what colour the skin of the mermaid have. For the interested I can add that Hans Christian Andersen were born dirt poor and ended his life among that times intellectuals, powerful and Royals despite his unusual height and aparte look. It was his art that carried him up in life. A period of his life he lived in Nyhavn (Newhabour), Copenhagen, where the ships that had spent many months in the harsh condition waters from Denmark to Greenland hunting whales, primarily for their oil for lamps. Danish culture had already then included stories of mermaids and their ability to lure ships close to reefs to sink them with their beautiful singing and ability to create dangerous treacherous fog. These sailors coming home from these harsh long jobs with money to spend docked in Nyhavn and more than one drunk sailor could provide Andersen with stories of mermaid encounters. If we rewind time even further back a few hundred years unicorns were the "big thing". Since the Viking age Danes and Scandinavians have been travellers and have had open markets themselves, where people were welcomed to trade, thus we were exposed to many cultures through our many harbours, with international ships docking. The Danish monarchy are more than 1200 years old. The Danish Royal family have a skeleton of a Unicorn in their possession to this date. I believe the only in existence globally that are from that timeperiod, where the folklore about unicorns arose. I am not going to bore anyone with the knowledge modern science today can provide us with regarding that unicorn skeleton. I will stick to the original fairy tale that our Danish Royal family are the only one in the world that have a unicorn skeleton. Lets focus on bringing just a little magic and some real emotions that do not harm into our kids life and let it, and them, evolve from there... I am not going to watch Disney´s butchered version with any kids. I find it useless, maybe even harmful, but I WILL continue to read the original stories of Hans Christian Andersen laud for children if given the option. Now a days it can also serve as an introduction to how people in the past lived. It just are a more healthy and gives food for thoughts. The brain are functioning as a muscle. Use it and it grows. Reflections and thinking about better solutions than it materialised in the sad fairy tale are fibres to the brain. Sugar or fibres. The choice should be easy, but seems, from the general debate level in US, that the sugar feed have been ongoing a long time.

Lies

@@Mike-zx1kx You seriously have mental problems, it's not that deep, calm down.

@@annt.7785 It is a free forum, you are allowed to write what you decide and in this case you, short and concise, validates many of my points in a beautiful way. I thank you.

No... it's because she's black... hence them saying... she can't be black... yall love to sugar coat racist... u said its not cuz she black then listed the reason her being black is a issue

And they could have added darker skinned cast members by writing in some Southron or Easterling characters. But no, that would have required some writing skill.

@@taylorwest6986 These are people who don't know the source material (I'm hardly an expert) and frankly don't have the inclination to learn.

exactly! the Elves are “made up” beings… but they were already made up many decades ago by a master and originator of the genre, they aren’t being created now by these novice storytellers at Amazon. sure, they _could_ be black, but in Middle-Earth they simply aren’t.

@@Sam_T2000 The only area where I would disagree is delete "a master" and insert "the master"

Good points

Little black girls or parents never had a problem with mermaids or princesses being white girls or all super heroes being white men. To see that this is even a conversation shows how the world see black girls. They can't even be mermaids!!!

A Dane here. Want my take? The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen are one of the most translated, in number of countries, in the world. As a Dane that is just great. Some nations have integrated His fairy tales deeply into their child upbringing. Japan are such a country. If the Japanese would make a local theatre play or a movie based on these fairy tales it would make sense to use their own actors for that. I not only have no problem with that, I find that completely natural and desirable. When the British author, Shakespeare, wrote Hamlet, that takes place in Denmark, it are obvious the characters are white, since the Danes are white, but nevertheless Hamlet have been set up all over the world, with all kinds of races in the roles. I see no problem with that at all. HOWEVER I DO have a problem in relation to Disney and the little mermaid and many of the adaptations they have made, of many of his fairy tales and MY problem are, that they always butcher the stories IF they do not have a happy ending. The morale of Andersen's stories differs and make children and their parents think and communicate, allow them to experience sadness and anger in a safe environment, where these emotions can be experienced and dealt with, in a human and developing manner. In USA, both last generation and now the new, learns nothing by watching "The little mermaid". It all ends well and are so sweetened and plastic like that the original story and its teaching and purpose have vanished. It is sad that American children grows up and thinks all things end happy in the end and then have no ballast to reflect, when they begin to be faced with real life choices as they grow older. They are as children feed either "happy endings" or vicious mass killing murderers. I have read more than once that when an American child reach puberty they have watched an average of over 10.000 murders/killings on TV. Imagine having such a competent fairy tale writer, that his stories allows children and parents to cry together over a sad story, a bonding and learning experience. And Disney butchered it to harmless calorie light candy floss. Just look at Americans absurd discussions about this. The level of that debate are the best proof of WHY they had been better served with Andersen´s original stories and not Disney sugarfilled blur. I though do recall when predomiantly black in urban USA invented rap. It had a global appeal and fast spread as a cultural and musical phenomenon. Then I remember that many blacks did not recognise other cultures attempt of their rap. They trash talked a lot about that and it really did not make sense to me at the time. Why did they not find pride in others taking their musical frame to heart? As a Dane I am proud, if other cultures can be enriched by fairy tales written by a Dane and I embrace if they want to take it to heart locally and make local adaptation BUT changing the very fabric of the story to always provide a happy ending makes no sense to me. I feel sorry for the debate level that have surrounded this. First Disney adaptation were a crime and so are the new, but because they butcher the story, not because what colour the skin of the mermaid have. For the interested I can add that Hans Christian Andersen were born dirt poor and ended his life among that times intellectuals, powerful and Royals despite his unusual height and aparte look. It was his art that carried him up in life. A period of his life he lived in Nyhavn (Newhabour), Copenhagen, where the ships that had spent many months in the harsh condition waters from Denmark to Greenland hunting whales, primarily for their oil for lamps. Danish culture had already then included stories of mermaids and their ability to lure ships close to reefs to sink them with their beautiful singing and ability to create dangerous treacherous fog. These sailors coming home from these harsh long jobs with money to spend docked in Nyhavn and more than one drunk sailor could provide Andersen with stories of mermaid encounters. If we rewind time even further back a few hundred years unicorns were the "big thing". Since the Viking age Danes and Scandinavians have been travellers and have had open markets themselves, where people were welcomed to trade, thus we were exposed to many cultures through our many harbours, with international ships docking. The Danish monarchy are more than 1200 years old. The Danish Royal family have a skeleton of a Unicorn in their possession to this date. I believe the only in existence globally that are from that timeperiod, where the folklore about unicorns arose. I am not going to bore anyone with the knowledge modern science today can provide us with regarding that unicorn skeleton. I will stick to the original fairy tale that our Danish Royal family are the only one in the world that have a unicorn skeleton. Lets focus on bringing just a little magic and some real emotions that do not harm into our kids life and let it, and them, evolve from there... I am not going to watch Disney´s butchered version with any kids. I find it useless, maybe even harmful, but I WILL continue to read the original stories of Hans Christian Andersen laud for children if given the option. Now a days it can also serve as an introduction to how people in the past lived. It just are a more healthy and gives food for thoughts. The brain are functioning as a muscle. Use it and it grows. Reflections and thinking about better solutions than it materialised in the sad fairy tale are fibres to the brain. Sugar or fibres. The choice should be easy, but seems, from the debate, that the sugar feed have been ongoing a loooong time.

@@Mike-zx1kx Nej.

@@Peter_Riis_DK Dit tab.

@@Mike-zx1kx Not really. 😘

just because something is fictional doesn't mean it doesn't have lore.

And because people in hte bigoted past only imagined whites as important to stories, it should never change and forever should exclude blacks. ok...

Yes. Thank you. He missed the mark with this one.

Yet even he was inspired by the natural beauty and ancient buildings in Ethiopia ( Africa). Ariel sometimes had some carribean elements to the cartoon. So the culture wasnt even really specific.

When I saw lion king remake I thought this exactly Something about the cartoonishness made the singing work

It’s impossible to sing underwater. Plsss

why can't there be two little mermaids? what's the problem? I can see if Disney removed the original. This world is soooo petty

The Wiz was so bad I remember leaving the theatre before it was over.

The shilling for this chick as Ariel is crazy. Disney is always bitching about "representation" done right and yet they race swap Ariel? Another ginger? The number one minority group in the world?You telling me that it was so hard for them to cast this chick as Princess Tiana from Princess and the Frog, a role that she is 100% perfect for? Bruh.

@@sup3414 There are currently TWO ginger princesses. Also, Ariel is not a ginger. That red hair is not natural and there are no freckles on her face. True ginger representation can be found in both Merida and Anna.

@@sup3414 Also, I explained why casting a black Ariel makes sense in my initial comment. They casted Brandy as Cinderella in the 90s, and there was a black Cinderella on Broadway. Belle was also played by a black actress on Broadway. Ariel herself has been played on Broadway by Asians and Latinas. Why is it any different here?

​@@zachclark1102 ik I'm like so late but I also wanna add to the Broadway aspect. in Broadway it's pretty normal to do "color-blind" casting anyway and considering that Rob Marshall the director came from a Broadway background this isn't anything surprising. They obviously cast by talent (perfect example being Halle Bailey for Ariel) and not typecasting.

You're comparing apples to oranges.

Lol it's not cultural appropriation when it's not even the same tale or actual culture inspired maybe but this is Disney rendition. Also white people were in all media because of no inclusion naturally to include others the different colors of people some will change. Also yes white characters will and should for a long time cannot take roles or replace those of minorities. Like what how would that make any sense

Not only that, but they are using white orchestral music instead of hip hop or other black music.

Kunta kinte is a character based in a non-fictional historical era. He was depicted as an African slave. Ariel is a non-existent fictional cartoon character based in a non-existent world. Stop the fear. There's room for everyone. I would however complain if they started putting minorities in roles depicting historical or present day non-fiction narratives.

@@ShineBlade25 Yes, we know the horrors of the past. I didn't commit them. You didn't commit them. Today's minorities didn't suffer them. It's an entirely different world now, and there are super-successful people of color all over the place now. So why can't they do their own thing? Why do they have to leach off our past? It's an admission that they don't have what it takes. Or simple hate-filled pettiness. They need to take a lesson from Spike Lee, who didn't sit around waiting for white people to lift him up. He went out and told his own stories of his own people, instead of degrading himself with usurping other people's stories.

Best comment on here! It's a shame that no one considered that as a natural progression rebutting the argument made in this video. The majority of acting roles in the past went to white persons. Persons of other races were relegated to minor parts. Hollywood never respected historical accuracy except for putting a minor or subordinate character (like a slave) in a historically accurate skin tone. While I do understand that her being black takes away from the point of a remake (bringing the story to life as imagined by many), it's obvious that the hate this is getting is unwarranted. Critics might claim they care about authenticity, but the tone screams loud and clear that 'I don't like that she's black'. At the end of the day, she was OBVIOUSLY the best person for the role. And this is coming from a person that is not American, who couldn't care any less about democrats or republicans, and who knows that libertarianism will likely be the downfall of the U.S. 🙃

halle auditioned first and NONE of the other actors could match her talent so obviously they picked her since she set the bar so high . Get over it ! its a kids movie ffs ..

But it DID go in one direction for a hundred years… John Wayne as Genghis Khan… Mickey Rooney and Katharine Hepburn played Asian roles… Lena Horne was turned down for a role in Showboat that was a woman of mixed race who could sing and that was vital to the plot. They cast Ava Gardner instead and had to hire someone else to sing for her.

I thought her teeth looked crooked and one eye was smaller and crooked compared to the other because of the shot angle, and her forbead has some dirt/grim/ or pimples or something

And hypocritical… If they cast Tiana will it be colorblind or color will be the determining factor? Will we see a white, Chinese, Indian, Latino etc woman being casted for that role?

@@annas4843 I think you missed his point.

@@NyssaOwens I think you missed the hypocrisy

@@annas4843 it wasn't hypocritical. His point was that if someone was the best option for a role, they should get that role, but when the character is canonically a certain race or a certain look, it's best to keep them that way so as to not distract the audience from enjoying the story. You missed the point, and that's not being hypocritical.

@@annas4843 obviously Tiana is a black character and should stay as such! At the same times, I don't want to see an Indian Belle! She's supposed to be French! You're being devil's advocate for no reason at all. There was nothing hypocritical about his explanation to "colorblind casting." The only reason that Brandy's Cinderella worked was because they changed the storyline and songs to make it essentially a new story and not the classic Disney Cinderella everyone knew, and it was fantastic! But that's not what they did here with The Little Mermaid. They didn't write new songs. They didn't change the movie to be "based on" The Little Mermaid. No. They took a character we all knew as a child and made her into something she's never been and canonically couldn't even be. He explained this perfectly when talking about the Jane Austen play he saw where the actors straight up didn't fit what they should look like. Casting that distracts from the story is bad casting, plain and simple.

And how many versions of Arabian Nights have been done with white actors and everyone just accepted it?

@@philipsheppard4815 An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. It doesn't matter if it has been done before. The cycle can end if everyone just stops doing it. That requires consistent rejection no matter who does it or why.

A Dane here. Maybe wanna hear my take? The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen are one of the most translated, in number of countries, in the world. As a Dane that is just great. Some nations have integrated His fairy tales deeply into their child upbringing. Japan are such a country. If the Japanese would make a local theatre play or a movie based on these fairy tales it would make sense to use their own actors for that. I not only have no problem with that, I find that completely natural and desirable. When the British author, Shakespeare, wrote Hamlet, that takes place in Denmark, it are obvious the characters are white, since the Danes are white, but nevertheless Hamlet have been set up all over the world, with all kinds of races in the roles. I see no problem with that at all. HOWEVER I DO have a problem in relation to Disney and the little mermaid and many of the adaptations they have made, of many of his fairy tales and MY problem are, that they always butcher the stories IF they do not have a happy ending. The morale of Andersen's stories differs and make children and their parents think and communicate, allow them to experience sadness and anger in a safe environment, where these emotions can be experienced and dealt with, in a human and developing manner. In USA, both last generation and now the new, learns nothing by watching "The little mermaid". It all ends well and are so sweetened and plastic like that the original story and its teaching and purpose have vanished. It is sad that American children grows up and thinks all things end happy in the end and then have no ballast to reflect, when they begin to be faced with real life choices as they grow older. They are as children feed either "happy endings" or vicious mass killing murderers. I have read more than once that when an American child reach puberty they have watched an average of over 10.000 murders/killings on TV. Imagine having such a competent fairy tale writer, that his stories allows children and parents to cry together over a sad story, a bonding and learning experience. And Disney butchered it to harmless calorie light candy floss. Just look at Americans absurd discussions about this. The level of that debate are the best proof of WHY they had been better served with Andersen´s original stories and not Disney sugarfilled blur. I though do recall when predomiantly black in urban USA invented rap. It had a global appeal and fast spread as a cultural and musical phenomenon. Then I remember that many blacks did not recognise other cultures attempt of their rap. They trash talked a lot about that and it really did not make sense to me at the time. Why did they not find pride in others taking their musical frame to heart? As a Dane I am proud, if other cultures can be enriched by fairy tales written by a Dane and I embrace if they want to take it to heart locally and make local adaptation BUT changing the very fabric of the story to always provide a happy ending makes no sense to me. I feel sorry for the debate level that have surrounded this. First Disney adaptation were a crime and so are the new, but because they butcher the story, not because what colour the skin of the mermaid have. For the interested I can add that Hans Christian Andersen were born dirt poor and ended his life among that times intellectuals, powerful and Royals despite his unusual height and aparte look. It was his art that carried him up in life. A period of his life he lived in Nyhavn (Newhabour), Copenhagen, where the ships that had spent many months in the harsh condition waters from Denmark to Greenland hunting whales, primarily for their oil for lamps. Danish culture had already then included stories of mermaids and their ability to lure ships close to reefs to sink them with their beautiful singing and ability to create dangerous treacherous fog. These sailors coming home from these harsh long jobs with money to spend docked in Nyhavn and more than one drunk sailor could provide Andersen with stories of mermaid encounters. If we rewind time even further back a few hundred years unicorns were the "big thing". Since the Viking age Danes and Scandinavians have been travellers and have had open markets themselves, where people were welcomed to trade, thus we were exposed to many cultures through our many harbours, with international ships docking. The Danish monarchy are more than 1200 years old. The Danish Royal family have a skeleton of a Unicorn in their possession to this date. I believe the only in existence globally that are from that timeperiod, where the folklore about unicorns arose. I am not going to bore anyone with the knowledge modern science today can provide us with regarding that unicorn skeleton. I will stick to the original fairy tale that our Danish Royal family are the only one in the world that have a unicorn skeleton. Lets focus on bringing just a little magic and some real emotions that do not harm into our kids life and let it, and them, evolve from there... I am not going to watch Disney´s butchered version with any kids. I find it useless, maybe even harmful, but I WILL continue to read the original stories of Hans Christian Andersen laud for children if given the option. Now a days it can also serve as an introduction to how people in the past lived. It just are a more healthy and gives food for thoughts. The brain are functioning as a muscle. Use it and it grows. Reflections and thinking about better solutions than it materialised in the sad fairy tale are fibres to the brain. Sugar or fibres. The choice should be easy, but seems, from the debate, that the sugar feed have been ongoing a loooong time.

That's exactly what they are. Superb description.

Yeah!😂

Calm down klan

A Dane here. If you want my "sacred" view. You might agree. The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen are one of the most translated, in number of countries, in the world. As a Dane that is just great. Some nations have integrated His fairy tales deeply into their child upbringing. Japan are an example of such a country. If the Japanese would make a local theatre play or a movie based on these fairy tales it would make sense to use their own actors for that. I not only have no problem with that, I find that completely natural and desirable. When the British author, Shakespeare, wrote Hamlet, that takes place in Denmark, it are obvious the characters are white, since the Danes are white, but nevertheless Hamlet have been set up all over the world, with all kinds of races in the roles. I see no problem with that at all. HOWEVER I DO have a problem in relation to Disney and the little mermaid and many of the adaptations they have made, of many of his fairy tales and MY problem are, that they always butcher the stories IF they do not have a happy ending. The morale of Andersen's stories differs and make children and their parents think and communicate, allow them to experience sadness and anger in a safe environment, where these emotions can be experienced and dealt with, in a human and developing manner. In USA, both last generation and now the new, learns nothing by watching "The little mermaid". It all ends well and are so sweetened and plastic like that the original story and its teaching and purpose have vanished. It is sad that American children grows up and thinks all things end happy in the end and then have no ballast to reflect, when they begin to be faced with real life choices as they grow older. They are as children feed either "happy endings" or vicious mass killing murderers. I have read more than once that when an American child reach puberty they have watched an average of over 10.000 murders/killings on TV. Imagine having such a competent fairy tale writer, that his stories allows children and parents to cry together over a sad story, a bonding and learning experience. And Disney butchered it to harmless calorie light candy floss. Just look at Americans absurd discussions about this. The level of that debate are the best proof of WHY they had been better served with Andersen´s original stories and not Disney sugarfilled blur. I though do recall when predomiantly black in urban USA invented rap. It had a global appeal and fast spread as a cultural and musical phenomenon. Then I remember that many blacks did not recognise other cultures attempt of their rap. They trash talked a lot about that and it really did not make sense to me at the time. Why did they not find pride in others taking their musical frame to heart? As a Dane I am proud, if other cultures can be enriched by fairy tales written by a Dane and I embrace if they want to take it to heart locally and make local adaptation BUT changing the very fabric of the story to always provide a happy ending makes no sense to me. I feel sorry for the debate level that have surrounded this. First Disney adaptation were a crime and so are the new, but because they butcher the story, not because what colour the skin of the mermaid have. For the interested I can add that Hans Christian Andersen were born dirt poor and ended his life among that times intellectuals, powerful and Royals despite his unusual height and aparte look. It was his art that carried him up in life. A period of his life he lived in Nyhavn (Newhabour), Copenhagen, where the ships that had spent many months in the harsh condition waters from Denmark to Greenland hunting whales, primarily for their oil for lamps. Danish culture had already then included stories of mermaids and their ability to lure ships close to reefs to sink them with their beautiful singing and ability to create dangerous treacherous fog. These sailors coming home from these harsh long jobs with money to spend docked in Nyhavn and more than one drunk sailor could provide Andersen with stories of mermaid encounters. If we rewind time even further back a few hundred years unicorns were the "big thing". Since the Viking age Danes and Scandinavians have been travellers and have had open markets themselves, where people were welcomed to trade, thus we were exposed to many cultures through our many harbours, with international ships docking. The Danish monarchy are more than 1200 years old. The Danish Royal family have a skeleton of a Unicorn in their possession to this date. I believe the only in existence globally that are from that timeperiod, where the folklore about unicorns arose. I am not going to bore anyone with the knowledge modern science today can provide us with regarding that unicorn skeleton. I will stick to the original fairy tale that our Danish Royal family are the only one in the world that have a unicorn skeleton. Lets focus on bringing just a little magic and some real emotions that do not harm into our kids life and let it, and them, evolve from there... I am not going to watch Disney´s butchered version with any kids. I find it useless, maybe even harmful, but I WILL continue to read the original stories of Hans Christian Andersen laud for children if given the option. Now a days it can also serve as an introduction to how people in the past lived. It just are a more healthy and gives food for thoughts. The brain are functioning as a muscle. Use it and it grows. Reflections and thinking about better solutions than it materialised in the sad fairy tale are fibres to the brain. Sugar or fibres. The choice should be easy, but seems, from the general debate level in US, that the sugar feed have been ongoing a long time.

None of you would have had anything to say had she been casted as the fat female villain because that’s a great role for the block woman huh

Ariel is white? Bruh y'all are reaching

@@legion24100 is it bad that Ariel is white since 1989? You have a problem with white characters?

@@annas4843 lol who cares

@@legion24100 clearly you do

@@TrevorToonArt y'all the ones running rampant with white fear. Hahahaha

The "shield for criticism" is just part of it. They're also expecting Oscar nominations and other awards for their "bravery" of re-making a movie that was already successful. Affirmative action is the most insidious form of Leftist racism, because they tell us it is absolutely necessary for Blacks to succeed, and then when Blacks do succeed, they tell us affirmative action had no role in it. Meanwhile those of us who insist a Black person can succeed without Affirmative action are considered racists while the Left, who think so little of their abilities, gets a pass. It's hypocrisy.

Maybe you shouldn't let it bug you so much. We're not so far away from people of European descent being cast as indigenous people, middle eastern people, Latinos, and shuffling around in Black face. And it was never done to highlight positives of non-white people groups, it was always for mockery and savagery. As Mr. Klavan said, imaginary/fictitious characters can physically look like anything your own imagination creates. This is no different than Jeanne Crain playing the role of a bi-ethnic woman in the movie "Pinky" or Fisher Stevens playing an Indian in "Short Circuit". I suppose the only difference is that a human-fish hybrid doesn't exist, but non-white humans do.

it is, it absolutely 100% is and fuckwits on reddit are actually buying up the bullshit that people hate it cause of "racism" or dumb crap like that!

@@jukeboxhero5244 but Jasmine was real and not fictional? Because the same people complained that the Indian lady who played Jasmine was “too white” and that was outrageous. So isn’t that hypocritical?

It is and they do. If any movie sucks they put black people or women or gay people or whatever as tldhiekds for their poor writing and directing. Another tool to put the masses against one another and not have their ire towards the people not giving good stories. Disney LIVES off remakes and spin offs and its getting kind of old.

Klavan is a leftist at heart.

A Dane here. Want my take on this? The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen are one of the most translated, in number of countries, in the world. As a Dane that is just great. Some nations have integrated His fairy tales deeply into their child upbringing. Japan are such a country. If the Japanese would make a local theatre play or a movie based on these fairy tales it would make sense to use their own actors for that. I not only have no problem with that, I find that completely natural and desirable. When the British author, Shakespeare, wrote Hamlet, that takes place in Denmark, it are obvious the characters are white, since the Danes are white, but nevertheless Hamlet have been set up all over the world, with all kinds of races in the roles. I see no problem with that at all. HOWEVER I DO have a problem in relation to Disney and the little mermaid and many of the adaptations they have made, of many of his fairy tales and MY problem are, that they always butcher the stories IF they do not have a happy ending. The morale of Andersen's stories differs and make children and their parents think and communicate, allow them to experience sadness and anger in a safe environment, where these emotions can be experienced and dealt with, in a human and developing manner. In USA, both last generation and now the new, learns nothing by watching "The little mermaid". It all ends well and are so sweetened and plastic like that the original story and its teaching and purpose have vanished. It is sad that American children grows up and thinks all things end happy in the end and then have no ballast to reflect, when they begin to be faced with real life choices as they grow older. They are as children feed either "happy endings" or vicious mass killing murderers. I have read more than once that when an American child reach puberty they have watched an average of over 10.000 murders/killings on TV. Imagine having such a competent fairy tale writer, that his stories allows children and parents to cry together over a sad story, a bonding and learning experience. And Disney butchered it to harmless calorie light candy floss. Just look at Americans absurd discussions about this. The level of that debate are the best proof of WHY they had been better served with Andersen´s original stories and not Disney sugarfilled blur. I though do recall when predomiantly black in urban USA invented rap. It had a global appeal and fast spread as a cultural and musical phenomenon. Then I remember that many blacks did not recognise other cultures attempt of their rap. They trash talked a lot about that and it really did not make sense to me at the time. Why did they not find pride in others taking their musical frame to heart? As a Dane I am proud, if other cultures can be enriched by fairy tales written by a Dane and I embrace if they want to take it to heart locally and make local adaptation BUT changing the very fabric of the story to always provide a happy ending makes no sense to me. I feel sorry for the debate level that have surrounded this. First Disney adaptation were a crime and so are the new, but because they butcher the story, not because what colour the skin of the mermaid have. For the interested I can add that Hans Christian Andersen were born dirt poor and ended his life among that times intellectuals, powerful and Royals despite his unusual height and aparte look. It was his art that carried him up in life. A period of his life he lived in Nyhavn (Newhabour), Copenhagen, where the ships that had spent many months in the harsh condition waters from Denmark to Greenland hunting whales, primarily for their oil for lamps. Danish culture had already then included stories of mermaids and their ability to lure ships close to reefs to sink them with their beautiful singing and ability to create dangerous treacherous fog. These sailors coming home from these harsh long jobs with money to spend docked in Nyhavn and more than one drunk sailor could provide Andersen with stories of mermaid encounters. If we rewind time even further back a few hundred years unicorns were the "big thing". Since the Viking age Danes and Scandinavians have been travellers and have had open markets themselves, where people were welcomed to trade, thus we were exposed to many cultures through our many harbours, with international ships docking. The Danish monarchy are more than 1200 years old. The Danish Royal family have a skeleton of a Unicorn in their possession to this date. I believe the only in existence globally that are from that timeperiod, where the folklore about unicorns arose. I am not going to bore anyone with the knowledge modern science today can provide us with regarding that unicorn skeleton. I will stick to the original fairy tale that our Danish Royal family are the only one in the world that have a unicorn skeleton. Lets focus on bringing just a little magic and some real emotions that do not harm into our kids life and let it, and them, evolve from there... I am not going to watch Disney´s butchered version with any kids. I find it useless, maybe even harmful, but I WILL continue to read the original stories of Hans Christian Andersen laud for children if given the option. Now a days it can also serve as an introduction to how people in the past lived. It just are a more healthy and gives food for thoughts. The brain are functioning as a muscle. Use it and it grows. Reflections and thinking about better solutions than it materialised in the sad fairy tale are fibres to the brain. Sugar or fibres. The choice should be easy, but seems, from the debate, that the sugar feed have been ongoing a loooong time.

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Written by a Danish man not American.. if we have to complain then let the mermaid be Danish… why are Americans stealing other countries stories

I'm sure everyone has a different take on why they're okay with it or not. I don't think it's about having a white main character and black "funny" characters (and that crab wasn't a funny character anyway, he was pretty serious actually), it's about changing a character and calling the character the same thing. At least for fans who might have liked these characters. When I think of Ariel, I think of the red-head. If they had made Ariel a platinum blonde, that would be annoying. Or if they gave Ariel different personality traits. Or if Winnie the Pooh talked like Christopher Robin. Icons lose their iconicness when we don't know what they look like, or sound like, or what they're like. (In this case, they were faithful to the sound, and probably to the storyline, idk). I'm not in love with Ariel the way I was as a kid, but if I were 9, I'd probably be upset that they changed my beloved character. Instead of doing a black remake, they could have done a new character. This just annoys people, and divides them, one side thinking the other is racist, one side thinking the other is being unneccessarily invasive/destructive. Problem wouldn't exist if we add instead of replace.

The shilling for this chick as Ariel is crazy. Disney is always bitching about "representation" done right and yet they race swap Ariel? Another ginger? The number one minority group in the world?You telling me that it was so hard for them to cast this chick as Princess Tiana from Princess and the Frog, a role that she is 100% perfect for? Bruh.

@@sup3414 what Im saying is it shouldn't matter. It's a movie for God sake. For children that won't care about the color of her skin! Who cares if superman is Asian, aquaman is Samoan. The fact that you or anyone has this issue with a children's film magnifies a problem in your own mind that you will unfortunately never comprehend. Who gives a rats ass. Live your life, make your money, love, be grateful and let this petty mess ride. This would never had been a thought in our history. Sit back and watch life unfold

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A Dane here. Want my take and reflections? Should provide you with some fibres. The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen are one of the most translated, in number of countries, in the world. As a Dane that is just great. Some nations have integrated His fairy tales deeply into their child upbringing. Japan are an example of such a country. If the Japanese would make a local theatre play or a movie based on these fairy tales it would make sense to use their own actors for that. I not only have no problem with that, I find that completely natural and desirable. When the British author, Shakespeare, wrote Hamlet, that takes place in Denmark, it are obvious the characters are white, since the Danes are white, but nevertheless Hamlet have been set up all over the world, with all kinds of races in the roles. I see no problem with that at all. HOWEVER I DO have a problem in relation to Disney and the little mermaid and many of the adaptations they have made, of many of his fairy tales and MY problem are, that they always butcher the stories IF they do not have a happy ending. The morale of Andersen's stories differs and make children and their parents think and communicate, allow them to experience sadness and anger in a safe environment, where these emotions can be experienced and dealt with, in a human and developing manner. In USA, both last generation and now the new, learns nothing by watching "The little mermaid". It all ends well and are so sweetened and plastic like that the original story and its teaching and purpose have vanished. It is sad that American children grows up and thinks all things end happy in the end and then have no ballast to reflect, when they begin to be faced with real life choices as they grow older. They are as children feed either "happy endings" or vicious mass killing murderers. I have read more than once that when an American child reach puberty they have watched an average of over 10.000 murders/killings on TV. Imagine having such a competent fairy tale writer, that his stories allows children and parents to cry together over a sad story, a bonding and learning experience. And Disney butchered it to harmless calorie light candy floss. Just look at Americans absurd discussions about this. The level of that debate are the best proof of WHY they had been better served with Andersen´s original stories and not Disney sugarfilled blur. I though do recall when predomiantly black in urban USA invented rap. It had a global appeal and fast spread as a cultural and musical phenomenon. Then I remember that many blacks did not recognise other cultures attempt of their rap. They trash talked a lot about that and it really did not make sense to me at the time. Why did they not find pride in others taking their musical frame to heart? As a Dane I am proud, if other cultures can be enriched by fairy tales written by a Dane and I embrace if they want to take it to heart locally and make local adaptation BUT changing the very fabric of the story to always provide a happy ending makes no sense to me. I feel sorry for the debate level that have surrounded this. First Disney adaptation were a crime and so are the new, but because they butcher the story, not because what colour the skin of the mermaid have. For the interested I can add that Hans Christian Andersen were born dirt poor and ended his life among that times intellectuals, powerful and Royals despite his unusual height and aparte look. It was his art that carried him up in life. A period of his life he lived in Nyhavn (Newhabour), Copenhagen, where the ships that had spent many months in the harsh condition waters from Denmark to Greenland hunting whales, primarily for their oil for lamps. Danish culture had already then included stories of mermaids and their ability to lure ships close to reefs to sink them with their beautiful singing and ability to create dangerous treacherous fog. These sailors coming home from these harsh long jobs with money to spend docked in Nyhavn and more than one drunk sailor could provide Andersen with stories of mermaid encounters. If we rewind time even further back a few hundred years unicorns were the "big thing". Since the Viking age Danes and Scandinavians have been travellers and have had open markets themselves, where people were welcomed to trade, thus we were exposed to many cultures through our many harbours, with international ships docking. The Danish monarchy are more than 1200 years old. The Danish Royal family have a skeleton of a Unicorn in their possession to this date. I believe the only in existence globally that are from that timeperiod, where the folklore about unicorns arose. I am not going to bore anyone with the knowledge modern science today can provide us with regarding that unicorn skeleton. I will stick to the original fairy tale that our Danish Royal family are the only one in the world that have a unicorn skeleton. Lets focus on bringing just a little magic and some real emotions that do not harm into our kids life and let it, and them, evolve from there... I am not going to watch Disney´s butchered version with any kids. I find it useless, maybe even harmful, but I WILL continue to read the original stories of Hans Christian Andersen laud for children if given the option. Now a days it can also serve as an introduction to how people in the past lived. It just are a more healthy and gives food for thoughts. The brain are functioning as a muscle. Use it and it grows. Reflections and thinking about better solutions than it materialised in the sad fairy tale are fibres to the brain. Sugar or fibres. The choice should be easy, but seems, from the general debate level in US, that the sugar feed have been ongoing a long time..

Dyeing her hair red? Ok. I’m sure if it was a white woman casted for the role, they would still have to as being born with red hair is in the minority. Which btw, black women can also have.. NATURALLY! 😊

I am a bit disappointed that you or anyone have not taken the opportunity to make any comments to my post/comment to your comment.

@@Mike-zx1kx Well, okay. I disagree about the fairytale being ruined by Disney; I think that they just adapted it to the culture of the main audience. American society had/has come to expect happy endings in stories, especially ones for kids; the idea was/is that it enhances the "escapism": the idea that you listen to a story or watch a movie to escape from the difficulties of life and pretend for a moment that life is a little simpler and happier. It's a break from difficulties of life; not a reflection of them. That's part of what makes movies a treat. That's something of an oversimplification, and maybe there are different cultures that have different perspectives that are equally valid regarding movies and stories, but that's just the culture that Disney has to adapt to. I think if the original ending were preserved (Ariel getting turned into foam, is it?) children would feel hurt, betrayed, and ripped off, which would be bad for business.

@@matthewmitchell3457 I thank you for responding. "which would be bad for business"....exactly! Disney defined this for Americans and for their business. But culturally all other nations on earth understands that what defines H.C Andersen´s fairytales are their uniqueness in each story. Is it not a shame that the gift of being able to experience sorrow and happiness, and even frustrations, over not seeing justice in a story together with your kids in a safe environment, and the development of a safe space, where deeper conversations and alternative problem solutions can be handled, are lost? Do not get me wrong. I get the escapism part, but are there not plenty, if at all any, alternatives to escapism in "then" USA, as in today´s? Is it not to much, as described, today now a choice between happy endings or "playful funny" violence and mass killings? Could it be that the one country in the world that time and time again sees mass shooting events are not dressing their kids adequately to a, perhaps troublesome, teenage/adult life? Are avoiding all forms of difficult emotions through childhood, even in a safe confident space as bedtime reading of an emotional fairytale, in reality, not letting them down? I promise you that not only will some of his farytales give immediate cause for questions but also open for reflections developing over years, long after the fairytale in itself might be in the background. Life are not always fair. Justice does not always roam. By developing own opinions related to injustice in a fairytale and alternative solutions it could have progressed had someone stepped in at the right time, the kids develop critical sense and an awareness of when to act in relation to unwanted developments happening in front of them. You see my point? Do you also understand why the debate over the colour of the mermaid isolated are very far away from debate levels in many other parts of the world? I recognise USA are a unique country in being a sole immigrant nation. But an entire world have recognised H.C. Andersen´s fairytales as being colourblind and have a global appeal, since they are focused on universal human feelings and hereunder also universal injustices. Could a lot of the issues USA increasingly struggles with, have a chance of a better outcome if the ability to communicate sensibly and seek common solutions rather than confrontations were more developed, integrated from childhood? I consider myself a friend of USA and therefore it increasingly throughout my life have been breaking my heart to see a country in the world with so many options continue to neglect itself and being denied so many of them. There are other options than working non stop and have easily digested escapism on the side. It is OK to feel hurt, on behalf of the character, in a fairytale. It are OK to feel the character were betrayed. It are not OK that Disney rips of the children of the opportunity to feel such emotions and seek alternative answers in their own mind and with healthy developing dialogue with their parents. I am sure Disney can find all the "happy ending" stories they want anyway. Why rip of ALL alternatives. One thing are a real author creating unique art appealing to an entire world, another are a commercial business with shareholders and quarterly earning reports. The little mermaid give up her life and her environment for love and this unhealthy decision ends up costing her, her life. A morale many kids would be well off, with having reflected upon, before meeting adult love. The largest cause of unnatural death for an American male aged 50 to 55 are suicide by gun. USA are only Western nation where actual living length are going down. Americans are the highest CO2 emitting nationals on planet earth per Capita. More people in USA are in jail per Capta than anywhere else on earth. It will take a lot of emphatic, and complicated dialogue amongst Americans if they truly want to prevent above being the case, over time. Being taught tools to have complicated dialogue, where things are not black or white, from childhood are a benefit for all, except maybe Disney, that happily will feed you as much easy sugar they can get away with. Only a true friend will tell you what you need to hear, your enemy will happily stay silent while you fail. Your democracy are in peril USA and you internally need to act now to protect it. Do you have the tools?

Well said.

Would you had felt the sane way had she been casted as the fat female villain?HELL NO

@@logic9869 unfortunately that is not a very...logical...answer. if you have a true criticism, let's hear it. Let's put the ad hominem attacks aside.

@@logic9869 That doesn't make sense. The "fat female villain" was purple in animation, not white or black or any human skin color. If anyone should play her, it's a drag queen.

It's not 'just a bit'. it's a total change of the original story... remember "Black Annie" and how well that went over? We're just sick of it. Come up with your own 'cultural' ideas if you have any that are good.

It isn’t color blind.. they’re actively trying to eliminate whites from TV.. this is happening in every aspect of the business world. They discriminate against whites in favor of blacks and females.

If that’s the case according to “history” majority of black characters wouldn’t have been allowed to be on screen, or they’d be portrayed as slavery. If it’s colorblind it’s part of the fiction. They did it for Hamilton and it was so irrelevant, Lon Manuel was able to tell the story well, and you learned what you needed to.

Really? When you watched historical films and all of the native Americans, mexicans, and even many black people, were played by white people, it didn't take you out of the production? Go watch productions from the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The ratchet indeed went one direction, and that direction was Hollywood giving the bulk of all roles to white people. I'm married to a Chinese woman. When I watched movies from the 50s-60s that supposedly take place in Asia and they have a white woman with eye mascara trying to fake being Asian, it's SUPER CRINGE. It takes me hella out of the film super quick. Here's the thing about the "ratchet". It makes sense to do color blind casting when the race of the character isn't essential. But making Black Panther a white guy makes ZERO sense because Black Panther's character is essentially intertwined with being a black African. The only reason why the "ratchet" goes one direction is, for some people, like say, Asians, if Stan Lee made a comic book hero Asian, it's like 0.001% of the asian heros. To take that one hero and make him white would be depleting the supply of roles by a huge fraction. On the other hand, to take the vast supply of white roles and carve out a few for replacement, does not overall, alter the employment prospects of white actors. It's just not a comparable situation. Imagine after Bruce Lee died, Bruce Lee films continued, only Bruce Lee is played by a white actor. This would feel wrong because in a massive sea of white roles, Bruce Lee had one of the few hollywood careers for an Asian man that was positive (e.g. Kato, and his kung fu films), if you were to make that a white role too, there's be no asian men in starring roles at all. Now, if we were talking Japan, where 99% of all roles were played by Japan in Japanese cinema, and they race-swapped a Japan character using a white actor, there wouldn't be complaints. You saw this with _Ghost In The Shell_ where Asian Americans objected to it, but Japanese people when asked, had absolute ZERO problem with Scarlet Johannsen in the role. And that's because of the context of fact that a majority of TV and Films are mostly white people in the primary roles, and the perception that casting -- even for roles written as colorblind -- is not colorblind.

Red heads are beautiful and unique. They come in all shades with red hair. My niece Albino with red hair. My mother bff son black as tar with red hair. A lot of people dye they hair ginger because it's beautiful.

I second that!

wow nice to see an actual sensible comment !

A Dane here. Want my take on this? You might agree. The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen are one of the most translated, in number of countries, in the world. As a Dane that is just great. Some nations have integrated His fairy tales deeply into their child upbringing. Japan are such a country. If the Japanese would make a local theatre play or a movie based on these fairy tales it would make sense to use their own actors for that. I not only have no problem with that, I find that completely natural and desirable. When the British author, Shakespeare, wrote Hamlet, that takes place in Denmark, it are obvious the characters are white, since the Danes are white, but nevertheless Hamlet have been set up all over the world, with all kinds of races in the roles. I see no problem with that at all. HOWEVER I DO have a problem in relation to Disney and the little mermaid and many of the adaptations they have made, of many of his fairy tales and MY problem are, that they always butcher the stories IF they do not have a happy ending. The morale of Andersen's stories differs and make children and their parents think and communicate, allow them to experience sadness and anger in a safe environment, where these emotions can be experienced and dealt with, in a human and developing manner. In USA, both last generation and now the new, learns nothing by watching "The little mermaid". It all ends well and are so sweetened and plastic like that the original story and its teaching and purpose have vanished. It is sad that American children grows up and thinks all things end happy in the end and then have no ballast to reflect, when they begin to be faced with real life choices as they grow older. They are as children feed either "happy endings" or vicious mass killing murderers. I have read more than once that when an American child reach puberty they have watched an average of over 10.000 murders/killings on TV. Imagine having such a competent fairy tale writer, that his stories allows children and parents to cry together over a sad story, a bonding and learning experience. And Disney butchered it to harmless calorie light candy floss. Just look at Americans absurd discussions about this. The level of that debate are the best proof of WHY they had been better served with Andersen´s original stories and not Disney sugarfilled blur. I though do recall when predomiantly black in urban USA invented rap. It had a global appeal and fast spread as a cultural and musical phenomenon. Then I remember that many blacks did not recognise other cultures attempt of their rap. They trash talked a lot about that and it really did not make sense to me at the time. Why did they not find pride in others taking their musical frame to heart? As a Dane I am proud, if other cultures can be enriched by fairy tales written by a Dane and I embrace if they want to take it to heart locally and make local adaptation BUT changing the very fabric of the story to always provide a happy ending makes no sense to me. I feel sorry for the debate level that have surrounded this. First Disney adaptation were a crime and so are the new, but because they butcher the story, not because what colour the skin of the mermaid have. For the interested I can add that Hans Christian Andersen were born dirt poor and ended his life among that times intellectuals, powerful and Royals despite his unusual height and aparte look. It was his art that carried him up in life. A period of his life he lived in Nyhavn (Newhabour), Copenhagen, where the ships that had spent many months in the harsh condition waters from Denmark to Greenland hunting whales, primarily for their oil for lamps. Danish culture had already then included stories of mermaids and their ability to lure ships close to reefs to sink them with their beautiful singing and ability to create dangerous treacherous fog. These sailors coming home from these harsh long jobs with money to spend docked in Nyhavn and more than one drunk sailor could provide Andersen with stories of mermaid encounters. If we rewind time even further back a few hundred years unicorns were the "big thing". Since the Viking age Danes and Scandinavians have been travellers and have had open markets themselves, where people were welcomed to trade, thus we were exposed to many cultures through our many harbours, with international ships docking. The Danish monarchy are more than 1200 years old. The Danish Royal family have a skeleton of a Unicorn in their possession to this date. I believe the only in existence globally that are from that timeperiod, where the folklore about unicorns arose. I am not going to bore anyone with the knowledge modern science today can provide us with regarding that unicorn skeleton. I will stick to the original fairy tale that our Danish Royal family are the only one in the world that have a unicorn skeleton. Lets focus on bringing just a little magic and some real emotions that do not harm into our kids life and let it, and them, evolve from there... I am not going to watch Disney´s butchered version with any kids. I find it useless, maybe even harmful, but I WILL continue to read the original stories of Hans Christian Andersen laud for children if given the option. Now a days it can also serve as an introduction to how people in the past lived. It just are a more healthy and gives food for thoughts. The brain are functioning as a muscle. Use it and it grows. Reflections and thinking about better solutions than it materialised in the sad fairy tale are fibres to the brain. Sugar or fibres. The choice should be easy, but seems, from the debate, that the sugar feed have been ongoing a loooong time.

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halle auditioned first and NONE of the other actors could match her talent so obviously they picked her since she set the bar so high . Get over it ! its a kids movie ffs ..

Hollywood has always whitewashed, Dummy. Ghengis Khan was played by John Wayne. Elizabeth Taylor was Cleopatra but clearly white. Mickey Rourke put Asian face for a role in Breakfast at Tiffany's/ The problem is equality feels like oppression to you.