[ SECRET POST #2718 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2718 ⌋

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Comments

[gabzillaz]

Was that a Frozen fan, though? Frozen fans will bring the "historical accurate" walls of text to justify Disney having only white people in the movie(when the original story wasn't 100% white people and when Disney already translated a german fairy tale and had a black protagonist starring it it)

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I admit, I haven't watched The Princess and the Frog, but just going on simple facts like the one that the german tale was shifted to a setting where large numbers of POCs is not only common but expected makes me think it would work.

Frozen didn't do that. Arendelle comes of as a Scandinavian country, just like the original tale, so being able to believe in a race-shift is a bit more difficult for me. Could they have race-shifted? Maybe, if they totally moved the story to an apparent area of the world where the majority of the population would be expected to be POC. North Asian Snow Queen? Tibetan? Inuit? Maybe that would have worked, but they made it Scandinavian, so I expected a white royal family.

(I can't believe in an African Snow Queen would pass, simply because of a lack of snowy climate in Africa.)

A few more POC background characters may not have been so bad though, especially if they were visitors attending the coronation.

[gabzillaz]

Well, Frozen has nothing to do with the original tale, not to mention that they removed several characters that were not white (like the Robber Girl). Most of those characters were also female, which would have solved some of the representation issues of the movie (maybe people wouldn't be so bothered about Elsa and Anna looking like their mother's twin sisters if there were other female characters, but the rest of the cast is all male). Kristoff could have been a female character, but then we wouldn't have the forced love subplot.

Arendelle is fictional, the only thing stopping Disney from not including POC is... well nothing really, they simply didn't want to, it has nothing to do with historical or geographical accuracy (Elsa's dress, just to name one thing, is anything but historically accurate) And if they were going to change the original story so much, why not set it in Japan? The Andes?

There were POC in the background... but that's the issue, they were background.