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⌈ Secret Post #4568 ⌋

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all hail the mouse

Entertainment companies affect my life so little compared to politicians, idgaf about them. And no, the shit that Disney lobbies for has no affect on my life either.

Public domain and intectual property laws affect a lot though.

Re: What's your opinion of our Disney overlords?

(Anonymous) - 2019-07-09 23:08 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2019-07-09 23:22 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What's your opinion of our Disney overlords?

(Anonymous) - 2019-07-09 23:23 (UTC) - Expand

You don't spend money on entertainment products?

Re: What's your opinion of our Disney overlords?

(Anonymous) - 2019-07-09 23:09 (UTC) - Expand

They are a multinational conglomerate that exercises a degree of power and market consolidation that I fundamentally object to. They should be broken up on anti-trust grounds. I don't trust them and I don't like them, as a corporate entity.

^

Even if I am super excited for Artemis Fowl next year.

They both should have to divest or split.

Re: Amazon, too.

(Anonymous) - 2019-07-09 23:48 (UTC) - Expand

They need to pay their park employees more.

so how do we all feel about black Ariel?

I'm fine with it as a concept, but it sucks Disney only cares about diversity when it's profitable and it's part of a creatively bankrupt reboot effort.

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(Anonymous) - 2019-07-09 23:56 (UTC) - Expand

I think she can actually sing? So that’s what matters most to me. Also she cute. So I’m good.

It’s so stupid seeing white people freak out about black Ariel when they have billions of white female characters to choose from as role models. It’s like black Hermione, I don’t see why not and even if I’m skeptical about whether creators or companies are as progressive as they present them selves to be, as long as the end result is a POC cast in the role of a major white character why would I object?

Yay? I dunno - i doubt i'll see the movie, as that's not a favorite of mine and i'm not all that excited about 99 percent of Disney stuff.

But for fuck's sake, white people. She's a MERMAID. She could be PURPLE. And in the original fairy tale, it says her skin is 'pure and clear as a rose leaf', so actually, it seems she's green.

I've been seeing a lot of "so what?" and share the sentiment.

If she can sing and act, I’m good.

Totes fine with it, though I do have to admit to a moment of going 'oh. huh. okay?' because the Ariel I grew up with is white, so to me, she's always going to default to white.

And I tend to feel conflicted over taking a previously established character and changing their skin color mostly because it does tend to create a level of intellectual dissonance in me and because I feel like it would be better to create a new character, who is black, than take a character who is white and paint them a new color.

I liked the spider man movie and how they handled it? There's a black kid who is spider man! But OH LOOK there's ALL THESE OTHER spider men too, so I'm cool with alt. universes/two takes on the character existing alongside one another but I feel weird when one take is just meant to take over a previous take?

Re: What's your opinion of our Disney overlords?

(Anonymous) - 2019-07-10 02:39 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What's your opinion of our Disney overlords?

(Anonymous) - 2019-07-10 03:57 (UTC) - Expand

I wish she was still going to be a redhead.

I watched The Little Mermaid like 100 times between the ages of 4 and 6, and for me, the visual aesthetic of Ariel on the screen is kind of important: pale beige, red, green, and purple. The red hair is the real loss. I almost don't understand why you'd even do a remake without the red hair, to be honest. So I feel a bit conflicted about black Ariel, if only because I don't think Ariel's signature flaming red hair would suit black!Ariel, and it seems that Disney agrees, since it looks like she's not going to have the hair in the remake.

HOWEVER, it's not such a big deal to me that I'm going to be salty over it. Priorities are a thing. My priorities are that I'm happy for the people who are getting representation because of this change, and I hope the movie is good and does well.

Re: What's your opinion of our Disney overlords?

caerbannog - 2019-07-10 13:31 (UTC) - Expand

As much as I have enjoyed the things they've offered in the past, I think they've gotten too big and it needs to be stopped, or at least plateau for a while before going on a decline. I'm hoping a few companies come out of nowhere and become serious competition for them in various areas, only they can't afford to buy them out.

(Oh, leave me alone, I can dream...)

I like their movies, so I am good.

I don’t care about Star Wars or the MCU being part of Disney. If Disney ate Warners Brothers and the other big mainstream American Hollywood companies people’s reactions would be hilarious, so hell yeah I’m looking forward to this happening LOL!

They seem to pay more taxes and have more respect for privacy than certain other mega corporations that shall go unnamed, so they're pretty low on my antitrust hit list.

I'm looking forward to bingeing a month's worth of my favorite animated classics when the streaming service comes out - although I wouldn't put it past Disney to do some sort of rotating nonsense so you have to stay routinely subscribed to watch them all.

I hope they put some of the old shows on. Even Stevens, Lizzie McGuire, etc.

I have zero interest in the live action stuff. I'm actually kind of baffled it's a thing. I wish they would do more original stuff.

Reducing copyright to “life of the author + 25 years, and “release date of media + 50 years” for corporations, and “release date + 25 years” for adaptations of stuff that was in the public domain to start with, would get rid of 3/4 of my issues with Disney. They take stuff out of the public domain and not only do they never put it back, they never put anything in public domain at all. At this rate, when the earth is being eaten by our expanding red sun, Disney will still have exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse.

Re: What's your opinion of our Disney overlords?

(Anonymous) - 2019-07-10 11:46 (UTC) - Expand

I don't watch Disney, Marvel or Star Wars movies. I liked SW when I was a kid but I'm not into it anymore and I didn't even read superhero comics when I was a kid. I'm a bad nerd.

I really hope their empire crashes and burns within my lifetime.

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