[ SECRET POST #4570 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4570 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

agreed tbh. i would much rather see them do more things like princess and the frog or coco, where the diversity was organic and an actual part of the story rather than just a 'look how progressive we are for casting a black actress as this character.'

[(Anonymous)]

They could still do that in addition to doing this. Nothing about casting a black Ariel precludes or hinders them in any way from doing the other things you want them to do.

[(Anonymous)]

While I do think they should also create new characters, I don't have an issue with them casting a black woman for a character that could literally be any race anyway, given that she's a supernatural creature. This isn't like say, casting a white woman as Jasmine, or an Asian woman as Snow White where the race/descriptions are pretty immutable.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know about Snow White--"skin white as snow, hair black as night, lips red as blood" isn't limited to Caucasian, especially with pale skin being valued in a lot of Asian cultures (for better or worse, obviously, but Mulan's matchmaker outfit as well as the geisha aesthetic come to mind, for instance)

Princess and the Frog is a weird argument to use here.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't you think? Since other adaptations of The Frog Prince usually depict the main characters as white (the 1971 Muppet The Frog Prince film had Trudy Young, Gordon Thomson, and, well, Kermit the Frog, Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre in 1982 "The Tale of the Frog Prince" had Robin Williams as the witty Frog Prince and Teri Garr as the vain princess, there was The Frog Prince in 1986 starring John Paragon and Aileen Quinn, and 2001's Prince Charming starring Martin Short, Christina Applegate and Sean Maguire).

Re: Princess and the Frog is a weird argument to use here.

[(Anonymous)]

Not really? They pretty much did a complete reimagining of the story for the film by setting it in New Orleans in the 1910s and then incorporating the culture and setting of the New Orleans of that era into the story in a major way.