Made fun of, yes, but there was no outrage, calls for boycotts, etc.

I'm sure I'm missing something super obvious, but can you explain the image?

As to your picture, everyone hated that.

do you remember the original animated "Lion King"?

all the voice actors for the Hyenas were black stereotypes...

I'm sorry but if you think that Zuko is not a hero, you must have sopped watching Avatar after the third episode.

Idris is my man-crush. I wanted him to be Bond

The copyright does not apply to the Andersen original anymore. You just have to make your own twist on the story.

I don't know if anyone outside Australia knows Fern Gully... But anyway, years ago, watching that movie with friends I casually suggested that possibly fairies in Australia would more likely be indigenous looking than white, and got told off for "making everything political". And by migrant friends.

One of whom used to get quite offended at any implication that they were anything other than Australian.

To be fair, skin tone usually develops due to exposure to the sun. If anything, mermaids probably are tanned on top (backs) and pale on their stomachs. Like great whites

Would be better if they actually made new movies with different cultures stories instead of just remaking the old shit too.

They do this outrage bait on purpose though. American society is brain rotted and we need a cause to support or hate. Even in children's movies.

"Uh Mr Drake"

who gives a piss, like genuinely

beyond her name, is there any reason why snow white should be white?

and, like, even then. "brown skinned". Zegler is super pale, you’re just mad she’s not a WASP

anyways fuuuuuck disney for a bunch of reasons, but "casting POC for traditionally white roles" is not one of them.

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I am white but I sit on a board of directors for a majority-black arts org, the founder who is a black woman uses the term African-American.

Not wanting to speak for anyone, but it's probably a mix of your age, social class, background, culture and context that may affect that choice.

We do need some way to qualify them. They're not just regular Americans, like us, due to the excess of pigment. Perhaps, Black-American? Negro-American?

I dislike it no matter the color for most things. There are plenty good actors that would match a characters ethnicity but they decide to go with the opposite of that. Now I’m all for representation and stuff, but when Hollywood does this it either feels forced or ignorant

If the character's ethnicity isn't directly relevant to the story or its message, why does it matter? People of all kinds of heritage live just about anywhere in the world, so a character being from some country doesn't have to determine their ethnicity.

I don't know how to break this to you, but mermaids don't exist.

It's a damn movie. Cast whoever is gonna play the character best. I don't care of brothers and sisters were different or if men played women or women player men.

But I'm used to the theater were roles don't have such a large talent pool.

More so, stop casting people just for their name.

turning a ginger character black

iirc, a lot of the times in old media creators would use red-haired people as stand-in for minorities, basically if they wanted to make a character BIPOC, but the studio wouldn’t let them, they’d make them red-haired instead

got this from hearsay so take it with a grain of salt. but if it’s true, it’s nice that the original visions can be fulfilled now!

(and even if it’s not true, more BIPOC in movies is never a bad thing, even if it comes at the cost of red-haired characters, which whatever it’s not like we’re systematically oppressed)

edit: also I’ll note that Ariel is still red-haired in the remake

Both from marvel, the wise one from dr. Strange and the scarlet witch.