The Little Mermaid (2023)
 

Looks incredible

its for children ffs

:joker:

Halle was meant for this role, such a beautiful voice :love:

Agreed. She’s perfect

Nawwww it's for everyone with a soul:love:

Not gingers then :hehe:

All videos of the children crying when the see a black mermaid.
They are me when I see another white person in London :joker:

Had a look at the IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5971474/
Hermione from the Harry Potter Play is playing someone called Queen Selina - Ariel's mother, I'm guessing?
Melissa McCarthy is Ursula - cool, usually like her.
Jacob Tremblay as Founder. Sure, why not, he's on everything these days.
Lin-Manuel Miranda is rumoured to be playing the Chef. Bit of a waste, he's too good for such a small role really.

Don't know the rest.

Cartman is that you?:laugh:

Viral for all the wrong reason. Guy is currently in hiding

I read loads of people started getting very irritate that Halle Berry got the rule and she's far too old!! :laugh:

Well the guy definitely isn't the brightest.:laugh:

Don't get me wrong it's cringy how Hollywood is handling the diversity quota imo, but that's no excuse to be racist like this guy is being.

Giving Black people jobs is cringy?

No.

Having a quota of one of every race having to be cast in most products, regardless of if they're good enough or not is cringy.

I personally would rather a story for example not have a single white character in a Film if it means that the product is better.

Just to clarify, I'm not saying that this remake is necessarily gonna be bad either, in fact I'm a bit more lucky than the fans of the original Film as I've never watched it, so for me The Little Mermaid Remake could be my entry point into the franchise.

Quotas are pretty stupid, and it is indeed rather cringe when (say) High Society in Renaissance-to-Victorian times has an improbable number of black people, which goes unremarked upon and apparently unnoticed. Obviously there weren't zero, but a film depicting zero cropping up in the narrative would be more realistic than multiple.

But anachronisms happen, and it would be hypocritical to actually get "outraged" over that but overlook medieval homes having full sized transparent glass windows. I've never really given much of a shit about that sort of thing. Like it stands out and it's obvious why the filmmakers do it (and sometimes, it's because they gave the best audition - fancy that!) but I'd rather the thing exist than not.

I think the Rings of Power should have been set in Harad (Middle Earth's Africa), and had a majority of the original characters be black.

This new Little Mermaid has been in the works for ages it feels, I'm glad there's finally a trailer & release date .

I'll probably check it out :) .

Tbh the only time an historical themed series has bugged me with it's casting is that one Show that had Anne Boleyn be Mixed Race, because that's an historical figure that really existed, and she weren't a mixed race woman.

Otherwise I am open to a bit of unrealistic casting for that time period, like I am open to Rings Of Power if it's any good.

RoP is just boring tbh.

Is there documentation of this supposed ‘quota’ or are you just repeating all of these white replacement theories you’ve probably seen online?

I have heard that tbf.

I hope to feel differently though.:laugh:

Well I'm going with the Shows that I've watched.

Like for example the CSI Vegas show that was on Alibi, the Show grew on me as time went along, but it's quite clear to see that all of the new cast (including the white guy) were cast based purely on demographics rather than on acting talent or having a great character, that luckily for the writers came together for them as the Season went along.

Plus there was NCIS: LA replacing two characters with two newbies that have one attribute each, Rountree's personality is that his black & Fatima is being a Muslim, if anything that's prejudiced from the writers, not me for noticing their blatant bad writing.

And those groups that you're on about are insane, they can't handle seeing a black person or a woman leading a Show, that is definitely not my style.

For me I like to see myself as a Rachel Rice when it comes to the diversity on TV argument, I personally really don't mind black people getting roles on TV, because without listing all of the Shows/Movies off, I have liked a fair few black characters over the years, because to me a good character is a good character, regardless of their appearance.

However I don't support forced diversity, and to me that means anybody being a token in a Show, not just black people.

Okay this Film sounds like a mess.

They've hired a black actress to play Ariel, but they're gonna CGI her to look white?

Why not just hire a white actress then? Or you know be brave and stick with the decision that they've made?

Not following this at all as its a movie aimed at little kids but what the hell if this is true....:shrug:

Just leave the character black ...dear me

Amazon Studios says:
Though to their credit they allow exceptions if the verisimilitude of the historical or sociological context demands it.

ABC Studios (Disney) has some policies:
(Comes from a pdf linked under "Content") The website is region-locked, so I had to link it through a USA proxy.

The BBC has specific strategies too:
That wasn't a copypasta, I found all the info in about five minutes total by googling.

Whether or not implementing such quotas and strategies is a good, bad, or indifferent thing is another discussion (tbh I'd say indifferent) but to write their existence off as paranoid delusions is demonstrably false.

It's not really the stories that are boring, it's more the characters and pacing. Long form storytelling has its place, but the problem here is in the execution, which sometimes sounds quite appealing :joker: there's just episodes and episodes where noooothiiing happens. The first five episodes could be told in two or three without feeling rushed, y'know?

The characters are also a problem. They're nearly all boring or unlikeable. The best bits are with Elrond, Durin, and Disa. I wish it was just them three having Eleven and Dwarven adventures.

But that's my opinion. It's mirrored elsewhere in both senses of the word :joker: so, eye of the beholder and all that!

Tbh that sounds fake? I heard that someone on social media shared some footage where they "fixed" her themselves, but I really doubt Disney would do that.
(Apart from for the China release)