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[W: #303] Get your first look at Halle Bailey as (black) Ariel in The Little Mermaid

Tell us more about your Hollywood producer conspiracy and how it has nothing to do with the common conspiracy theory. You might as well be attacking "globalists" or "bankers". Who do you think you're fooling.

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I'm not fooling anyone. Your posts are idiotic and delusional. That's why you have to make bullshit up and you can't quote anything. But sure....please correct my error by saying that Hollywood isn't dominated by the left. Enlighten me in how that POV is incorrect, I'll wait.
 
Yeah, streaming is cheaper than going to the movies, but sometimes I just like getting my wife out of the house and to a theater, then maybe head to a custard shop. It’s more about the experience. When it comes to buying movies, I usually buy a 4K or BluRay with the digital download feature. I meld the old fashioned with the new, and I do it this way for several reasons: 1) Adding a digital code doesn’t cost much from the base price of the movie; 2) I actually own something, i.e. a piece of physical media that has real monetary value. I don’t have to keep paying streaming licensing fees, and just try selling your Vudu or MoviesAnywhere collection; 3) I own the original content. I don’t have to concern myself with, say, woke feminist prudes convincing Warner Brothers to reduce the size of Lola’s breasts in a future release of Space Jam. I can ogle them—or not—in all of their original glory, just as the film-maker intended.

I’m not a fan of junk cluttering up my house. No need for disks and disk players to store kid movies
 
I'm not fooling anyone. Your posts are idiotic and delusional. That's why you have to make bullshit up and you can't quote anything. But sure....please correct my error by saying that Hollywood isn't dominated by the left. Enlighten me in how that POV is incorrect, I'll wait.

So you believe Hollywood producers are in a conspiracy to destroy America, but it's not an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory? Give us some names.
 
So you believe Hollywood producers are in a conspiracy to destroy America, but it's not an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory? Give us some names.
Quote where I said something about a conspiracy to destroy America.
Quote where I said that Jews could be the only group that would do such a thing.
Quote where I said anything at all, or even implied, Jews.
Prove to me I'm incorrect that Hollywood isn't dominated by the left.
 
Quote where I said something about a conspiracy to destroy America.
Quote where I said that Jews could be the only group that would do such a thing.
Quote where I said anything at all, or even implied, Jews.
Prove to me I'm incorrect that Hollywood isn't dominated by the left.

Right. "Hollywood producers conspiring to destroy America." But not Jews. Got it.
 
Right. "Hollywood producers conspiring to destroy America." But not Jews. Got it.
Why did you use "s in a statement you typed out instead of actually quoting where I said something about "Hollywood producers conspiring to destroy America"? Oh wait...it's because I didn't type that at all. That's a really weird interpretation to take from "Laziest form of pandering", which is what I actually wrote.
 
Why did you use "s in a statement you typed out instead of actually quoting where I said something about "Hollywood producers conspiring to destroy America"? Oh wait...it's because I didn't type that at all. That's a really weird interpretation to take from "Laziest form of pandering", which is what I actually wrote.

Your horseshit herein is the laziest form of pandering and it's to bigots.
 
Your horseshit herein is the laziest form of pandering and it's to bigots.

There’s only been one waring issued in this thread for race-bating. Can you guess when that occurred? ❓ Hopefully, we won’t have another one.
 
I’m not a fan of junk cluttering up my house. No need for disks and disk players to store kid movies

That is a legitimate reason for not buying disks, but then so is not having to repeatedly pay for the same experience for content you have no control over. Then there’s the fact that I actually collect this “junk.” I focus on BluRays and 4K discs based on comics, graphic novels, and Japanese anime and manga. What it cones down to is do whatever it is that floats your boat. If it’s Kim Komando-style minimalism, then knock yourself out.
 
I can deal with black mermaids. But I reserve the right to push back against corporate pimps pandering to social justice crybabies who think they’re always picked last for the team.

I guess it never bothered you before when corporate pimps were pandering to white people since the beginning of media until recently. But now when they pander to others, it's a problem.
 
Sorry, there was a point there. I'm just astounded that you can't grasp it. It wasn't complicated.

You haven't answered the question yet.

You had a question?

Nope. I didn't ask you that.

"Also, would you be OK if Hollywood took an African folktale and made a movie about it but just put white people in it?"

That's literally verbatim what you said.

You not only shifted the question/goalpost, but you used the most idiotic example out there. You think that a group of elite warriors going to rescue a princess isn't a common trope throughout history? Lol...OK. Putting your deflection aside, I'm waiting for the answer to my question still.

I already did answer your question. Hollywood would probably make hundreds of millions off of it if they made it well enough. Just like Alladin, the Emperors new groove, star wars, the Magnificent Seven.

I personally would think its another example of Hollywood's lack of creativity, risk taking, and poaching of story lines.
 
Oh for goodness sakes. The story is a fantasy; nothing wrong with casting an AA actor or any other culture/race.
There is no mention of race in the story so the argument is moot. The title of the movie is NOT The White Little Mermaid

Anthony Mackie got the same backlash for being cast as Captain America.

Why can't a mermaid or Captain America be an actor of color when the story doesn't spefically mention race?

How about white people cast as Native Americans ................. and that's real life
 
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You had a question?

"Also, would you be OK if Hollywood took an African folktale and made a movie about it but just put white people in it?"

That's literally verbatim what you said.
Yes...I had a question, and that was what you put in quotes, Then you wrote:
You mean how George Lucas took a Japanese story of a bunch of samurai infiltrating a fortress to save a princess and made Star Wars out of it?
That didn't answer the question. Then you changed my question to say:
You asked me what would happen if Hollywood took an African folktale and cast it with white characters.
Which wasn't the question. You still haven't answered the question and you're lying.
 
Anyone who thinks is a bad thing is a jerk.


I watched a similar video to this. It's great and adorable and super cool. It's the silver lining behind Disney's cynical play and the left's blatant hypocrisy. I'm glad these girls will get to experience this.
 
I watched a similar video to this. It's great and adorable and super cool. It's the silver lining behind Disney's cynical play and the left's blatant hypocrisy. I'm glad these girls will get to experience this.
I don't see anything cynical about it, nor do I see the hypocrisy.

I think that, in the video, is what it's all about.

And it's about time.
 
I don't see anything cynical about it, nor do I see the hypocrisy.

I think that, in the video, is what it's all about.

And it's about time.
It's cynical because I think Disney considered race in the casting. Maybe that's just me being cynical, but it's been a pattern. The hypocrisy comes into play that Hollywood has been criticized for white washing stories, setting the standard for keeping things in the traditional racial categories. If this was flipped, and a traditionally Black character was cast as white, or an African folklore story was cast white, you'd see way bigger outcry than what is happening in response to this.

I don't think most of the current criticism is actually about Ariel being Black but it's the reasons that I wrote above. But yes...some of them are actual racists.
 
I guess it never bothered you before when corporate pimps were pandering to white people since the beginning of media until recently. But now when they pander to others, it's a problem.

No doubt about it. Life hasn’t always been kind to blacks and other minorities. But the society has evolved over time, and largely for the better, I think.

My favorite opera soprano is Leontyne Price, and not just because she was born in my adopted state of Mississippi. I mean, she did help put the state on the map culturally, and she could carry a tune. But she also had an indescribable aura about her. She had class. Her performances at the Met were a statement to the Klansmen in Jones County, where she was born, that the country was moving forward even if it had to drag them fighting’ and screaming’. (Incidentally, her opera debut involved a character in an Italian libretto adapted from a play by William Shakespeare.)

My favorite baseball player of all time is Jackie Robinson, and not just because he was a great player on my favorite team. As the first black player in Major League Baseball, he exhibited grace while being under tremendous pressure to perform. He, too, had class. On the other hand, we have my candidate for America’s Greatest Race Pimp: LeBron James. You know what? **** that guy. If we didn’t have people like him I think we could find a happy medium between a color blind meritocracy and a nation that respects and honors cultural diversity without seeing everything through a racial prism. At least I hope we could. And to anyone who thinks I’m a bigot because I’m not into SJW, PC crap? **** you, too!
 
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Yes...I had a question, and that was what you put in quotes, Then you wrote:

That didn't answer the question. Then you changed my question to say:

Which wasn't the question.

I'm starting to realize you don't really have a point.

You still haven't answered the question and you're lying.

I did, but I guess you didn't like my answer so you don't want to accept it.
 
I'm starting to realize you don't really have a point.



I did, but I guess you didn't like my answer so you don't want to accept it.
No, you didn't. You are lying. You answered a different question that you made up. I literally put the quotes there for you to read and you still stick with your lies. Pathetic.
 
I have not watched a single live-action adaptation of Disney films. I will not start with this one. And I agree. If you want more diversity and inclusion, I think instead of simply doing a change in racial casting, just create new good content that has a more diverse cast. It is not like it is hard. Disney has done so with other films and shows. Owl House was pretty damn diverse. I loved watching that one with my wife and son.
From the ones I've watched, I have not liked a single one of them, with the exception being Cruella, and that's not a remake, it's a unique story (it's like a 7.8/10 for me). This movie does not interest me, but honestly, the live-action remakes have never interested me.

Though I guess that it is making little black girls happy to see, from what I've seen from some videos on the internet. Which is good; a part of why diversity is so important in media. But I just fine these live-action remakes to be a poor imitation of a much better product, which this looking to be like as well, especially since they hired Melissa McCarthy to play Ursula.
 
I answered your question directly in Post 438.
You didn't. You made an observation. I asked if "YOU" would be OK with it. You're fine with Hollywood taking an African folktale and just putting white people in it? Yes or no?
From the guy who's crying over a black mermaid.
Pointing out hypocrisy and lazy pandering isn't crying. But anything you can to distract that you are absolutely terrified of answering a simple question.
 
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