Okay so on Twitter someone said Samuel L. Jackson should play Triton and I agree if only for this gem - “SEBASTIAN! KEEP THAT MOTHAFUCKIN HUMAN AWAY FROM MY MOTHAFUCKIN DAUGHTER!! *Smites him with sea lightning*”
Nah, I like the Idris Elba suggestion better. Sam Jackson doesn't have the "physicality" for that role.
Elba would be a cool choice. Everyone needs more Idris Elba in their lives. What's Keith David up to these days aside from voicing the President of the United States on Rick and Morty?
Clancy Brown should voice Sebastian. It is a rule of the universe that if you have a talking crab it must be voiced by Clancy Brown
Actually being progressive is promoting a character or creating a new story about character of color or of an LGBT character. Not changing a established character to score brownie points. Starfire didn't need to be african american, they could have just used Cyborg or Bumblebee,or Aqualad characters who are already african american who are already Titans. Starfire isn't even white she's Orange skinned. She's an Alien. Any race of actress could of played her as long as she was Orange and looked and acted like the comic version. So to me they are being racist to Orange skinned people. And yes I'm angry they didn't spend the 20 dollars it would have taken to paint beast boy green too. Deadshot didn't need to be Will Smith, they could have just used Bronze Tiger or Black Spider. Nobody cared when they introduced Jack Harkness a LBGT character to Doctor who, he was funny popular and got his own spin off. You create or promote these types of characters. When you change established ones all you do is create controversy. Especially famous ones. The more famous they are the more fans of the older ones will have issues with the change, not because they are against some race,sex or religion but because they grew up with the character and the change doesn't go with their long term picture of the character. You have to prove the change is justified. You don't make Captain Kirk black, you promote a character like Benjamin Sisko. (Who is awesome btw any guy with the guts to punch Q...) But hollywood isn't willing to promote or take a chance on a new character, so they are lazy and just change an established one. They do this to promote controversy and get media buzz actually, but also so that if it fails they can say that the reason it failed it the audience were bigots and weren't ready to be accepting. Not that the acting was bad and the story wasn't well written. Changing a character's race, sex, or sexual orientation doesn't mean you have a good story. It's a short term way to get attention, and it's being over used so much it's going to stop working quickly. I don't care about any of the above, but I'm getting sick of lazy Hollywood storytelling. Then when their movie does poorly saying the audience hates women are racists, or are some kind of bigot and that is why people don't like their movie. Not that the main character in the movie had no story arc, or the main actress or actor had a wooden performance. Or the plot made no sense. No the people who didn't like it are all racists.
You really hit the nail on the head. I’d give you a medal if I could. Really it’s just shameless pandering to distract from bad storytelling. Too many writers these days think that a character that is gay, black, Muslim, etc. is good enough character development. That’s really only a small fraction a person’s identity though, and it’s basically writers wanting accolades without having to put in the work of telling stories where a character starts in one place emotionally or psychologically and ends up in another place at the end of the adventure through a logical series of events. Like I said earlier, that original live action movie that Disney is planning about an African princess sounds interesting, and that’s a character that’s being built from the ground up. With this, they’re just making a pointless change because they want to make a statement and they think they can cover their ass if it fails exactly like you said.
Almost every Disney live action remake has either critically bombed or just done alright. Alladin did nothing to buck this trend and that had the Will Smith memes backing it. Controversies the only way they can TRY to market this schlock. I don't understand why Disney feels the need to waste money on crap like this when they have some of the biggest franchises under their belt. Who is this for?
Eh. They're both grotesque villains you love to hate so I'm alright with this. The only difference is intentionality.
It’s pretty much fan service. They know people grew up loving their movies and paying extra to get special event tickets at their theme parks to be part of the Disney Princess experience. Unfortunately, Disney has realized that it’s guaranteed money without as much effort, and it’s actually working for them. I never really cared for Cinderella in the first place, so that movie didn’t really do anything for me outside of some good performances and introducing the lovely Lily James to the world. I don’t really count Maleficent as a remake as it’s clearly a different interpretation of the story even if the costume and set design is all very similar. I liked Jungle Book quite a bit. My only gripe is that I prefer the ending of the original movie. Beauty and the Beast was just ok. It was well cast, but it’s just the animated movie with one extra song. I didn’t see the Aladdin remake. My sister said it was better than she expected but not a great movie. The Lion King is a tricky situation for me because I love The Lion King so much, and I am curious about the remake. After that though, I’m done with the live action remake trend unless they do ones for Atlantis and Treasure Planet.
Assuming Melissa McCarthy is gonna be Ursula, as in a white actress opposing a black actress, how do you think they'll write around the part where Ariel becoming her "slave"?
We can cross that bridge if we get there, but hey, Ursula could always just be eating the poor, unfortunate souls who don’t pay up. Hence why she’s so big. I kid. I only say that because as a kid that’s what I was told by a cousin, that Ursula was fat from eating them. “You know, for kids!”
