Anonymous
Post 07/07/2019 23:53     Subject: Re:Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
Anonymous wrote:Beauty and the Beast was horribly disappointing due to Emma Watson’s terrible voice and dull acting. If this new Ariel can sing and act, she can be blue and I’d say great! I am a minority and am totally cool with a black Ariel, though I’d like her to still have long red hair for sentimental reasons.

JESUS CHRIST PEOPLE
Lots of black people are born with red hair!!!!!!
Stop talking like Ariel being black means she can’t have red hair!
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2019 23:42     Subject: Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
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Anonymous wrote:I’d just like to add there was no outrage when Captain Marvel was casted as a white woman when she was originally a black woman but, I guess keeping things classic didnt matter in that situation

Captain Marvel was originally a white woman, just like portrayed in the movie. BUT! The second Captain Marvel was Monica Rambeaux, who is probably the daughter of Carol’s best friend in the movie. So she might pick up the name in a sequel.


Sorry, but you have it backwards. The first woman to go by Captain Marvel was Monica Rambeaux. And thats the thing about it, no one cares or even made a big enough fuss for this knowledge to be mainstream. But it is what it is.


Carol came before Monica. And the first Captain Marvel was an alien (a white guy male alien).


Mar-Vel —old white guy/alien
Ms. Marvel —Carol
Captain Marvel —Monica

—Different poster


Thank you to the last poster for proving my point. The first female Captain Marvel was Monica, and no one was outraged when she was portrayed as a white woman in film. Just saying. No one is ever outraged enough to create petitions when the roles are reversed although the God's of Egypt outrage came close, rightfully so.

The current Ms. Marvel (in comics and a new TV series) is Kamala Khan, so I wonder if Marvel just didn’t want to confuse current readers? Or maybe it’s a conflict between Marvel films and Marvel TV (why we didn’t see Luke Cage or Jessica Jones in any of the movies).

Monica is in the movie, though. We prob just have to wait to see her grow up.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2019 23:13     Subject: Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
I thought Melissa McCarthy was rumored to be Ursula?

And FWIW, I enjoyed Aladdin (just saw it yesterday) and Beauty and the Beast. I was reticent to see it but actually enjoyed it. Emma did just fine.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2019 22:58     Subject: Re:Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast was horribly disappointing due to Emma Watson’s terrible voice and dull acting. If this new Ariel can sing and act, she can be blue and I’d say great! I am a minority and am totally cool with a black Ariel, though I’d like her to still have long red hair for sentimental reasons.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2019 22:50     Subject: Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
LOL at all the people BIG MAD about this pretend character not being white.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2019 22:41     Subject: Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
Omg, for the past few weeks I thought I was hearing that Halle Berry was the new Little Mermaid. I kept thinking who cares about her race, isn’t she a bit too old!? So glad I opened this thread! I love the new choice.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2019 22:35     Subject: Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
She’s lovely and I’m looking forward to it!
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2019 22:32     Subject: Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
Anonymous wrote:The Little Mermaid is set in Denmark.


They are all racists there, because they are not cool black dudes speaking English.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2019 22:29     Subject: Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
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Anonymous wrote:The story of a girl who gives up her voice for a pair of legs in order to snag a man. I was hoping Disney would let this one fade into obscurity.


I like the music.


Same here, I can't wait to hear Halle's rendition of Ariel's songs.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2019 22:28     Subject: Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:I’d just like to add there was no outrage when Captain Marvel was casted as a white woman when she was originally a black woman but, I guess keeping things classic didnt matter in that situation

Captain Marvel was originally a white woman, just like portrayed in the movie. BUT! The second Captain Marvel was Monica Rambeaux, who is probably the daughter of Carol’s best friend in the movie. So she might pick up the name in a sequel.


Sorry, but you have it backwards. The first woman to go by Captain Marvel was Monica Rambeaux. And thats the thing about it, no one cares or even made a big enough fuss for this knowledge to be mainstream. But it is what it is.


Carol came before Monica. And the first Captain Marvel was an alien (a white guy male alien).


Mar-Vel —old white guy/alien
Ms. Marvel —Carol
Captain Marvel —Monica

—Different poster


Thank you to the last poster for proving my point. The first female Captain Marvel was Monica, and no one was outraged when she was portrayed as a white woman in film. Just saying. No one is ever outraged enough to create petitions when the roles are reversed although the God's of Egypt outrage came close, rightfully so.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2019 00:36     Subject: Re:Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
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Anonymous wrote:And next we will have a black Mulan


News flash: Fa Mu Lan was an actual historical person who really lived. Ariel was not an actual historical figure because mermaids are not real.


How about the *actual, historical figures* from Hamilton being portrayed by POC - which they weren't? Any outrage over that?

There was a point being made with Hamilton it was delivered it was satirical it was ironic it was a play on the fact that historical figures of color are often change to be white people.
Some of y’all fools are’s are so damn dumb it is actually unfreaking believable


Hilarious that YOU are calling people dumb. Edit your text. Then stop with the excuses that it’s ok for casting to go your way but not the reverse. Pp had a good point about Hamilton.
I won’t see this movie anyway because it’s live action and not likely to be very good given that. But frankly the reasons you provide sound like justification to scream I AM RIGHT!


DP.

Are you really commanding the PP to "Edit your text"? Who are you to command other people what to do? Slavery and Jim Crow ended a long time ago. Looks like you were born too late.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2019 16:01     Subject: Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
Anonymous wrote:The story of a girl who gives up her voice for a pair of legs in order to snag a man. I was hoping Disney would let this one fade into obscurity.


I like the music.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2019 15:38     Subject: Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
The story of a girl who gives up her voice for a pair of legs in order to snag a man. I was hoping Disney would let this one fade into obscurity.
Anonymous
Post 07/06/2019 14:52     Subject: Re:Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
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Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute! Is the love interest guy going to be black too?!? Will everyone be black?

Omfg can you imagine!!!!!


Just think how great “The Wiz” turned out!



I’m getting so confused...

I thought you guys didn’t see race.

Anonymous
Post 07/06/2019 14:45     Subject: Re:Halle Baily being the new Little Mermaid
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wait a minute! Is the love interest guy going to be black too?!? Will everyone be black?

Omfg can you imagine!!!!!


Just think how great “The Wiz” turned out!