Live action versions of The Little Mermaid and Pinocchio provide the two latest examples of fan-baiting, as Hollywood manufactures racism in order to provoke controversy that generates publicity.
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8 replies on “Provocation: From Little Mermaid to Pinocchio, How Hollywood’s Fan-baiting Machine Creates Racism”
Uh, oh. Looks like YouTube yanked this video. Or else there’s something more wrong with your technical problems.
BTW, is there any reason why on the video thumbnail you spelled ‘provocaton’ wrong, with a ‘k’ instead of a ‘c’? Or were you going for the same effect I intend when I spell ‘Soviet Socialist Repooblik of Kalifornia’ the way I do?
BTW … I love John Wayne, but I had to turn Geghis Khan off. It was THAT bad. He didn’t look the part, or sound the part, and he was surrounded by actors who looked and sounded their parts.
To me, the ideal woman has hair. The ideal man does, too. The ideal woman has lots of lush, wispy hair.
Now a woman with a VERY pretty face can get away with short hair … it actually helps draw attention TO the face. Her best feature. If it’s not her best feature hair helps frame and draw some attention away from any flaws.
I know, that’s an opinion, but I’d be willing to bet it exists very broadly in all populations.
I don’t care if somebody makes a Pinnochio with a black Tinkerbell with an all black cast. Or even a partially back cast. I don’t care. I don’t think one should mess with historical correctness … but … meh.
Just don’t do it to shove YOUR virtue over it down my throat. Do it because you love the story and it fits the story and do it in a way that does the story right. In a way that does not alter it.
My first wife, a redhead, had lots of gorgeous hair. One time she decided it would be a lot easier to care for if she cut it short. I told her that her hair worn short made her butt look big. She grew her hair back and the subject was never broached again.
Pinocchio is a dark allegory full of Freemason imagery. Jiminy Cricket is a stand-in for another J.C., telling a young person just given life and free will that God’s desire, told to Pinocchio by God’s stand-in, the Blue Fairy – that proving himself brave, truthful, and unselfish will make him a “real boy”, to let his conscience be his guide. The Blue fairy is God’s emissary appearing when divine intervention is required. It’s set in Italy, but God’s emissary is not absolutely, necessarily White. But it does stand out as forced and gratuitous.
The Little Mermaid is a fairy tale set in Copenhagen. Although mermaids were in every culture on earth, every race that had access to Oceans, and every race thought mermaids to be of their race, I agree with past commenters that making her black is also forced and gratuitous.
I’m with Zo … I don’t care … it’s the objective that annoys. It’s the preachiness. Plus it would be better if we made NEW characters in NEW stories rather than intentionally re-cast a character for purposes of activism.
Zo, in terms of cultural appropriation I’m surprised you didn’t drop a great line of yours that I’ve repeated many times – how would Leftists feel if we made Captain Planet straight?
Pinocchio is unwatchable. I gave up after about a half hour. The enchanting music is gone. Tom Hanks and Jiminy cricket seemed to compete for the most annoying character role. The story is dumbed down and altered. Perhaps I misremember the movie we watched a hundred times as kids, but I don’t remember Geppetto having had a wife and child who died. Is this to explain why the old man wants a “real boy”? Disney may be a little sensitive about the groomer issue and wanted to avoid a GePedo accusation. Also, every clock was a quaint plug for a Disney movie property, many completely anachronistic. The charm is gone along with the magic.