Thread:Akg129/@comment-30529396-20190706191920/@comment-1672596-20190708162504

Regarding the hate against the change against Ariel, eh, I wouldn't say over the top, really. I mean, Lindsay Lohan auditioned for the role, and then there's the matter of how Halle Bailey has mostly been in dud movies and sings the wrong genre. She's simply a poor fit, and that's not even taking into account her skin color (which, quite frankly, doesn't even make sense due to Ariel living under the sea for most of the film, even less so when Scuttle's species being changed from seagull to diving bird would suggest she's going to spend even LESS time at the surface than in the original). Doesn't help either that Lin Manuel Miranda being involved in the remake's filming would suggest her hiring was in fact due to race pandering and not actual skillsets (especially when he was previously involved with the production of "Hamilton", which had some notoriety for barring whites from being part of the production). I just know it's going to be a dumpster fire.

So far as the Aladdin remake and how Jasmine was handled, I really can't speak one way or another on how Jasmine was depicted since I never saw it, or for that matter saw any commentary on it. But I can mention that Jafar definitely came across as very threatening of a character, coming far closer to a Hitler, Stalin, or Mao than most (especially including Claude Frollo). Of course, I do still think having Aladdin wear shoes in the remake was a mistake (he's supposed to be so poor he needs to steal food just to survive, meaning he most likely cannot afford footwear). And personally, I actually could tolerate the original Jasmine more than I can the original Belle right now (original in this case meaning the original films, not the original stories). At least Jasmine had the excuse of being effectively forced into getting married as an excuse for her more unpleasant treatment of the princes, while Belle had no proverbial gun to the back of her head yet STILL acted like a complete jerk to Gaston in the 1991 film. Besides, she could have been worse: She could have just as easily been a golddigger, which actually was their original plan for her.

I can also state that the Beauty and the Beast remake definitely fixed a LOT of problems from the original film from what I gather, like Beast's exact age (the original implied he was 11 when he got cursed), how Phillipe even knew where the castle was (in the original, Phillipe was so busy trying to save his own butt from the wolves and ditching Maurice to even KNOW about the castle, much less that Maurice went there), Belle's depiction as well as that of the triplets (thanks to Linda Woolverton insisting on pushing far left feminism onto children, Belle acts more like her sisters from the original story than the actual Belle, and ironically enough the triplets even with their crushing on Gaston came far closer to acting like Belle from the original tale), actually bothering to explain WHY Belle not only was at the village in the first place, but also WHY she can't just pack up and leave despite actually having that ability compared to her predecessors, who at least had an actual story-related reason for not trying to leave their troubles at first, among others. If any movie actually NEEDED a remake, Beauty and the Beast certainly did. Kind of wish they left LeFou alone, and while I could tolerate the villagers being nasty to Belle due to it at least actually showing Belle as having some justification for wanting to leave the village, I do think painting them as not tolerating females having literacy was a bit much (of course, then again, the original movie had that implication anyways).

I'm not sure The Little Mermaid really had any mistakes other than maybe some animation errors. Probably the only thing that MIGHT need work is possibly making more apparent that Ariel DID in fact regret her going to Ursula (though even there, I could see she regretted it just fine), maybe spending a bit more time with her sisters. Those are the only two non-animation errors I can possibly think of that might need to be fixed, and even those at least had expanded universe stuff to cover it.