Talk:The Little Mermaid (live-action film)/@comment-25622606-20190705103131/@comment-1672596-20190709112327

"For all the people going "but the 1989 movie already changed the source material!":

the original story was Christian, written by a Christian author, with a heavy Christian message.

Yet no one seems to be asking to put the Christian messages back into the story."

I actually don't see how they removed the Christian messages from the Disney version. They still had that wedding, not to mention Ursula was painted in a very Satanic light. If anything, the Disney version pushed far more Christian messages than the original if you ask me. I can certainly state that Ariel was far more of a self-sacrificing character than in the original, considering both her nearly becoming Shark Food just to save Flounder, nearly being hit by flaming debris just to save Eric, or how about how she allowed Vanessa to marry Eric and made absolutely no effort to stop the marriage or ruin it despite knowing full well the price Ariel would have to pay (and in fact, Ariel when she did stop it only did so AFTER learning that Ursula disguised herself as Vanessa and brainwashed Eric). The last bit was a stark contrast to the original where she actually deeply considered outright murdering the prince and his bride just to become a mermaid again and stave off death. Heck, it's actually implied that Ariel converted to Christianity in the ending.

And personally, I actually fail to see how the original truly pushed Christian messages, anyhow. The overall story involved a mermaid who didn't have any real attachment to humanity and only bothered to go after the Prince out of existential angst over lacking a soul. I don't know about you, but claiming someone lacks any soul at all isn't exactly a Christian message. That's more of an atheist message. Not to mention the method the mermaid had to get a soul just came across as too pagan, really. The fact that the mermaid committed suicide if anything would have barred her from going into heaven (yes, she actually committed suicide when she jumped into the water. If she just stood there as the sun came up, that wouldn't have been suicide since she was dying anyway.). There's even evidence that HCA mostly wrote the story due to being a spurned lover. Now, The Little Matchgirl? That actually did a LOT better in pushing Christian messages.

"In fact, "A Wrinkle in Time" took out the vast majority of Christian messages from the original book, and no one complained."

Actually, I'd beg to differ regarding A Wrinkle in Time's changes not being complained about. I know Breitbart and PJMedia actually did make a big fuss about the changes and how it wasn't good at all. Not to mention, the fact that A Wrinkle in Time was a box office bomb would point to a lot of people not thinking it was all that good that they gutted religion from it.