No different from the racist backlash, that Ismael Cruz Cordova experienced when playing an Elven archer on Rings of Power.
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What is disappointing though, is that when Bailey's casting was announced last year, she received a torrent of abuse online, slamming her and Disney for recasting Ariel as a Black mermaid. Let's discuss a few in particular:Īriel: Hands down, Halle Bailey's performance as Ariel is amazing. Next, I’d like to shift gears into characterization. So, when the "reveal" scene came between Ariel and Triton in the cave, I wasn't surprised at all. Rather, I suggest that the filmmakers really take advantage of the original tale by incorporating key references such as the coming of age ceremony (when a mermaid turns fifteen, she is permitted to swim to the surface for the first time to catch a glimpse of the above world) and the grandmother figure. Anderson's tales notably have the protagonist enduring torture and promotes what many perceive as a cult of suffering, death, and transcendence for children rivaled only by what passed for the spiritual edification of children in Puritan cultures. the little mermaid's tongue cut out by the sea witch, or her feet bleeding every time she walks-like "treading on sharp knives"). Now, granted this is a kid's film and they're not going to draw everything from the original tale (i.e. I would go so far as to suggest that they could've afforded to draw more from the older, much darker fairy tale of Hans Christian Anderson. This film has the potential to set the tone by going back to the original fairy tale and finding some more of that depth, but I'm not quite sure it's there yet.
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The Ariel we see in the movie has been silenced by her own father, again and again, when she has tried to convince him to leave behind prejudices and fears that she knows to be wrong-a plot point which I will examine later. Ariel is not without the ability to cry in the live-action version– but she is unable to speak, and that silencing was happening even before she gave her voice to Ursula.
However, the nod to Hans Christian Anderson doesn’t necessarily have much relevance to the current film – there is no reference to Ariel’s inability to cry or feel. Then you start to get mad at yourself again, but you realize you only have a few more words to write and if you finish that (and maybe find a hat) then you can go eat. You want food, but you can't go out into the world with your hair sticking up and your breath smelling like Goldfish and sour cream and onion chips.
Then you realize as you begin to finish your article for the Odyssey that you haven't showered yet and it's almost 12:30 a.m. So instead, you watch a video someone posted that ended up in your news feed and you decide to start working again. It reads "good morning," but all you can think about is how you can't tell her how stressed out you are because she can't help. So you decide to take a break from looking at all your horribly written work and decide to go on Facebook, where you see you have a message from your mom. Then you suddenly get a wonderful idea and you start working, but that self-doubt creeps right back in and you realize it's actually trash and you scrap the entire script you just wrote for your film.
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