The long-awaited live action ‘The Little Mermaid’ won its first and passionate teaser trailer released during the D23 – and, as was to be expected, the video became the target of comments from racist and prejudiced people.
The new adaptation of the classic story was already suffering from attacks from more conservative people for bringing Halle Bailey, a black girl, playing Ariel. Now, the release of the trailer has attracted a flurry of dislikes and hateful comments, which tear down derogatory words for the actress and singer for the fact that she is black and for the fact that they have not cast a white person to play the mermaid.
According to the page @SeriesBrasil, on Twitter, the video has already accumulated more than 600 thousand dislikes.
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Trailer for “The Little Mermaid” reaches almost 600 thousand dislikes, after the look of Halle Bailey was released.
Users point out that they are dissatisfied with the choice of the actress because she is black and does not have red hair like animation. pic.twitter.com/CM5y42J4HT
— Séries Brasil (@SeriesBrasil) September 10, 2022
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Some netizens even tried to justify prejudiced comments by saying that Bailey’s casting mischaracterizes the original character of House Mouse, while others have been saying that representation is killing the classics.
I see nothing wrong with people being bothered by not being faithful to the original, I myself don’t bother with not being faithful, for me the acting, the dialogues and how the script is executed are worth much more, but there are those who call, yeah the person’s right, if a black character changed +
— Datte supports bald Ceni 🇾🇪 (@Datte_on) September 11, 2022
I hope the next black panther is blonde with blue eyes to see if you guys will defend in the same way
— Lalo (@Lalo45889008) September 11, 2022
I don’t see it as racism, I see it as what I’ve said before:
The “Disney Classics” are not “classics” for nothing.
You can’t change the characteristics of a classic and expect everyone to like it. ++— Brazilian in Portugal (@Liv_Nucci) September 11, 2022
Representativeness is ending the works
— Neidson alves🇺🇸 (@Neidsonalves10) September 11, 2022
people don’t understand that this is not racism, but a mischaracterization of a character, there are no redheaded black people (natural), Ariel will always be white and redhead, there is Tiana who is black would you agree if they put a white character ?
— Ana Carolina (@aninha_timboo) September 10, 2022
Remembering that the film has a premiere scheduled for the day May 26, 2023.
The live-action adaptation of the classic story will have some changes to the main characters’ backstory – including the iconic villain Ursula (Melissa McCarthy).
The information indicates that the sea witch will be Ariel’s (Bailey) aunt, something that had already been considered for the animated version of the series. disney. In fact, in the short story signed by Hans Christian Andersenthe sorceress is unnamed and does not have much prominence in history, having only emerged as the main antagonistic force in 1989.
The cast is also made up of Daveed Diggswho will give life to Sebastian, Melissa McCarthy as the villain Ursula, awkwafina (‘Jumanji: Next Phase’) as the hilarious Scuttle Seagull, Jacob Tremblay (‘The predator’) as the iconic flounder fish and Jonah Hauer-King (‘Way home’) as Prince Eric.
The Oscar Winner Javier Bardem (‘Mother!’) will be King Triton. Zendaya, Keke Palmer and Chloe Bailey are being tipped to play Ariel’s sisters, while Gugu Mbatha-Raw should play Queen Athena. Jessica Alexander and Noma Dumezweni complete the cast, with no roles yet revealed.
Directed by Rob Marshallthe work features music from the original animated film and new music from Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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