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The Little Mermaid (2023)
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Chukzombi
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exposing your child to Awkwafina should be a Class 2 felony.
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My daughter wanting to watch a rendition of a movie she loves isn’t abuse, and she enjoyed it for the most part.
now if she had wanted to watch Rocky 5, maybe I woulda put my foot down…but as it was we had a nice time and had ice cream after.
were you this mad in 97 when Brandy played Cinderella?
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man I forgot all about The Last Dragon, I need to watch that again.
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Chukzombi
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The Wiz was actually a creative , more adult themed remake of the 1939 film. it used quality actors and the songs were quite good. it was also based off a Broadway play of the same name and not so much the movie. its also not based on racially homogenous characters/culture. WoO is set in the american midwest, the Wiz is set in NYC. a black midwest or any part of the US girl? yes, plausible. a black mythological creature from ancient northern europe. NO. its a sin to compare that film to this trash movie which will be forgotten about in a few weeks.
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The Wiz? eh everyone i know who watched it thought it was cool. keep in mind Michael Jackson and Diana Ross were huge in the 80s, so a movie with MJ was pretty much awesome to watch. its not like he was in a lot of films.
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Was it a remake of the movie or based on a play and not the movie?????
It was nothing more than race swapping, taking a well known beloved IP and making it black instead of being creative and inventing something of your own.
Quality actors?
Micheal Jackson, Diana Ross, Nipsey Russell?
Chuk is going to Chuk I guess.
Never change bud, never change
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Richard Pryor, Mabel King. i enjoyed the movie, it was an all black cast and made in the urban style. it made sense for Dorothy to be black cuz this was in Harlem. its not what i would call race swapped. it was completely reworked for the NYC setting. The detail in the Wiz movie is incredible, just from a technical aspect. the little mermaid has a black shoehorned into a white environment. very lazy and "safe". laugh at me all you want, but there is a difference.
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The Wiz was a total piece of shit. But I will agree with chuk here, it was also something else entirely. It was a complete reimagining. Like countless reimagining's of Romeo and Juliet in modern times. Shit like West Side Story. is anyone on earth going to bitch that West side story is not accurate to the culture of medieval Italy? Juliet is Puerto Rican?! how very dare they!
If they had taken The Little Mermaid and had fully moved it to NYC, Charleston, Nantucket, or Caribbean or something, they could have gotten away with it. instead of a prince, have Eric be a Whaler, or perhaps governor's kid or something. Completely move and reimagine the story to be set in 1865 United states.
If they had taken The Little Mermaid and had fully moved it to NYC, Charleston, Nantucket, or Caribbean or something, they could have gotten away with it. instead of a prince, have Eric be a Whaler, or perhaps governor's kid or something. Completely move and reimagine the story to be set in 1865 United states.
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Its a remake though. The first one was actually pretty good but Disney will of course fuck this up.