News Live-Action Ariel Meet and Greet at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Disney Analyst

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LittleBuford said:
I don’t think it’s worth arguing over. From Bond to Poirot, many characters have been portrayed in different guises, and audiences seem fine accepting this multiplicity. Even Mickey Mouse himself exists in various forms, some of them quite unlike each other. Whether the live-action Ariel will prove as iconic as the animated one remains to be seen. In the meantime, I don’t think it’s controversial to say that she will make an impact on a good number of children (and adults). As far as I’m concerned, there’s room for both.
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There has always been room for both. And for the most part Disney has seen great success with these films.
 
Tom P.

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The Empress Lilly

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Californian Elitist said:
She already is Ariel for many. It’s happening.

It is what it is.
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I think you are quite right about this.

Emma Watson wouldn't replace Belle in the public imagination. But there is simply a huge appetite for a Black princess, above all by Black girls, they will undoubtedly adopt this. I would do the same in their place. And Disney is pushing this one hard, it's here to stay.


As for my other thoughts on this matter, these get instantly removed so I'll bow out. 😀
 
Tha Realest

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TLM (“live” action) isn’t being done any favors by the box office calendar. If there’s anything that helps a movie make big money it’s not having competing type properties coming out around the same time. Spider-Man: Into the SPIDERVERSE 2 comes out a week later, and then Transformers Beast Wars a week after that. Those films also cut into IMAX and 3D screens, which hurt upcharges.

I personally feel it looks worse visually as compared to recent “underwater” films like Black Panther Wakanda and Avatar 2.
 
CaptainAmerica

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tissandtully said:
.... No... do you have kids? they don't care. My daughter is so excited for the live-action movie. She knows they are different things, I didn't even explain it.
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Wait so which is it?

You say kids don't care. @Californian Elitist says kids definitely do care, and they're happy about it, and that's good. But if other kids care, and they're unhappy about it, that's bad. But they don't. Nobody is allowed to have an opinion, including kids, unless their opinion is unconditional praise and adoration.
 
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CaptainAmerica

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yensidtlaw1969 said:
Have you considered that it’s possible and probably worthwhile to express dislike of the Live Action Remakes in a way that doesn’t actively target this particular one?

Most people who genuinely have no “agenda” against this movie have awareness of the existing conversation around it and sense enough to recognize that some extra consideration of their comments bears prudence.
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Twitter isn't real life.

The vast majority of the commentary I've seen about this movie in real life is that the CGI looks like crap, the animals look like crap, and the underwater effect looks like crap.

If someone wants to claim that this will be THE Ariel to a lot of kids, they'd have to claim that this is THE Flounder. Ain't gonna happen.

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GhostHost1000 said:
I still don’t understand why Disney just can’t create new movies with different stories and then use whatever new characters they want.

It’s like they would rather push things more than try to be creative again and create new/future classics
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As a publicly traded company, Disney has a mandate to try and make their stockholders as much money as possible, but recently they’ve made quite a few economically questionable choices with their movies that have cost them (and their shareholders) hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. It’s almost an automatic now, that they try to shoot themselves in the foot at least once in every new movie.
 
Californian Elitist

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The Empress Lilly said:
I think you are quite right about this.

Emma Watson wouldn't replace Belle in the public imagination. But there is simply a huge appetite for a Black princess, above all by Black girls, they will undoubtedly adopt this. I would do the same in their place. And Disney is pushing this one hard, it's here to stay.
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Exactly.

And it’s even possible that Watson’s BatB will gain traction and popularity in the future, and/or that some children identify Belle with her.
 
Californian Elitist

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CaptainAmerica said:
Wait so which is it?

You say kids don't care. @Californian Elitist says kids definitely do care, and they're happy about it, and that's good. But if other kids care, and they're unhappy about it, that's bad. But they don't. Nobody is allowed to have an opinion, including kids, unless their opinion is unconditional praise and adoration.
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Where did I say that “kids care, they’re happy about it, and that’s good?”

Please don’t misquote me or twist the meaning behind my words.
 
GhostHost1000

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The Empress Lilly said:
I think you are quite right about this.

Emma Watson wouldn't replace Belle in the public imagination. But there is simply a huge appetite for a Black princess, above all by Black girls, they will undoubtedly adopt this. I would do the same in their place. And Disney is pushing this one hard, it's here to stay.


As for my other thoughts on this matter, these get instantly removed so I'll bow out. 😀
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There absolutely should be more non-white princesses but I feel like they should make new movies and characters instead of redoing existing characters with different looks. Same thing would apply if they tried to do a movie with an oriental Tiana or a hispanic Mulan. Keep the classics the same, create new hit movies, new characters, and future classics. That is assuming their creativity and imagination hasn’t run out in their movie dept (which it’s beginning to seem like)
 
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Tha Realest

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For reference, and setting aside how much inflation has gone up in recent years, if that projection holds TLM is set to open about half of what Lion King and BATB opened to. Those films also opened in times when films could rely on larger box office reruns and had a longer theatrical window.
 
WaltsTreasureChest

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MagicHappens1971 said:
Early reviews have called Guardians the best MCU film since Endgame, coupled with the fact that it’s the last in the Guardians trilogy, this will probably do at least a billion.
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Logically that would make sense but the ticket sales are very low for guardians and that’s a fact. If it doesn’t hit a billion and the same for little mermaid, that spells bad for Iger
 

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