It’s clear there have been some glitches in terms of removing all the Brer merchandise, but it’s also clear that removal is the direction in which they’re heading. If anything, I’m surprised at how quick and thorough the demise of Splash Mountain merchandise has been; I expected it to hang around until the bitter end.
im assuming its more poor qc than anything, they have so many companies making stuff for them at this point and whomever is supposed to ok it before mass production clearly didnt notice.
However In the film Remus is NOT a slave as I have said, he is a sharecropper. He is free to leave as you can see he almost does but changes his mind. The truth is that no matter where you went as a black man it was a difficult life at that time period. I think they handled it the best they possibly couldViewers back in 1946 recognised the issues with the film, which centre on its romanticised depiction of plantation life.
I just feel like compared to say the roustabouts and the crows in Dumbo, it depicts a more positive view for its time period. Yet Dumbo is not deleted from the Disney canon nor edited. The Remake was.....Well I can't comment on it because I haven't seen it but I heard it was just ok at best. I believe they could have done something with it to make it more uplifting towards BIPOC and maybe did some research on the history of oral traditions and have like a little educational area celebrating African American culture. I can't speak for people of color because the closest I come to any ethnic minority is having a small percentage of Lakota blood, but They could have remade it in a less problematic way, perhaps with a black man telling his kids the stories in a modern setting and toning down the speech elements, maybe set it in modern Georgia and tie in some elements about the struggle of minorities continuing to this day with some good lessons in the end. I think that would have been the best way to handle it.
Okay those are really nice.
They still have those there? They’ve been sold out for good in Florida for ages. Dang.
They keep producing them. They are carved from oak. So for those who say they no longer produce anything with the characters...false.
If audiences in 1946 found aspects of the film cringeworthy and problematic, the bolded clearly isn’t true. You can look into the film’s production history if you’re interested in learning about Disney’s various missteps, which included ignoring the recommendations of a black adviser to make the black characters less servile as well as failing to clarify the film’s chronology, confusion over which was rife from the outset.
This is modern disney....frozen ever after.....laziness is what i expect. I hope i am wrong.
I enjoy Frozen Ever After and don’t consider it lazy, but I realise others feel differently.
I don't know how problematic they found it, it was successful enough to make a ride out of, as well as many childrens books including one my dad used to read me as a child. That sentimentalism may possibly influence my decision but It just kinda sucks because I really miss my dad and this is kinda like another thing we shared that's dying. My dad always just told me that it was a southern accent and since I've never been to the south outside of Disney World and the version of it in Cypress Gardens (now Legoland), I just assumed that's how it was.
