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There's always going to be an incongruity. I just hope in their effort to find something - anything - topographically accurate, they don't end up with a solution that has similar associations with Jim Crow / Reconstruction as the SOTS.
I guess we'll have to rip out all the farming scenes from Living with the Land because of the association with slavery.Black People in the US Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s
More than 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, there were black people in the Deep South who had no idea they were free. These people were forced to work, violently tortured, and raped.
There was no actual "threat" to the ride theme then, but the "I hope they don't change it" rhetoric is clearly present.Just posted this in another thread and thought I'd share here too:
Princess and the Frog & Splash Mountain
I just got home from watching the Princess and the Frog and I was wondering if anyone else had this strange connection. As I watched the movie, I could see disney turning Splash Mountain into a P&TF movie tie in. Not that this is something that I would want, but all during the Bayou scenes...forums.wdwmagic.com
Two things I find notable:
1. How far back this idea goes. For those claiming it can only have originated with the 2020 petition, well, clearly that's not the case.
2. How relatively uncontroversial the idea was back in 2009. Almost none of the "You want to destroy history"/"Where will this end?" rhetoric that characterises this thread.
ETA: And a third thing: None of this needless handwringing about Louisiana's flatness!
I didn’t say it wasn’t. But expressing a preference/hope about the ride’s future is very different from the ideologically charged griping and alarmism that runs throughout this thread.
Apparently not, since multiple posters in this thread have repeatedly claimed that the idea was forced on Disney by a 2020 petition.
Geez, my cardiologist will love it…exit the ride with high blood pressure at no extra charge…and we say Chappie doesn’t give us something for nothing…
I don't think that would even be an issue... pirates has waterfalls and caverns... The Original Pirates set in New Orleans has a series of caves and waterfall drops in a region not known for it's caves... I never heard them mention a salt mine in the original movie... If they add cypress trees and Spanish moss, Swamp plantings, Mama Odies in the shipwreck on top, it will read...no need for them to create a whole new backstory about my there are changes in altitude...
People go to salt spas for rejuvenation says Bob
Then there will be a charge for that…
I agree it's all silly. Then again, I'm not the one producing videos showing how hard I'm working to make this authentic to the region.
Maybe Big Daddy owns the mines and that's where he employees all of his fair wage laborers.
Penguin, you are a smart poster and I'm going to chalk this up to your need to defend Disney at any cost. That said, I truly hope you know about what happened in this country after the failure of Reconstruction and what conditions were like in the south throughout the first half of the 20th century.
Black People in the US Were Enslaved Well into the 1960s
More than 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, there were black people in the Deep South who had no idea they were free. These people were forced to work, violently tortured, and raped.
If you accept the premise of the need for the remake of the ride - that the source material presents an idyllic, glorified, and romanticized view of Reconstruction - and, as a corrective, draw inspiration from a real life setting where actual slaves and sharecroppers were forced to work, I think that really undercuts this whole thing.
I say WDW completely close the land pavilion...
Is the Land specifically about sharecroppers in the 1920s south? If not, it’s utterly irrelevant.
