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asecondduck posted:After you're done with The Prydain Chronicles, read The Dark Is Rising Sequence. That's another series that's begging for a miniseries adaptation. Oh God I remember those books from Middle School! AAAARGH!!! I didn't read much back then so I missed out on it. If we're doing book recs, Septimus Heap was good light and goofy fun for the early books that I read. I really don't get this obsession with making movies of these. Stuff like the failures of City of Embers and Mortal Engines just feel much more at home as season mini-series of the books rather than as movies.
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Avalerion posted:They seem to be going with a more natural looking red (unless they’ll cgi it later). I dig the look. This looks awesome. The Little Mermaid holds a special place in my heart, and I have a lot of nostalgia and good memories tied into the movie. I haven't seen any of the live action remakes because I just don't feel like giving Disney my time or money with what are pretty obvious cash grabs. However, I'm on the fence with this one. It'll depend on what they do with the rest of the casting and music, but Halle looks and sounds like Ariel. Disney, please don't cast Will Smith as Sebastian.
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Bogus Adventure posted:This looks awesome. The Little Mermaid holds a special place in my heart, and I have a lot of nostalgia and good memories tied into the movie. I haven't seen any of the live action remakes because I just don't feel like giving Disney my time or money with what are pretty obvious cash grabs. However, I'm on the fence with this one. It'll depend on what they do with the rest of the casting and music, but Halle looks and sounds like Ariel. Please, we all know he would be cast as Flounder, due to his prior experience playing an animated fish.
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John Mulaney as Flounder.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mz6tw5Zddg Tituss should definitely be Ursula. I mean...come on.  In all seriousness, Halle from chloe x halle as Ariel is loving awesome.
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One of the pieces of music that instantly triggers a flurry of emotions within me is the opening theme to Little Mermaid, when we first go on underwater. Hopefully Menken comes back for this one too.
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stratofarius posted:One of the pieces of music that instantly triggers a flurry of emotions within me is the opening theme to Little Mermaid, when we first go on underwater. Hopefully Menken comes back for this one too. 
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At first I heard about Ariel being black in the new Little Mermaid and didn't give a poo poo, but then I realized it's ANOTHER instance of making redheads black in an adaptation. Why do they always, always do that
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Its Coke posted:At first I heard about Ariel being black in the new Little Mermaid and didn't give a poo poo, but then I realized it's ANOTHER instance of making redheads black in an adaptation. Why do they always, always do that It's happened like twice and the original versions still exist chillax The most important thing is Halle can SING and is expressive while doing so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4MajGTp1x8
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Koalas March posted:It's happened like twice and the original versions still exist chillax Oh man. You don't know    
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Ignore the Ariana Grande which I assume was included as a joke
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Koalas March posted:The most important thing is Halle can SING and is expressive while doing so. This can't be emphasized enough.
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She's literally playing Ariel, she is absolutely going to 100% have red hair in the movie. AlsoIts Coke posted:Oh man. You don't know  @ this post
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Its Coke posted:Oh man. You don't know  Whoa
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Its Coke posted:Nonsense and what I assume are alt-right memes 
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They're not alt-right memes people just noticed that always happens and it's funny
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Its Coke posted:Ignore the Ariana Grande which I assume was included as a joke a hilarious joke
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DC Murderverse posted:a hilarious joke Don't you mean hairlarious?  I'll see myself out.
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Its Coke posted:Why do they always, always do that See also: Asian character? Give them a hilight streak in their hair to show how totally cool they are.
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Its Coke posted:Oh man. You don't know hmm i think this is a dogwhistle
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FilthyImp posted:Red hair is shorthand for Exotic or Independant Personality and it's a lazy way of getting that across to people. That makes sense. Another plausible explanation I heard is that redheaded characters are usually in secondary/support roles and Hollywood is more comfortable making those roles POC in adaptations than one of the primary characters Looper posted:hmm i think this is a dogwhistle I think you're stupid
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It's definitely used by some chuds as a meme trying to make it some anti-redhead prejudice thing, but it's also a funny pattern once you notice it.FilthyImp posted:See also: Asian character? Give them a hilight streak in their hair to show how totally cool they are. Visual aid:  That one legit makes me a bit uneasy, there's the "we need that extra edge to make the character convincingly cool" factor but I can't ignore the tiny possibility that it's also "also we can't tell them apart without that LOL". Its Coke posted:That makes sense. Another plausible explanation I heard is that redheaded characters are usually in secondary/support roles and Hollywood is more comfortable making those roles POC in adaptations than one of the primary characters That and fiction greatly exaggerates how common redheads are to begin with, so if anything it's a return to the mean. OTOH I don't recall the last time I saw a redhead character adapted into a role played by a non-Black PoC.
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I'm surprised there are people who earnestly believe in anti-redhead prejudice in 2019 but I suppose that must be the same kind of people who like talking about how "the Irish were slaves"
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Its Coke posted:I'm surprised there are people who earnestly believe in anti-redhead prejudice in 2019 but I suppose that must be the same kind of people who like talking about how "the Irish were slaves" Counterpoint: my dad's jokes.
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YaketySass posted:Visual aid: I'm really certain it's one part "lol asians so similar" and one part "this isn't your Mathlete/Model Minority character, they have personality and edge "
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FilthyImp posted:Exactly the image ai was thinking of (Though Wolverine's Yukiko dyed all her hair so it's more an anime like thing, maybe?) Looking at the image, now I CAN'T not think it's that now. Wally only bothered me since they comepletey did away with something in the neighborhood of 60 plus years of characterization and development and some of the best comics stuff DC had ever produced along with his Korean wife, his two biracial kids, and an actually interesting and likeable supporting cast. Starfire more because I don't think Anna Diop quite fit the look to me and I've always seen Starfire as more latino or asian likely due to the animated series.
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it's also important to note that it's not 'asian characters' but more specifically 'asian female characters', so part of that recurring feature is in service of nerd boners who are into counterculture aesthetics
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Brother Entropy posted:it's also important to note that it's not 'asian characters' but more specifically 'asian female characters', so part of that recurring feature is in service of nerd boners who are into counterculture aesthetics "a part" = "all of"
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doomrider7 posted:Starfire more because I don't think Anna Diop quite fit the look to me and I've always seen Starfire as more latino or asian likely due to the animated series. Kid me was very confused and thought Raven's red gem on her forehead was a bindi and meant that her and her mother were somehow of Indian descent.
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Pick posted:"a part" = "all of" i wanted to be charitable because i can't imagine anyone getting a boner over juniper lee i know i'm wrong but let me have this
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Macaluso posted:The best member of the Big Hero 6 team was Honey Lemon anyway 100% Agreed Latina chemistry hero loving ruled, and I want a movie about her
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Is it because our culture assumes Asian women are mousey, boring math nerds if there aren’t visual signifiers to assure us that they’re actually really edgy and cool?
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General Dog posted:Is it because our culture assumes Asian women are mousey, boring math nerds if there aren’t visual signifiers to assure us that they’re actually really edgy and cool? that's definitely part of it too, it's a very 'she's not like the other girls' vibe, asian or otherwise. dyed hair means they probably like cool stuff boys like like skateboarding or computer hacking or going to metal concerts
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General Dog posted:Is it because our culture assumes Asian women are mousey, boring math nerds if there aren’t visual signifiers to assure us that they’re actually really edgy and cool? That or proper lady types. Being extra charitable, it may also be for the sake of a striking contrast between black hair and purple/red. There may be a bit of general aping of dated cyberpunk aesthetics too, which had to be both very punk and very weeb.
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Brother Entropy posted:it's also important to note that it's not 'asian characters' but more specifically 'asian female characters', so part of that recurring feature is in service of nerd boners who are into counterculture aesthetics I saw a great video about this phenomenon along with the trope of Manic Pixie Girlfriend being replaced with the sort of edgy, cool, hipster girl who has piercings and dyed hair and whatnot all being sort of catering to nerd fantasies and whatnot. YaketySass posted:Kid me was very confused and thought Raven's red gem on her forehead was a bindi and meant that her and her mother were somehow of Indian descent. Thank God I wasn't the only on who thought that. To be fair, they were apparently kept safe in a Buddhist monastery of some kind by monks so it's likely intentional. Bogus Adventure posted:100% Agreed 
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Brother Entropy posted:it's also important to note that it's not 'asian characters' but more specifically 'asian female characters', so part of that recurring feature is in service of nerd boners who are into counterculture aesthetics *Sips tea and nods wisely* Ah, part of the same phenomenon as the goth gf
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