The Little Mermaid FLOPS As Disney RUIN Everything!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- The Little Mermaid is getting a live action remake adaptation from Disney that's in cinemas later this month. The first The Little Mermaid was an animation which Hollywood now thinks has to be changed and updated for Modern sensibilities. This includes various musical songs having their lyrics re-written, characters drastically changed from the original The Little Mermaid animation. Ariel, Sebastion and Flounder all look much different from the original. And as this movie is in cinemas only, is this live action adaptation of The Little Mermaid worth watching?
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The Little Mermaid is back with new footage, interviews and the most bizarre of stories. The video at the end is a whole other level that even I didn't see coming 🤣But between making the movie look dull and boring, changing the songs because....well it still doesn't make sense if you understand the movie at all. And the inevitable changes to Ariel which will turn her into Rey with a tail, I'm surprised this movie is heading to cinemas.
I could have understood it being put on Disney+ like Peter Pan and Wendy, because this looks like it's going to be the same quality. Maybe it'll make a fortune as it rides the prestige of the name, but given the marketing we've had so far, it wont have helped convince anyone to go. But what do you think of what you've seen of The Little Mermaid? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
What is your opinion on Disney's Wish movie?
For an spanish inspired movie the protagonist stuck out like a sore thumb complete with braids because we know that's "exclusive" to a certain demographic and the voice actress is hand picked to have an African decent. Really see the signs here. "reimagine tomorrow".
Garbage, absolute garbage adn I’m saying this as a completely blind woman going off of nothing but the songs in the acting bets, I truly pity those a few lovely people who are forced to see this nonsense. Oh, and speaking of this song, please tell me a not the only one who absolutely hates the fact that this woman is giving these beloved songs and unnecessary R&B treatment.
Why you attacking her all the time? She was just in a zoo, I don't know what goes on in zoos all the time, everywhere at all times. Daisy Ridley has said things against fan interest too why aren't you people attacking her for it? You always say "I have nothing against the actress" when you speak of Daisy Ridley, all of you anti-woke people but you hate this woman.
What do you mean it's "worse than Prince Harry"? What has Prince Harry and his wife done that comes anywhere close to what Charle's, Camilla, Fergie, and especially Andrew have done?
I saw guardians of the Galaxy this week and the trailer played for the new little mermaid 😂😂😂😂 she looks so CGI even I wonder 🤔 why did they use a human to play her. And yes I will go there my 9 year old niece asked why they removed her breast! The whole theater Burst into laughter🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Prince Eric was also the only Disney Prince who actually had a personality.
His obsession with the ocean mirrored the way Ariel was obsessed with the land. Both of them only wanted adventure and to understand a place that seems to defy their understanding.
It's also why they fell for each other, Ariel was so excitable and eager to learn about the surface world it was contagious, and it made Eric appreciate his own homeland more instead of just being bored of it.
(Not to mention he is the single most humble Prince Disney has every made. He never once dresses up from a casual t shirt, not in his home and not among a crew of his subjects. He dressed like them. Even finding a nude, mute woman he assumes was shipwrecked his first impulse is to clothe her; leaving himself even more exposed, and take her home to look after her. Even spending time with her and trying to make sure she gets settled in well. Is it any wonder she fell for him? He was the nicest man alive, any infatuation she had might have faded immediately if he'd been a smug git. But he was utterly sincere and charming. He even risked his own life to save her and her kingdom from Ursla, which keep on mind; not his kingdom to risk his life for, and a woman he knew all of a few days, but no hesitation he rushes in to do the right thing and single handedly tries to pilot the ship out to protect both their worlds and in doing so brings harmony and united both kingdoms)
I will not stand Eric slander
PREACH!!!!
I would say Prince Philip from Sleeping Beauty had a great personality before this: playful, loyal, and brave. Otherwise, completely agree with everything you said. Eric is one of my favorites
I wouldn’t say only prince lol. One of the more defined early princes, yes, but some of the most adored Disney princes/love interests are Aladdin, Shang, Naveen, and (my one and only) Flynn Ryder. Eric is a great character, but he’s not the only one
He's also a total Chad at the finale, ramming his ship into giant Ursula with no hesitation
@@garuccadraws
I hope that people learn to use different words besides something like that in order to show appreciation for someone’s thoughtful comment. So cringe.
I'm beginning to think the only reason why the underwater scenes in the movie are so dark & dreary is to hide the bad Cgi.
Well thier ya go u just answered your own Question :) Like seriously who turned out the damn lights in the Ocean? Based on what Ive seen of the Ocean IRL underwater its actually quite bright at times even down on the Coral Reefs.
Me Three!
Obviously, that's also why she have dreadlocks, which are easy to animate than thousands of hairs.
It's a dead giveaway and you see it a lot in everything Disney makes these days. They save a lot of money because all the dark backgrounds can be left as is.
Yep. Avatar 2 makes this movie look absolutely amateur.
Ariel didn't just want to leave the ocean for a man, she wanted to leave it for years! She even sang "Part of Your World" BEFORE she saw Eric.
And in the original Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, she's chiefly concerned with gaining a soul - that's why she wants to become human.
She wanted to leave because it’s so dark.
@@Jenni208 and she didn't even get the guy, he chose another, and she turned into foam, but I think if I remember, she angels took pity on her and she was taken to heaven/given a soul or something.
I KNOW!!! that's what i keep saying!
@strangehomewardderp i don't remember the heaven part but i remember she was supposed to stab the prince in his sleep in order to obtain a soul but ahe couldn't do it. She threw the knife and jumped in the ocean and turned imto foam.
"we definitely changed the perspective of just her wanting to leave the ocean for a boy" That must be a joke. One of the first scenes of the animated film is Ariel searching for human objects in an old shipwreck because humans fascinate her. She even sings about wanting to be human before she meets Eric.... and the "Kiss the Girl" scene was good the way it was. Eric was the perfect gentleman. If someone pushed the other, it's more likely Sebastian pushing Eric with the song😅. I'm beginning to feel like these guys all saw a different version of Ariel than I did. Otherwise they wouldn't change so much.... we do live in crazy times
Mad isn't it.
The original was already about a free thinking mermaid wanting to explore and do more than her role in life as simply another of the king's daughters. LIke you say, she was intelligent, inquisitive, explores, breaks rules and longs for more to life. She was already an (old school) feminist character.
I remember in the cartoon series, she was already obsessed with human things, I remember her making stuff up for what she thought they where for.
Ariel wanted to leave the ocean because of a human man and human stuff. If the man is out, then she wants to abandon her people in favor of material possessions. That's just wrong.
it makes it even sadder when you realize that howard ashman wrote part of that world as ariels 'i want' song.... everybody else wanted to make it a song expressing ariels love for eric.... soooo, thank you howard ashman! just be glad youre not alive to see them shitting on your legacy....
No love no joy only self interests and hate against the opposite sex
Wendy and Peter Pan: a story about a girl discovering how awesome she is
The Little Mermaid: A story about a girl discovering how awesome she is
Nevermind how they’re just remaking their NEW stuff too. Captain Marvel, Rey Palpatine, She-Hulk, Mulan… they’re all the same character over and over again
Yup, and her real name is Mary Sue.
No wonder they're afraid of being replaced by AI, it can turn out low effort, no creativity required "art" faster than them and for a fraction of the cost.
Disney: women are the best in everything 🤓 Meanwhile in the real world: men are getting woman of the year awards. Men dominate women in there own sports. Men make commercials for women sports bra’s. That’s how awesome they are 😂
Don't forget Alladin. It was about Jasmine finding her voice 🤦🏻♂️
Don't forget Mulan too.
Imagine the military-grade GASLIGHTING that woman had to do in order to be hired as a Mermaid Expert??? I’m actually impressed
Her voice is sensational. But maybe the racism will make you deaf?
She's an expert on the history of the mermaid folklore but I see your point and it still sounds hilarious.
@@rosieposiepooh562 And why exactly do we need to fund universities to the point where someone has a PhD in this shit? Did your taxes pay for this? Because "studying mermaid folklore" is a hobby, not a job.
@@rosieposiepooh562 lmao that makes far more sense 😂
Really weird that they made her reject him in Kiss the Girl for the live action, that’s legitimately her whole goal. If he doesn’t kiss her, she turns to sea foam or a bit of seaweed. That’s it, the end of the line. That’s why Eric was the shy one in the animated feature, it made more sense and it gave him a lot of character development.
If you haven't read it Ursula tricked Ariel into giving up her voice aswell as her memory so she don't know anything about the kiss breaking the spell hence why she pulled away
@@minajmyles2687 that doesn’t really make it better. “I’m going to remove your voice and your memory and you have 3 days to make him kiss you, sign here.”
@@winry2357 well she tricked her she told Ariel she would lose her voice not her memory she's a villain what you expect lol
@@minajmyles2687 just saying, if she signs the contract, as she does in the original, then loses her memory, then I don’t understand how that contract can be binding. Also, if she doesn’t remember the whole “you must kiss the prince in 3 days” bit, then how does she rationalize waking up with legs or even have the Prince in mind when she’s on land? Messing with her memory doesn’t make it better, it just gives them a reason to make Eric look more creepy than he did in the animated film. They criticize Eric for coming on to her in the animated one, when he doesn’t, then does that very thing in their own rendition.
@@winry2357 I don't know I've only read that bit but from what Ive heard he approached her and she had no memory of him at all that's why she looks so puzzled when she's with him in the trailers
"It's not about her wanting to leave the ocean to be with a boy. It's bigger than that. It's about HER."
It's nice when people wear their narcissism on their sleeve
Captain America: Lets those two planes hit those two buildings, just so he can have that dance with Peggy Carter.
Dr Strange 02: I love you (Rachel/Christine Palmer) in every universe. (This is a multiverse movie.)
Andrew Garfield SAVING Tom Holland's MJ in NWH. Also, Amazing Spiderman, all he wants is to be with Gwen after nothing else in his life is turning out well.
Little Mermaid : She doesn't want to leave the ocean just for a boy.
What?
Also, isn't it supposed to be her choice? Some women just wanna get laid, y'all. Or settle down with a partner. What the hell is so wrong with that?
They made it smaller. They just cut off the "wanting to leave the ocean to be with a boy" section so I guess it will only be 20 minutes long now.
But that's exactly what the OG film was about, too - Ariel repeatedly disregarded her father's rules and wanted her own life above the sea - even moreso when she fell in love with the first man she laid her eyes on. She scarcely cared about what her absence would do to her family/friends or the fact she knew nothing about Eric other than he was a handsome human prince - all she cared about was herself (i.e. - a spoiled teenage girl putting her own wants/desires ahead of everyone/everything else and not considering any of the consequences that came with her actions because she was also incredibly arrogant to think she could accomplish an impossible goal and never considering the evil sea witch may try to double cross her).
@@mallorycarpinski1160 I thought this movie was longer that the OG movie?
Too bad this female narcissus lives underwater: she can't drown in her reflection . . .
I thought mermaid studies would involve studying the different folktales around the world about mermaids as literature. I didn't think they would be asking themselves whether or not mermaids are real.
Yes, that's my understanding as well.
I would suggest the question is still valid, especially as there have been scientists over the years who have suggested some sort of merperson may have existed. That said, even implying The Little Mermaid would be key focus of the class is ridiculous. I love the idea of studying mermaid folklore, but the original movie wasn't even based directly from folklore, but on a fairytale, possible created from local lore. Now I want take a folklore class...
@@thelfinarcher Me to sis, me too.
*_“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute."_*
- George Orwell; _1984_
"it was a warning, not an instruction manual"
George Orwell apparently could see our world today because he's 100% correct on these words
Wow, anti SJW's are crazy. Your seriously comparing casting a black mermaid to 1984?
@@thevarietychannelofyoutube4769 don't blame us you can blame Disney on the other side
@@thevarietychannelofyoutube4769 you don't get it do you?
It must be a bliss living in a world of ignorance, where everyone is gay and happy whilest the world turned to ashes before our eyes.
On behalf of America, i apologize for hollywood celebrities being a thing
As a New Englander, I refuse to acknowledge California as part of my country. Straight up.
@@Archangelm127: I'd support turning CA into a forbidden zone complete with a wall, no two walls surrounding it.
time to wake up the San Adreas Fault....
its their fault by the way....
@@Lonovavir Agreed, we need to fund a wall project.
@@Archangelm127 We just gotta hope for those tectonic plates to hurry up and get california apart from the rest of us. lol.
Basically, Ariel has no significant character flaws in the live action film, then? She stays under the sea until she saves Eric. She gets Scuttle to bring her human things, rather than going up herself. She can do everything and anything by herself?
Yes, in the original film, King Triton was in the wrong to be so overprotective of his youngest daughter without trying to understand her perspective a little more, or giving her more information. He was in the wrong to feel prejudiced towards *all* humans. He was *especially* in the wrong to destroy Ariel’s collection of human knick knacks to punish her in a moment of reckless rage when he found out about how she saved Eric, and he couldn’t bring himself to keep attempting to be patient with her rebellion.
However, even before she saw Eric, Ariel had a very active interest in looking for human artifacts and going up to the surface to see learn about them from Scuttle, even though she knew her father forbid it. Yes, Triton was overprotective, but Ariel certainly had her flaws, too. He could no longer take it when Ariel actually rescued a human and went up on dry land because that was the most dangerous thing Ariel could have done from his perspective. No longer was this just a phase that he told himself she’d eventually get over, but she was risking her life.
In some ways, you can make a valid point that Ariel was rebelling because she had a avoidant and illogically strict parent who fucked up by never explaining to her why he despised humans occasionally displayed emotionally abusive traits in his aggressive overprotectiveness, regardless of pure intentions. I’d agree in that assessment of King Triton’s parenting flaws. I also agree that grotto destruction is finally what pushed Ariel away to make that deal with Ursula to become human in anger, desperation, and uncertainty.
Triton definitely should have been a better dad, though, to his credit, he did finally learn his lesson and make up for it by sacrificing himself to save Ariel from Ursula and letting her be human with Eric. However, I do also think the writers of the 1989 script made it a point to show us that Ariel’s interest in exploring the human world above was turning into an unhealthily all-consuming obsession, too. It’s why she couldn’t get Eric to kiss her under Ursula’s terms as a human for three days. It’s why she got her voice back, her family and Eric found out the truth, and she figured out how to healthily balance at the end where she could live out her dreams freely and be close to her family and friends at the sea.
For instance, aside from the human world, Ariel is a character who is established to love dancing, music, and singing a lot. She even is shown as the one who pushes her father to lift his ban on music in Atlantica with Sebastian after her mother’s untimely death. Sure, that Ariel’s Beginnings movie was made almost twenty years after the release of the 1989 animated film, but, even in the 1989 film, Ariel was shown to love dancing, music, and singing, so I actually don’t buy that this was something Triton and Sebastian pressured her to attend rehearsals and sing along to perform in a musical concert that featured her and her sisters.
I think Ariel likely volunteered to be in the concert for a while, and then at some point found a new personal interest in exploring the world above. She latched on to that as new hobby to obsess over instead,,and it started to become more important to her than anything for a while.
In her introductory scene, she’s bossing around, mocking, and scaring her poor little friend Flounder about sharks to get him to swim far away from the palace with her and explore a sunken ship for human things, even though he tries to tell her no repeatedly. Triton wasn’t the best parent, but I don’t think Ariel was this entirely innocent victim who did nothing wrong either. She was acting like a an addict, or a teen with ADHD. Not intentionally cruel or self-centered, but so desperate to have her fix of the human world above that it became all-consuming in ways that were becoming increasingly problematic. She became willing to ignore the potential consequences and steamroll over the feelings and opinions of others closest to her in relationships to have her fix of the human world above. She became willing to neglect her other personal hobbies and interests, such as music, in favor of getting her fix of exploring the human world above. She became willing to sacrifice her voice and keep almost everyone else in the dark to get her fix of the human world above. Flounder and Sebastian only were able to find out about what Ariel was doing when she made that deal to become human with Ursula because they chose to follow along to try to offer their advice and support when she told them what she was going to do. At that point, without her fins, Ariel wasn’t a strong swimmer on her new human legs in the 1989 animated film, and Ursula was just sitting there cackling when Ariel realized she needed to find air to be able to breathe now that she was no longer half-fish. Ariel likely would have died by suffocation from drowning underwater then and there, if Flounder and Sebastian hadn’t been there to help her swim to surface afterwards.
Moreover, Triton also wasn’t completely wrong about Ariel going to the surface without any consideration for the consequences being potentially dangerous either. Ariel was a rebellious teenage girl with an impulsive and selfish streak. That doesn’t mean she was ever actively and deliberately cruel or malicious. Sebastian made a pretty good point about Ariel’s attitude and disobedience in the 1989 film when he pointed out to Triton “Teenagers…They think they know everything…You give them an inch, they swim all over you” after he let her off easy for inconsiderately forgetting about her role performing in Sebastian’s concert with her sisters for her father because she got too distracted doing her own thing exploring a sunken ship and going up to the surface for answers.
Ariel was a rather bratty, impulsive, sassy, and self-righteous teenager. She wanted to do her own thing, regardless of what anyone else told her or warned her. Some people might find that irritating, but I think it’s a pretty typical attitude from many *real* 16 year old girls. It was really neat how the writers of a Disney animated film featuring a female protagonist weren’t too afraid to actually write one who was still essentially a good person, but with personality flaws.
Ariel cracked under Ursula’s pressure, and allowed herself to achieve her dreams of being human and being with Eric, even though she knew it made her feel uncomfortable dealing with Ursula, giving up her voice, and leaving behind her family without telling them. That’s why she doesn’t get to be romantically involved with Eric until she got her voice back, and could be honest with him about who she was.
She finally got her comeuppance at the end and learned her lesson when Ursula’s unexpected interference in her deal to become human almost cost her, not only her own life, but the lives of Eric, her family, and her friends.
It didn’t mean Ariel was an unlikable female protagonist in the 1989 animated film either, even though she had these flaws. Flaws do not automatically make a character unlikable, but they do make them feel more human when they’re shown alongside good traits, too. Ariel loved her family and friends, and she was ultimately loyal to them. She had a kind and well-meaning heart. She was still very adventurous, brave, determined, passionate in her defense of her values and what she loved, and protective of those she loved.
Ursula was evil, and written to be an unlikable person, even though she was an entertaining villain. Ariel was *not* written to be a villain, and never do I get the sense that she should have been in the 1989 Disney animated classic, in spite of her character flaws.
However, Ariel still was written much like a *relatably* headstrong, distractible, impulsive, naive, lovestruck, rebellious, sassy, and selfish teenage girl in the 1989 animated film. The fact that she was *not* written to be a perfectly demure, sweet, and selfless cinnamon roll with no frustrating personality flaws, unlike Aurora, Cinderella, and Snow White, who came before her, was actually a really revolutionary writing move for Disney storytelling of major female protagonists at the time. Ariel’s characterization in the 1989 animated film was the start of major female Disney protagonists actually getting written to be *characters* with relatable personality flaws in addition to strengths, rather than just being written as too innocent and sweet for their own good *role-models.*
In this version, it sounds like they’ve made Ariel way too perfect. Now, she’s no longer one of the more *real* Disney Princesses with an interesting and relatable individual personality in this live action movie as a result. That was what made Ariel so great in the 1989 animated Disney film. Ariel being such a typical teenage girl with her flaws and motivations in the 1989 Disney film was such a refreshing change from the impossibly pure goody goody Disney female protagonists in the franchise. That’s why we talk so much more about her and many of the other Disney Princesses that come after her. They felt more like real people than just role models.
It also sounds like they’ve actually taken away Ariel’s agency in this remake. Her memory of having to kiss Eric with true love’s kiss is completely erased by Ursula, even though she wanted for Eric to kiss her in the animated film. God forbid a woman ever actually try to romantically/sexually pursue a man they are attracted to, right? Modern “woke” Disney really needs to fucking die!
In the original story the mermaids could go up when they were of age, Ariel knew about the "other world" from her sisters and she was so curious about humans and new things.
She represented the rebellious but innocent teens that go against their parents and get into serious trouble.
This is an old story with roots in folklore, her father was protective and scared because humans were the people that hunted them and considered them evil.
@@shamkand I think it actually makes the character more interesting to have an active personal interest in exploring the world above beforehand. It makes Ariel unique to have a personal interest. Not to mention the fact that Triton gets to have an arc for being prejudiced towards humans, whereas in the original he had no character or story at all.
@@Schoolgirl325 It has to be something more important than selfish reasons because, in the original story, Ariel gets legs but walking on them feels like she is constantly stabbed by knives, so for her to want to endure something so painful, she has to have a strong and uplifting reason, a soul is a strong reason.
I also think it was a bad idea to make Ariel the one to kill Ursula at the end. In the 1989 film, that was Eric’s big moment for a reason. Up until that point, King Triton despised all human beings, and nothing Ariel did or said to him about them in their defense was going to convince him otherwise. However, when he actually saw a human being bravely and selflessly risk his life and kill the sea witch to save his daughter and the rest of the Atlantica, he realized that they weren’t all terrible. He could trust that his daughter would be safe on land with the right human by her side, and he realized that Eric was that person.
In today's world, we could do with more protective parents.
Ariel’s motivations in the original.
‘Bright young women… sick of Swimmin’ ready to… staaaaaaand.’
Disney 2023 *’I DON’T NEED NO MAN!’*
😂😂 Took a rose and stomped it outcto shit 😂😂
she literally says the same thing in the. new version, they didn’t change anything
Lol mario movie quote. Princess peach,"he's not important!" About Mario. Hahah. Gotta get those man bashing hits in
Man, I never USED to actually HOPE that things fail. Now Disney and other "modern" studios have made me do so over and over.
I'm actively hoping for a total collapse of the American film industry. Fuck Hollywood, some other country needs to take the lead in filmmaking.
I do hope Disney fails. It'll give some much needed room for more talented and creative animators who can actually write characters and something more than puddle-deep.
....and I have a feeling your hope's gonna be fulfilled...🤔
I know right! I've actually started to rejoice a little bit with every box office bomb they put out. May they go bankrupt as soon as possible. I will not mourn them; the time for that was long ago.
I'm a conservative. I'm actually going to watch the Little Mermaid remake in theaters.
People forget that Eric wasn't the only reason Ariel wanted to leave sea in the animated film. She already had an interest in the human world before she met him. She had a grotto full of human objects and she sang "Part of that World" before she even laid eyes on him! Eric was just the final straw on the camel's back.
The original story wasn't her wanting to leave the ocean for a boy. She wanted to leave the ocean to be human. She wanted to know what a fire was and why does it burn. It was secondary that she saw an instantly fell in love with Eric. The whole point of the Little mermaid was her wanting her independence. The boy was a secondary reason.
Exactly. She was independent and headstrong, love came second for her.
So... You're saying to make the boy a teenage black kid from the ghetto who's crimes are misunderstood.
Only people with logic and common sense get that
@@GregMoress exactly! You got it. LoL
A children's movie about growing up and leaving home? Shockingly surprising.
The small changes they made to the Peter Pan and Pinocchio story actually majorly changed the story and gutted the moral lesson and overall theme. Taking away Pinocchio’s agency so instead of him choosing to skip school and go be bad, he is kicked out of school and has no choice but to get swept away with the wrong crowd. Wendy was not maternal, motherly nor compassionate in the new Pan and completely took away the arc to showing the others that growing up isn’t a bad thing. These relatively small changes completely warped the pond. I’m afraid to see what changes they make to The Little Mermaid that guts the story completely and makes absolutely nothing Ariel’s fault.
Well, I don’t mind the remake even so I think it’s one tall order for even the live actors to replicate any of the line readings done by Kenneth Mars, Jodi Benson, Pat, Carol, Buddy Hackett, or Samuel E Wright in the original
Gutting morality is Hollywood's specialty.
yeah “small changes”
@@elC1d774 Small changes was supposed to be sarcastic. They ruined Pinocchio with pretty small changes to the story and are doing it with all of their products like the upcoming The Little Mermaid which will ruin the story. Race swapping some character is just stupid pandering and the best part is that it’s not going well for Disney or others doing it like Netflix with Clopatra. You vote with your pockets. If you don’t want this, then don’t support it with funding.
Personally, I think Disney is back in its straight to DVD sequel phase and putting out subpar products that nearly lead to their collapse before Pixar saved them from that fate. Now Disney has pushed out the head of Pixar and staffed everything with people who check diversions boxes instead of having skill. The positive news that I see Disney+ being shut down before the end of the decade and Igor getting the boot he should have gotten years ago.
Hopefully someone will hurry up and take Kathleen Kennedy out with a sniper rifle in the next few months after Indy 5 crash and burns
I have to womder what other 'small changes' may inevitably ruin a future Tarzan movie. Sympathetic Clayton? Abusive Kerchak? Maybe a strong, independent Terk who don't need no human? Or maybe they call it 'Tarzan and Jane' and make it all about Jane kicking ass with twirling revolvers while Tarzan bumbles around?
i feel like halle bailey didn't watch the little mermaid... did she completely forget about the song "Part of your world" where she quite literally sang about wanting to explore the land and what the people do.. and that was BEFORE she met eric
I was just wondering about that, and it's weird since she's only a year older than me. People my age watched similar things to 90s kids, so how can she miss The Little Mermaid?
@@lmahu6627 I was born in 2001 and watched all of the old 90’s disney movies. They were selling a lot of remastered editions of Disney princess movies in early 2000’s. She def had to have watched the original Little Mermaid at some point in her childhood for sure.
@@MelloBee_zzz Same I watched a lot of Disney princess movies and I'm a guy 😂
I don't think the songs depends on Halle. She only acts and sing what they give her to sing 😂
@@MelloBee_zzzyou Gen Z kids are lucky there weee re runs after the 90s or you would’ve missed the whole Diseny Renaissance. Still not as special as seeing those films in theaters when they were first released
You know, if I had a nickel for every time Lizzo and Disney were mentioned in the same conversation, I’d have 2 nickels. Which is not a lot, but it’s disturbing it happened twice.
Disney could use those nickels.
It's more than that.
At least she would’ve been fun as Ursula, casting Melissa McCarthy in anything at this point is only going to hurt.
@@ChatterboxFM agree tbh
@@ChatterboxFM even if she were a (BEGONE) THOT in a children's movie?
In this version of "The Little Mermaid," King Triton's harem is certainly a melting pot of diversity! He's got Mermaids from all over the globe in it!
or he got cucked by his wife. In that case he must be the most clueless pushover husband ever.
Grown men crying about cartoons is really the reason America has gone downhill. No one can take you nerds seriously. Chin ais the new World Leader now because they're actually BUILDING.
Either king tritons got concubines or his wife's been seeing other kings
@@Azaryahu Triton is Zeus' nephew,he is the one cheating.
Right, brother!
This is a jewish fantasy because the leftists dont like places like this where one man rules over many females.
Ariel wanted to be human first, she was obsessed with being human and she was rebelling against her father. But why can't love be a motivator anymore? Taking a leap of faith for the hope of a happy ending one of the most relatable things we can watch in a movie. I'm sick of being told that because I'm a strong woman I can't be nurturing or romantic and I have to fight my nature to be the right kind of feminist.
"If I wanted to see the world I live in today, I'd go outside."
That is 1 quintillion times relatable. 😂
and Disparu points out how he looks like > *pale skin* xD High-quality comedy.
And we don't like going outside and socializing anymore
I 100% didn't mention Disparu's eyebrows.
Grandfather: In my day we had social gathering. It was called OUTSIDE!
@@XXLSSBBW "Yeah gramps,and back in those days,there was no internet. There was only analog TV and only 28 channels,24 of which were boring. We also couldn't watch any show at any time. Video games were nowhere near the level they are today. Get with the times,gramps"
- Let's do a live action remake!
- You mean make the fish look real?
- Oof, settle down. Not TOO real.
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And this same industry looks down on media like videogames and anime. I rest my case.
Even anime that is garbage is at the very least interesting to look at. Because one thing Japanese artists are committed to, is the art of drawing/designing a character.
There's a lot of uncanny valley going on with the new versions of Flounder and Sebastian that make me think, how the hell do you spend millions of dollars and come up with utter CRAP like that? Do these people have BRAIN DAMAGE or have they lost all sense of esthetics?
always! thank you ian
Nothing kills my hope for entertainment like, "Reimagining," and "Modern audiences."
Anyone remember the movie Splash? It's an early Tom Hanks movie where he falls in love with a mermaid, that actually predates the animated The Little Mermaid. They actually filmed underwater, giving Darryl Hannah fins to swim in. She was a good enough at swimming to keep ahead of the underwater rescue crew. That's what you call good casting.
The movie was released by Touchstone, a new label at the time founded by Disney. That's back when Disney actually put effort into their movies. I don't know if they understand the definition of effort anymore.
And the tail in splash was great. The tail in She Creature, Hook,also the 2003 Peter Pan with the darker mermaids
@@briannabermeo1131 yeah, I thought Darryl Hannah looked great, didn't think about just how much swimming she actually did for the role. In hindsight it makes sense though. she looked great underwater.... because she felt comfortable there.
I love splash
One of my favorite movies growing up and yes you make a good point in that no cgi was needed for Daryl Hannah swimming underwater. I was always impressed by how she could keep her eyes open and smile 😄. Those scenes from 30 yrs ago look way better than the new gloom fest.
I remember that movie one of my favorite ❤️
The thing about Kiss the Girl is that it takes body language into account. An enormous portion of communication involves body language. By changing the lyrics to Kiss the Girl so you *must* have affirmative verbal consent and ignore body language completely destroys the song and story.
The fact that Hollywood doesn't understand body language actually explains a lot about its current state.
which makes it weirder because ursula understood body language. lol they probably took that part out in this irl version though.
It also implies that anyone who cannot verbalize consent (people who can’t speak for one reason or another) can never experience love and all of the physical stuff that comes with it. Talk about ableist.
Along with her homage to Stromboli in *Pinocchio.*
It's because post Me Too, post "only verbal affirmative consent counts", The Little Mermaid's plot fails to live up to the current narrative. Even though the plot shows clearly that Ariel would want the Prince to kiss her, she can't properly verbalise it, so she can't actually consent, and that's not allowed.
Honestly the addition of Ursula making Ariel forget feel... Kind of stupid.
And makes both the songs "poor unfortunate souls" and Kiss the girl" irrelevant.
The first song was Ursula low key threatening Ariel with an impossible quest. Hiding it as a hard, but plausible challenge.
This was supposed to give Ariel agency.
And Kiss the girl WAS that agency. If you think about it. That song was out of desperation. Eric was in love with someone else. And Ariel was too distracted at being a human to make a move.
If Ursula was just planing to hide the fact Ariel needs to kiss someone within three days. The song should have been at least cut in half.
And if Ariel and Eric aren't in love with each other, prior to them meeting.
Then they should have scrapped kiss the girl ALL TOGETHER.
Ariel was already a free spirit obsessed with the human world. Her attraction to Eric was just that shove to take Ursula up on her offer. I was born in '84, the original film came out in '89 and I grew up on the film and TV show. I feel I know Ariel and co pretty well. Ariel isn't a passive actor, she's straight forward, loves exploring and adventures, and speaks up where there is injustice - such as with the 'In Harmony' song which is hella cute. Eric was also a great match for her; he's seventeen, yet mature beyond his years, loves his kingdom and his dog (always a good sign) and very accepting of her heritage.
(I'm a woman) The most frustrating thing about these remakes is their fundamental misunderstanding of the original characters. Although I agree The Little Mermaid can be interpreted as outdated, it can also be seen in a different light.
Ariel is young. Her fascination with the prince starts out as crush that's inflated by her love of the human world. Ariels love and passion for the human world is her own thing! What pushes her over the edge is her FATHER! Just like in the real world, if parents are overprotective and over barring, it usually encourages the children to be *more* reckless in order to defy them. Ariel's crush probably *wouldn't* have evolved into anything more if her father didn't push her away and the witch didn't make it part of the contract. The movie of the Little Mermaid is about rebellion, independence, discovery, and learning to let go and let your children grow into who they want to be. Ariel wanted to be human and learn more about the human world. The prince was the closest she's ever come to a human. It's obvious she hyper fixated on the statue. Her father destroying everything she treasured and was passionate about is what drove her to the sea witch. If memory serves, Ariel wasn't even the one to bring up the prince to Ursula. Ursula over heard her crush on the prince and initially brought it up in the conversation. Ariel just wanted to be human and was willing to do anything to achieve that. Especially since she didn't feel any love or support from home. The prince was a BONUS, not the main goal.
Edit: also im glad I wasn't the only person to feel like flounder is dead behind the eyes. I was also deeply uncomfortable when she held his small, frail fins. I really was expecting her to rip them off. The darkness of all these recent Disney movies keeps giving me horror movie vibes, and I feel like something bad is going to happen.
It wasn't a crush. You do know true love, love at first sight, and soulmates exist in the Disneyverse, right? She loved him because they were meant to be together.
@englishatheart you can interpret it that way, yes. The older disney movies especially played more into fairytale fantasies. However, with this more recent movie trying to "fix" things, it's important to make distinctions on whether something actually *needs* to be fixed, or if they are making mountains out of molehills. If you go back and watch old interviews about The Little Mermaid, Ariel was always meant to be an independent go-getter who followed her own destiny. Something this remake seems to want to ignore. Disney 100% used to play into fated love stories in the past. However, I don't think that's the only thing to take away from the movie. That's what makes a lot of the old movies great. You *can* take them at face value, but if you dig deeper, a lot of them feel very layered as well.
*Exactly overprotective behaviour from the parents/legal guardians will drive children to literally leave/Rebel against the people who raised them!*
Well, as a woman, you need to realise they have targeted and silenced your men, with your help. It’s on you to push back now. We can’t do it, we just get dismissed as sexist/racist/etc.
It’s on you.
@@Nightingale1998 Beautifully explicated! (There's no different word that translates correctly). I am not a woman, I would never have thought someone could make me wish to watch the "De kleine zeemeermin" again (as we call the little mermaid in Dutch) after 20+ years. I had no recollection of the psychological depth of the movie at all, you described it in such a humane and natural way. Far from an easy answer such as "Disney just does it that way".. its often tough to avoid simplisms like that. I just invited my "little" sister (26 years old, still little sis lol) to watch along 😊
Of all the changes made to Kiss the Girl, the worst offender is that during the scene, they changed it so that Eric tries to initiate the first kiss and Ariel pulls away, whereas in the original Ariel tries to initiate and Eric pulls back, which causes Ariel to express visual frustration. They rewrote history and Eric's character - making him more aggressive - in order to produce moments to promote feminism.
Edit: I wrote that before I finished the video and oh my God, it's SO MUCH WORSE! They changed the whole story for feminism!
I thought women being sex positive was modern feminism
But isn't it feminist for Ariel to be making the first move and not sitting there passively and hoping the guy will know she's interested? I mean why would they change that? (Guys can pull away too from an advance if they're unsure! Consent goes both ways.) That's just weird that she'd pull away when she HAS to get him to kiss her if she want's to stay on land and not be the sea witch's slave for eternity. (The original makes a lot more sense in this context.) Or did Disney change that too?
If you haven't read it the reason why Ariel pulled away was becasue Ursula tricked Ariel into forgetting her goal so she wouldn't know anything about a kiss breaking the spell
Today, “feminism” is nearly synonymous with misandry. It should be about equality, but it isn’t.
@@Patrick3183That’s my understanding. This abomination seems to follow a Victorian primary school boy’s notion of “girls never experience sexual attraction.” Girls apparently aren’t allowed to seek out relationships, and boys must be shamed and vilified for trying. I’m not sure who this idiotic message is for.
Imagine if Disney did what the original tale says happened. The Little Mermaid had her tongue cut out. When given the legs, it was like walking on swords (or glass). After three days of pain and failing to win the love of the Prince (who fell in love with another Princess[ LM lost in a DANCE OFF!!!], who he thought saved him from drowning), her sisters gave her a magic dagger (from the same sea witch that helped the LM before) and told her that she needed to kill the Prince in order to live.
THAT would be a movie! Now granted I got this from Wiki so I might be messing things up but just imagine we got a dark Brothers Grim movie.
I’ve read the story (grew up with dark fairytales ever since I could read lmao, didn’t watch Disney’s version till I was 13 and I’m a 2007 baby lol) and most things you’ve said are correct.
I was shocked that they turned the story into a sweet romance lol, but I think it’s a nice change.
I think the show simsala Grimm did an adaptation of the original story (it’s a kids show, so it had to be softened obviously), and I’m pretty sure if they did adapt the original tale, they’d do it the same way simsala Grimm did.
*Hans Christian Anderson
The Mermaid also dies and turns onto sea foam
the original was written by Hans Christian Anderson, just FYI lmao
My mom took me to see The Little Mermaid twice when it first came out and I was five years old. My first pet, a goldfish, lived in an Ariel themed aquarium and everything was Ariel for me! I still have Ariel merch as an adult!
And I will NEVER watch this movie.
i hate woke disney. theyre ruining iconic history
Omfg, I didn’t even think about the problem with Ariel’s sisters! By making them all diverse skin colors, they literally just told the audience that King Tritons wife slept around with other men!! Omg 😭🤣
Edit: yikes, just realized I wrote king Tritons mom instead of wife lol. That’s fixed now 😅
Or more likely that Triton was not devoted to his beloved wife and had a bunch of side tail.
Which also makes no sense because he loved his wife so much he didn't allow music in dancing in his kingdom for years after her death.
It's stupid that they did this and it completely Insults the love and devotion trotten had for his wife. He was so in love with her that hes more overprotective of his youngest daughter who resembles her in looks and personality.
Having either one sleep around Cheapens this deep love.
_seven little sea bastards_
then would you instead like for them to be all black like ariel?
You mean with other women
@@jayqwuan I mean, yeah. That would just make more sense. I personally don’t mind at all that Ariel is black now, and I’m Danish! So I should probably be in the demographic that’s the most offended by any major changes, but I seriously don’t see Ariel being black as an issue whatsoever.
But a lot of the other changes I’ve heard about, I can’t exactly say I’m a fan of 😬
Ursala: "Your voice is forever mine unless you kiss the prince!"
Aeriel: "How do I do that?"
Ursala: "Play hard to get and be stuck up. It'll totally work in your favor."
I find it hilarious how the most common response to the casting criticism is “she’s a mermaid, who cares, they don’t exist”, and they had “mermaid experts” who are trying to figure out if they’re real or not.
She is a mermaid so who cares? They don't exist. Also, "mermaid experts" are ridiculous. See how it can be both?
Dig a little... you'll find some compelling info on that topic.
They always say who cares , but they care , they cared so much they had to remake and completely change an iconic movie and characters for wokeism. God forbid they would just make a new movie
@@aimeekatekelly353 Yep, 😒 wouldn’t be surprised if they Change the Attraction at the parks. 😔 Very disappointed. Why they can’t come up with a New Material is astounding. 😒
@@aimeekatekelly353 hide behind the excuse of her singing. I find her singing to be not as great as they are saying. Because they could have found someone just as good if not better that looks the part better..
They had to make it really dark so you couldn't tell how bad the cgi was.
Was Flounder supposed to make us all depressed? Because if so they are really really good.
The irony. The original saved the animated department at Disney.
@@KitsuneAdorable Truly delectable
It's not just the CGI. Here's a reason why Ariel Had the appearance she did in the original movie. So she would stand out from the rest of the ocean. So she wouldn't blend in with the background like Hallie does.
Ariel should look as vibrant as her Fiery spirit is. Halley's character looks bland and seems to act bland. Not just a little mermaid's voice got muted in this movie, Her colors, her personality, Her story has all become dull muted.
It's no wonder these people freak out when you challenge their world view: it's only as big as themselves. Any form of questioning is taken as a personal attack.
In order for Ariels sisters to be the Daughters of Triton this means they all had different mothers, meaning they turned a loving monogamous parental unit (King Triton and Queen Athena) into a King with a harem of wives. So instead of promoting a loving marriage between two individuals Disney is instead promoting that a man can have many women.
@k Bee um... Tell that to Tritons aunt Hera and uncle Hades. Hades is in a pure monogamous relationship with his wife Persephone, and Hera (Goddess of Marriage) never cheated on her husband even tho he's never been faithful to her.
@k Bee That's not true to this Triton. He was absolutely devoted in Love with his wife Athena. She was his world. Triton is shown as a loving caring devoted father and husband.
His strict and over protective of Ariel because of the loss of his wife. It broke his heart so completely He made music and dancing illegal in his kingdom.
He's more protective over Ariel because she's the spitting image of her mother and looks and personality.
You don't get that kind of love and devotion from some guy that's getting a bunch of side tail.
And your argument of bringing in mythology that's unrelated to this story. The mythology tryton is not married to Athena. Athena wasn't even a mermaid. She's the goddess of wisdom and war.
@k Bee This is not the same Triton.
@@vetarlittorf1807
Like everything else with this remake- that is *_very_* self-evident, no matter *how much* they want to con us into thinking otherwise...
Or, his wife had lots of lovers
Bailey obviously never watched the movie, Ariel wanted to be human way before meeting Eric. I watched the movie when I was 9 (back in 1990), and even then I understand that.
Eric was just the catalyst.
If they made The Little Mermaid into a soap opera, it will probably have Eric’s point of view. Imagine saving a naked mute, girl from the beach - clothing and feeding her. Eric tried his best to be gentlemanly without asking for anything in return. But said girl tries to be close to him because she needs to kiss him to not turn back to being a mermaid and being Ursula’s captive and not because she loves him. Eric learns of her hidden agenda and begin to question if her actions was genuine or if she only acted that way so she can make him kiss her. Ariel has an existential crisis if she loves eric because she needs him or if she needs eric because she loves him.
Disney “we can’t have a song about a cis kiss”
Also Disney “we’re going to lose billions for kids to watch men dance in thongs”
Everyone at Disney needs to be lined up in front of mass graves they're forced to dig for themselves.
What?
Uhm, what? What do you mean? Could you explain what you're talking about with "lose billions for kids to watch men dance in thongs”, please?
EXCUSE ME????
EXPLAIN!
These writers repeatedly claim they're making changes for "modern sensibilities" and the "modern audience".
But the ACTUAL modern audience downvotes, disdains and rejects it.
It's a giant red flag when people lie about the reasons for what they do.
if they want to insert "modern sensibilities", they can make a sci-fi, not "identity theft" a fantasy fairy tale, smh
2:12 - The blue and white one at the bottom made me think, "Oh shit; Elsa unda da sea? You can't build a snowman at the bottom of the sea!"
The original animated version WASN'T about Ariel "going to the surface after a boy". In fact, if you re-watch the original animated version, you'd see that Ariel was already driven by the things she wanted (i.e. to explore the human world, to see people dancing, to learn about fire and why it burns, etc), and she already wanted the freedom to do that. The part about Prince Eric was only because Ursula had the kiss as part of the contract, and Prince Eric was the only male human that Ariel had a close encounter with at that point. In the end, Ariel still got what she wanted...plus extra (i.e. love). How can the live-action remake "change the story to this" if the story already was this? They're literally taking credit for doing nothing except shoehorning in Leftist BS that we've already seen/heard numerous times before!
That’s the thing, Disney writers can’t accept the original work, it is their interpretation that they want to see and hear
@@kevinW826 Essentially, they're turning it into their own biased (possibly perverted) Fan-Fic.
I see your point but I don't entirely agree. The original animated classic started with her interest in the human world, but it did become all about the boy after she glimpsed Eric. Her becoming human by Ursula's hand was tied to her becoming Eric's and in the end, her father turning her human was also just because he realized that she truly loved him and they would marry.
If she hadn't would he have turned her human? He didn't before when she was just wildly interested in the human world. It took a human man that she loved to convinve him. So I kind of see the argument that the original movie wasn't focused on her wishes and freedom as an individual, but solely on her wishing to be someone's wife.
@@kimberleyjackson And just like that you've exposed yourself as a Leftist idiot.
Whoa whoa whoa, that’s “Far Leftest BS” sir. We regular leftest don’t claim this bullshittery.
So, let me see if I'm hearing this right. They changed the parameters of the curse Ursula puts on aerial from "I will turn into a human for three days, and you must receive true loves kiss to stay. At the cost of your voice." to "I'm going to turn you into a human, at the cost of your voice. You must kiss the price to stay that way, but you'll be too stupid to actually remember that detail."
Really making Ariel out to be a strong independent woman right?
@@lollybirdy lol, that's what I was thinking. It's almost as if...they're taking away her agency. I thought that was baaaaad!
🐸☕ *I didn't knew Rumpelstiltskin lived "Under The Sea/Below The Surface" apparently He's a Shapeshifter like Pennywise🤡 in 🎬It🎈!*
_”It’s about herself, her freedom, her life and what she wants… As women we are amazing, we are independent, […] we are everything and above.”_
Pretty sure this was Ursula’s perspective: “screw everyone else, it’s all about me and what I want.” In fact, I’m pretty sure this is the perspective of _every villain_ ever, on screen and in real life, because selfishness is the root of every evil action. People like Bailey never realize how malevolent they sound when they launch into these “empowering” rants.
My sister is an absolute fan of the original Disney cartoon. She had lot of merc about Ariel. Other girls had dolls and barbies but my sister had sheets of The Little Mermaid.
The moment she saw the first images of the live action, she almost cried...
...From dissappintment
Give her therapy
Same. As a pale redheaded gal who sings, puts love first, and feels out of place in this world, she was the only Disney princess I ever related to and saw myself in. I am all for creating NEW characters for representation, but it isn't okay to take away a princess that many of us saw ourselves in and give her to someone else.
@@englishatheart but the og Ariel is still there. She didn’t disappear
@@nasb3398 Are you serious. You don't need therapy just because you're expressing actually warranted feelings. There is nothing wrong with feeling disappointment over what they did to a beloved character and movie.
@@englishatheart Has another pal redhead who feels the same I agree. But no Everyone who has anything opposing this movie to say is racist.
The real tragedy about race swapping her skin tone is that they didn’t opt instead to fully commit to fish colors and patterns. That’s what I want to see.
She had green skin in the book
@@347Jimmy She's described as having "skin ... as clear and delicate as a rose-leaf, and ... eyes as blue as the deepest sea; but, like [her sisters], she had no feet, and her body ended in a fish's tail.
@@347Jimmy No she didn't. Read it again.
@@wimsylogic65 you're quite right, my bad. Looking at book quotes, there's a whole bunch that explicitly state white skin
It literally doesn't matter she's a fictional character
I really don't know if they've even watched the original movie. Her freedom, what she wants, la la la... well in the original Ariel explored ships, was chased by sharks (and escaped safely while managing to protect her little friend), collected random things from the human world, desperate to learn more about it, sang a song about the whole thing and only then she saw Eric. And after that her dad destroyed her collection, so she, being 16, i.e. a teenager, threw a tantrum and ran away from home and Ursula, taking advantage of the vulnerable girl, made an offer she knew Ariel could not refuse, and after that Ariel actively pursued her love interest herself. Ariel was already pretty damn empowered. She was strong. And they took that away from her with this condescending grin, acting like they know better. As a woman, I say no, thanks, I do not want this.
Whenever they say that their movie "reflects the world we live in today" they mean that it reflects Los Angeles in the year 2023. They're extremely self-centered and can't see 2 feet beyond their own feelings.
The last Disney movie I watched about “me,me,me” is probably The Emperor’s New Groove. Even in that movie there was a lesson in humility.
And at least they made the "me, me, me" in the movie entertaining.
Probably Disney's funniest movie, yet it still managed to be heartwarming and teach a good moral.
Also, Kronk. Just... Kronk.
That movie did the humility story very well and it's still one of my favorite Disney films ever. I remember as a kid, I quoted the entire movie word for word
@@MrPonytron It managed to teach a good lesson and had moments that tugged on your heartstrings, all while simultaneously being one of, if not THE funniest movie Disney ever made.
@@foxboy6145 Agreed 👍
Could you imagine how disappointed Walt Disney would be in the current state of Disney? I just watched a documentary about his history and that dude was so gifted at collaboration, creating amazing creation's, finding the right people for the right things. They were TRULY DIVERSE, genuinely talented like we rarely see. Dedicated and Passionate towards creating imagination bending works of art and they Really did understand all the aspects and processes that mattered. For what it took to create those works of art. *(I just saw that Ukraine just started creating 2d animation for their military videos and it really reminded me of what I saw Walt do during WW2)
I love seeing cartoon styled animated video's being used again. Just how Walt Disney did (out of his own pocket) he believed it was the least he could do for his country and his countrymen who were giving so much to the war to protect our nation and the greater good in the world. (If you think about it. Walt Disney did a lot for pushing advancements in science/creativity. He made understandable information that taught so many people of all ages, and from all sorts of different walks of life, to inform on very important matters and subjects of the time. Things that might seem out of place or difficult now, were completely relative to the current situations everyone was dealing with at that point in time. (The passion Walt gained for science and technology is what sparked his passion for Epcot and learning how to build all these cutting edge devices, city planning concepts, animatronics puppets of Abe Lincoln or the talking/signing birds in the tiki lounge. Plus all the other puppets on all the other interactions around his theme park. I just watched a documentary covering the career of Walt Disney and he really was a amazingly uniquely talented person. Where he himself had a insane drive towards innovation and new ideas BUT what I think his best trait was: That Walt was SO GOOD at interacting with everyone around him and he just had this amazing ability to find the PERFECT person for different jobs, things, roles. To really bring out the best in OTHER people around him. I truly believe that's one of the most important traits in a great leader. If anyone is in a group of people who are set on creating anything. (It's rare when someone comes across with the unique style and approach like Walt Disney had and really all it takes is to watch the coverage documentary that covers all of this uniquely awesome stuff that positively impacted SO MANY PEOPLE in so many ways and places. It didn't matter who you were, the chance that something from the Walt Disney era impacting you in a positive way is nearly 100% a possibility. There really was some of the best attributes of humanity, teamwork, and motivated passionate creativity that occured thru this group of Walt Disney era team members and we all could learn something from them. In some way or another.)
Walt Disney: I don't make movies to make money. I make money so I can make movies.
Yeah he was also a racist and pedo ig he’s your hero huh
Didn't Walt Disney personally hand pick those black men for the movie Dumbo? Only one of those crow's was voiced by a black actor, but the rest were just random people.
Problem with changing how the characters look-(including skin color) is that its ANOTHER step removed from the original character ON TOP of "modernizing" the plot and characters and the songs. It's so hard to associate Halle with Ariel at this point, its just a whole different character.
Indeed. One thing lots of filmmakers overlook now (and Disney ones in particular) is that when they're working in a franchise they have to convince the audience that certain characters are the same ones that we've seen before, even if they are played/voiced by a different actor. But the current way of "convincing" us is by yelling, "That's the same person and if you don't believe us you're an ist and a phobe!"
And how someone looks does affect how they behave, how they act, How they grew up, their whole energy and being.
Like Ariel's energy is like the sun. Halley's energy is like a candle.
@@wimsylogic65 I think how someone looks is influenced BY how they act and who they are (specially clothes, hair, and build)
Wait what? 😂😂😂😂😂 god damn, I thank god for people like you. You know, the ones with less IQ. Since when is Ariel a human? When was she?
*movie ramake* : 'making the character skin from white to black
*People* : it's fiction and if you hate it you are racist
*Other Movie Remake* : 'remake a character from black to white'
*People* : "That is racist"
I love that line, It's not about leaving the Ocean for a Boy,
it never was, she longed to walk on the land long before she met Eric. hell, the fire she sees after singing Part of that World if his ship catching Fire which triggered there First Meeting.
Yeah, the boy is just upside. She wanted to see what up there was like, then she saw something up there she wanted.
She was curious about the surface but, her driving force that lead her to make a deal with an evil witch, was indeed a guy. There's usually a witch or evil magical person who goes after the girl and a Prince has to save her. Even though it's not real life, it's nice that there's traditional roles in these stories. The woke ideology doesn't like that so I don't understand why they can't come up with their own stories and leave these alone.
Come on. You can expect the people working on remakes to actually sit through all hour and a half of the original.
I want to know when Disney is going to realise they can make their remakes closer to the source material. In the original there were consequences for the silly girls poor choices, and it supported the wisdom of the older people around her, as well as showing her personal strength of character. She was not restricted to 3 days, but spent years next to the prince, who saw her as a little sister or friend, rather than a love interest. Consequences. This one I have always hated. Let's abandon your family, burn bridges, take magic spells from nefarious people, all for a boy you've never spoken to, and then get everything you wanted in the end because Disney doesn't believe in consequences for really poor choices, asking for help from your family, reasonable and intelligent parents/rulers or even the idea that a protagonist could fail in achieving her life's goals.
I actually feel kind of sorry for women who constantly feel the need to say things like, “I am strong, I’m powerful, I’m great…” Because first of all, anyone with a brain can hear the level of cope and lack of self-esteem in those statements. Second, because people who are ACTUALLY those things NEVER feel the need to say them out loud. 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
most accurate assessment here. glad i see others acknowledging such facts.
facts!
You are Right
So, let's see: in the original animated movie, during Kiss the Girl? Eric pulls away first, despite Ariel leaning in and puckering up, because Eric is still holding out hope for his dream girl to arrive. He ALREADY was treating her like an equal! He didn't force himself on her!
Let's flip the genders in the animated story: Ariel is male, a merman, and Eric is a princess. Ariel collects things that drift down from above the water, including a life size statue of Princess Eric that was meant for her seventeenth birthday. A warlock comes along and gives Ariel a deal that will allow him to go topside, assuming he survives the bends from raising to the surface that quickly, and he has to get Eric to kiss him. Besides being the weirdest isekai ever since it doesn't even hop worlds... Ariel's just an otaku who gets a shot at the object of her affection.
Hm
already sounds better and more creative
@@Bilbo122333 Yeah
I'M SURPRISED THE WITCH DIDN'T GIVE HER LESSONS ON HOW TO PERFORM ORAL S&X.
Ariel is an otaku😂😂😂 love it
I love your ending thoughts..."there's a lesson for all of us here despite everything that Disney have done to the Little Mermaid, ........Even with all of that we know one thing, it doesn't even touch how insane universities in California are."
Isn't the original Disney rendition of this story an allegory for female empowerment already? Ariel chooses to go beyond expectations of Neptune's patriarchy and risk her very life to pursue her goals. She takes an enormous chance and puts her faith in herself to win over the Prince and get the life everyone else said she couldn't have.
Maybe a little bit. Alone the idea is totally sick.
That's the problem with progressivism : you have to constantly re-invent the wheel or risk falling into immoral traditionalism.
That’s the og plot
Yes it is, but in current year a woman wanting/needing a man for any reason somehow means she can't be strong or independent, so Disney had to change it -to virtue signal and make a ton of money- to empower young girls
That’s exactly what they don’t get today anymore. It’s ridiculous.
"What sort of color gradation should we use in this Disney kids movie?"
"I want it to be as grey and depressing as possible" the directors
I think that at the bottom of the ocean, there is no sunlight to darken melanin.
The lack of self awareness when it comes to not realising that just how narcissistic sociopathic and selfish they look, is incredible!
The way y'all are so over dramatic and over use those terms to the point that they lose meaning is hilarious, over a mermaid are that lol.
@@BratzRockAngels actually anything that features someone with way too much confidence (considering their character/history) paired with way too much sensitivity/emotionally volatile, and motivated solely by their own needs and desires, is a fairly accurate general description of someone who is narccisistic.
Narccisists believe they are better than everyone despite having done nothing to prove it, Narccisists are (as a result of this delusional level of confidence) sensitive to criticism and act out when things dont go their way, as a knee jerk reaction to having their perfect image of themselves tarnished with "gasp!" Actual humanising flaws (they cant stand the thought of being a mere human, they MUST see themselves as better than everyone else) and disrespecting the wishes and needs of others without much thought...they do not apologise when they do wring, they blame those around them FOR everything that goes wrong (scapegoat) and lastly, Narccisists do not credit anyone else with helping them even when they were helped a lot. They are selfish, self centred, and genuinely believe that noone else matters when compared to them.
So its not TOO far off base here.
However, the Sociopath comment... well you're actually right, that does not apply here.
Ok, here's my opinion: The Little Mermaid is not my favorite story. But Ariel having failures and faults is what makes her victories even more meaningful. Why make her perfect, that's ruining her strengths!
Oh wait I'm describing every Disney movie of the last years...
I Agree, Ariel is a teenager. She just turned 16. We've probably all made stupid decisions when we were that age (and even later in life). That is how we empathize with her character.
This sounds like love is now just a means to an end instead of the deepest connection humans can have.
The changing of "kiss the girl" is what really pisses me off about modern Hollywood. they clearly lack critical thinking skills. the whole point of the song was that she wanted him to kiss her, but she couldn't tell him that because she had no voice. that's why in the cartoon, she gave him the "come hither" eyes. the military taught me that there are indeed forms of non-verbal consent. that was one of them. i can't wait to be labeled a sexist and a bigot when this movie fails.
After everything we know about how these people operate, with meetings at hotels at 2 am that you get a phone call and have to get out of bed and go to for a "script reading", its really hilarious them changing a kids' cartoon movie with a kids' song to "Consent matters, y'all. She can't say yes."
As we know, plenty of people say yes in Hollywood, and do things they didn't sign up for. So lessons about consent from Hollywood are just...hollow.
No matter how much they say a failure is great, groundbreaking, made for modern times, has representation and diversity plus it removes everything "offensive" it will always be a failure
White men with tiny dicks crying about a story for little girls is the reason America is in shambles. Get a life, Bro.
02:02 Alternative explanation is that Triton has a harem and is opposed to abortions. Somehow, I think oikophobes will find your hypothesis more appealing.
The Liberal Mermaid FAILS as Everybody Mocks Disney
What makes it liberal?
@@Djkalchi "Pick me" comment. Adults would do research and know the subject they're commenting on before commenting.
@@DjkalchiIt's Liberal values, Liberal wants. Are you trying to tell me it wasn't Liberal to inject Race into a Story that didn't really bring it up?
@@Black_Revue they didn’t inject race into the story at all. They just picked the actor who they felt was best. That’s it honestly.
@@Djkalchi Fit it best how? It's strange when you notice a pattern of them race swapping redheads.
I wonder how many people know the original story by Hans Christian Andersen. That story was a cautionary tale about the risks of falling for total strangers and self sacrifice.
No. It was an allegory for unrequited gay love which Andersen went through.
@@vetarlittorf1807 I’ve viewed it as a mix of both really,
But if you didn’t know about the author being bisexual, you’d have read it as a story about self-sacrifice as well since that’s how I still view it. I think it’s a really important message.
I’m a big fan of Disparu. He and his channel are definitely going places. 1M subs to the moon!
As inexplicable as it was that Triton's daughters are now a mixed bag of diverse races (begging to question - are they all adopted or has Disney taken the dead mom trope to a whole new level?), I am very distracted by the one mermaid who has fins on her arms. Someone had mentioned in in a tweet and can't unsee it now.
Triton has some Henry VIII action going on.
Yikes 😂
Triton is a water Bluebeard...?
@@Stothehighest Ooohhh... Disney would never touch that story... good story though.
I could see Triton's daughters being the result of arranged marriages to various Mermaid queens... which.. is... not great, but sorta makes sense. That or Disney might have decided that mermaids have random skin colors and there's no genetic basis for it. :p
Yeah I hate that they did this and it makes no sense. It's not cannon. The girls all had the same mother. And the youngest Ariel looked just like her mother. It's why her father is so much more protective over her specifically. Because she reminds him so much of her mother.
These mermaids don't look related at all.
I find it insulting that they did this. Insulting to that pure love that Triton Had for his wife that broke his heart so completely that he banned music and dancing from his kingdom for years after she died.
That kind of love and devotion, Is eternal. If treyton had side tail that birth his other daughters, And he would have replaced his wife, He would have had other mermaids To be with after her death.
But he didn't he chose to be alone because she was his one and only. Look at him being A loving grandpa. This is a devoted family man. It makes no sense for him to have side tail.
Therefore it makes no sense for the sisters To look so completely different as to not be related at all. At least in the cartoon the sisters all looked like they were related to their father and mother.
Rumor has it Ariel is going to actually take the wheel of the ship and defeat Ursula herself. Now, I’m certainly not going to pay to see this film, but if anyone actually is, please confirm if this is true or not. I need a good laugh
Ariel saves Eric from drowning, Eric saves Ariel from Ursula, It's a trade-off. Oh, well, the protagonist kills the villain
One of the book adaptations does indeed end with Ariel steering the ship into Ursula. While still half-fish.
Yeah, Eric's going to be given the shaft.
Black feminist mermaid kills giant octopus lady
Imagine being a witch but not expecting the person you made a deal with trying to kill you to get out of it. Imagine being surprised by it 😂
I'll let you know. I'll be there opening night. Me and all my girls will be there. It's my favorite Disney cartoon ☺.
In the original little mermaid movie Ariel wanted to be part of the human world long before she ever met prince eric.
BTW, Ariel had a whole cave of human stuff, long before she saw Prince Eric, it was accidental. Also, the original is actually about Kink Triton's arc, Ariel knew from the start what she wanted. The perks of having a younger sister ;)
@k Bee And you’re a troll 😂
It's amazing how much of a dumpster fire this has become. I wouldn't be able to screw it up so badly even if I had intended to. In a way, it's actually exceptional! ww
It is truly impressive how stupid Disney is, you’re right.
Part of me has this conspiracy they're doing it on purpose. It's just hard to believe someone can be this inept and create such a failure over and over again. You'd think they'd actually care about their money/investments, guess not.
If you see cartoon animals talking, you don't think anything of it, but see realistic ones talking and you can have bad dreams.
@@Stealth86651 yeah, after the first 3 flops, anyone with 2 braincells should be able to at least sit back and wonder "it it US?"
As someone with a childhood fear of the deep ocean the dimness of the underwater scenes in that disney demake is troubling.
When I go see a movie the LAST thing I want to see is a "reflection" of the world today. That's why I want to go to movies to GET AWAY from the "modern" world.
Yeah, thats why films always depict americans as heroes
**mic drop**
Changing the songs, horrible 'realistic' designs, the color tones of a zombie show, the lighting is too low. This has the same problem of the Peter Pan remake.
Yep. Exactly my thoughts. I suspect it will try to do everything, and in return achieve nothing. Ugly, forgettable and drab.
It's so shallow how they act like the original Ariel wasn't a daring and kick ass girl. She was so curious and always loved the land, even in the show prior to the first movie and in the 3rd movie she rebels to get music back into the kingdom. She's an independent and amazing character and they're trying to make her seem shallow and ditzy.
The prince is the one in the wrong? Ariel is the one who almost damned the whole world because she was so infatuated with a man who never actually met her that she made A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL to get in his pants
I do not think they actually watched the movie. It was her trying to come onto him. He was just like she a friendly mute.
@@nicoleackerman205 It's also funny because this is complicated because Eric is actually conscious of her disability and not wanting to take advantage of her. So he interprets what she does as simple friendliness and not romantic advances. He's already the considerate guy Hollyweird would want him to be but they can't have that so they screw up everything to make him bad somehow.
Yeah but technically it started as wanting to explore the human world and then becoming infuated with Eric drove her further
Unpopular opinion she was an entitled brat then and it’s worse now.
She initially wasn't even going to go to Ursula. Her father's destruction of her Grotto left her in a vulnerable state that Ursula took advantage of, and afterwards she was on a time limit where she either gets to stay in the surface world or lose her soul.
My biggest problem is still with them changing the lyrics of Kiss The Girl. Imo, Sebastian sings that song to tell Eric that Ariel wants to be kissed because she LITERALLY can't speak so her BESTFRIEND is helping her to tell her potential boyfriend to do so!! What is wrong with that???
And the lyrics is just telling the plot. Ariel made a deal with the witch - she MUST be kissed by Eric!
Because the people in an uproar about wanting the lyrics changed never understood the original movie and lyrics. They can’t comprehend that Ariel would be the one who wants Eric to kiss her. It does not compute! Plus they’re so woke they see harassment where it doesn’t exist. They’re sick, sad people who need mental health checks, but since they’re in California they get a pay raise instead.
LGBTQ and other leftist and globalist organisations ans think tanks dont like the heterosexual theme and motifs.
@@mikaelafox6106 I have a really hard time believing these people actually watched the originals.....
Flounder is her best friend, not Sebastian.
4:34 I bet Lizzo would've hyped up Ursula the same way Jack Black did for Bowser
“The sequel will simply involve wine and cats”… actually, that’s exactly the same thing they did with Peter Pan & Wendy the 2023 remake, the main character is of course Wendy, with Peter sidelined in his own movie. She has a “flash forward” of her future which shows her dying alone of old age with no one and nothing but her cats… and this is what she WANTS to have happen… a young girl in 1800s London.
To be fair, considering how difficult and dangerous childbirth was at that time (most doctors and midwives didn't wash their hands with soap, at all, let alone before sticking them "up there" to help with a breech, and there was no antibiotics to help if there was any form of infection from any type of wound, and London at that time was NOT a clean place)
Considering all that, I can believe that living and dying alone was actually a tempting choice for a young woman at that time in history...
IF!!! IF!!!!!...
IF Her family was wealthy enough and IF upon inheriting their families estate, the eldest of her brothers took pity on her and afforded her land and an allowance, because she wasn't going to be able to get a job (as a woman of that time) that could support her independently for a lifetime.
Essentially, George would be her benefactor, and I hope Wendy is grateful to her brother, when the norm of the time was to marry for survival and start a family by default.
Some women wanted families, some didn't, most did it anyway for survival purposes.
That being said, the idea of dying alone should be far LESS popular now, because without the risk of death during childbirth, or at the hands of a violent alcoholic husband that you were NOT allowed to run from because Society (both of which are thoroughly resolved in this day and age (you dont get to expect absolutely zero men to be evil towards women, we get to have the option to try anything to escape those very rare men WITH the support of society.....and any other expectations on mankind are just unrealistic nonsense))
Without the risk of death in childbirth (birth control exists, natal medical care is now top notch) or the risk of dying/suffering at the hands of a violent husband (divorce and womens shelters exist).....
....well, then, the only reason to NOT want to eagerly persue and find a deep, meaningful relationship with another consenting adult, is because you are either too immature yet, or just generally self-serving and self-centred.
So it simply highlights the immaturity of THAT vision ESPECIALLY when held NOW, in modern times. SUPER backwards NOW, when risk is off the table.
It wasn’t the 1800s, it was like the 1900s or 1910s.
It is like no matter what they are remaking, they see their own bitter end, alone. At least they were truthful there.
Surely the movie needs to be renamed “A strong diverse female character of unknown size”. Wait till they realise “maid” is in the title!
😮🤫
Should call her a "merpeep" ("person" has "son" in it and therefor perpetuating the evil patriarchy)
The little siren
5:51 is the strongest subtle backhand I’ve seen in a while!
If I wanted to see something that reflected the real world.... I'd go outside.
2:07 From left to right:
1) Give her a Waterstone
2) Swim with her for 10km during the night
3) Swim with her for 10km during the day
4) Give her a Firestone
5) Use a Mossy Lure
6) Use a Glacial Lure
7) Give her a Thunderstone
that's actually clever.
Pokemon?
😆🤣😂 Thanks for making this more relatable.
The cartoon was already all about what Ariel wants. She wanted to get legs so she could experience the human world and get that hot hunk of Prince. And Ursula wanted her revenge against Triton. It's already a story that's entirely about women that want something.
The moment I saw they had changed Ariel, I was out. I had been so excited. Now seeing how badly it was done, the rewriting of its classic songs etc, I don't understand how they seriously thought this was going to go well.
And it makes me lose a little bit of respect for Alan Menken to see him go along with this revisionism. Of course, he’s probably stuck in a long-term contract with Disney just like Ariel was with Ursula.
Because Disney's new Plan A is to call the audience racist and sexist when their projects FAIL. Their defense for the abomination called Peter Pan and Wendy is that they were "review-bombed"! boo hoo! you mean people actually told you how they really felt about your product and you couldn't handle the honest feedback, Disney?!
Thought? It is doing well y’all are literally just talking outta your ass
I agree I figured I'm biased because I'm a pale red head with blue eyes. I loved Ariel's original character.
I am very disappointed by how they changed her. And has not just how she looks her personality is different. And I know the argument is supposedly her singing is so great but I honestly don't see it that way. I listened to her song and yes she's a good singer, But she's not good enough to make up for not being anything like the character at all.
And her song has a completely different energy to it. Ariel is light playful whimsical she has this fiery energy and burst of life.
Halley Ariel Is lower, Is somber, singing feels heavier. Interfacial expressions everything is more serious.
They should have just gave her own character. Because she is no Ariel. I was willing to get past the appearances but the acting, singing , Facial expressions Body language, None of it gives off the same energy or essence of the original Disney little mermaid.
I would say that this is up there with how good Disney did with the Ella echanted movie based on the book😂 If you know what I'm talking about, then you'll understand and know this is sarcasm.
At least Ella enchanted was an OK movie separate from the book. I don't think this live action little mermaid movie even has that.
@@wimsylogic65 Perfectly phrased and I agree 100%.
“When it comes to Sebastian, I really only have one thing on my mind.”
I love that song!
You weren’t the only one who had that song in his head when seeing that character.
Speak for yourself. I had to look it up.
I can't unsee it now, though. 😂
“Why did you evolve protection from the sun” Shit he’s right actually, now I realize that realistic mermaids should have green or blue eyes and blonde or red hairs with white af skin since they don’t need melanin that much.
MAMI WATA is a South African legendary water spirit resembling a Mermaid.
Why can't Disney make an original movie about that instead of destroying the original?
Well, that would require Them to Read
Evil cannot make anything new, only corrupt and destroy what already exist.
Truly I would want to give that story a film adaptation instead of this little mermaid remake
Because it's about subversion and demoralization, you can't demoralize white people by making an actual story about someone's else culture, no, you need to destroy their legacy first as a way to say "look at me, I own what you like, bend over or get nothing".
Look up “The Woman King” and you’ll realize why that asking them to do new original stories are a bad idea.
The plot of the film is now "It's all about me"? So it's like The Emperor's New Groove, but they're taking it seriously, and thus it's not funny.
"Uh, yeah, doy, me. Everyone else in the kingdom gets it. Your'e the only one who doesn't seem to be with the program."
I’d like to see them remake The Emperor’s New Groove. Just as an experiment.
I'm confused over each mermaid sister having a different ethnicity, Ariel's mother died bc of humans, that's why her father didn't wanted her in the outside world, but... does he really care about her mom since all her daughter's have different mothers? Or does he really care about a mermaid that cheated on him with every other Triton? Hahahah
Why am I not surprised they switched Eric turning away to ariel turning away?
That is stupid as crap if you does not get kiss she loses her soul.
The mermaid expert -- a professor of English -- said, "Now mermaids is my life's work."
"Mermaids is." I wonder how much she paid to learn that.
everyone taking her course deserves their student debt and has no right to complain.
Don't expect us to bail you out - you should have known better.
Silly! She obviously means: ‘Mermaids’ is my life’s work. She’s referring to the film.
The commentary on this video had me cracking up …but “Mermaids is my life’s work” just about killed me.
@@ethanhunt3242 yeah that's comparable to some serious weeb shit.
I keep coming back to the fact that Prince Eric was refusing to kiss her without her verbal consent. You'd think they'd be happy about that.
God I hope this bombs hard and teaches Disney a lesson about messing with things. It's about time Disney stops excluding people in the name of inclusivity.
Jesus yes!
Well it won’t lmfao! The reviews right now are extremely positive whether you like it or not. I pray the movie does incredible so y’all all shut the fuck up.
Lol 🤣 The LAST thing that will EVER happen is them learning a lesson. They've done nothing but double, triple and quadruple down the past 8 years - this only ends when Disney is in full collapse and are simply UNABLE to put out more propaganda.
It will bomb alright but Disney learning from that is about as likely as a blizzard in the Sahara. They will just double down on calling everyone racist.
Why wouldn't Eric have Ariel's "consent"? She literally NEEDS him to kiss her, or else she becomes Ursula's property! Speaking of Ursula, she's the f**king villain, so WHY change the lyrics to her song too? We already know that they've changed the climax to where Ariel somehow steers the wrecked ship into the giant Ursula, thus "saving Eric"...again...
I heard they changed Ursula's song. She's a villain but she's also blunt and when it comes down to it, gives it straight to Ariel what the deal is without lying. The song where I believe they've made changes was literally about how she thought it was stupid that people didn't respect themselves enough and were unable to see what was on the inside instead of just focusing on shallow beauty standards to feel worthwhile. (So now Disney is saying people should judge purely on appearances? Good to know!) Like she's super snide about the fact that a guy thought he couldn't get the girl he wanted without using magic to make him ripped, and the girl wanted a handsome guy but thought one wouldn't look at her without being thin. She changes them and poof! They get together even though they're still the same people underneath and then pay a terrible price and don't get their happily ever after which they would have otherwise been able to have if they hadn't been so shallow. Anyone thinking she was making fun of their appearance totally and completely missed the point. She was making a commentary on how people felt they needed to meet society standards of beauty to be accepted, even if it kills them. I mean Ursula can look like anything, she has the magic to do so, and yet she doesn't care what other's think. At one point she becomes outwardly beautiful, but she's still evil underneath reinforcing that beauty is skin deep trope. Changing her character is a crappy move. She's probably my favorite Disney villain because of how irreverent and confident she is, and of course that killer song she gets.
@@Jsa460 No argument here! Ursula is a villain through and through and manipulating others is her specialty, but that doesn't mean she can't be truthful about it. I agree that she makes very reasonable points about the faults of society and trying to meet unreasonable expectations. As a master of manipulation, she also knows how to use those reasonable points to better convince her "victims" into doing what she wants. Of course, she does cherry-pick some of her points, and intentionally leaves out some important context like what the specific obligations were of her previous contracts (which would better explain why those previous merpeople failed to fulfill their side of said contracts), but that's just part of why she's the villain!
It's unlikely that current Disney took all that (including what you stated) into consideration when they decided to alter Ursula's song and character motivation for the upcoming remake.
@@Jsa460 Ursula's song had to be changed, because (1) she offers "instant fixes" that don't really work, (2) takes away your liberty in exchange for them, and (3) pretends that it's about anything but her own ego. In short, she sounds too much like the people the writers voted for, and it made them uncomfortable.
7:00 sounds like she's the villain