As a black woman all i can say is; If Tiana had being swapped by a white actress with blonde hair and blue eyes ,everyone would have lost it. The double standard is real.

@myfirelsjourney947

Жыл бұрын

Please stop the maddness. Biracial people have been used in place of black people for DECADES. Nico Parker is predominately WHITE, she is not black. BUT all people see is that her mother is HALF black. No one is questioning whether the lead actor Scandanavian...I wonder why.

@hanmel5321

Жыл бұрын

The Frog Prince is German in the first place, it is already swap race...

@arachnabell

Жыл бұрын

It is true what the comment said to you. But they also reworked the story completely so it felt like a new story and that is why no one had a problem with it. There is animated versions of it way before Tiana. But also Tiana and the story was lovely.

@jadakaydavidson182

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. ❤

@daisusaikoro

Жыл бұрын

As a Black woman, are you saying they would do that because there is so little white representation in hollywood, traditionaly?

If race doesn't matter then "representation" doesn't matter.

@KatieLHall-fy1hw

Жыл бұрын

Then we can do true blind casting all the time and everyone of any ethnicity is on equal footing. (Blind casting can work well actually, but I can also see the times you wouldn’t want to do it that way)

@LennyCash777

Жыл бұрын

@Katie.L Hall I want to see a beautiful red-headed Caucasian woman like yourself be cast for the role of those such as Harriet Tubman or The Ronettes trio, or Aunt Jemima! ❤

@KatieLHall-fy1hw

Жыл бұрын

@@LennyCash777 dude, I WISH my hIr was red! 😆 it is brown, May be reflecting the red of the wood in the pic. But I’ll stay out of the acting world except to criticize when my favorite musicals (Little Shop of Horrors and Joseph) cast really bad vocalists

@informant09

Жыл бұрын

But race is all that matters currently in the west.

@TheApp9

Жыл бұрын

For the left race matters. They are obsessed by race. Totally contradicting the old fashioned left!

I find it immensely ironic that Disney is wanting to show black representation in their live actions, and yet they're completely ignoring the Princess and the Frog

@zacharysiple629

9 ай бұрын

I've thought the same thing. Why do they have to remake all the classics? Why not just do NEW stories with black actors?

@timbohoddock

9 ай бұрын

@@zacharysiple629 yk if they make the remake of the Princess and the frog I bet the characters are gonna be white lmao and like Sydney is saying just stay close to what how the character looks and make a new story but never make a black person white or a white person black that is just annoying and not respectful

@mattvaughn8525

8 ай бұрын

It's because thats probably the least popular movie. Many people probably don't even know what that is. In their minds it's a more sure bet to race swap a white girl from a more popular movie instead.

@zacharysiple629

8 ай бұрын

@@mattvaughn8525 The Princess and the Frog is FAR from the least popular Disney movie. I know a few black Disney stars love it. Dinosaur, The Wild, Meet The Robinsons, Chicken Little, ones like that are F-A-R less popular than THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG.

@BoinkrNanis

8 ай бұрын

IVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS!!! WHATCHA GONNA DO THERE DISNEY?!?!?! HUH?!?!?!

The same people that would say "Why does it matter? The character isn't real." Are the same people who would flip tables if a black character was replaced by a white actor. They are being dishonest.

Here's my issue with race swapping, it's lazy tokenism pretending to be diversity. There is thousands of years of mythology to draw on from ALL ethnicities how hard can it possibly be for writers and creators to diversify and create original representative works. It's honestly exhausting watching people jump through hoops to defend these companies for doing the absolute least they could possibly do to be inclusive instead of demanding creative and original representation.

@kingandrewcecil348

Жыл бұрын

Facts 💯🙌🙌🙌🙌

@gaffstompr2

Жыл бұрын

Is it that they can't come up with new stories about people from different races? Is it erasure or lack of creative spark?

@kingandrewcecil348

Жыл бұрын

@@gaffstompr2 More like they're just being lazy and creatively bankrupt (in other words, erasure or lack of creative spark)

@ashleysanford8645

Жыл бұрын

I had it pointed out to me by a black person that African culture has its own mermaid mythology! They do have mermaid stories that they could have told. But Hollywood had to be lazy and decided to put Ariel in blackface. Because mah diversity🙄

@ZIbroweed

Жыл бұрын

Not just epic myths either. Most Disney movies are interpretations of children's stories. Are they going to pretend like these don't exist on other continents?

"It's just a fictional character, why does it matter if we change the race?" "If it really doesn't matter, then why are you determined to change it?"

@tiba2603

Жыл бұрын

For real like why ?, like the soonest they change it is all for them now

@donavonrobbins1908

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Why iignore the white auditions. They might actually play the part well.

@Kenitso

Жыл бұрын

Because they are liars.

@MorinehtarTheBlue

Жыл бұрын

​@@Kenitso Pretty much. Say anything to shut down a logical conclusion.

@bigbeng6041

Жыл бұрын

Of course, had it been the other way around they would have freaked out

I'm a student of history, I absolutely love reading about mediterranian cultures - in particular the ancient Greeks and Romans. I don't browse the old Netflix that much but when I found out about Cleopatra I laughed my ass off. So much evidence to the contrary, yet they still cast her as a black african. The fact that they pissed off all of Egypt spoke volumes.

@matiusbond6052

9 ай бұрын

1ST,,,Egypt is in Africa,and at Cleopatra's time over 95% of the population was native black and brown Africans,.MANY GREEKS WERE MIXED RACE,AS AFRICANS EDUCATED THEM FOR HUNDREDS OF YRS. Modern Egyptian Arabs NEVER existed in ancient Africa,they descend from invaders,GOOGLE....DATE OF MUSLIM ARAB INVASION OF NORTH AFRICA. 639 AD. Many excellant factual videos have surfaced confirming Cleopatra's mixed race. Netflix RESEARCHED and got it right,they didn't use ignorance,racism ,or HOLLYWOOD in their DOCUMENTARY. google....cambridge university real cleopatra.

@sexopimbada

9 ай бұрын

To me these people are the flat earthers of history

@shaunwhitehead1485

9 ай бұрын

It’s all about the Director’s vision, Jada Smith a ratchet woman on every level

@samr.england613

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, never mind that Cleopatra was Ptolemaic Greek! (Descended from blond-haired, blue-eyed, Alexander the Great!) They're so full of it!

@hanli2042

9 ай бұрын

It shows how people don’t know much about the topic before they start cancelling, because if they did hire an actress who was blonde, people would be mad at Netflix for not hiring someone black (because she’s African, right??)

“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. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984

@frosty9392

2 ай бұрын

orwell was truly a genius

@keshi5541

Ай бұрын

Just like all of African history.

@billionsandbillionsofstars

26 күн бұрын

Make Orwell Fiction Again!

I confess, I used to be woke. I was easily triggered. I would protest everything that offended me, and demand it all be cancelled. Eventually I outgrew it, and went to preschool.

@ottoweininger8156

Жыл бұрын

Oh god. Did you become one of those 'MAP' people? 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

@tomfuller5585

Жыл бұрын

@Jordan Sherrington Haha. I like to sneak up on people.

@mwendwabrian695

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂you sneaky

@MicovskiMC

Жыл бұрын

I was a male trapped in a female body... For 9 months.

@SansoHumar

Жыл бұрын

Awesome. So glad you went to pre-k

I believe all this race swapping is ridiculous.

@dont-touch-mepg1392

Жыл бұрын

Ppl who bitch about ppl caring about race swapping clearly don't understand the importance of culture and it being erased. They r erasing white culture and their the same ppl who 10 years ago said who cares if someone identifies as a dif sex. And now they target our kids.

@CoolPapaJMagik

Жыл бұрын

White Erasure

@JumpCutThis

Жыл бұрын

I’ve been saying this for years- even without the race swapping/historical reimagining/gender swapping/whatever, why are there absolutely no original works worth a fuck being made? It’s all ‘new take on something old’ type stuff, reviving old content and continuing a story that didn’t need new chapters, or as the kids say ‘retcon’. Is there no one or nothing worth writing about in the particular skin tone/historical period/gender group for you to write about?

@tonycat721

Жыл бұрын

Jesus was a 4 foot tall Chinese guy................... honest !!!

@HGICQueenDiamondAries

Жыл бұрын

If you pay attention, it's almost all red heads being replaced in big movies. It always gets deeper.

As a norwegian I get kinda upset when they mess with Scandinavian/Nordic/Norse/Sami culture. Some people don't understand that white people have culture. And not all white culture is the same (Same as with all races. Not all asian culture is the same. Not all black culture is the same etc.) We here in the northern part of Europe don't get that much representation (Apart from Viking stuff and Norse mythology that they make very "Hollywood") We lost both Astrid and Ariel. Why not find a scandinavian to play them? I'm already scared about what they're gonna do with Frozen if that ever become a live action. They're just gonna ignore the norwegian/sami etnetisity even though those are big parts of the movies. There is also a trend on removing that small minority of redheads. They already lost Ariel and Triss (Witcher) Watch Merida and Anna also getting replaced. 🙄 Why not making new stories? Why even making all this moneygrabbing live action movies?

@loris-bismar

5 ай бұрын

Som tur är så gör vi ju också våra egna filmer och behöver inte förlita oss på att bli representerade av jänkarna. De kan få hålla sig där borta på andra sidan havet och syssla med sitt strunt, och så fortsätter vi att göra vårt.

@paulcornell5294

2 ай бұрын

hi maidenviking i am asking this so i can educate myself and because i love LOVE learning new things and history so my queen or questions is this is Norwegians all Vikings or some? is Norwegian in Holland or own country? was there to your knowglegy any black vikings

@eva1585

2 ай бұрын

@@paulcornell5294 These are all things you can google, bud.

@paulcornell5294

2 ай бұрын

@@eva1585 thank you

@snowown

2 ай бұрын

@@paulcornell5294 Why would Norway be in holland? I am genuinely surprised why this is even a question.

Actual Scandinavian here. I was born here, lived my entire life here and when i do a DNA test it says i am 100% Scandinavian and im far from alone with this. I dont say it in the sense that i would be better than anyone else because of it, i say it so that people could get a perspective of just how homogeneous our history is. Making diverse adaptations of our history would only look stupid. It's like in that interview with Mads Mikkelsen when he got asked about the lack of diversity in his new movie and he started laughing and said, "well it takes place in 1500s Denmark" and then proceeds to give him the "are you serious" - look. With all this said, i don't care about what they do in Hollywood. If they want to use Will Smith as Gustav Adolf i would probably just laugh at how ludacris it all is. The only problem i have with this swapping is the fact that there are so many uneducated people in the world that believes that it is accurate. I've already had to defend my own heritage against idiots online more times than i thought possible. Ever since they race and gender swapped Jarl Haakon, i've had several Americans telling me Vikings were actually black. Like, come on, we're not mythical creatures, we're still here and we didn't all magically turn white. I would ofc rather watch historical adaptations that were actually bound to history instead of it being used as a statement by some asshole director i dont know. But as a source of comedy, i do enjoy these brainfarts Americans make.

@Leif208

7 күн бұрын

As a Scandinavian American, we don't enjoy these "comedies." It starts small, with comedies or children's books or movies. Then, people start actually believing and promoting and making absurd claims about history. Then, it's taught in school, including universities. Then, history is completely revised and your identity is stolen or destroyed. Regarding your comment about "several Americans telling me Vikings were actually black," that absurd claim is already being taught at some of our universities and is being spread through other official (non-fringe) academic forums as well. And, these absurd claims are used for political purposes, for example, to convince Scandinavians that we've always been "diverse" and, therefore, go ahead and allow unrestricted mass immigration.

@loris-bismar

7 күн бұрын

@@Leif208 That's just it why it's comedy. This isn't taught in Scandinavia and what happens in the US doesn't really affect us now does it. Americans may think what they want about us and we will still know our own history.

@Leif208

7 күн бұрын

@@loris-bismar I wish you were right about what happens in the US doesn't affect you, but didn't the George Floyd riots affect Scandinavia too? I know people protested in Iceland and the UK as well. All these immigrants (and some native born) used an extremely insignificant event (death of an unknown criminal) in the US as a catalyst to vent their anger on European Americans and European Europeans, even tearing down monuments of native historical British figures in the UK. I'm not sure to what degree those protests affected Scandinavia, but the fact that they occurred at all there is disturbing. I hope you can maintain Scandinavian history and identity. Scandinavia continuing to maintain it's identity is one thing that strengthens me as a Scandinavian American. We're a true minority (1% of America and approximately 4 mil. ethnic Danes, 4 mil. ethnic Norwegians and about 7 mil. ethnic Swedes). It wouldn't take much for us to disappear (btw, Scandinavian Americans will probably cease to exist as a distinct ethnic group in probably the next 2 or 3 generations).

@loris-bismar

7 күн бұрын

@@Leif208 but that isn't really the same thing now is it. Sure some things that happen in America will affect us as well but not when it comes to our own history and country. All of our countries are filled with our history and Hollywood pop culture can't erase thousands of years of history, how much they tried. They don't have any power over us. It's not like Hollywood is the only source of entertainment we got over here. We make our own movies as well and I'll promise to be furious if we start changing shit about ourselves too. But as long as we natives still live in our native land, our history is still our own. It's different for you though, since you live in a country of ignorant dumdum's who don't know anything about anywhere outside your own borders. The old world will keep knowing its history, even if the new world keeps messing it up.

@loris-bismar

7 күн бұрын

@@Leif208 sorry to hear about you guys though. I sincerely hope you can keep your ethnicity strong but I guess it's normal in a multicultural country that it all gets intertwined with each other sooner or later.

The problem is: If a character goes from white to black or male to female. It's always "what's the problem are you a racist? But if a character of color is played by someone with even a bit of a lighter skin tone the woke mob is erupting in anger 🤷🏾

@greencobra8073

Жыл бұрын

white to black (and everything else) has been done to death, which is why you're NOW seeing black to everything else, which wouldn't be too bad if it all wasn't bread-bunned around the slippery slope of the radical left.

@What_isMyname

Жыл бұрын

Yep! Didn’t that happen with the live action Lilo and Stitch?

@BartdeBoisblanc

Жыл бұрын

@@What_isMyname Sydney mentioned that too.

@Fabo2701

Жыл бұрын

@@What_isMyname yeah but the actress is actually native Hawaiian

@thatHARVguy

Жыл бұрын

@@Fabo2701 12:38 And the woke SJWeirdos still REE'd whitewashing, because she was lighter skinned. Like, tanning is a thing. Send her to Coachella and write that off as a business expense.

Imagine how badly you've failed as a parent if your kid thinks they can only identify with a character because they are brown skinned, and not because of the merits and virtues displayed by the character through their actions.

@MegaMaxiepad

Жыл бұрын

Can you imagine a Disney live-action version of Princess Mononoke featuring Lizzo as the black blob, or of Spirited Away featuring Cardi B as Chihiro ("sheeeeit, where my parents at?")

@Puccbelit

Жыл бұрын

CJ, Bigsmoke and Ryder are my favourite characters in all GTA franchise, and I never thought about their ethnicity (and i'm a white European)

@GaganSingh-nx2yv

Жыл бұрын

How is that parents fault?! A lot of Indian got stereotyped as Apu because he was only Indian character on tv in US. How is that on Indian parents?! Lazy Hollywood writing shouldn't be used as an argument against diversity. For minorities it's actually pretty significant. In a society where people don't care about race, this video in itself would be redundant because race swapping wouldn't matter if the concept of race is insignificant.

@derrickdaniels3955

Жыл бұрын

Black guy here and I agree. I identified with Peter Parker long before Miles Morales came into the picture.

@yveje9720

Жыл бұрын

You’re right the white girls should have no problem identifying with Halle as Ariel.

This upset me so much about the casting choice for Astrid because I'm Scandinavian with Viking ancestry. I was extremely sad and mad about one of the Percy Jackson characters was race swapped. Thank you for sharing this

@d4slaimless

10 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, I recall reading about new Percy Jackson adaptation. What is funny Rick Riordan fully supported race swap even claiming he didn't actually mentioned that Annabeth was white. Basically he told fans that they should like what they see otherwise they are just prejudiced racists. Even tho for most of the fans it wasn't a problem with actress, but the problem with how they see characters. There's also such a thing as fanfiction. People who care about the story to create their own fiction about it certainly have reasons to feel cheated. Black Hermione in Cursed Child was also an example of great idea. After 8 movies with Emma Watson playing the character we suddenly see not just a black woman, but also rather ugly one. Back to Riordan - he shared the communique from the studio where it said that actors should be cast only with consideration of their acting ability no matter their sex, physical abilities, and sexual orientation. In some way it make sense, but mostly it doesn't. Because, as said in this video, when you make a movie based on some existing story the description of the character matters!

@Vixnarts

10 ай бұрын

@@d4slaimless you make great points actually, I don't hate the actress who is playing Annabeth. I'm more mad at Riordan and Hollywood because I despise race swapping. What's also funny is that Riordan *LITERALLY* said that he was going to have the actors look exactly from the books. He lied and gaslit us with a poor casting choice. I'm sorry if you do like the casting choice and the show itself. I don't like it at all. I straight up hate it...

@d4slaimless

10 ай бұрын

@@Vixnarts nah, never watched the show. 2010 and 2013 movies wasn't a great success, but I rather liked some of the casting choices. But in the new show they supposed to have younger kids. It is closer to books (starts with Percy 12), but I don't think it is going to look great on screen. I had fun reading books, I think that was enough for me.

@Vixnarts

10 ай бұрын

@@d4slaimless I'm not watching the show either. I do like the movies, which I'll 10,000% will get picked on for. But I enjoy the books way more and I never wanted to have an adaptation for the books. I don't need an adaptation, I know what the characters look like in my head.

@d4slaimless

10 ай бұрын

@@Vixnarts well, I actually liked the 2nd movie, since by that time I've read the books and it started to make sense. In general 2nd movie received worse feedback than 1st though, but i think 22nd makes more sense. Still they combined and mixed books with each other and there was so much potential for some epic scenes. " I know what the characters look like in my head." - this I can 100% agree with. That's why if you read the books you rarely agree with movies. But sometimes in very few cases adaptation just hits the spot. For example, The Nero Wolfe Mysteries with Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin is the best adaptation of Rex Stout characters and I loved it. But more often than not you favorite characters get adapted for "modern audiences" and what _you_ get is unwatchable mess.

Before i watch this, I'm praying that they didnt actually change Astrid's race considering the film is set in a viking settlement, and as a Swedish and Danish girl, it may just make my heart break. Edit: kill me now

@jacksmith-mu3ee

8 ай бұрын

U havnt seen fate series have u . They swapped races and genders of everyone Alexander the Great is an african ginger Nero is a blonde girl King arthur is a blonde girl pretending to be boi . And yeah she's underage Sir lancelot is an african I can go on and on

@loris-bismar

5 ай бұрын

Så hur utspelar sig denna mix på dig? Är du en välklädd stropp med talfel?

@sizlax

5 ай бұрын

Don't watch it. Don't even hate-watch it. You justify this type of behaviour by doing so. As when it comes to shows and movie, any popularity is good popularity and they will take your hate-watches as a sign that people like what they're doing. Just ignore any race/gender swapped content and let it fade into nothingness and be watched by no one.

@morigaena333

2 ай бұрын

@@jacksmith-mu3eedo you mean fate as in the winx saga? Because I don’t think they race swapped anyone

Imagine getting a role for a movie, and finding out its not because you're good at what you do but because you fill out their quota.

@rafaeljhol

Жыл бұрын

Imagine happening in the opposite direction, as has happened with the Lilo and Stitch actress that had the right diversity but was not black enough for the progressists.

@highroller-jq3ix

Жыл бұрын

@@rafaeljhol Imagine being too stupid to understand what opposite means.

@highroller-jq3ix

Жыл бұрын

White actors don't have to imagine it through most of history.

@SarcasticPossum

Жыл бұрын

Thats would feel insulting.

@bvang0520

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if defending the role is part of their contract. It's the modern-day version of selling your soul for money.

The biggest thing that angers me is the attack on specifically celtic and norse culture.

@captainbigos9267

Жыл бұрын

I used to wish that Slavic culture was more explored in popular media. Now I'm grateful that we're mostly ignored.

@TheIrishAmish

Жыл бұрын

Because we conquered the World.

@poogissploogis

Жыл бұрын

I agree. People always tell me to shut the hell up about this, but it actually does piss me off to see literal DOZENS of redheaded characters erased and cast as black people. Redheads are one of the most historically and even presently mistreated minority groups and we always have to take a back seat to black people because they just see the white skin and see privilege. I actually agree with the left in the sense that representation does have an impact, because one single episode of South Park led to over a decade of ruthless bullying of redheaded kids. Imagine if there were even a few redheaded characters in popular media for people to see that we're just regular people. I don't mean to make it sound like I want oppression points but I do think it's a point worth discussing.

@Red_Devil_2011

Жыл бұрын

There is a war on white people.

@Red_Devil_2011

Жыл бұрын

@@poogissploogis You're good. White people (specifically ginger people) complaining when we are victimized and then being told that we're simply "looking for oppression points" is simply another tactic of hating White people and gaslighting us into shutting up. I'm not even a ginger yet I'm fcking sick of the "gingers have no souls" meme. It exists purely because npc's won't hop off a fad. So stupid. During an age in which hating White people is the norm, we don't need sht like that. Gingers are unique and should be celebrated.

I have not been to a movie in 10+ years... "Hollywood" is a joke and i refuse to give them my money... honestly I don't even know who actresses and actors are anymore and that makes me happy.

I think that as a civilisation, we can agree that we no longer wish for "live action" remakes of animation films. We tried it, we understood why the animation version was better and why it was an animation in the first place.

@aporue5893

2 ай бұрын

I really would prefer a return to old disney instead. Drawings look more magical than cgi. Original bambi was Beautiful!

I'm sad that they are changing Astrid. She is a Viking, from that culture. Also, if she is the only black person in the film, it stands out even more. Imo she was a good example of blonde-haired blue-eyed woman who doesn't uphold the "blondes are dumb" trope and is both feminine, supportive, and strong at the same time.

@nekomitaina

Жыл бұрын

Then they should make all characters black and base all the story in Bronx, and instead of the dragons, there should be cops. Then it will be much more interesting to watch

@canthusofcande8315

Жыл бұрын

@@nekomitaina I would watch a film about people riding around on the back of cops.

@Jireblade

11 ай бұрын

Going to make a WW2 film. I got lots of Japanese guys to play the Americans at pearl harbor and am working a deal with Denzel Washington to agree to play Hitler.

@Kerastalise

11 ай бұрын

@@JirebladeDon’t forget to add to the cast of Mussolini and Stalin

@alexanderhamilton8585

11 ай бұрын

We are being destroyed.

I literally had an argument about the Little Mermaid being Danish, and the guy told me that there are dark skinned Danish people. I replied back in 1843, there really weren't. And all the original artwork depicted her as white. The first illustration had her with long black hair. He still told me she was always dark skinned, even the statue. Then there was an argument with someone who said Hans Christian Andersen was gay, despite being married to a woman. All because he sent letters to friends in 1844, where he told a man "I love you much as any good gentleman can." In the 1800's, telling another man you loved him was normal. But now they're claiming his as a historical homosexual icon.

@MrPAULONEAL

Жыл бұрын

How would having dark skin be advantageous in an area that doesn't receive any sunlight? Wouldn't dark Ariel need to take vitamin d supplements?

@finland4ever55

Жыл бұрын

Now we will have to point out the same thing here. The movie is in Iceland. Cast Icelandic people. People will then pull the "but they had scottish accents and you never complained about inaccuracy there you bigof"

@daisiesandpandas1218

Жыл бұрын

Modern illness, "marginalised" people claiming historical people were actually like them.

@veggsbacon1891

Жыл бұрын

Amurican schools have failed society.

@williammkydde

Жыл бұрын

In Andersen's tale, there are several spots where she is clearly described as having white skin. And talking of "dark skinned Danish people" is a fallacy. Immigrating and getting a citizenship does not make one a Dane.

As a female who’s half egyptian, it didn’t sit well at all with me when I saw it was a black woman playing Cleopatra. I may not exactly be from that time period, but it’s still half of my blood line. I even still hold a grudge from when they had Elizabeth Taylor play her from decades ago, and now they go the opposite direction picking someone? With a variety of people who got into acting, were they really short on options??? The casting director must have thought “That’s all there is? I guess we have to pick her since we have no other options that’s good enough. It can’t get any worse”

@sportyeight7769

10 ай бұрын

To be honest, Cleopatra was a very olived skin greek. But yeah i understand the frustration.

@advena996

10 ай бұрын

Yeah- it makes sense to choose someone who resembles what Cleopatra would have looked like (Macedonian, if I'm not mistaken?).

@happilyevernever4289

7 ай бұрын

​@@sportyeight7769 olive skins come in many complexions. 😑

@lisamoag6548

3 ай бұрын

To be fair, Elizabeth Taylor was very difficult on that film, but her attitude fit the part. Queening it over everyone and everything was very costly. Entitled Liz.

Disney+ race swapped Annabeth from the Percy Jackson series. She was blonde, blue eyed girl and now she’s a black girl. Netflix race swapped Agatha who was a pale girl with dark hair to a black girl in The School For Good And Evil. I swear it’s everywhere

@momoemmi3375

3 ай бұрын

Disney didn’t though it was the creator Rick who did because he said his old cast of characters weren’t accurate of modern teens or something, but ya

There is huge difference between a movie and a documentary. No mater how much you want Cleopatra to be black it is 100% a no go in a documentary. Calling it a documentary is supposed to mean something

@DragonsOfSnow

Жыл бұрын

Nothing means anything anymore, it seems.

@SuperRistopaha

Жыл бұрын

Reality bending.

@gerardcote8391

Жыл бұрын

@@Blueness1230 I agree the choice of actress was irrelevant. But to specifically claim that she was black when she was not is the problem. There are awards shows from Mexico where they have best actress and best actor awards - incidentally they do in a protagonist role and an antagonist role, (so bad guys get awards too not just the starring "hero") But they have an award that is generally regarded as the most prestigious - best actor/actress in a cross over role. This goes to a Hispanic actor playing an explicitly "Non-Hispanic" role. The idea is to play a character that is not a stereotypical Hispanic person and do so convincingly. I do not see the reason people are so obsessed with either "race swapping a a character" or insisting "race is relevant to a character, where their race is not a main component of the character" Other people comment about MLK, well MLK the whole point of his life was that he was black fighting for civil rights, therefore that is the main "personality" trait needed to be considered when casting. Queen Cleopatra was Queen of Egypt highly educated and had an affair with Caesar and Marc Antony - while she was Macedonian Greek that is mostly irrelevant to her individual character. You don't need Greek Actress to play the part.

@JadeW1111

Жыл бұрын

It seems as if whites think they are superior and any person of color displayed in a position of power is fallacious and wrong when it fact it is not! Columbus didn’t even discover America, get off of your high horse!

@gerardcote8391

Жыл бұрын

That documentary even has Roman soldiers wearing pants.... which weren't even invented until over a thousand years later. and everything else in that documentary is just as dubious.

I'm a Caucasian male from Australia and I reckon I'd do a good job playing Oprah in a movie about her life

@jaerockchalk3216

Жыл бұрын

i think you should get the part hell of an idea yes!

@brianchecketts9792

Жыл бұрын

You just cant be thin bruh... the would be fat phobic... 🤙

@dangeroustoman

Жыл бұрын

How about we sign you up for Tina Turner.

@CaseyAvalon

Жыл бұрын

Yes you'll do great. I also think we should do a biopic of Jada - starring Joy Behar

@xyphrean3109

Жыл бұрын

No silly, that'll go to Dylan Mulvaney.... 😜🤣🤣

The people who ask "who cares?" are the people who really don't care about the story to begin with. Why do they specifically care about me defending the stories I once loved? Maybe they should take their own advice and not care about my opinion like some crazy ex-girlfriend.

When nowadays directors use black-washing for their shows, they’re not saying to the poor young new actor ‘expect a lot of love, my friend. The fans are gonna love you coz you portrayed the character perfectly.’ They’re actually saying to them ‘expect a lot of negativity, mate. The fans are gonna hate you but just call them racists if they do.’

I've been making this point for years: "white" is not an ethnicity, it is a color. In the same way we wouldn't assume all African societies are blandly and generically similar, we should not do this for cultures with light skin colors. Irish, Scottish, British, French, German, etc. all have the same generally lighter skin colors (with some exceptions), but that doesn't mean they are all the same culturally nor ethnically. I'm glad more people are beginning to raise this point more often.

@bennieknape4857

Жыл бұрын

Let your money do your speeking for you.

@nikolasdemoulin8093

Жыл бұрын

“white” is laymen for western caucasoid. It’s a sub-species of homo-sapien. Or what’s known as in common tongue - “race”. White peoples are objectively, directly and deeply related. They dont just happen to share a “generally light skin tone”. Their DNA is from the same few tribes of people from modern Ukraine and western Russia. The Indo-Europeans. Greeks, Italians, Germans, Danes, Anglos, Spaniards, Swedes, Portuguese, Russians, Poles, Serbians Etc… are directly descended from the same exact peoples who expanded throughout all of Europe (and into the ME, India, central Asia etc…). To suggest we are not directly related and just happen to share a “generally lighter skin tone” like how whites and East Asians share light skin, is not accurate nor true. Ironically it’s ethnicity that is fluid and ever changing. Not race. Much of the Countries today whom you identify as an ethnicity, didn’t exist just 180 years ago. For example “German” as an ethnicity, is new. There was no Germany until the late 19th century when Prussia United the German states against France and then formed the German empire (which didn’t even include all Germanic lands, notably Austria.). Before this there was Bavaria, Westfalia, Saxony, Bohemia, Worms, Metz etc… and you wouldn’t claim your ethnicity as “German”, but rather Bavarian or Saxonian, franconian, Swabian etc… just as today most Austrians identify as Austrian, not German. Despite being a Germanic people who speak German. I support ethnicities having their own lands, don’t get me wrong. They naturally arise.. But the true trait that matters is RACE. Being white. People seeking to erase that and replace it with this weird scattered idea of tiny fractured disconnected “ethnicities” and who then go on to pretend that they aren’t related at all and just happen to share “generally lighter skin tones”, should be looked at with suspicion. as often their intentions are to shatter white peoples collective interests and collective power, so we can be more easily exterminated and replaced. Literal divide and conquer. I.e “there’s no such thing as “Real Germans”. White is just a color! A German is anyone living in Germany! There are black Germans too! Black Germans ruled when Rome existed!!” It’s utter rubbish. To be German is to be white. That’s the one trait all real Germans share.

@mayu2242

Жыл бұрын

@@nikolasdemoulin8093 I agree with points but then where would a mixed person come from, like can they be consider a real French or only half real French ( using France as an example)

@hitandruncommentor

Жыл бұрын

You do understand you're talking about people that are so simple-minded they've lumped the human population into white and biboc. Literally white and none white and have been using a word flopped version of a certain phrase about people and colors.

@cyberedge881

Жыл бұрын

Of course they aren't identical, but it's also a mistake not to recognize that white/Caucasian people are a distinct population cluster and are part of the same cultural sphere. Think about the country of Italy. You could point out regional differences, or even differences from one town to the next. They aren't all identical, but no one would deny that there is an Italian identity. It's sad that you don't seem to realize that the people who most strongly want there to not be a white identity are the very people doing the race swapping in our entertainment. In fact, they have openly said that "there's no such thing as a positive white identity".

Can I just say that How To Train Your Dragon did not need a remake or a live action version. That movie (the first one mostly, for me) was amazing and needed nothing added or changed

@Erowens98

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, i think its one of those films thats pretty much impossible to do justice to. The art style itself played a huge role in the animated films.

@devinreis5811

11 ай бұрын

Exactly. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

@alvaroschudeck957

11 ай бұрын

Thats because it is based on a Jungian psicology, about archetypes, and it is for revealing a sane way of developing from a trauma childhood to be a man and a supporting group of friends an a female partner.

@KaidaLis

11 ай бұрын

@@Erowens98 Agreed. Animation was really the beautiful and awesome thing about a lot of these old films and remaking them live action, takes away all the beauty of them. I miss when new stories were made and new ideas were formed into shows and movies. Creativity seems to have left these companies long ago

@wplains

11 ай бұрын

The next one they’re going to ruin is the masterpiece that is “Gladiator”. A sequel is already being made. I’m sure half the Romans will be black or Asian and the main characters transgender women (aka men in drag)! 🤮🤮🤮🤮

As someone who struggles with having a disability; httyd spoke so loud to me because i could see myself in both characters. One of the many struggles i have to live with is being 29 and still not able to drive. And as an extrovert, its crushing not having that luxury of freedom and instead being dependent on someone just to be able to go do something. I was a classic disney fan and it breaks my heart how far they have fallen and to see now that one of the most powerful and inspiring movies in my life is now falling into this "woke" culture is truly heartbreaking. Whats next? Are they going to make toothless and hiccup not disabled now ontop of that?

Thanks Sydney, just stumbled over your channel... this is the first video I have seen and I needed this so much. Yay, there are people left, who are able to use their common sense. And are willing to do so publicly :) I will stay tuned!

Honestly the race swapping in Norse mythology always feels the most insulting, cause there just isn't any argument for it other then political like making a movie about Africa and race swapping the characters to be white.

@claudiameier666

Жыл бұрын

Yes the only reason i could tolerate a black heimdal was because the actor played him well.

@zawarudo1041

Жыл бұрын

The same applies to Slavic and/or European mythology like Witcher. Especially black elves seemed ridiculous and funny because there is established group of dark skinned elves in mythology and these are called Drow. And they were considered evil and brutal 😅

@fredhughes4115

Жыл бұрын

I'm waiting for the "Roots" remake.

@debbylou5729

Жыл бұрын

Chris hemsworth as Kunta Kinte. Can’t wait

@melssoaplounge

Жыл бұрын

So gods of egypt doesn't exist

I remember my grandma telling me: "I don't care what they tell you in school - Astrid was white."

@stevekirkpatrick1612

Жыл бұрын

We can follow along with the woke arguments here, how do you suppose lefties would react to a white female character named Lakeesha or Shaniqua? Or a white male calling himself Muhammad?

@michellebastiani6470

Жыл бұрын

😂 YES 🙌

@kikixchannel

Жыл бұрын

@@stevekirkpatrick1612 Sorry. White Muhammad's totally exist. Name is a crappy argument since it's not race-based.

@smilesandthetwistedmd7608

Жыл бұрын

@@stevekirkpatrick1612 Right? They absolutely would flip out. Just shows black privilege and supremacy is real.

@johnmarkpanaligan261

Жыл бұрын

Hell yeah.

Bottom line, I’m all for adding diversity and representation to a story, film, or work of art. I’m a big mythology buff and love learning about cultures and beliefs around the world. But if it’s being added because it “has” to be added and not because it is artistically added, then the very concept of creativity is dying. With the way film is going, if your picture doesn’t check all the boxes of representation, then it’s a “bad film” and doesn’t even qualify for certain awards. A lot of films and shows are going in a direction that is ironically causing a loss to creative freedom. I personally believe that race, gender, sexual orientation and social standing does have individual value and can bring a lot of diversity to the table. It shouldn’t be forced into anything. It loses its significance if done that way.

@sportyeight7769

10 ай бұрын

French animation in the 90's created a international classic with Kirikou. A small african child who seek the see the witch to save is village. Amazing movie, Kirikou is a very very nice role model for kids and depicts central african culture very nicely.

@advena996

10 ай бұрын

Right? I honestly wish that rather than go over the same fairy tales etc over and over, why not branch out with folk tales/fairy tales from a wider set of countries?

What offends me is when a potentially GOOD story is ruined to make it FASHIONABLY "politically correct" - diverse/race swapped/gender swapped/orientation swapped, etc. etc. etc.

"everyone has to see themselves reflected back" shows how narcissistic audiences are

@tofusouffle

Жыл бұрын

thats exactly why the whites care about this so much. they're upset they're not able to see their fully white casts anymore

@readypetequalmers7360

Жыл бұрын

or how narcissistic those making the movies are thinking that they'd want to see themselves.

@burleybater

Жыл бұрын

IN 1969 when Midnight Cowboy became my favorite movie, I didn't relate to a single character in the film. And yet it all fascinated me. Art invites you to get out of yourself. A valuable thing.

@thejohnroxbury

Жыл бұрын

It's an excuse for race-swapping. Most people don't actually care about that.

@CIintB3ASTW0oD

Жыл бұрын

​@@burleybater It's kinda the whole point, isn't it? To see things in this different perspective. Not just from a pigment pov, but everything. The color pallette, angle of shots. The story. Eh, we live in a truly drab age.

One thing that should also be mentioned is how they use the race-swapping as an excuse to deflect valid criticism.

@MLIrons

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. I probably could get behind a Little MerMaid based upon one of Neptunes other daughters. Maybe Ariel inspire them to get out of their element and explore another world and to pursue their own dream. So, while Ariel fulfilled her dream for love, this other daughter could take on a strong lead as a female hero of man. I mean, guess what, there are a lot of female soldiers, doctors, police officers, teachers, who have saved men, women, and children and are seen as much of a hero as their male counterparts. Heck. I'm a Wonder Woman fan. Storm and Rogue are my favorite X-Men (even above Wolverine). Nikita is a spy/assassin I would want on my side.Heck, until Olvia Benson (Law & Order: SVU, before that becaome political) was my favorite of the Benson-Stablier duo.

@veronica-mew

Жыл бұрын

​@Michael Irons I wish we could have gotten a different Mermaid movie. I love the og Little Mermaid and I would have fully supported some kind of spin-off or a completely different movie with mermaids. Unfortunately, movie studios nowadays only care about cash, publicity, and deflecting criticism smh. Hollywood is creatively bankrupt. Halle Bailey isn't even a good actress, so the casting made no sense to me. Also, I also loved Olivia Benso until they made her character into the "sad activist" type.

@MirrenTheDragonKnight

Жыл бұрын

@@veronica-mew Thry could have made the film based on Mami Wata, but no, they have to steal a caucasian culture again...

@logical_sanity7618

Жыл бұрын

I don't see the big deal of why a lot of people get so upset with this issue, it's been done for centuries with paintings of historical figures...but I think you make a valid point that studios will push out garbage movies and then deflect by saying well you're against 'x...y...z'...

@thatHARVguy

Жыл бұрын

@@veronica-mew Wiki: "Gabriella is a recurring character in the animated series _The Little Mermaid._ She is a deaf mermaid who communicates in American Sign Language; her friend Ollie, an octopus, serves as her interpreter." A deaf dark skin Hispanic mermaid with an octopus friend. She's a marketing win.

Honestly, I’m glad you mentioned this up. I’ve been tired of this same concept for the past years and me, as an author, take it very serious for when a character is changed for a movie or role. It makes a huge difference and it changes history for generations to come. I would like it if they respected the main source, and have people like me to not be afraid, to be supported of our own imagination or creativity. We all different and that’s what make our stories special❤😢

@cmm5542

10 ай бұрын

I was outraged that my cover of 'A Little Princess' showed her as blonde when it is CLEARLY stated Sarah had black hair! And then when a brunette was cast to play the BLONDE Marguerite in The Scarlet Pimpernel. It's not about race; it's about respecting the character and the author's vision!

@jacksmith-mu3ee

8 ай бұрын

U havnt seen fate series have u . They swapped races and genders of everyone Alexander the Great is an african ginger Nero is a blonde girl King arthur is a blonde girl pretending to be boi . And yeah she's underage Sir lancelot is an african I can go on and on

@GuardianScholar560

7 ай бұрын

​@@jacksmith-mu3eedude its creative satire. They swapped those characters with the full intention of not being historically accurate merely using the fame of the name and poking fun at some of their historical mannerisms. Also I've seen this exact comment on several others so either get a better copy paste format because there are so manny grammatical errors in this one or have a legitimate argument. And again, this is a series that doesn't ever take itself as being fully historically accurate. I love this series do i think gender swapping predominantly male historical figures is wrong, no because these aren't meant to be historically acvurate depictions of them merely satirical interpretations of them. With that i leave you with have a good day sir.

@jacksmith-mu3ee

7 ай бұрын

@@GuardianScholar560 did anyone call them woke ? No They didn't poke fun at all . They recreated history into future . Fate is not satire but a new way of entertainment . Sydney and her kind need to grow up

@GuardianScholar560

7 ай бұрын

@@jacksmith-mu3ee did I say fate was woke? No i did not, nowhere in my comment did I say Fate was woke. I was countering your continued use of Fate as a counter to people legitimately making an argument against unnecessary race swapping and misrepresentation of the existing culture or mythos. And yes Fate is definitely creative satire because it is not a documentary or a biopic or any sort of historically accurate depiction of the famous people it uses. And it absolutely pokes fun at certain parts of their mannerisms and characteristics. Certain characters noble phantasms are a over exaggeration of a particular historical quirk of theirs. I also explicitly stated I watch Fate, I love Fate but I know these characters are routinely gender swapped or over exaggerated for entertainment purposes. Also your use of the vernacular "they need to grow up" is childish and indicative of yourself needing to grow up and have a legitimate argument rather than trying to discredit me by calling me anti woke which I never stated I was. Again I leave you with have a good day sir

The thing that frustrates me the most is that Hollywood is silently saying that making an original non-white character might not make enough money to be worth the investment, so they instead take a well know white character and just swap the race, then lash out and call everyone racist when people push back on the decision.

@n0namesowhatblerp362

Жыл бұрын

Its liek theyre the actual true racists...yeah..honestly thats how i feel about anything or anyone woke.

@Supermanfan99

Жыл бұрын

Which makes no sense because I bet Spiderverse kills it at the box office

@Jay_Hendrix

Жыл бұрын

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

@ezabelgomes9576

Жыл бұрын

It's also sad that they think by race-swapping a white character to be black That they've made it better As if white people are less than

@SamBrickell

Жыл бұрын

Hollywood also doesn't tell ACTUAL african stories instead of just race-swapping.

You're the first one who's explaining that also us "terribly white" Europeans have cultures, too! Thank you for that!!!

@danielton9577

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. I keep hearing that white people have no cultures, which is also why "Black" gets capitalized and white does not according to media guidelines.

@superdave8248

Жыл бұрын

I refuse to believe that other non-European cultures don't have their own mythology, stories, or fairy tales that Hollywood could represent. So that leave me to believe that one of the following is true. One, the agenda is to destroy European culture by hijacking it to promote a woke culture agenda. Two, Hollywood eletes are too ignorant to look for other source material to feed on. Three, Hollywood simply doesn't have faith that these lesser known stories will be popular with a world wide audience. I actually hope it is the third and not the other two. Because the third can be addressed. Stay true to the source material, cast ethnicly correct actors, and tell a good story. People will come to your movie.

@johnwarden3880

Жыл бұрын

First? What the fuck is wrong with you people?

@lollipopsfordays3610

Жыл бұрын

The ‘terribly white’ European cultures are the healthy dominant ones. Who is dying to move to the Congo? Who improves their lives by leaving America or the UK for Zimbabwe or Namibia or the Middle East or China or Venezuela or North Korea…? When was the last time the worlds medical achievements have been paved by Africa…ancient Egypt?

@thetechnocrat4979

Жыл бұрын

​@@lollipopsfordays3610 The funny thing is that the Ancient Egyptians were never black. 😂

The sad is thing that anything Hollywood does now. Does not surprise me anymore. In fact I can not remember the last time I went to see A movie.

It'll stop when they stop making any money on it. They are all woke and stuff until the money stops, then the principal goes right out the window in favor of money.

Everytime I see a "race swap" or "gender swap" I can't help but wonder what story we MISSED by not creating a NEW character, setting and plot. Imagine instead of the movie "Blade" Hollywood had said "nah... just make Dracula black and tell the same story again."

@RuailleBuaille

Жыл бұрын

Right? These practices of race swapping, inclusivity/diversity for the sake of inclusivity/diversity and wokeness in general are ironically robbing us all of creativity, new stories that actually depict and represent a variety of cultures and experiences. Shoehorning older, existing stories into a new mould is lazy and devalues the material and shows disdain for the audience.

@DABranche

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. and all you need to do is throw in "Inspired by" in the credits. and you can have your cake and eat it too. just stop trying to rewrite history for your little election.

@RuailleBuaille

Жыл бұрын

@@DABranche 100% Have your fanfiction or spin-off into an extended universe of something. Go nuts! Just don't do so and try to call it a remake or reboot. That's straight up BS, be it regarding fiction or history.

@bumblingfool

Жыл бұрын

Almost ironically, Vampire in Brooklyn is that movie.

@sneezyfido

Жыл бұрын

But but but... Dracula DID turn black! It was when he caught a bit of sunlight to activate his melanin. Right? 🤭

The thing is, Hollywood loves to tell us “the character isn’t real, so why does it matter?” but they KNOW it matters because that is precisely why they do it but they just want us to roll over and accept it

@markbest5127

Жыл бұрын

If it didn't matter, they wouldn't have changed the race of the character in the first place.

@MY_VIDEOS_ARE_TRUTH

Жыл бұрын

Race swapping fictional characters is a *DELIBERATE* malicious attack on *ONE* group of people, whose existence they are actively trying to E R A S E

@chadmrrsn

Жыл бұрын

​@@markbest5127 exactly

@Werebat

Жыл бұрын

There is an element of narcissistic abuse (ie "baiting") in this, and indeed there is an unfortunate intersection of social justice and narcissism that many people are not comfortable recognizing or talking about.

@kathyhansen2820

Жыл бұрын

I find it insulting. When something is insulting I walk away.....or turn it off.

Great content as usual. Hollywood is corrupt. You keep it up girl.

I'm totally sick of this trend and feel its gone way too far. Its extremely hypocritical.

What annoys me the most is that everyone says “no one cares how a character looks you have issues if you do”. But if we made a white Tiana from princess and the frog they’d shit themselves. So, isn’t that racism? Why would racism only work one way?

@Gh0stGaminginc

Жыл бұрын

Leftists deal solely in hypocrisy.

@slappybara

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@EnvyDSin

Жыл бұрын

You can thank the far-left and their woke ideology for that.

@falconeer99

Жыл бұрын

He'll they're shitting themselves because an actress who is actually a pacific islander isn't dark enough

@informant09

Жыл бұрын

Its exactly that. But these people are just extremists and for those reality is not of interest.

The "swaps" only EVER go in one direction, with both fictional and historical characters, so the motivation behind it is painfully obvious...This is why people are pissed, and justifiably so as the world would NEVER hear the end of it if the situation were reversed...

@goldenhoneybee8128

Жыл бұрын

Antiwhiteism is their religion.

@kevingarcia4961

Жыл бұрын

What do you feel the motivation is? I mean, I agree with you I just want to hear someone else say it instead of just inside my head.😂

@michaelsorensen7567

Жыл бұрын

​@@kevingarcia4961white erasure and replacement

@Auron710

Жыл бұрын

While I agree it mostly goes in one direction, not always. Avatar comes to mind, where they race swapped ang and water tribe people to white for some reason, and fire nation to Indian? it was bizarre and I've no idea what their thought process was. and I complain about this not for some woke racial justice, but because I actually really liked avatar the animation, and I would prefer actors to at least look a little like the characters they portray. Yes, I care even when they are fictional. Fans of a game or animation will always be slightly bothered by that I am sure.

@LMT069

Жыл бұрын

@@kevingarcia4961 it is payback for when Hollywood only had about 100 actors that played every race... the proof is always early movie, and if you mention 80's films and the high diversity you get ignored.

You cant convince me that they aren't trying to throw away money and burn down their own company by this point.

You know, there were no black Vikings... but lets put some perspective on this. Hollywood knows exactly what its doing.

@rpals5412

Жыл бұрын

yea, but kids born around 2010 and forward will think there were. and when/if they read an actual history book that describes the vikings as white as snow, they will get very confused and maybe even think that the author of the hostory book was a racist, rather than learning how it really was

@thelswolves8149

Жыл бұрын

​@@rpals5412 couldn't agree more

@jacksonglass3447

Жыл бұрын

Agreed but you still have to admit that Hollywood Viking aren’t realistic even before the race swaps

@DarkCelestialConsciousness

Жыл бұрын

@@rpals5412 Exactlyyy

@DarkCelestialConsciousness

Жыл бұрын

The J's r racist supremacists

"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin good forces have invented or made" J.R.R. Tolkien

@OliverSkatt03

Жыл бұрын

Atheists destroy societies the religious have built and established. Homosexuals deconstruct and destroy what heterosexuals have built and established. Diversity destroys what a majority of one type of people have built and established.

@mullberry4710

Жыл бұрын

That's a misattribution, but he wrote something similar, and the point stands regardless.

@jacksmith-mu3ee

8 ай бұрын

U havnt seen fate series have u . They swapped races and genders of everyone Alexander the Great is an african ginger Nero is a blonde girl King arthur is a blonde girl pretending to be boi . And yeah she's underage Sir lancelot is an african I can go on and on

I think a solution to this will come with AI. In the future, you’re not only can choose the movie, you can also choose the cast. Don’t like the main character? You can just swap it out with any actor or actress to your liking. Do you know what this means? Yes, exactly! We will be able to watch every single movie starring Nicolas Cage!

My main problem with the Percy Jackson casting is that they claim it's progressive to cast characters unlike their original description in the books. Disney and Rick Riordan came put with a statement saying the character description of character doesn't matter anymore since it's the actor's personality what's important. While I do believe the cast will be great and that no actor should get hate for the role it's absolutely undeserved The thing is that it's a book adaptation. When you adapt a source material make it loyal to the books that's why I was angry with the casting

"It's just a fictional character, why do you care?" "It's just a folktale, why do you care?" "It's just a documentary, why do you care?" These three examples are why I care. Give them your hand and they'll take your entire torso with it.

I'm a straight black man, a writer, and a geek. I'm all for creating new, alternative visions or versions of characters. I am *not* for telling historically inaccurate stories or race/gender swapping merely for the sake of "wokeness". If you truly want to "represent", people, represent them *correctly.* That's where authenticity and _integrity_ lay.

@logical_sanity7618

Жыл бұрын

I have to disagree, I think anyone should be able to play any character as long as they are representing them in a sincere way, not parody. For centuries we've seen historical figures portrayed in paintings a certain way that represent that culture. Same exist now, we live in a very diverse culture so of course our media would reflect that.

@codinghusky5196

Жыл бұрын

WHY???? Honestly? Just WHY? "new alternative versions of characters" imho is code for "I'm empty and can't create anything original so I stoop to taking away from what other creators did". Original characters'... characters, AND identities, ARE the appeal. Super Mario's appeal is that he's Italian, James Bond's appeal is that he's British, Mulan's appeal is that she's Chinese and Dom Toretto's appeal is that he's a black american, with all the cultural diverse characteristics that brings into play. Through these characters people all over the world from all different cultures learned to like and appreciate and love cultural characterstics of these people. You can creatively draw Super Mario as a Japanese woman, re-imagine James Bond as a trans male native to Honolulu, make Mulan a 67 years old Norweigan man and envision Dom Toretto as a French woman, but ALL you are doing is destroying the original characters and REDUCING the diversity we ALREADY have. If you want more diversity, don't take Harry Potter and make him a Japanese girl to show off Japanese schooling system; create a new Japanese girl character and an original story. That way we will have MORE. Using Harry Potter for this, is making us have LESS. And making it from predominantly American point of view - is just making everything the SAME. I don't know if I'm making myself clear: diversity IS in the distinct cultural identity. We love Lord of the Rings for it's britishness, we love the Witcher for it's Slavicness, we love the Romance of the Three Kingdoms for it's... "chineseness". Doing what Amazon did to LotR and what's done to the Witcher TOOK AWAY the identity we loved and replaced it with generic everyday boringness. And I'm talking about stories and characters, not ACTORS. Nobody batted an eye for Lamborghini and Rasputin - two historical figures of Italy and Russia - being played by an American and a Welsh respectively in latest Holywood editions. Why? Because they ACTED OUT the Italian and the Russian identity. Which is not only accurate, but also THE appeal of these characters. Would it be fun to draw Rasputin as a half naked Aztec helping Montezuma fight off the Conquiscadors? Yes. Would it also be tremendously stupid to do? Also yes. To conclude, I believe the only actual "re-imagining" worth doing is one that BOOSTS the character. For example, Disney's classic animated Robin Hood. Who ever came up with those animals to represent Robin Hood characters was a genius. Because it made them MORE themselves, not LESS.

@logical_sanity7618

Жыл бұрын

@@codinghusky5196 other than the lazy writing, I don't see the issue, I just don't; not enough to create the outrage that come from mainly the right although sometimes from the left...

@Tanson32

Жыл бұрын

@@logical_sanity7618 Imagine "The Colour Purple" with an all white cast for the sake of making it culturally inclusive.

@logical_sanity7618

Жыл бұрын

@@Tanson32 I see your point but I would say in that scenario it's different because of the theme, and the message they are trying to convey; other movies like Ghostbusters or I guess in this case The Little Mermaid doesn't have a specific sentiment. Would you agree with that?

Completely agree that we need new stories for those races

If it doesn’t matter then leave the race of the character as it should be .

Ffs... the characters in HTTYD are VIKINGS. The vikings were a mixture of Scandinavian, Gael and Picts (Celts). They WERE. NOT. BLACK. OR. BROWN. They were very, VERY fair skinned. Enough is e-fcking-nough.

@randomintrovertedspider7510

Жыл бұрын

God, the fact they are trying to destroy my favorite childhood movie by race swapping Astrid is obnoxious. And I would like to add that Berk is canonically very, very cold. Fair skin would be the norm.

@labaronnedecorbeauviolette5865

Жыл бұрын

Nico Parker is European, and 75% white. She is not a black woman, she is a white woman. She's pretty damn pale. She's got more claim to play a Viking character, than your American ass has at complaining about it.

@Sylmarys24

Жыл бұрын

Ikr, the animated movie actually LOOKS scandinavian, but of course that's going to be ruined for the worse because of representayshON. God....another movie i'm already not gonna pay a cent in relation to.

@sepulfan02

Жыл бұрын

Nico Parker is 3/4 white English

@MonkeyJedi99

Жыл бұрын

At this point, remake Red Dawn, but set it in North Korea and have the aggressors be people from Nigeria, but change nothing else.

I'm a pale person who has been bullied for my paleness all my life (called ghostly, vampire, cracker, constantly asked if sick, told to tan etc etc). Not just strangers but people I'm close to too. I struggle finding make up that matches my shade and you can forget entirely about plasters, but I rarely see people mention that pale people experience those problems too. On top of that if I ever say something is "my culture" I get scoffed at.... like yeah... incredibly I have one of those.... my Scones, Shortbread, Sunday Roasts, Monarchy, King Arthur and Robin Hood plus so much more are all a part of that. It's NOT okay to shit on anybodies culture or colour of their skin.... unless they're "white" of course...

@fredhughes4115

Жыл бұрын

I seem to have a similar ethnic background to you (mostly Scottish, some Irish, maybe Welsh) and I'm certainly white, but I've never considered myself to be particularly pale. However, I have been criticized on multiple occasions (sort of in fun, but still ...) for not being tanned enough, as if that was some kind of shortcoming that should be mocked.

@bleukettu4521

Жыл бұрын

I'm a pasty ginger with green eyes and freckles all over my arms. and I have gotten all of this, too. Even had a friend on a beach trip suggest I should wear a Tshirt 'in case a passing flight mistakes you for a landing light' 🙄. That was also one of the reasons The Little Mermaid was my favorite movie as a kid, but I guess we don't matter. P.S. I also have a terrible time finding makeup unless I want to look like I have a bad spray tan.

@hollie28xx

Жыл бұрын

same! i’m ginger, from scotland and the insults hit close to home

@ashleysanford8645

Жыл бұрын

​@@hollie28xx the amount of Gingers that Hollywood has automatically race swapped out to Black is crazy! It's like Hollywood absolutely hate gingers. I actually saw a short film where they rounded up a bunch of ginger men on a bus drove them out into the middle of nowhere in a field and then machine-gunned them down while they ran away! I know the short film was done kind of in jest, but damn that seemed pretty prophetic! And up until that point in my life I had never seen a literal busload of ginger men before.

@iAmNothingness

Жыл бұрын

But you are white so you can’t have experienced racism! 🤪🤣

The best video about this subject in about 10 years! Good job!

It would really boil my blood if they change Merida (Brave), a Scottish princess to a black character. Being of the Scottish background, culture MATTERS!!

Disney should never, I repeat, NEVER make a live show about their animated films!!!

@tolowokere

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, it seemed like a great idea at first. Now, I wonder if they ever should have tried at all.

@KathyPrendergast-cu5ci

Жыл бұрын

@@tolowokere I never thought it was a great idea. It’s just a way to make money all over again from exactly the same story, which is lazy and unimaginative. And they’re never as good as the animated originals.

@peterpidrak9501

Жыл бұрын

Yep, they could’ve actually had a lot of success. If they did what I did with maleficent, where they did a complete reimagining of the story of sleeping beauty and threw in a couple of Easter eggs from the animated show. So go back to the original source material do something completely new and then people aren’t going to be upset if you change something because you’re changing just bought everything. Apparently they went back towards the original meth with Mulan, even though they apparently did the equivalent of having Robin Hood prancing around the Roman forum, when it came to eras of Chinese history.

@black-aliss

Жыл бұрын

Shhh, they're almost over...

@Cheedynamic

Жыл бұрын

It's actually a fabulous idea, it's just how they're going about it :P

You know who really, REALLY cares about race flipping existing characters? The people who decide to race flip them, THEY care sooooo much because THEY decide to make the effort to do it in the first place.

@kurtismurton1331

Жыл бұрын

Then they accuse you of caring too much for reacting to them doing it, telling us it's not important, yet felt the need to do it themselves

@little_dandelion

Жыл бұрын

@@kurtismurton1331 Remember Scamber Turd and what mental health experts tell you about pathological narcissists. It's no use trying to reason with them. The only way for a narcissist to start empathizing with others, is to break them utterly and completely. They need their world and everything they value to be ripped from them. See Scamber Turd? Any normal person would have been broken by now after everything she's gone through. But not her, the narcissist in her still lives, still plots and keeps her antics, because her world has still not been utterly and completely destroyed. That mental illness that controls the host must be completely broken. But when they reach that breaking point, the majority of the hosts prefer to unlive themselves rather than letting go of the narcissist. To face how evil they are, all the harm they've done to others, most of them can't face it. But those who do, are the very few who have a chance at becoming normal human beings. Consider all these people that make the powers-that-shouldn't-be as pathological narcissists, exponentially worse than Scamber Turd.

im black n' i totally agree. I never got the ''i wanna see someone like me on screen'' notion. I watched a variety of shoes growing up from Fresh Prince to stuff like Friends. I never looked at these actors for their race. I looked at 'em bc I was entertained enough to keep watching. I never Automatically gravitated towards a character just bc they're black. Hell, I loved OG Ariel's design [little mermaid] bc I love red hair on women. So I wasn't too happy w/ modern media race swapping her, Mary Jane [spiderman], April O' Neil [ninja turtles], and live action Starfire [teen titans.] I'm all for new characters and stories, but nobody wants to make a good show/movie, only diversity pieces. PS; Don't hold back. i love how you tell it like it is and call out stupidity.

@jacksmith-mu3ee

9 ай бұрын

U are brown . No such thing as black . Its brown

@jacksmith-mu3ee

8 ай бұрын

Fun fact In fate series. Cleopatra is african Alexander is african ginger Giles de rais is blue bird King Arthur is a blonde underage girl

Thank you for this video❤

If you think race swapping Cleopatra was big, you should check out how they race swapped Anne Boleyn in the series of the same name. Absolutely maddening.

@Dont_touch_my_crown

Жыл бұрын

You lot are mad about the race swapping of mere human beings, some fictional and some real yet you have absolutely nothing to say about blue eyed Messiah. The fact that your ancestors changed an entire religion to fit theirr status quo is okay with you. Hypocritical bunch you are.

Just saw an incredibly rich Twitter reply section where an artist drew a picture of a scene from the new live action remake of Little Mermaid, but in the old cartoon style with a White Ariel, and all the "LMAO, Why do you care so much about the race of fictional characters" types were absolutely losing their minds over it.

@stevenbrule5285

Жыл бұрын

A lot of them were saying stuff like "Why would you deliberately change her race from the 'original' character?" which is hilarious, because it's a perfect argument against the existence of the live action remake.

@Merlodica

Жыл бұрын

@@stevenbrule5285 It's hilarious that these same people absolutely melted over an actual Hawaiian girl being casted as Nani. But oh no! She looked too "white", so that apparently is a cardinal sin from the church of Woke. I. Personally. Am sick of this crap.

@cheesemakerkeesee395

Жыл бұрын

Lol most of us leftists don't

@aveteranplayer6403

Жыл бұрын

People are just really accepting it like there is no excuse for it. Apparently if I make Hitler black people would just be fine, again it makes for a literally different product than the original by RACE SWAPPING THE WHOLE THING. Imagine you playing as a Fat kratos who is black and gay, imagine playing RDR2 and Arthur Morgan is not white caucasian male but a black girl who is gay? What are the similarities over it? Race swapping I kinda not get bored on The Last of us as it tried to be apart from the game as from the start. But for How to train your dragon is just beyond stupidity.

@annienunyabiz6627

Жыл бұрын

I saw that. Her reasoning was she just thought the scene looked cool and wanted to see it in the style of the princess she grew up with. Absolutely nothing racial or hateful, but of course it became that.

I had a person use the argument ”HTTYD has dragons. It’s not accurate to history so who cares” I Said ”So you chould say Mulan can be blonde cos they also have a dragon in the movie they don’t exist” They answered ”Dragons are in Chinese mytologi and culture” I said ”Dragons are also in Viking mythologi and cultures, Runes from Vikings had Dragons, Viking boats also had dragons” I just want characters as they are. I don’t want a blonde Mulan, I want Mulan. I was Astrid and she happens to be blonde and blue eyed. I don’t want a blonde Hiccup, I want Hiccup and he has brown hair. If you want a black Viking in the show have a black side character don’t change characters that already exist. For me the girl that played snow white was fine for me. She had black hair. They chould paint her lighter If she was perfekt for the role. (Tho her personality is for me why she did not fit mostly, she did not look or act ”sweet, innocent and naive” for the character. For me wigs, contacts or spreytan/lightning cream/paint is not racist. Actress for Nani who’s ACTUALLY a Hawaiian but just too light or whatever for me just give her sprey tan for right skin tone (as long as it looks good). Tho I thought her face fetures was diffrent too so personaly I whould not see her as Nani even with darker skin. But I kinda want her to be Nani just to have these people who think Nani is not okey but Ariel see their dubble moral. (They probably wont realize but still😪)

I don't want a relatable story, I want a story that knocks my head off with how immersive and amazing it is. If I'm relating to something, I'm not fully immersed. And I say this often now, you don't need to connect with any of the characters to enjoy them and the story.

It really bothers me when they get the high moral road asking us "why do you care about race swapping? It's a fictional character". Then, how you said, why to make the change then? Why to go as far as to change the race of a REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTER the way that Netflix did if it's not important? It will always be a mistery for me.

@zahrah5193

Жыл бұрын

It makes complete sense when it is supposed to be historically accurate. But if it’s fictional, a lot of popular source material IS predominantly white as being black was obviously more of an issue back then. What’s wrong with changing that? A lot of white people just see it as an attack on their race by calling it ‘white erasure’ like they’ve just completely forgotten history. Its not as simple as ‘reverse the roles’ if the roles weren’t equal to begin with.

@darkdawnbringer

Жыл бұрын

Because they hate white people, and are being paid by egs score not by customers...

@Acegaming0588

Жыл бұрын

It's perfectly fine when it suits them not the other way around. I'm really angry with the companies who make these decisions

@slappybara

Жыл бұрын

Yet they'll b¹tch and m⁰an if their fictional characters are depicted with a skin tone that is one hue lighter than usual, for example.

@mbpm6135

Жыл бұрын

Rewrite history in their favour. It's a very communist strategy.

“Everyone has to be represented” Yeah, if race and sexuality is your entire identity and personality,it’s important to change the characters.

@Ayush_Jha891

Жыл бұрын

​@@JesseRosy yes

@Sypaka

Жыл бұрын

What do you expect from "woke" racists and sexists trying to tell us, we are the ones "racist" and "sexist". Yet the first thing they notice is your skincolor and/or gender and sperg out, if you try to debunk them with logic. Fuck representation, man. Those woke people fetishized and weaponized race, sexuality and gender and call it "oppression", even if you give a fuck about it and treat everyone equal. They want to be turbo special, that's all.

@Maxwell-mb7xn

Жыл бұрын

If you are White you can't speak on this issue. STFU.

@tractordamage5272

Жыл бұрын

Read about what Narcissists do re: Disrespecting Boundaries, Self-absorption, Gaslighting, Re-writing Reality etc. And you'll understand why the culture with seemingly institutionalized 'Narcissist Personality Disorder' do this. Then read about 'Flying Monkeys' (the Narc's Abuse Enablers), and white Left-wingers supporting their fellow Narcissist will make sense too.

@irrevenant3

11 ай бұрын

You seem to have assumed that "representation is important" means "representation is the only thing that matters about a person". Which no. I know you don't think things are that simple.

Someone needs to save Hollywood.

Thank you!

A few years ago here in the UK, the BBC released a series of educational history videos for children. Their depiction of a "typical Roman British household" included a black centurion stationed on Hadrian's wall. They also included black people in their depiction of the Picts, an ancient tribe from modern day Scotland. This was part of their web-based education platform Bitesize, which is often used in schools. And I just got my third letter through the door from the BBC threatening me with a fine of £1000 if I don't pay their "TV License"- that's where us Brits are forced to pay £159 a year to watch TV. We have to pay to be lied to. This race-swapping shit has been happening for a while now- and not just with fiction.

@blackcitadel9

Жыл бұрын

Just go No-Licence. That's what we did. Only ever used the TV for playing on consoles. (We don't even have a TV now, it died and can't afford to replace it.)

@scruffynerfherder33

Жыл бұрын

Tell them to take their license and shove it

@filmandfirearms

Жыл бұрын

To be fair, we do have an account of an Ethiopian legionnaire at Hadrian's wall. There was also an Ethiopian slave who enlisted in the army, earned his freedom, and became a senator. However, this was far from the norm. The Romans had barely any presence in sub Saharan Africa to recruit from in the first place. As for the Picts, even the Scots today are overwhelmingly ethnically homogeneous

@Red_Devil_2011

Жыл бұрын

@@filmandfirearms The Ethiopian recruits were just that, recruits; who were not Romans, Picts, or anything other than Ethiopian. They were not centurions, they did not leave a lasting footprint on the country, and they did not take White wives and spread the next generation of mulatto children, which that Bitesize video did portray.

@HuemanSmoke

Жыл бұрын

A lot of romans were dark skinned woolly haired men like paul from the bible.. and the entire 12 tribes are my people.. and so is moses etc.

Looking back 6 - 7 years ago it was really hard for me not to blow all my money at the cinema. Now I barely ever go to the movies anymore. Thank you woke Hollywood for teaching me how to save money

Here's a thing: Astrid, although she was portrayed as white in the animated movie, she was played by America Ferrera is Latina. And most of the actresses who played Astrid in Live Action medium (theme parks for example) weren't white (one of them was asian) with only one exception. So basically, Astrid was always some sort of interchangeable character when it came to race and ethnicity. Which in my opinion is cool. Also, there have been theories that the Vikings were the first European origin civilization to step on the American continent. So yeah... Not an impossibility for them to be able to meet African tribes. It is unlikely that they would have accepted a black person between them, but it is not an impossibility. Now, I'm not a Scandinavian so I can't talk for that culture, but, as a Romanian, I had no problem seeing black villagers in Transylvania (or it was Wallachia?) in the Castlevania show. And that makes even less sense from a historical point of view. So no, Astrid being black isn't implausible to happen, neither is a disgrace to the character since Dean DeBlois is involved (from what I've heard) As for the actresses, I feel so sorry for her. Nico Parker also played Sarah Miller in The Last Of Us show and people were more focused on her playing an original white character rather than if she is good enough for the role. So far, her acting career has been defined by people as her playing originally white characters. I don't think she can learn ANYTHING constructive from this. If the Percy Jackson and The Olympians fandom accepted Leah Sava as Annabeth Case, HTTYD fandom shouldn't have a problem with that as well. Heck, most of the criticisms came from people who found out that an originally white character will be played by a black actor, not people who are genuinely fans of the franchise. But I guess we can all agree that this movie will NOT be as bad as the Nine Realms show...

@johnstrife7

4 ай бұрын

Nahhh race swapping is never okay you already know when they change a black character to white or asian these same people who approve the examples you've given are hypocrites and gonna be all over Twitter crying about it

I agree completely with you! Thank you for making this video, I have been saying the same thing.

Insanity is blooming. We need to get back to sanity. One can dream

As a person of Danish decent, paternal Grandfather actually from Danmark, Thank you for mentioning the Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen! My Grandfather taught me about that statue, I even had a brass plate of it. It's vastly important to the Danes.

@nati2574

Жыл бұрын

Omg same

@Chezzera

Жыл бұрын

I think it is spelled Denmark in English. Your point is valid even as someone who has never been to Denmark 🇩🇰 we learn about that statue as kids.

@josie_the_valkyrie

Жыл бұрын

Kamelåså

@laurarobinson9122

Жыл бұрын

As a person of Danish decent also (my mother is Danish) I couldn't agree with you more. I know Ariel is fictional but her character has very important cultural roots and that should be respected and represented correctly.

@rocketsurgeon2135

Жыл бұрын

@@josie_the_valkyrie Kamelåså

Born in 1987. The very first movie my mom and dad took me to in a movie theater, was Aladdin. Always remembered that experience as a highlight of my childhood. You know what NEVER came up before, during or years after I saw that movie? Anything political. Not once did I care about the color of anyone’s skin. The country that the story took place in. The amount of female or minority characters in the story. Whether or not the voice actor was of the same race as the way the character was portrayed. NONE OF THAT. Today, much of Woke Disney and Hollywood on the big screen and small screen feels COMPELLED to shove every bit of that down your throat at every single opportunity with ZERO subtlety or nuance. It’s agenda first, story second. “The Message” will always take precedent now and stories are always going to suffer under that foundation. I TRULY feel sad for the kids of today that will one day have to look back at this era as their childhood.

@phukyerpheefees

Жыл бұрын

Imagine having Disney remakes as your nostalgia... ...horrifying.

@roc5291

Жыл бұрын

@@phukyerpheefees That’s exactly what I mean. So frustrating…

@maxwellschneiter

Жыл бұрын

I think most of the children these days have absolutely no interest in anything produced by Disney or Marvel. These movies are aimed at Millenial adults.

@cheesemakerkeesee395

Жыл бұрын

What are you talking about hetro normativity was always being shoved down our throat in old school Hollywood

@aveteranplayer6403

Жыл бұрын

​@@phukyerpheefees Lion's king remake is a great movie for 4k and etc. But as for watching itself for the story and characters interactions it really loses to it's original counterparts.

Hypocrisy is the name of the game these days

Hollywood: We need to represent minorities. Also Hollywood: What's a Ginger?

@HuemanSmoke

Жыл бұрын

You are the minority.. all races on earth have dark brown eyes and black hair only you devils have different eye and hair colours within the same race and even within the same family..

@Deverud

Жыл бұрын

Hollywood: "Ginger"? You mean the spice?

@BlueNinjaNRG

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@zydomason

Жыл бұрын

obviously someone moved some letters around.

@iamcasihart

Жыл бұрын

I am married to a ginger, and moreover, as long as Joshua Homme is alive, we have all the yummy ginger representation we need.

I honestly want to cry. 😢 Astrid is my favorite character. Why they do her dirty?! 😩 And the fact they want to make her an even more independent woman is scary to me. She’s already is, but she still wants a needs hiccup with her. THEY DONT NEED TO CHANGE HER! 😞

@Go-ah-oold

Жыл бұрын

Astrid is already a stretch in realism of a female independent strong character as she is. It is about as much as you can go without it being ridiculous, and that makes her not good enough for feminists, so they need a remake. Feminism, again.

@sappitastical6110

Жыл бұрын

@@Go-ah-oold how??

@MirrenTheDragonKnight

Жыл бұрын

Camicazi from the books is still better, more original too and not an abusive bitch, but I can agree.

@Nonahh3love

Жыл бұрын

WHAAAAT HER AND HICCUP ARE SO CUTE TOGETHER AND YOU ARE TELLING ME THEY ARE GOING TO SNITCH THAT AWAY

@estavoratrelundar

Жыл бұрын

When I did research for my cosplay of Astrid, I once stumbled on a blog of someone who cosplayed her and she went on to say that she was at first skeptical about Astrid because of what you mention in your comment of what they now want to make her. And once the blogger saw the animated movie, she saw that it wasn't so - like Astrid was so much more than "OMG strong female!!1!" I honestly hope the fans of the franchise make their voices heard. Loud and clear. Push back is the only way to try to change their mind. I mean, look what push back did for Sonic.

Valkyrie and Heimdal (and Hogun) in the Marvel movies was one thing, being that Asgardians are presented as aliens, but Astrid, fictional though she be, is a VIKING! That means a NORDIC TYPE!

I wouldn’t call it “swapping,” I’d call it White Erasure

@gobygal

Жыл бұрын

It's also just cultural erasure on all sides. If it's a story from a white or European culture, it most likely won't be authentic to the time period/setting because that isn't diverse enough. And minority cultures lose out because instead of promoting a story from their own culture, their most mainstream forms of representation are just anglican culture with a different skin color. And the insulting thing about Disney in this case in particular is with movies like Encanto and Luca, it's clear that they can in fact make movies at least somewhat accurately portraying a specific culture (or at least so I have heard, I am neither Italian nor Columbian). Is Disney that starved for publicity that they need to stir up controversy and actively destroy the cultural integrity of these movies?

@CoolPapaJMagik

Жыл бұрын

@@gobygal nonwhite people do lose out by not having their own stories told, but that’s not the point of what they’re doing. I suppose you could call that collateral damage to some extent, but not really. This is about taking what’s important to our people and saying “this isn’t yours anymore.” They’ll continue until we stop them

@bennieknape4857

Жыл бұрын

No its not its called eatbup with the dumbass and they got it bad in california,Target,California,, lite ,ect.

@bennieknape4857

Жыл бұрын

​@@CoolPapaJMagik no the movies ,bear,shopping it has one thing in common,what is it ? Money dont spend your money on trash . They wil bring down there own business. We don't have to do anything ,except not spend any of our money on there trash.

@tcdrx

Жыл бұрын

​​@@CoolPapaJMagikConsidering everybody is European now, the EU should tax them all.

Hollywood needs to be stopped, period.

@disgruntledegghead6923

Жыл бұрын

I don't know that it should be stopped completely, they do entertain us. Their division needs to stop though, catering to the few will weed out them out in time.

@devinbuettgenbach2941

Жыл бұрын

@@disgruntledegghead6923 Bread and circuses ring a bell?

@disgruntledegghead6923

Жыл бұрын

@@devinbuettgenbach2941 you only eat the bread you want to, disregard the circus.

@MrZevv

Жыл бұрын

@@disgruntledegghead6923 I cant remember the last time i saw something out of Hollywood that entertained me... wait .... uhm... i think it was Resident E vil 2. lol

@guyjperson

Жыл бұрын

To be replaced by...what? Bollywood? Pittsburgh? Regional Theater? You wanna watch a movie? Someone's gotta pay to make it. There's always gonna be money behind it. You wanna movie culture where the makers are begging local dentists for a few bucks? It can't work.

Personally, I think the downfall of woke Hollywood started when "representation" was the *only* goal of adaptations. There are examples of race-swapping not really making much of a difference (at least for fictional characters), namely whenever the writing and performances were still good. There was no outrage over Heimdal being black because Idris Elba did a stellar job. Likewise I didn't care that both Jim Gordon and Selina Kyle were black in The Batman because, again, the acting was good and being black wasn't their sole character trait. In fact, when Selina didn't easily beat up Bruce in their scuffle, it was clear that the movie wasn't going full-woke mode. It only starts becoming an issue when those responsible swap an established character's race/sex/sexual orientation and think that's all the characterization the person needs, or, worse yet, when they go out of their way to push their woke agenda in even more ways than just swapping a trait - by having all men be useless, evil or yes-men to the "strong female character"™, having them easily beat up multiple trained men twice their weight, make overt current-day leftist statements in a setting that doesn't support or fit it, et al. When Rachel Zegler was cast as Snow White, there were quite a few raised eyebrows, not because a brown actress was portraying a caucasian character, but because, in this very specific case, the instructions couldn't be clearer, as the name literally expresses that her skin is supposed to be as white as snow, however, if Zegler had expressed her love for the fairy tale or the Disney animated movie and the significance it holds in cinematic history, and if she'd then proceeded to act her ass off to deliver a good performance, the movie wouldn't have tanked and she wouldn't have become the new girl everbody loves to hate. Only when she used interviews as her (and woke Disney's) political platform, telling the world that the original was shit and Snow White didn't need no man because she's a girl-boss now, did the deserved backlash start. Taking glee in the prospect of a colleagues scenes being potentially cut entirely also didn't help her image or the movie's. Also, it is quite telling that it's fine to race-swap characters that are originally caucasian, but if you were to cast Tom Cruise as James Rhodes, Nick Cage as Luke Cage, Kit Harington as Miles Morales, or any other number of white actors as black characters, you'd be cancelled, your life and reputation ruined and you'd likely never again work in or with Hollywood - not to mention real persons, say Martin Luther King portrayed by... I dunno, Robert Pattinson. And then there's Peter Dinklage, woke Hollywoods poster-dwarf, who did his very best to deny seven other actors with dwarfism a shot at gaining anything close to his own success, by saying that the old tale of Snow White and the seven dwarfs is "problematic", not realizing or willingly ignoring that the dwarfs in the old folkloric tale are fantasy creatures that have nothing to do with his real-life condition. Also, he didn't seem to mind playing the dwarf Eitri in Infinity War, for $ome rea$on... 🤔 Eh, geting a little(!) derailed by the huge(!) dick that Dinklage has been due to his woke agenda bullshit. Anyway, as I was saying, I think trait-swapping can be both problematic and inconsequential, depending on how it is done and why it is done - for fictional characters - even though the chance of it backfiring is probably greater than the risk is worth, to be honest.

I despises Race Swapping

I hate that "white people" are generalised as American. I am American, but my family lineage is Norwegian. It sucks that movies cant have caucasians anymore because "white man bad." Also, there is a huge seperation between African "black people" and American "black people" nowadays, and a lot of the former dislike the latter, at least from my travels. My point is, like Sydney said, culture matters as much, if not more, than color of skin and to just ignore a culture because it "white" is incredibly irritating.

@Strawberria

10 ай бұрын

As a slavic-american, agree 100%. I feel like we don't even get mentioned. Nobody cares how 1/3rd of the country my great grandparents came from emigrated, mostly to here, and within 1-3 generations lost their language an culture in the push to become "more American".

@sportyeight7769

10 ай бұрын

Watching American media, i really can't associate with the classic "white male" portrait. My culture, way of moving in society and just overall attitude is just so different.

@TheJupiter00

10 ай бұрын

yea I'm scandinavian and hates to be put under one catagory, America is very different from us...

@bellacortez

10 ай бұрын

I'm mixed White German mom black southern American dad. Whenever black people found out my mom is European they would say so she isn't white she is European. I've realized alot of poc see white as being white america. Not European

@glowshun

9 ай бұрын

🤔 I guess no one like it when the shoes is on the other side. Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. Deep down we all know there are different types of race ( distinctive futures, colours) among whites and blacks but our ignorance makes us racist towards each other. So be it everyone just categorise or put people in box. Your 👉 black; your 👉 white. Ignorant humanity 🤯

Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.

@highroller-jq3ix

Жыл бұрын

That's deep, batshit.

@redpillaware5101

Жыл бұрын

100%

@99thJediWarrior

Жыл бұрын

Just like with Star Wars.

@keshi5541

Ай бұрын

So you are calling black people evil and good people white?

Hallo from Italy About Aragorn we pronounce it just like you, so be proud of it, you pronounce it in the mighty Italian way!!

Spot on, Sydney. I agree 1000%. Especially in reference to The Little Mermaid. What a slap in the face. Love you show, keep it up Girl!

I love what you say about respecting cultures. When they tell me it's okay to portray vikings, Cleopatra and a Danish mermaid as black, I tell them it'd be okay to have a story about the Zulu empire with half the zulu cast played by white actors. That's when their diversity argument falls apart.

@dylanburns7253

Жыл бұрын

I can't help but laugh when I picture this, maybe have Shaka played by Chris Walken.

@Maxwell-mb7xn

Жыл бұрын

There are 1000s of shows featuring White cultures. Very very very few feature non-white. Let this sink it why they race swap with the current system.

@dukey19941

Жыл бұрын

@@Maxwell-mb7xn So make a movie about "black culture". What even is your point? Come up with some new ideas. Tell Hollywoke to actually have some brains and make new good movies about black people instead of portraying them in gangs. I see you're already getting "offended" by Monica's post which was exactly her point.

@Prelooker

Жыл бұрын

@@Maxwell-mb7xn i'm not quire sure if you realize how nonsensical your answer is. Create your own content instead of stealing from other cultures. Cause that's true cultural appropiation.

@jamesmoon6603

Жыл бұрын

nope

What bothers me more is how the black actors (and community) seem content with the sloppy seconds and scraps that they are being fed. I cannot fathom why they aren’t more vociferously outraged by this treatment. What unique, amazing, and inspiring original black stories and characters has Hollywood and Disney created for them lately? Chinese girls got Turning Red and a Mulan Remake, Italians got Luca, Pacific Islanders got Moana, South and Central Americans got Encanto and Coco, Southeast Asians got Raya and the Last Dragon, Blue aliens got Avatar 1 and 2, Scottish gingers got Brave, heck, even Elves got an Onward movie… What have young black people got since The Princess and the Frog FOURTEEN YEARS ago? Sloppy seconds, hand-me-downs, cheap and lazy race swaps, pandering, virtue signaling, and tokenism. Where every single time they’ve been left to face the inevitable fan backlash on their own for merely accepting the only jobs on offer. I grew up in Africa. The richness, history, diversity, and majesty of the myriad cultures spanning the continent is mind boggling, yet what has Hollywood done to capture it and offer something unique, captivating, inspiring, and worthy for such audiences? Fuck all is what! In fact, Hollywood has so little interest in making genuinely original content promoting black culture and so little confidence in that same market that it has to resort to what it has been doing lately. Riding the coattails of the characters, culture, history, legends, myths, stories, folklore, literature, movies, of other predominantly European and white cultures and race swapping and Trojan Horsing them willy nilly, in whatever roles they think will score them some easy brownie points. (Pun absolutely not intended…. but in hindsight…also absobloodylutely intended). They literally put out a Macbeth movie last year with Denzel fucking Washington as the 11th century Scottish Lord! WTAF!?! They could have just as easily made a captivating and unique hit drama about King Shaka. But nooooooo. Sorry not sorry. Your race and culture doesn’t deserve that! You’re not worth it. You get a “reimagining” of a famously white Scottish character written by a famously white British playwright instead. Now shut up and thanks us for being so “generous” and “diverse”.

@YaakovEzraAmiChi

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's lazy and you put it in a way I can't. You hit the nail on the head

@kevintyson1947

Жыл бұрын

As a black person u hit the real issue. Even back in the 90s, black original movies barely sold to white audiences so Hollywood gave up and is lazy so they now shoehorn black people in European culture to fix the issue of "diversity". The solution is simple:Make MORE BLACK AND LATINO ORGINAL MOVIES THATS NOT DISNEY RELATED AND SUPPORT THEM

@allisonvero2142

Жыл бұрын

You articulated that perfectly. You are right on.

@Mebby06

Жыл бұрын

As a black woman I don’t care about sloppy seconds. I do prefer original black characters but I must admit it brings me much joy to see white people angry for being race swapped. I like to read angry white comments. I like that there are KZread channels dedicated to white anger for being race swapped. It’s gives me hours of pleasure reading the comments from frustrated white people. And yes white people if you want to play Martin Luther King do it! Black people don’t care about that. We just enjoy seeing you all upset.

@zachrohler1047

Жыл бұрын

​@Pinkypunks32 that takes actuall effort and marketing. Hollywood uses race swaps to piss of the already established fan base to rile up controversy and get eyes on the topic. All publicity is good publicity when you just label all decenters as racists

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That offens me as a prode nord and it spits in the face of my people and my a ancestors.

The first race swap with Nico could make sense but Astrid makes no sense. Astrid is a Scandinavian Viking! THEY DID NOT LOOK LIKE NICO! If Dreamworks starts going woke like Disney I’ll boycott them too I mean it I’m done with Hollywood. I don’t need them to entertain me. I have an imagination of my own and books exists. I’ll just read and stop watching TV. I’ll legit throw it away. I don’t watch TV hardly at all anyway. I’m seriously DONE with the woke sh!t.

@MrLuffy9131

Жыл бұрын

I was watching previews for another movie and they made another movie that was similar to Disney's turning red so I think they are going on that route lol

@zma8080

Жыл бұрын

Yes to this! Also, in the new age of AI we will start seeing small studios being able to create shows and movies that stay true to their stories and characters

@maxvickrey4357

Жыл бұрын

​@@MrLuffy9131 what's wrong with the movie turning red? Or are we just hating on female lead movies as well ??

@benblake7330

Жыл бұрын

So to get this clear, you're opposed to a slightly mixed race woman being cast because it's historically inaccurate but DRAGONS are ok?

@markjulianoriginalhooli2217

Жыл бұрын

DreamWorks is Disney

"the character isn't real, why does it matter so much to you" is just basic every day gaslighting. They do something drastic, because it matters to them for their weird little agenda, then we call them out and say stop pushing your weird little agenda, and that's when they start gaslighting.

@verindictus3639

Жыл бұрын

It mattered enough to them to make the change, clearly.

@irrevenant3

11 ай бұрын

AFAICT "the character isn't real, why does it matter so much to you" slightly misrepresents the idea. The idea is more "the character isn't real, so it's okay if creators make alternative versions of it". Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid is a reimagining. An adaptation. The animated version is itself a reimagining of the original folktale in which the little mermaid sort-of-dies at the end. And the new live action film is a reimagining of the animated film, set in the Caribbean. They haven't broken into your house and destroyed your copy of the animated film. You can enjoy that as many times as you like. This is a different version of the story... @@verindictus3639 ...which is why I'd say it's *not* a 'change'. This is a slightly different character in a slightly different version of the setting. Think of it as an alternate universe, if you like. Just like MCU Thor is a dopey goofball very unlike comics Thor, because that's a different spin of the character in a different spin of the setting.

@ozmanoshe

11 ай бұрын

​@@irrevenant3cool now explain Netfkixs Cleopatra to the Egyptians here.

@irrevenant3

11 ай бұрын

@@ozmanoshe I think I was clear: Reimagining is reasonable and often beneficial in adapting a *fictional* story. History isn't fictional, and I disagree with Netflix's casting of Cleopatra. Cleopatra was of primarily Greek ancestry.

@angel_of_rust

11 ай бұрын

they will keep on doing that to everything. it's sickening

I am Greek and we become angry when we saw Achilles or Cleopatra where showed as black.