#Disney Live-Action Remake

[joemerl]

When I hear people say that the Lilo and Stitch remake looks good:

[jaywhangmakes]

Disney released their live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. Please spend your ticket money on supporting these mermaid-themed animation projects instead.

(Note: This is the repost from the comment that I have made on reddit. Search it if you want.)

Now that the live-action The Little Mermaid remake just came out in theaters, here are some on-going mermaid-themed animation crowdfunds you can support with your money on instead of purchasing tickets. (I am not sure if mods allow me to share them here.)

But for real, whenever Disney announce live-action remakes or finished and release them in theaters, someone needs to share a crowdfunding page for an independent 2D animation project. Instead of dreading and bemoaning over Disney abandoning 2D traditional animation and remaking their animated canons, why not support independent animators and their projects? Use our movie ticket money to help them instead of watching live-action remakes.

Syrenka: Legend of the Warsaw Mermaid - A hand drawn 2D animation feminist fantasy/drama short film based on the Warsaw Mermaid legend (directed by one of the animators of Netflix's Cupheads series). You can follow the animator here: https://twitter.com/NawrockiTina

THE LOVERS - An animated thriller about the romantic tension between a seafood chef and a siren, set in a dark fantasy Philippines.

Sirenetta: Part-Time Mermaid - a feature length animated film made by a Boston-based freelance animator and based on his animated short Sirenetta's Family Dinner. It's about a mermaid, her human fiancé, and their friends going on a global treasure hunt to stop evil Voda Yaga from draining the ocean of life.

And there are some recent traditional animated movies that felt more like the classic Disney animated canons. I am planning to watch all of them.

[warrior-kitty]

Happy Meal Vanitas

[life-in-toontown]

Nature is healing

[doverstar]

don't be fooled. disney wants your money, not to honor their best stories. don't watch the live action lilo and stitch. don't pay to be fed garbage. you are smarter than that. leave the gum on the ground and keep walking. force them to get good.

[dareduffie]

when will people learn that live-action remakes will never be good as their original animated counterparts because the glory of animation is the colour, movement, and fantasy that's just untranslateable to live-action

[handsomelyerin]

they're so tarzan and jane core

[artist-issues]

Let’s be real. Rachel Zegler is responsible for her own actions and attitude and bad taste, and she’s hurt her own image.

But the Snow White movie isn’t failing because of Rachel Zegler alone. It’s failing because it sucks as a whole. It’s failing because these remakes are Disney trying to flash colors and names and sounds we recognize in front of our faces and go “we made the sound you like, now beg for a treat,” instead of making a good story, or at least paying genuine tribute to one. But their audiences (most of them) are not going to shell out for a bad product, and that’s it.

I hate how Rachel Zegler talks about the real Snow White.

But I also think if she were 100% respectful and wanted to pay genuine tribute to the original and really understood the character, it still wouldn’t have saved this remake. Because the story got changed. The effects are bad. The songs are worse.

I also think the company is totally fine subtly pinning the entire disaster on Rachel Zegler as a way to make it look like her fault and distract from the fact that they made another bad movie and this time nobody went to see it.

If they can get everybody talking and commenting about the 23 year-old who won’t stop running her mouth, and how “Even Disney is pulling her from the press tour!” then they’re painted in a slightly better light and then nobody’s talking about the fact that they made another bad movie. They’re talking about how insipid one actress is.

I have lots of posts defending the original Snow White or analyzing it or talking about why load-bearing parts of it shouldn’t be changed…but by far the one that gets the most clicks and reblogs is the one that’s focused on Rachel Zegler’s comments.

So Disney’s strategy is working. Yall would rather make hubbub about a 23 year-old girl’s immature lack of understanding than you would the bigger problem; there’s a whole company of executives and producers and shareholders who think they can buy your time and repurpose your nostalgia while they corrode the original—and then when it goes wrong they let you eat one actress alive instead of taking the blame, themselves.

Rachel Zegler is an actress. More than anybody, she is responsible for her own mannerisms and choices when it comes to how she presents what she thinks and what she supports. She’s responsible for her own actions. She’s not responsible for all of the company’s actions, though.

And again real quick—the reason any of it is important is because stories convincingly harness your emotions to argue for certain values. Values strung together make up a worldview. A worldview fuels your choices. And choices have eternal consequences, they make or break the world we live in and the world our kids live in. Therefore stories are a hammer in a storyteller’s hand: they can build or break the audience.

Disney’s been using the fact that they are a unique storyteller—they have the upper hand, they raised us on their older stories so our emotions from being kids are tangled up in their older stories—to take advantage of us. They’re using their “hammer” as a weapon to make them money, not a building tool to make the world better.

But watch Disney keep subtly pretending to “be on our side about the whole Rachel Zegler thing, boy isn’t she the worst?” until the next Live Action gets cast, when they cast someone vaguely conservative-leaning or someone who’s still amazingly liberal leaning, but has been coached to say all the right things about the original in press tours. So that bloggers and content-creators and influencers can start their reels with phrases like, “looks like Disney has finally learned its lesson in casting after the Rachel Zegler mistake!”

And that’s so not the point, also it’s super underhanded. Don’t fall for it.

[jjay-mess]

I usually just reblog stuff on here, but I need to say something about the live action How To Train Your Dragon remake.

It was not needed.

And I know some of you may think "ok well, art isn't necessary to human life" but that's not what I mean.

Httyd came out in 2010. That's 14 years ago. It's animated in 3d and sure, we made some improvements, but honestly? It holds up, and really well. It has a distinct style, the designs are unique, and everything looks amazing.

We didn't need a live action remake, especially not when it looks so similar to the animated one. At this point, it's just becoming disrespectful to animation. Why make an animated movie if in less than 20 years there's gonna be a live action version? Why isn't the original one good enough?

Truth is, it's a cash grab. And everyone is falling for it, this time, because it's not Disney, because the original movie is so loved, and because it's so similar to the original one. But there was no need for this! The original one is a masterpiece that should be left alone.

That said, it's probably gonna be a spectacular movie (because it's gonna be a copy and paste of the original one...). I won't watch it.

How To Train Your Dragon was always one of my favorite movies, and to see so many people praise this....feels discouraging, as someone who loves animation this much.

[madame-helen]

[dommnics]

2021 - 2024

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[joemerl]

Do I think that The Daily Wire's cheap attempt at a "Snow White" movie is going to be a groundbreaking piece of cinema? No.

Do I think it'll be better than the Disney live-action remake with the $250 million budget? Yes, obviously.

[snowyfrostshadows]

So.

We went from this for Starclan Cats:

To.

This:

Biggest downgrade of my life.

[autumngravity]

One of the worst things Disney has ever done was getting rid of The Disney Vault/Theatrical re-releases and replacing them with The "Live Action" Disney remakes.

[life-in-toontown]

Like to charge reblog to cast

[beif0ngs]

Lilo & Stitch Official Teaser