#The Little Mermaid (2023 film)

[dearest-alexander]

#I love my two hoarders.

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THE LITTLE MERMAID (2023) Dir. Rob Marshall Costume Design by Colleen Atwood

[tvfilmspot]

The Little Mermaid (2023) dir. by: Rob Marshall

[sorikaied]

Reasons why Ariel is my favorite Disney Princess (Halle!Ariel Appreciation) / insp.

[laylakeating]

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

[winterfieldfrontiers]

Same Energy

[artist-issues]

Can we talk about the climax of The Little Mermaid?

I would like to point another thing out that I noticed on my rewatch.

The ship that Eric uses to shish-kebab Ursula IS the ship that Ariel is exploring in the beginning of the movie.

The ship that she explored instead of going to her musical celebration.

The ship that led her to go to the surface and get yelled at by her dad.

Her dad, who believes she should have let Eric drown because it would be "one less human (spineless savage harpooning fish-eater barbarians) to worry about."

Her dad, who understands at the end of the film that Ariel loves Eric, and was right to do so, because he just saw how Eric saved his daughter in the face of impossible odds and bear certain death, even though she's a mermaid.

It is very important that Eric save the day, USING the ship that symbolized Ariel's belief in the beauty of the human world and willingness to sacrifice and take risks to explore it.

Because it's Eric's heroism that convinces Triton that Ariel's love is as real as her beliefs about humanity. It's no longer a silly teenage girl who's lost her senses about a boy and is too naive to make the right decisions. It's a teenage girl who believed in the possibility that not all humans are barbarians, and some are worth loving--and she was right. And Triton needed to SEE THAT.

If Ariel saves herself, all that would prove to Triton is that she can handle the consequences of her own actions. But if Eric saves Ariel, it proves to Triton that humans can be good and Ariel's choice to love one was real and true.

That is very important. And a pretty amazing way to show it, having Eric stab Ursula with the shipwreck.

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🧜🏾‍♀️ Princess Ariel ♡

[jryno]

“Ariel, it was you all along. I should’ve known.”

The Little Mermaid (2024) dir. Rob Marshall

[dearest-alexander]

just saying. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[paddysnuffles]

The Little Mermaid 2023 Headcanon

In the new movie, mermaids have all different styles of tails, just like different fish do. In the same movie, Ariel's sisters are all of different races.

What if, rather than some of them being adopted or Triton fathering kids with multiple women, the human appearance of a mermaid just varies like their tails do?

That is, unlike human appearance, which is determined by what your parents and ancestors looked like, mermaid appearance is less set in stone. What a merbaby looks like is entirely arbitrary in comparison to human babies.

Mermaids are magical creatures, after all; it makes sense that their genes wouldn't work the same way as a non-magical creature's would.

[tvfilmspot]

HALLE BAILEY and JOANAH HAUER KING as ARIEL and ERIC in THE LITTLE MERMAID (2023)

[mylittlemermaids]

i would give everything to see a scene between ariel and eric where he finds out about all the different words she has for things (e.g. dinglehopper), and he tells her the real words for them. whenever ariel finds something new, eric becomes her new scuttle and she runs to him to ask him as many questions as possible. however, i do think eric is the kind of person to pick up on the names ariel has for certain things, loving the fact that they came from her interest in the human world, which eventually led her to him.

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The Little Mermaid (2023), dir. Rob Marshall

[winterfieldfrontiers]

Hit movie comes with Interspecies love

BLAME MY BRAINROT!

[kayasfilms]

this is one of jonah hauer-king’s best look