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The movie isn't for 35-year-old men. It's for little girls.
shareHave you seen it?
shareYes. I borrowed it from the library out of curiosity. I've never seen the original.
The movie is a typical romance fairytale for little girls about a handsome prince and pretty woman meeting, falling in love and living happily ever after.
Are you routinely curious about things that are for little girls?
shareYou're in Q-Anon. You have an unhealthy fixation on children.
I hope you're not a parent nor have any young relatives.
So the basic Keelai formula goes "Make complete ass of self, then when you get in trouble just accuse the other person of what they just accused you of", right?
shareI watched the film, therefore I can comment on it.
You're an incel with a history of misogynistic and racist comments who is trolling posters on The Little Mermaid topic when you didn't see the film. Lurk elsewhere, creepo!
I can imagine Coppola looking at this and saying "hey, I could have said THAT!"
share35-year-old men prefer to watch Spiderman.
Do you have a link to this quote? I only found Coppola articles in which she wanted to do the original much darker story that has nothing to do with the Disney versions. Coppola realized the filming would be too technical and decided against it since she prefers the smaller independent film genre.
BTW, she's a talented director who makes interesting films. None of her films have an appeal to "35-year-old men".
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"Tell that to Disney."
Disney already knows. They own Marvel's Spiderman.
"She’s seen Disney films before"
Thanks for the link.
No, Coppola's film was going to be made by Universal. She met with Universal executives. It would have nothing to do with Disney or their happy version. The original Mermaid story is dreary. The prince marries a different woman and the mermaid is left alone, cursed and dies at the end. Her feet bleeds when she walks and she planned to stab the prince. The dreary story is what Coppola wanted to make.
"Disney was doing what they usually do"
True, Disney makes films for children. Parents are always looking for a wholesome quality family movie to take their kids. I thought the direction and SFX were fine. I had a problem with some of the script.
Ah. Missed that point about it being a Universal film. I started reading about the Disney version and assumed that’s who she met with. My bad.
It would have been an incredibly weird idea for Universal to make a live action version of a tale connected to a Disney.
Thing is, they would have no doubt done a better job than what we got from Disney, starting with not miscasting it.
No one owns the Mermaid story. Disney takes old stories and drastically changes them to appeal to families with young children.
Disney didn't miscast anything. Like I just wrote, they drastically changed the story to make it appeal to a 1989 young audience. They added many new elements. Now, they are updating their stories in order to appeal to a 2023 and beyond audience. Racism, sexism and other forms of hatred and exclusion don't appeal to a 21st century audience and is bad for an ongoing business.
Did you actually watch the film?