Disney’s latest version of Cinderella has opened to rave reviews. However, there is no success where one can’t find someone else to bellyache about it …
The pretty and fragile victim trope continues to dominate the American box office (Maleficent, Frozen) this time with Cinderella. The Disney movie brought in $23 Million on Friday and is expected to complete the weekend with $70 million. Cinderella’s budget was $95 million, so looks like the execs about to get theirs by…tomorrow? […]
Serious question: What year do you think it will be before one of these morally bankrupt fairy tale remakes will feature a non lily-white lead.
2042 when white people are the minority? Nah, prolly not even then though. But waiting for all this shit to turn into a pumpkin.
Maybe someone should take Ms Collier Meyerson aside and explain that in this age of hypersensitivity and pearl clutching over things like charity events featuring Mexican cuisine, she should stop trying to appropriate a strictly European folk tale.
She is free to fund her own movie featuring her own sacrosanct folk tales. Hands off Anderson, Grimm, et al.
Hey, if the Left wants to play by these rules, let’s hold them to them.
>Hands off Anderson, Grimm, et al. <
cultural equality is bs
The Princess Narrative is an archetypal story arc that shows up in most civilizations. Anderson and Grimm merely formalized the tales that had been floating around for generations in different versions.
As with “The Hero’s Journey,” the story resonates with something deep in the human psyche — Jung called it the “collective unconscious,” meaning that the stories aren’t about what they’re superficially about, but about something else. Something about human psychological development
Feminists, as per usual, look only at the superficial story characteristics: woman is rescued by handsome prince. SEXISM!
They don’t point out that in the Hero’s Journey, the final reward for valor is… wait for it… marriage to the princess!
The Princess story isn’t about women per se any more than the Hero’s Journey is only about men. It goes beyond that.
But feminists are nothing but shallow and ham-handed, so it’s useless to explain this to them. They have patriarchies to smash, dontcha know.
these morally bankrupt fairy tale remakes will feature a non lily-white lead.
Cinderella tales abound in Africa and India and China and pre-Columbian America, duh. Read your Joseph Campbell. You can criticize Disney for being Eurocentric, but the solution is to dig into African and Indian lore to find other heroines to celebrate, not to destroy what’s already been made.
Find human princesses (and heroes), not feline Hamlets. Cripes. Africa and India abound in great stories, right there for the taking. Too old for copyright.
Idiots.
I’m not so sure. I mean, the SJW footsoldier only sees the superficial, and that’s certainly what the leading intulleckshools want them to see, but the leading intulleckshools are attacking the underlying story as well: the notion that a person can have his or her own aspirations, and realize them — without joining the Hive Mind.
Yet another example that the Left is motivated solely by nihilism. It’s not about having a black Cinderella. It’s about destroying the story; it’s about destroying the cultural heritage of Western Civilization. No number of Pocahontas or Mulan movies will satisfy. It is only when the West is destroyed that they will be happy.
And note, she gives the game away by referring to the fairy tales as “morally bankrupt.” Really? How so? What demonstrates the absence of morality from those tales or better, their immorality? The answer to those questions would be extremely enlightening, indeed.
What year do you think it will be before one of these morally bankrupt fairy tale remakes will feature a non lily-white lead.
Cinderella? 1997 ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128996/ )
The Wizard of Oz? 1978. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078504/ )
Annie (the red-headed orphan)? 2014 ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1823664/ )
Steel Magnolias? 2012. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2328749/ )
Me thinks that ign’ant bee-yotch needs to crack something other than “How To Blame White Folk For Not Getting Everything You Want, Vol. II”…
>Africa and India abound in great stories, right there for the taking. Too old for copyright.<
such as?
>The Princess Narrative is an archetypal story arc that shows up in most civilizations. <
which ones does it not show up?
Drumwaster
Some in Collier’s thread pointed out the Witney Houston “Cinderella” and it was promptly dismissed because it was a “made for tv” movie and almost 20 years old.
Don’t let facts stand in the way of the Narrative(tm)
>The Princess Narrative is an archetypal story arc that shows up in most civilizations. <
go ax Allan he's 10' tall
Drumwaster
Remember 1948’s The Bishop’s Wife with Cary Grant, David Niven & Loretta Young?
Ahem, The Preacher’s Wife 1996
such as?
In my elementary school library were books called “Stories from ____” and the blank was filled in with all kinds of places.
I don’t remember them off the top of my head. I just know they exist. I also read The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth and other stuff during my literary theory studies. “Hero” is considered to be a seminal (YOU HEARD ME) must-read in LitCrit.
There’s prolly more stuff in Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine that is germane to the point, but the RadFems don’t things to improve — they want to shriek like harpies and watch people jump.
10 More listed here: http://www.bet.com/celebrities/photos/2012/10/black-remakes-of-white-films.html
That does NOT include such remakes as The Manchurian Candidate (starring Denzel Washington in the Frank Sinatra role), The Honeymooners, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (re-titled “Guess Who?” ), The Karate Kid, Death At A Funeral, About Last Night, Romeo Must Die (a remake of the Shakespeare’s most iconic work, starring Aaliyah and Jet Li), “O” (a remake of Othello, with Julia Stiles and Mekhi Phifer, mentioned only because Laurence Olivier played the earlier title role in black-face), and The Nutty Professor (with Eddie Murphy taking Jerry Lewis’ title role)
I’ll tell you what, when some skinny ass white chick gets play Mulan in the live action remake, then we can have a black Cinderella.
Drum, from your link
Of the 10 listed, none of them have exceeded the original save for “Carmen Jones” but there is no real ‘original’ per se since it is based on French opera.
This opening description of Annie is snort-worthy:
Shermlaw wrote:
We’re seeing that happen right now with the St. Patrick’s Day Parades and homosexuals.
Example: http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/03/parade_moves_gay_groups_boston_forward
A hearty cheer to the two Catholic groups that pulled-out of the Charade Parade.
Why isn’t “lily white” considered a racist term? Oh, never mind, I know the answer.
When I worked at an amusement and I was getting a complaint from a father who kid was too short to ride the roller coaster, he started accusing the ride operators and me as racist and said they let a “lily white” girl ride.
I just could not take the guy seriously after that and luckily someone else in management showed up to take some of the heat. I was too young at the time to put up with such nonsense.
[…] Some idiot who is not worth a second of your time, Collier Meyerson, is complaining over at Jezebel about the new Cinderella movie [tip of the fedora to Darleen Click]: […]
Distillation: it’s ok to have morally bankrupt fairy tale remakes, provided affirmative action is in evidence.