The Auron MacIntyre Show - May 30, 2023


New York Times Wants Kink in 'The Little Mermaid'？ ｜ 5⧸30⧸23


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A review of the new Little Mermaid remake by the New York Times criticizes the lack of kink in the new Disney film, "The Little Mermaid: The Little Mermaid." What does this say about the state of Disney and the industry as a whole?

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00:00:30.220 Hey everybody, how's it going?
00:00:32.000 Thanks for joining me this afternoon.
00:00:33.720 I've got a great stream that I think you're really going to enjoy.
00:00:37.700 I'm going to be doing this one solo.
00:00:39.800 A ridiculous article came out here a few days ago from the New York Times.
00:00:45.240 It's a review of the new Little Mermaid movie.
00:00:47.880 Now, I'm sure a lot of you guys are familiar with the fact that Disney has been remaking a lot of its classic properties.
00:00:53.500 We're really at the end of that civilizational cycle.
00:00:56.280 We're really at the end of that cultural death knell.
00:00:59.500 People don't know how to come up with these things anymore.
00:01:02.020 I mean, the funny thing about Disney movies is that they were generally drawn from these properties that were kind of common culture, right?
00:01:10.540 Things that didn't have a copyright on them, didn't have intellectual property on them.
00:01:14.660 They were drawn from kind of the folk stories of the classic American background and many who came to America, things like Robin Hood, things like The Little Mermaid.
00:01:25.000 All of this stuff was kind of in the public domain.
00:01:28.880 And so they really had almost an endless amount of movies they could kind of make out of this stuff, or at least it seemed like that way for a long time.
00:01:37.380 But now, of course, all this creativity is gone.
00:01:40.320 They can't even find kind of these common shared folk stories anymore.
00:01:44.420 Or as we'll kind of talk about as we get into this, those stories are now considered an embarrassment to the company, to the audience that they're supposed to be serving.
00:01:53.760 And so we have to change those, we have to alter those, we have to completely subvert those stories in order to present them to kind of the current Disney audience.
00:02:03.600 But the point being is they're going back through all of this old material and they're just doing lazy remakes of this stuff, saying,
00:02:09.780 Okay, well, it was animated, we'll do all the same songs, we'll hit all the same story beats, we'll pad it out for an extra half an hour to 45 minutes, because modern movies have to be longer in order to justify their exorbitant ticket prices, even though they're obviously like just worse for being an extra hour long.
00:02:28.760 And we'll just kind of repackage this stuff, sell it to kids again and make money.
00:02:33.080 But as they've been doing this, they've obviously been changing those movies, they've been updating them, they've been making them more woke.
00:02:39.780 They've been inserting diversity into them, they've been inserting LGBTQ politics into them, all this kind of stuff.
00:02:46.920 And they've had some pretty mixed receptions.
00:02:49.280 At the beginning of this remake stuff, some of them did pretty well.
00:02:52.140 But it's kind of clear that even this remake train is starting to kind of wear off for Disney and its studios.
00:02:59.240 But today we're specifically talking about the Little Mermaid remake for a couple reasons.
00:03:04.720 And the big one here is, of course, this review.
00:03:07.680 Our main focus here is not going to just be on the movie itself, but on the attitude of the reviewer.
00:03:13.220 The headline, the one that got you in here, the one that everyone was kind of blown away with, is the fact that the reviewer lamented the lack of kink in the Little Mermaid.
00:03:23.320 And yeah, I'm not joking about that, that they were lamenting the fact that there was no kink in this children's movie. 0.82
00:03:30.080 Now, as we go through this review, you're going to see that I think that's tied deeper into a lot of intersectionality, that that focus only appears in the article for a moment.
00:03:42.000 But it's tied deeper into the expectations that this reviewer has as somebody who expects this project to be woke, to be revisionist, to be subversive.
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00:05:18.000 All right, guys.
00:05:18.840 So we're going to go ahead and jump into this article.
00:05:22.520 Now, we will jump around a little bit because some of it is him just explaining the movie beats.
00:05:28.320 Some of it is him just kind of giving general opinions about the quality of the cinematography or something.
00:05:34.600 And if you're really interested in his actual full kind of review of the movie, I guess you can go check that out.
00:05:40.860 It's at the New York Times.
00:05:42.040 I'm going to be focusing on kind of the woke language.
00:05:44.700 The main purpose of this stream is to kind of break down why he's framed this way, why he felt the need to insert these ideas in here.
00:05:52.560 And overall, why he thinks this movie exists, because it's very clear that he believes this is a political movie, that he expects this to be a political movie, that he knows Disney wants this to be a political movie.
00:06:04.700 And that's why he expects many things in here, including kink. 0.98
00:06:08.400 So let's go ahead and look at why those things are tied together.
00:06:12.700 So the title here, you know, the Disney's Little Mermaid review, the renovations are only skin deep.
00:06:20.200 Disney's live action remake with, I guess, Hall Bailey is the right way to say that.
00:06:25.720 I'm not familiar with this actress. 0.99
00:06:27.100 Apparently, she is a singer as well.
00:06:29.480 Probably makes sense.
00:06:30.380 It's a musical.
00:06:32.020 You know, Little Mermaid is highly known for its songs.
00:06:34.160 I don't know about you guys, but I'm old enough to have been around when this movie came out.
00:06:38.980 I had a little sister, and so she watched this movie kind of nonstop whenever she had the option, whenever she was given any control over the TV or the movies we were watching whenever it was this.
00:06:52.160 So unfortunately, as with many big brothers at this time, I am very familiar with Little Mermaid, whether I want it to be or not.
00:07:00.700 But this is something that obviously has a lot of singing involved.
00:07:05.020 So I guess that's probably why this actress was selected.
00:07:10.600 But she stars as Ariel in a diverse cast.
00:07:12.820 It's a dutifully corrective with the noble intentions and little fun.
00:07:17.080 So right off the bat, we can see he's not.
00:07:19.520 Oh, and the guy here is Wesley Morris.
00:07:21.200 We should should note that the reviewer's name here is Wesley Morris.
00:07:23.920 So right off the bat, it's clear that Wesley is not a fan of this movie, which is interesting.
00:07:28.240 I checked out the Rotten Tomatoes for this movie that currently has a 68 percent from other critics and I think like a 95 percent with audiences, though.
00:07:36.420 I don't know how many audiences have actually seen the movie at this point, so that might be artificial.
00:07:41.060 I don't think it's released yet, but but it's very clear that, you know, he is more disappointed than most of the people who review this.
00:07:52.240 I think it'll be obvious why he thinks it didn't go far enough.
00:07:55.240 So you can tell right from the beginning, he says this needs to be dutifully corrective.
00:07:59.840 So the purpose of the movie movie right out of the gate is to correct something.
00:08:04.580 Correct what?
00:08:05.680 Well, I think it's pretty obvious that they swapped out the white character for a black character. 0.76
00:08:11.080 And there's a lot of controversy from this, right?
00:08:13.540 Ariel is kind of an iconic Disney character.
00:08:16.720 She's known for pale white skin and red hair. 1.00
00:08:19.280 Those are traits that are pretty tightly tied to the identity of the character.
00:08:26.880 And so when this kind of swap came in, a lot of people were shocked.
00:08:31.560 A lot of people and of course, this is the whole point, right, is to set up this dialectic that, you know, these movies are now made specifically with the controversy in mind.
00:08:41.560 They know what they're doing.
00:08:42.480 They know that they're going to rile up a segment of the population.
00:08:45.360 And not only do they know that, they're counting on it, right?
00:08:47.660 They want that to be part of the marketing.
00:08:49.440 They want it to be part of the conversation.
00:08:51.620 They want it to set the frame around the movie.
00:08:54.220 And here's the nice bonus thing is it also gets to become the blame if the movie fails.
00:09:00.000 Now, I don't know if this movie is going to fail.
00:09:01.420 Actually, the movie did.
00:09:02.280 I remember now the movie has come out and it did relatively well, I guess, at the opening box office here.
00:09:07.480 But the idea here is that if the movie did fail, then you'd be able to blame it on the hate, the backlash.
00:09:14.760 We see this with a lot of movies now.
00:09:16.300 We saw this with the all-females Ghostbusters. 0.99
00:09:18.740 It doesn't really matter what the quality of the movie is.
00:09:21.000 If it's good and, you know, it does well and the movie is successful, then great.
00:09:24.900 You don't have to worry about it.
00:09:25.920 You can say, oh, the haters, you know, take that.
00:09:28.320 We made money.
00:09:29.240 But if the movie does poorly because the movie is of bad quality, well, then you can always blame the haters.
00:09:34.760 You can say, oh, well, no, it wasn't that the movie was bad.
00:09:36.980 It wasn't that there was no market for this.
00:09:38.960 It wasn't that it was, you know, we shoehorned in all these politics and no one wanted to see it.
00:09:43.360 It's the haters.
00:09:44.540 It's the hate out there that did this.
00:09:46.580 It's the Internet trolls.
00:09:47.620 They're the ones who did this.
00:09:49.300 And so they create the movies like this on purpose.
00:09:52.860 They're starting the conversation this way before you even get into the actual movie, making sure that, you know, there's a built-in excuse for if the movie fails.
00:10:02.440 Well, at least we did something politically worthwhile.
00:10:05.080 We took the moral stand.
00:10:06.940 And so that's something that they can kind of use to kind of frame their failures if they happen, though.
00:10:12.260 It looks like this one might not be.
00:10:13.820 It's hard to tell, though.
00:10:14.520 These movies are so expensive and especially the advertising budgets aren't even recorded usually in the making of the movies.
00:10:21.040 And so they really have to do huge box office numbers in order to to make their money back.
00:10:26.920 So the new live action Little Mermaid is everything nobody wanted in a movie.
00:10:31.520 It's dutiful and defensive, yet desperate for approval.
00:10:34.760 It reeks of obligation and noble intentions.
00:10:37.900 Joy, fun, mystery, mystery, risk, flavor, kink.
00:10:42.400 They're missing.
00:10:43.340 So this is this is kind of the famous line.
00:10:45.180 And this is the the thing that got everybody.
00:10:47.620 Why are you asking for kink in a children's movie? 0.97
00:10:50.740 And it's perfectly reasonable for you to be outraged about that.
00:10:53.820 Why?
00:10:54.100 Why would any reviewer bring that up?
00:10:56.940 Kink isn't really a word that has a lot of different meanings in this context.
00:11:02.100 It's not like he can really pretend that he was asking for something else.
00:11:05.920 Why would you need that in this movie?
00:11:09.300 Right now?
00:11:10.040 You're going to understand why I think by the end of this.
00:11:12.580 But I'll give you a hint at the beginning.
00:11:14.980 This is about intersectionality.
00:11:17.720 OK, he doesn't bring king up again anywhere in this review.
00:11:21.620 He doesn't even bring up sexuality anywhere else really in this review.
00:11:25.000 This is the only time it comes up.
00:11:26.820 But I think that because these ideas are now crossed over, they're so intersectional that
00:11:34.000 this is just in the lexicon and it just gets rattled off as you're writing this kind of stuff.
00:11:39.080 Right.
00:11:39.480 Well, of course, it needs to be diverse.
00:11:41.620 Of course, it needs to have gender theory shoved down everybody's throat. 1.00
00:11:46.220 Of course, it needs to have kink in it. 1.00
00:11:48.260 And even if you never mention this idea again, these ideas are all connected in a constellation
00:11:54.040 of wokeness.
00:11:55.940 And so if you're talking about one aspect of wokeness, you have to be talking about another
00:12:00.180 aspect of it.
00:12:00.880 And we see this all the time.
00:12:02.020 Right.
00:12:02.140 This is done on purpose.
00:12:03.260 That this is why this is so useful for the left rhetorically, because any time you attack
00:12:09.500 one part of the ideology, they tie it to all the other things that are intersectional with
00:12:14.820 it.
00:12:15.060 So if you say, I don't think I want you to push gender transition on five year olds,
00:12:19.800 then it's well, then why are you attacking all gay people?
00:12:22.540 Why are you attacking the black community?
00:12:24.980 What does that have to do with it?
00:12:26.140 Are you saying that those things are tied together?
00:12:28.540 That's the key thing is that as long as they can immediately throw a charge of racism or
00:12:32.620 homophobia or whatever at you, then they can completely derail whatever you are speaking
00:12:38.520 against.
00:12:39.160 And so as long as those things are sacred and you can tie all these other things to those
00:12:44.060 sacred objects that can't be questioned, then that means there's a whole, again,
00:12:48.360 constellation of things that are basically unassailable.
00:12:52.200 And so they tie kink to this kind of stuff.
00:12:54.480 They tie transgenderism to this stuff. 1.00
00:12:56.420 Why?
00:12:56.660 Because that makes it unquestionable.
00:12:59.300 You can't look at it.
00:13:00.620 You're not allowed to criticize it.
00:13:03.420 So this is the only time that the reviewer is going to mention kink in here.
00:13:06.720 But I do think it's really interesting that it comes in.
00:13:08.960 And it's not just a Freudian slip.
00:13:10.960 I mean, tap the sign, right?
00:13:12.220 You know, like, like, why would he put this in here?
00:13:14.260 Well, you know, don't make me tap the sign.
00:13:16.460 But on top of that, you know, on top of why would he think that kink belongs in a children's
00:13:21.580 movie and explicitly a movie explicitly made for children, which, you know, Disney, they
00:13:27.120 probably want to make it explicit as well at this point.
00:13:29.220 I don't think their agenda is hidden at all.
00:13:31.360 In fact, we know it isn't.
00:13:32.340 They've Chris Ruffo, you know, aired the tapes.
00:13:34.820 They've made very clear what their intentions are.
00:13:37.020 But the fact that this gets slipped in here, again, is just indicative of the way the left
00:13:42.940 ties all this stuff together.
00:13:44.900 And they do it specifically because, again, just like, you know, applying all these labels
00:13:49.100 to their movie, it makes it unassailable.
00:13:51.920 It makes it so that you can't actually criticize what's going on here.
00:13:55.560 But we're going to see that he doesn't spend the majority of his time on kink, luckily, 1.00
00:14:00.200 I guess, but he spends it on racial identity and the importance of inserting that into the
00:14:07.760 movie.
00:14:08.120 So we'll read that more here in a second.
00:14:10.660 Movie is saying, we tried, tried not to offend a Paul or challenge or imagine.
00:14:15.580 So, again, this is a children's movie, right?
00:14:19.240 But the purpose of it is to offend a Paul and challenge.
00:14:22.500 Okay, so I get it.
00:14:25.620 Art is supposed to be those things.
00:14:27.760 But this is not art for adults.
00:14:30.600 This is not a dart.
00:14:32.080 This is not supposed to be art that moves the needle.
00:14:34.680 This is barely even art at all.
00:14:36.820 This is children's entertainment, or at least it's supposed to be.
00:14:39.400 But, of course, we know with Disney, that's not necessarily the case anymore, right?
00:14:43.120 Their target audience isn't really kids.
00:14:45.840 Their target audience is adults who never grew up.
00:14:48.240 Their target audience is parents.
00:14:52.600 And then their target audience, or those are their target audiences.
00:14:56.540 And the kids are just going to be along for the ride.
00:14:59.260 The kids are already there.
00:15:00.940 And so they're just going to kind of absorb the fact that this is entertaining.
00:15:04.600 And that is often the purpose of this stuff.
00:15:07.660 So, yeah, why would we put offensive, appalling, and challenging material in a children's movie?
00:15:13.040 Oh, because it's not for kids.
00:15:14.700 And the kids will get it.
00:15:15.720 All that will get forced onto them, and that's what he wants.
00:15:18.600 That's what he's asking for.
00:15:20.120 Why isn't this offensive, appalling, challenging material being marketed to kids?
00:15:25.520 That's what he's hoping for.
00:15:27.380 But that's what any sane person is like.
00:15:30.720 Why would I want this in a kid's movie?
00:15:32.700 So, a crab croons a gull rasps.
00:15:35.180 The sea witch swells to stay puff proportions.
00:15:38.860 Speaking of Ghostbusters there, this is not supposed to be a serious event.
00:15:42.160 Well, yeah, kind of.
00:15:43.040 That's the point.
00:15:43.800 It's not supposed to be a serious event.
00:15:45.600 It's a children's movie.
00:15:46.580 You know, the Mario movie came out.
00:15:48.380 I haven't seen that one yet, but I've heard good things.
00:15:51.040 The amazing thing for most people was actually, I think, not that it was even particularly good, but that it just wasn't stuffed full of wokeness.
00:15:59.960 You didn't have gender-swapped Mario. 0.90
00:16:02.500 You didn't have race-swapped Mario.
00:16:04.640 You didn't have, you know, Mario's trans friend explaining why he needs to understand pronouns.
00:16:10.500 It's just a movie that kids can enjoy.
00:16:13.860 It doesn't even have to be good anymore.
00:16:15.360 People are so tired of wokeness that they'll take a mildly entertaining, vapid movie that just doesn't shove this stuff down their throats.
00:16:25.180 We should be able to ask for more, but again, it's a kid's movie.
00:16:27.620 So, what do you want, right?
00:16:28.940 It's not supposed to be a serious event.
00:16:30.800 So, it's okay for, like, kids to just watch Mario jump around or watch The Little Mermaid swim about wanting to meet a prince.
00:16:37.820 You don't actually have to turn everything into a political diatribe.
00:16:42.080 But it feels made in anticipation of being taken too seriously.
00:16:47.780 Now you can't even laugh at it.
00:16:49.260 So, yeah, that's the point.
00:16:50.460 And he'll make this a couple times, and he's right about this at least. 0.96
00:16:52.960 But he supports this.
00:16:53.880 That's the thing.
00:16:54.440 He'll make this point multiple times, that the movie is, you know, very clearly designed with politics in mind.
00:17:02.300 It's designed to be edgy.
00:17:03.860 It's, again, that they frame it this way from the beginning.
00:17:07.420 But because it is that, it can't be too serious.
00:17:11.300 Or rather, it can't be too goofy.
00:17:12.860 It can't take itself lightly.
00:17:15.120 It has to be very serious.
00:17:16.860 And so, it can't be a kid's movie.
00:17:18.340 It can't be a light escapist thing, because from the very beginning, it has to be woke.
00:17:22.920 And that destroys it.
00:17:23.760 It destroys its very nature.
00:17:25.260 You can't make fun children's products this way.
00:17:27.800 You can't make fun children's entertainment this way.
00:17:30.820 From the very beginning, it's as serious and sober as a Sunday morning sermon.
00:17:36.180 Except, of course, the religion it's delivering is not Christianity.
00:17:40.160 It's nothing that would be uplifting and wholesome that would help the child understand things about the world, learn about who they should be, learn how they should treat other people, learn how they should have a relationship with God.
00:17:51.240 It's none of those things.
00:17:52.140 It's simply, you know, how to be a good progressive soldier.
00:17:56.200 This is just progressive soldier indoctrination.
00:17:59.300 And so, because of that, not only is it too serious to be fun, it can't even deliver the kind of wholesome things, the kind of positive things, that at least something that would be serious for a good topic would actually deliver.
00:18:12.380 The story comes from the Hans Christian Andersen tale.
00:18:18.320 Obviously, like I said, so many of these movies were built after these folk tales or these fairy stories.
00:18:23.700 And when Disney made a cartoon musical of it in 1989, the tale's tragedy and existential wonder got swapped for the Disney princess syndrome, wherein one subjugation is replaced with another or even exchange or even exchange redrawn as liberating love.
00:18:39.700 So, yeah, obviously, if you're familiar with the Hans Christian Andersen tale, the Little Mermaid doesn't like get married to the prince and live happy ever after.
00:18:48.440 Instead, walking on those feet that she ends up getting are like shards of glass.
00:18:53.660 If I remember, it's been a long time since I've listened to the original Little Mermaid.
00:18:57.700 But if I remember correctly, it's like she's walking on shards of glass the whole time.
00:19:01.360 So the tradeoff is real.
00:19:02.660 She she defies her father. 1.00
00:19:04.680 She leaves her her home.
00:19:07.460 She leaves her people for another group.
00:19:10.760 She ends up getting destroyed.
00:19:13.760 You know, she feels this pain constantly walking on this glass.
00:19:17.700 And then when she ends up going through all this, she ends up dying and she, you know, she dies at the end.
00:19:25.660 And so it's not a Disney story at all.
00:19:28.140 It's a cautionary tale.
00:19:29.880 But, you know, the Disney completely reworked it.
00:19:33.660 So he is right that this, you know, the very core of that story has been reworked to make it kind of just complete children's fluff.
00:19:42.680 You know, like we said that, you know, these stories used to come with some kind of moral to them.
00:19:49.100 They used to come with some kind of instruction with them.
00:19:53.060 Disney kind of hollowed that out and just made it very generic.
00:19:55.960 But obviously, it was at least very entertaining.
00:19:58.320 Again, you know, my little sister singing those songs endlessly, you know, as a child, it's very catchy.
00:20:04.940 And it's something that did stick with children.
00:20:07.980 So at least did that job that it was supposed to do, even if that in and of itself is kind of a hollowing out of maybe the original intention of the story, the original value of the story.
00:20:19.120 Then it just kind of gives you some background on the story.
00:20:22.280 You guys have probably seen The Little Mermaid at this point of, you know, spoilers on a 30 year old movie.
00:20:27.080 If you're not familiar with some of that, he kind of complains about the fact that it's supposed to be live action, but it's almost all CGI.
00:20:36.340 He hits on the fact that originally she kind of had this red hair, but obviously, you know, can't have it here. 0.99
00:20:46.420 But that visualization isn't there.
00:20:49.180 And he kind of talks again about the quality of the acting.
00:20:52.460 He says it makes it again.
00:20:54.320 Good point.
00:20:54.960 You know, he's a movie critic.
00:20:56.300 So obviously he has some some familiarity with what makes this work.
00:21:02.040 He kind of makes the point that in the original, the fact that Ariel is kind of quiet for half the movie, right?
00:21:08.180 She loses her voice.
00:21:09.140 That's a whole plot point of the movie.
00:21:10.720 And so the expressiveness of the animation kind of takes over for for the actress.
00:21:17.720 Her personality can't be can't be conveyed through the the speaking, though.
00:21:24.200 Again, he talks about the voiceless woman and how politically incorrect that is now.
00:21:29.760 But but anyway, he does make the good point that the expressiveness of the Disney animation, you know, the eyes, the face, the way that the illustrators were able to kind of bring that forward does a lot of the work for the voiceless Ariel.
00:21:44.940 But in real life, it's very hard for even a seasoned actor to do, having to be entirely silent for a huge chunk of the movie.
00:21:52.580 And obviously, this actress being a singer and not having that kind of level of talent means that she's not able to kind of replicate that effect. 0.99
00:22:02.520 And so we're already looking at a kind of a situation where just transferring it from one medium to another, you know, has an effect on the movie.
00:22:10.140 So credit where it's due to to Wesley there.
00:22:12.780 I think that's probably a good point, though.
00:22:15.120 Again, I haven't seen the movie yet.
00:22:16.240 So, you know, no, no judgment because I don't know.
00:22:18.840 I don't really intend to see it.
00:22:20.020 But the point being, you know, they probably a valid point there.
00:22:23.760 But here we get back into kind of the social politics here.
00:22:26.960 This is kind of where we want to jump back in what we were talking about today.
00:22:32.580 So Bailey is black with long copper hair that twists waves and locks racially. 0.98
00:22:38.900 The whole movie's been, what, opened up, diversified.
00:22:42.620 Now Ariel's rueful daddy, King Triton, is played by a stolid Javier Bardem, who does all of the king's lamenting in Spanish-inflected English.
00:22:53.120 Instead of the Broadway corns of the original, her mermaid siblings are a multi-ethnic, runway-ready general assembly. 0.71
00:23:02.020 So already here we can kind of see that, we can already see that he's noting that this is a little disassociative, right?
00:23:11.200 Like this is, so he sees this as a good thing, I guess, that they've changed this.
00:23:17.120 That now Ariel's sisters are a multi-ethnic pack of different women and that the father is Spanish and she is black. 0.86
00:23:26.800 And I guess this is supposed to be an advancement, he'll kind of praise it later on.
00:23:32.240 But of course, this is just the kind of thing that takes people out of this stuff.
00:23:35.620 Look, it doesn't make sense.
00:23:37.880 It doesn't make sense for a guy to have, you know, I guess unless you're maybe Genghis Khan working your way across Asia. 0.55
00:23:44.820 It doesn't make sense for this guy to have that many different races among his daughters. 0.99
00:23:50.540 And when you like artificially insert all these different races in there, it just breaks it. 0.96
00:23:55.800 Now I get it, like, right, they're under the sea.
00:23:57.800 She's got the, she's got a fin for feet, right? 1.00
00:23:59.880 This is where your reality breaks down.
00:24:02.840 Well, no, but this is the point, you know, that this is always brought up.
00:24:06.700 Like the reason that fantasy works, the reason that fantasy means something is that it has some tropes that are different.
00:24:14.640 It is set in a world that is different, but that certain parts of human nature, certain parts of human organizations stay the same.
00:24:22.480 And because those things are universal, we can then relate to mermaids under the sea, right?
00:24:27.820 Like you don't have anything in common with someone who breathes water and lives in a sea kingdom.
00:24:33.380 But because you're human and you have certain experiences and there's certain continuity to the human experience, you can still understand the things they're going through, the things they're struggling with.
00:24:43.100 You can still understand what's happening, whether it's here or in the Lord of the Rings or in space.
00:24:49.340 Like I've never been in any of those scenarios, but because I'm a person and I'm part of a family and I'm part of a community and I'm part of a religion and all these things.
00:24:57.800 I can then relate to people who are also part of those things, even if they're doing them under the sea or in a space station or in a, you know, a mythical realm where you have to fight orcs, right?
00:25:07.620 Like that ability to understand those things is based on kind of certain aspects of human nature that continue in all these situations.
00:25:17.260 And one of those is just family and the fact that families generally kind of look the same.
00:25:21.520 That's what makes them a family.
00:25:23.120 You know, the old, I can see, oh, I can see the face of your baby.
00:25:26.520 You know, I can see, you know, your baby has your chin and her eyes and it's got your grandpa's, you know, eyebrows.
00:25:34.200 And those are all the things that people like to talk about when they look at people's kids, when they get together and they're celebrating a newborn child because that's the continuation of the family.
00:25:44.680 And so when you go in here and you like really awkwardly just completely, not only are you, you know, you're race swapping the character, but you're making the entire family just, it doesn't make any sense, right?
00:25:55.620 And it feels really artificial.
00:25:56.840 It feels really fake.
00:25:57.920 It takes everybody out of the story and it starts to make things really un, you're not able to empathize with them.
00:26:04.900 You're not, even though, yes, like they're under the sea or they're in some kind of ridiculous scenario, the fact that so many things are artificial, like even the most basic human interactions, the most basic human organization becomes deeply artificial, obviously becomes a real issue.
00:26:21.600 Now you can see here, there's a little highlight box.
00:26:24.240 And of course, right away, the first thing that they throw in here is about the racial backlash right in here, the racist backlash with big expectations.
00:26:33.120 So again, you can see that this is, they already have the controversy seeded into the article.
00:26:39.020 Ooh, click here to read more about the controversy after you read the review.
00:26:42.540 This is framing.
00:26:43.740 This is all prepared.
00:26:44.900 This is all, they knew these storylines before they even stepped into them.
00:26:48.780 They count on these backlashes. 0.93
00:26:50.740 They count on these controversies that that's all framed in.
00:26:54.700 Don't think for a moment, they're just like, oh, I'll just make this movie.
00:26:57.160 Oh, I can't believe people reacted this way.
00:26:59.680 That's how it was designed.
00:27:01.000 The Prince Eric is white English and now seems to have a more plot than Ariel.
00:27:07.580 Again, that's probably because he's allowed to talk, right?
00:27:11.140 So that's, again, probably a good observation from the reviewer at the beginning here.
00:27:14.820 He's allowed to talk and you no longer have kind of the very expressive, over-the-top animated style to kind of carry those things,
00:27:23.780 which is probably something that Disney should have thought of when they tried to remake these movies,
00:27:27.280 especially since literally they're the company who animated them.
00:27:30.380 You think someone around there would have been like, hey, since we're the people who are really familiar with the ins and outs of making animated movies,
00:27:37.420 that we would realize that that's kind of an essential part of this and that we should really take that into account when we're looking at how she's going to react in these kind of things.
00:27:46.380 But, of course, they didn't because it's all about just getting the politics in there.
00:27:51.140 It's all about just getting the movie remade.
00:27:53.520 It's all about making everything live action.
00:27:55.480 It doesn't matter how it actually transfers on the film or actually transfers onto the screen.
00:28:00.560 That's all just kind of secondary because they can't come up with anything new.
00:28:03.720 And so this is really all they've got.
00:28:05.380 More includes meals with her mother, with his mother, Queen Selina, who is black.
00:28:13.100 So the white English prince has a black mother.
00:28:17.540 Surprise, surprise.
00:28:18.540 Again, all families must be multiracial and make no sense. 1.00
00:28:22.940 That's that that's the decree.
00:28:24.740 That's what makes it a progressive movie.
00:28:27.380 Now, again, people can get all, you know, how?
00:28:29.720 Why are you care about this?
00:28:31.340 Why are you noticing?
00:28:32.260 Not really, except it was meant to be noticed.
00:28:34.400 Not only is it meant to be noticed, the reviewer who is pro this movie or at least pro the idea of this movie.
00:28:41.600 He supports all the politics and motivations behind the movie.
00:28:44.440 He doesn't like the result because it's low quality, though.
00:28:47.900 Again, he doesn't seem to settle on why he doesn't seem to understand why these things naturally produce a worse movie because of all the things he wanted in there are actively making it worse.
00:28:57.700 He has a hard time connecting, you know, those things.
00:29:01.240 But but he is behind all of these things and he notices them.
00:29:04.400 He says this is the intention.
00:29:05.780 It's there for a reason.
00:29:07.200 So it's not, you know, but again, this is the framing.
00:29:09.240 It's meant it's meant to be there for people to get offended.
00:29:11.920 And it's meant to be there for people to react to it.
00:29:16.300 That that's and the review itself is aware of this from the very beginning.
00:29:20.000 All of this is really tiresome, really, really staged from from the outset.
00:29:25.640 And you can you can you can almost feel the trudge that he's going through to kind of get get into the mood of trying to praise some of the stuff, you know, even though he ends up hating the movie.
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00:29:51.060 So so so the queen is black that her chief servant is black.
00:29:56.520 The script credits these people.
00:30:00.060 They inform us that the queen has adopted the prince because somebody new inquiring minds would want to know.
00:30:05.400 Yeah, that is a kind of natural thing like, OK, I noticed a pattern.
00:30:10.380 This isn't actually how humans procreate.
00:30:14.700 They don't end up looking this way.
00:30:16.860 So where where did this white English prince come from if this is his mother?
00:30:22.600 But, you know, noticing is a problem, I guess.
00:30:25.800 As a as a that talks about most of McCarthy here being excited about being the villain for a while.
00:30:33.400 That sounds terrible.
00:30:35.180 But anyway, the anime version was about a girl who wanted to leave showbiz.
00:30:40.360 She and her sisters perform follies basically for King Triton's entertainment.
00:30:44.440 Talk more about.
00:30:45.940 OK, here we go.
00:30:50.520 The dry land was entertainment wise a lot drier, but that was all right with Ariel.
00:30:55.680 This new flesh and blood version is about a girl who'd like to withdraw her color from the family rainbow and sail off of the uncharted waters with a white prince.
00:31:03.140 So, again, any any white people in the story are a problem. 1.00
00:31:07.840 Right.
00:31:08.080 So they re-swapped the little mermaid, but they didn't do it to the prince.
00:31:14.200 Now, they re-swapped the prince's mother.
00:31:16.520 They made sure that he's part of a multiracial family.
00:31:19.260 But that's insufficient.
00:31:20.520 That's not enough.
00:31:21.600 That that is that is not sufficiently woke.
00:31:24.640 It's a problem that she wants to leave her colors of Benetton family, her large multiracial family with sisters who look like they're from every nation around the world. 0.75
00:31:38.080 And get married to a white prince that that's a problem. 0.99
00:31:42.480 So so again, the fact that like one character in the movie who of significance is white basically is already a problem.
00:31:51.560 So it did not go far enough.
00:31:53.700 It went that and you'll see this is his conclusion basically throughout the whole thing.
00:31:58.360 It's good that they tried.
00:31:59.340 It's important that they tried to subvert all this stuff.
00:32:01.940 It's important that they tried to swap all this stuff in, but they didn't go far enough.
00:32:05.940 It didn't it didn't get radical enough.
00:32:07.520 There's no kink in the movie.
00:32:09.300 Right.
00:32:09.780 And that's kind of his continued problem with the movie.
00:32:14.000 So what really opened up here for years now?
00:32:16.320 Disney has been atoning for the racism and chauvinism and de facto whiteness of its expanded catalog.
00:32:22.600 So once again, we see that whiteness is in and of itself a problem. 0.98
00:32:27.720 The country was a majority white when, you know, he was this movie was made. 0.61
00:32:33.820 It still is, though, though, that is shifting.
00:32:38.160 But the but the fact that it would be de facto white and makes perfect sense in the same way that if you make a lot of movies in Bollywood, I kind of assume they're de facto Indian.
00:32:50.440 Right.
00:32:50.620 They're probably pretty brown because they're made by Indian people for Indian people in the country of India.
00:32:59.900 All the actors around are Indian for the most part.
00:33:03.540 Right.
00:33:03.780 So it's not super surprising.
00:33:05.700 I wouldn't be offended to walk into a Bollywood movie and see the cast be mostly Indian.
00:33:11.560 I wouldn't watch Yojimbo. 1.00
00:33:14.340 I wouldn't watch a classic samurai movie from Japan and be like, where are the white people? 0.91
00:33:21.460 Where are the Africans? 1.00
00:33:22.780 Why aren't there more people from Nova Scotia in my Japanese samurai movie?
00:33:28.660 It's perfectly reasonable for that movie to be pretty much entirely Japanese.
00:33:35.140 Right.
00:33:36.220 But, of course, the fact that, you know, there were white characters in Disney movies in and of itself a problem.
00:33:42.920 Now, of course, there are plenty of other ethnicities in Disney movies, but that's unimportant.
00:33:47.920 Right.
00:33:48.140 That's they weren't the they weren't the default.
00:33:51.160 And so they have to atone atonement must be done for all the racism and chauvinism and whiteness that was already prevalent in all of these and their back catalog.
00:34:03.920 So Pixar and Pixar and Marvel movies, despite also being, you know, being relatively recent movies who are relatively woke and race swap characters all the time. 0.57
00:34:13.100 They're still insufficiently woke.
00:34:15.860 There's there's still too much de facto whiteness, even in these more current movies.
00:34:20.280 In part, turning to its Nettlesome cartoons into live action corrections.
00:34:25.200 Again, we see this corrections.
00:34:27.440 So he's openly acknowledging this is the purpose of these things.
00:34:30.680 They are specifically meant to atone for the past.
00:34:33.360 They're not entertainment.
00:34:34.720 They're not there for a child's amusement.
00:34:37.420 They can't even be the vapid chewing gum that, you know, the Little Mermaid kind of was after stripping out a lot of the fairy stories of the Hans Christian Anderson
00:34:48.100 and kind of other background of these folk tales that often get turned into Disney movies.
00:34:53.280 That's insufficient.
00:34:54.540 They must actively correct the history of, I guess, white people existing in movies, white characters existing in movies. 0.78
00:35:02.320 It's just a drawing, guys.
00:35:03.280 Why are you so offended?
00:35:04.200 I don't understand.
00:35:05.020 Right.
00:35:05.180 That that's their whole case.
00:35:06.400 Right.
00:35:06.640 It's just a drawing.
00:35:07.420 Like, why why would you get so why would you notice this?
00:35:09.760 Why would this be such a big deal to you?
00:35:11.420 But obviously it is.
00:35:12.540 In fact, it's so big that we have to have to go on a full campaign of correctiveness.
00:35:16.320 We have to rewrite and replace all of this history in order to make things right again.
00:35:22.060 This is important.
00:35:23.180 Important.
00:35:23.500 Again, he agrees with all this.
00:35:25.100 Right.
00:35:25.360 He doesn't like the movie because the movie is trash, which he'll acknowledge.
00:35:28.920 But he won't acknowledge why it's trash because they spent all the time on this stuff instead of, you know, actually making a good movie.
00:35:35.560 But he agrees with all of it.
00:35:36.900 He's on board with this.
00:35:37.900 It's an important project, culturally reparative work from a corporation that lately has more steadily inched humanity away from the bottom line priorities.
00:35:47.520 So that's really interesting.
00:35:49.480 So he's he's pointing out here that Disney's wokeness is pulling it away from the bottom line, that Disney's wokeness is ignoring the bottom line.
00:35:58.660 And you'll see right here he gets into DeSantis in Florida.
00:36:01.880 Consequently, it has found itself at war with a governor of Florida where Disney lives.
00:36:06.180 So basically he's saying that this this movie has to get made and it's made irregardless of earnings because they will because they really care about the politics.
00:36:16.900 But of course, that's not true at all.
00:36:18.560 We're still pretending that this stuff is rebellious.
00:36:21.260 We're still pretending that this stuff is fighting against the mainstream.
00:36:23.940 We're still pretending that this kind of recasting is salacious in the way that would cause backlash among, you know, the powerful and the elite.
00:36:33.880 But of course, that's not true at all.
00:36:35.660 The New York Times agrees with this.
00:36:39.160 People in Harvard and Yale, celebrities, they all agree with this.
00:36:43.760 They all talk about this stuff in lockstep.
00:36:45.380 They all love this stuff.
00:36:46.880 There's no subversion of power here.
00:36:48.960 This is acquiescence to power.
00:36:51.040 This is following with power.
00:36:54.480 And largely, this makes people money, right?
00:36:56.860 That's why they do it.
00:36:57.860 Now, we're interestingly seeing that woke backlash is starting to cause some actual market consequences.
00:37:05.740 We're seeing companies like Target.
00:37:07.720 We're seeing companies like Bud Light and maybe to some extent even Disney face consequences for their constant march of wokeness.
00:37:17.260 But for the most part, this stuff has happened without any kind of backlash.
00:37:22.240 It's only been profitable.
00:37:23.420 The go broke thing has basically been a joke this whole time.
00:37:28.520 It's been cope.
00:37:29.660 Hopefully, we're seeing some of that change now.
00:37:31.720 But up until this point, very recently, that was not the case.
00:37:35.000 And so the idea that this movie needs to exist to correct these wrongs and push back against the power and it's Disney rebelling against the bottom line or prioritizing things beyond the bottom line.
00:37:46.960 I mean, come on.
00:37:47.500 That's full of crap.
00:37:48.520 They do this because of the bottom line.
00:37:50.480 They do this because they think it's going to make them more money, because they think it's going to make them more acceptability.
00:37:55.480 They frame these movies specifically in this way to create controversy that will be beneficial to them, that frames the movie, that if it loses money, well, it turned out it had to because it was fighting all these trolls and these evil racists or whatever.
00:38:08.920 That's why they create these movies in the first place.
00:38:11.000 So all of this is planned.
00:38:11.900 It's all a cold, cynical, calculated marketing decision at some level, though they are also true believers.
00:38:18.760 So don't let me confuse you in thinking that this is just about the money.
00:38:22.300 But the idea that this is not about the money at all and that this is a rebellion against against the bottom line priorities, that's absolutely absurd.
00:38:30.980 For every Moana or Coco or Enchanto, I think that's how you say it, original, wondrous, exuberant animated musicals about relationships and cultures didn't Disney previously notice or treat with care.
00:38:44.240 There's something timid and reactive about this.
00:38:46.120 So he's noticing a pattern here, which is kind of funny.
00:38:49.680 When Disney specifically sets out to make movies about other cultures with original stories that are set in those cultures, they make things that a lot of people find valuable that aren't just entertaining, but have some level of artistic value because they're like actually reflective of the cultures in which they were set.
00:39:12.600 But this is not, but this is very clearly a cynical recasting of a story that was told by a culture that is not the one that is now cast in the movie.
00:39:24.000 And it does not reflect that because it is artificial through and through.
00:39:29.000 So he's seeing that he's acknowledging that here in a lot of ways, but he just still but he still supports it, even though he's noticing that these movies that are there, you know, are created on purpose with those cultures in mind are better.
00:39:45.860 And the ones that are subverting already existing characters and race swapping them in and creating artificial, you know, families that don't make any sense. 0.73
00:39:55.040 I mean, how many, you know, it's been a while since I mean Moana, but what was every Hawaiian or Polynesian?
00:40:02.280 I'm trying to remember the exact culture there.
00:40:04.000 The Pacific Islander family was every one of them.
00:40:06.880 Did every one of them have 12 different ethnicities in their family?
00:40:09.540 I bet they didn't.
00:40:10.920 Why is that?
00:40:12.340 Hmm.
00:40:13.140 Makes you wonder, right?
00:40:14.200 And so he's acknowledging that when these movies make sense, when they actually happen inside a cohesive culture and explore that culture, they do a lot better than when you artificially strip a movie that was obviously not created for its now updated progressive diversity quotas of any character in order to make it work.
00:40:36.160 It just does not function.
00:40:38.100 So reading here again, what he says, the brown skin and placeable accents don't make the movie more fun, just utopic and therefore less arguable.
00:40:48.000 So, yeah, that's the whole thing, right?
00:40:51.600 Is like putting these characters in artificially inserting this diversity doesn't do anything for the quality of the movie doesn't make more fun doesn't make it more entertaining for children.
00:41:00.860 And it simply tries to make it the leftist version of utopia.
00:41:04.620 Now, why is this the leftist utopia?
00:41:07.420 I mean, I'll let you draw your own conclusions, but apparently utopia is diversity.
00:41:12.080 It's getting rid of white characters. 0.85
00:41:15.140 That's utopic for some reason.
00:41:17.280 And he says that makes it less arguable.
00:41:19.720 Okay, but why?
00:41:20.760 Why was there a problem with the original Little Mermaid?
00:41:23.860 Why was that a problem at all, that there were white characters in that? 0.99
00:41:27.960 I don't understand why that would be an issue unless, of course, like your active project is to say that we have to remake everything that used to have white characters in it.
00:41:36.720 Why is that necessary?
00:41:38.040 That seems like a very strange project for you to try to enforce.
00:41:41.200 Why can't you just make these movies that you yourself admit are better?
00:41:45.480 Why don't you just make the Moanas? 1.00
00:41:46.960 Why don't you just make these movies that are specifically already put into other cultures and populate them with the characters that you want?
00:41:55.420 But that's not sufficient, right?
00:41:56.860 It's not utopic unless you can go back and replace characters with a new diverse cast.
00:42:04.260 Now, what you've got is something closer to the colorblind wish fulfillment of Shonda Rhimes streaming the universe minus the Wink Wink, Side Eye, and Carnality.
00:42:15.080 Interesting that we're, again, injecting that here.
00:42:19.400 Now, I didn't know who this was.
00:42:21.060 I didn't know who the Shonda Rhimes person was, so I had to look it up.
00:42:24.200 You might not know it either.
00:42:25.140 So apparently she is the show writer.
00:42:27.180 She's done a bunch of stuff.
00:42:28.240 She did like Grey's Anatomy and a lot of that stuff that's very popular on TV.
00:42:32.980 But she's also famous for, I think, the Bridgerton series on Netflix, which is also notable for its obsession with replacing all of the classic English white nobility with other races throughout.
00:42:47.820 So, you know, in the 1800s, the Queen was Black, all of the nobility was actually Indian or something like, or at least half of it was.
00:42:56.180 Very kind of out of context, historical context insertions of this.
00:43:02.220 So I guess that's why he's kind of referencing that here, because it's another one of those scenarios where there's just you're telling a story that's inherently about a culture that is historically white.
00:43:13.340 But it but you have to swap in these characters because that's not allowed anymore.
00:43:18.140 And I guess he's saying that it's a similar vein of this kind of kind of movie that's being made here made here.
00:43:27.380 This Little Mermaid is a byproduct. 0.99
00:43:29.600 The colorization hasn't led to radicalized, racialized adventure.
00:43:35.180 OK, so you were looking for a radicalized, racialized adventure again in the children's movie.
00:43:43.340 That's what the children's movie has to be in order for it to be of quality.
00:43:48.160 It's not enough that they race swapped all this stuff and it's not enough that they remade all this stuff kind of in the image you wanted it to.
00:43:55.000 But it needs to be radicalized and racialized.
00:43:58.860 That's the that's what movies need to be for children to consume them.
00:44:03.760 Again, I think the agenda is pretty clear.
00:44:05.740 It's not not particularly, you know, coy about about the desire.
00:44:11.020 And this is probably why kink got slipped in there. 0.98
00:44:14.140 Right.
00:44:14.520 Because radicalized and racialized.
00:44:17.080 So we're just putting that intersectionality in.
00:44:19.580 Right.
00:44:20.140 Why wouldn't you just list that as another radicalization, even though it has no place in a kids movie?
00:44:25.060 But then neither does radicalized racialization.
00:44:27.880 But that's exactly what he's demanding.
00:44:29.260 It's not a black adaptation, an interpretation that imbues white material with black culture until it's something completely new. 0.85
00:44:37.820 So, again, it's really important to, in his own words, imbue what was white material with black adaptation until it's something entirely different. 0.74
00:44:50.880 But, OK, that's that's kind of telling, isn't it?
00:44:54.760 It's not the whiz.
00:44:56.180 It's still a Disney movie.
00:44:57.420 One whose heroine, Psy, happens to be black.
00:45:01.120 There is some audacity in that.
00:45:02.800 And, of course, here we go back to the praising.
00:45:04.500 Even though he's noticing that the movie is of low quality, that we, you know, we there's it's still heroic.
00:45:10.600 Right.
00:45:10.900 And that's the point.
00:45:11.700 Even if the movie fails, even if the movie doesn't do well, even if the movie is of poor quality, as long as we did the heroic thing when by replacing a white protagonist with black characters.
00:45:22.400 Why is that heroic?
00:45:23.780 Reasons because we need radical racialization in children's movies, as the the the reviewer himself states.
00:45:31.660 But but that's what they're going for.
00:45:36.060 Purists and trolls have complained.
00:45:38.260 Ah, yes.
00:45:38.780 So if if you notice the thing that was explicitly done for you to notice it, that was the entire purpose of the thing.
00:45:46.520 Of course, you are a troll.
00:45:47.760 It was designed for this.
00:45:49.020 He admittedly says it right up front.
00:45:50.880 Right.
00:45:51.560 That's the audacity that there was the purpose.
00:45:54.660 But whatever.
00:45:55.660 Again, this is this is the framing.
00:45:57.360 It's made for exactly this.
00:45:59.240 They don't want the original tamp tampered with even superficially.
00:46:03.580 But it's not even superficially like he specifically says that it's just a worse movie anyway.
00:46:09.140 They don't want it woke.
00:46:10.720 Yeah, that's it.
00:46:11.780 That's all.
00:46:13.480 Obviously, you're explicitly saying that wokeness made this movie worse. 0.99
00:46:17.420 You're saying that throughout the review.
00:46:19.600 But you just agree with it because it's your political legend.
00:46:21.960 You're admitting throughout the entire piece that the action action of making this movie woke was no good.
00:46:30.580 But because it's inherently good because it's inherently good because it's the political project, then we'll just ignore any of the flaws of the movie.
00:46:37.500 It still gets credit.
00:46:38.580 It's still a success because it it angered the trolls, which was its purpose in the first place.
00:46:44.000 The blowback the blowback is in part in on Bailey's shoulders and her simply being there confers upon her a heroism because it feels like dangerous to have her cast.
00:46:56.640 Sorry, because it does still feel dangerous to have her cast.
00:47:02.800 Sadly, the haters don't have much to worry about.
00:47:05.320 So, yeah, again, like she's cast here simply because they want to push an agenda.
00:47:09.640 It's acknowledged by him from the beginning.
00:47:13.040 And he simply says, well, that's fine.
00:47:14.920 You know, that's that's what we should be doing.
00:47:17.340 And so it's not an issue or it's supposed to be an issue.
00:47:21.160 And that's why we did it in the first place.
00:47:22.440 We did it to manufacture the issue.
00:47:25.800 So he goes on and talks a little more about, you know, kind of why the movie is not great.
00:47:32.400 But he complains about, oh, there's a part here where he complains about the theft of black music here.
00:47:42.820 Where is it?
00:47:44.220 It's really misery to notice these things.
00:47:46.420 A nine year old wouldn't notice them.
00:47:48.680 Yeah, again, right?
00:47:50.140 Like you're inserting all this stuff that a nine year old wouldn't know about, but you're doing it specifically because you need the political agenda in there.
00:47:57.100 And he says that exact thing here in the next sentence.
00:47:59.360 But one reason we have all these remakes is that former nine year olds raised on the besotted, raised on and besotted with the original Disney movies grew up and had questions.
00:48:10.440 So, again, like we need to re re-imagine kind of what nine year olds will absorb.
00:48:17.100 Right.
00:48:17.320 We we need to set this frame early for kids.
00:48:21.660 And so it's important that we remake all of these classic movies.
00:48:24.460 Make sure that no little girl watches, you know, the original Little Mermaid when she's nine year old, nine years old and gets any bad ideas from it.
00:48:33.180 Instead, we have to completely remake all of them.
00:48:34.960 We have to recast all of them.
00:48:36.780 We have to increase diversity in all of them.
00:48:39.440 And we have, you know, if if he can get some kink in there, that's what he's really looking for. 0.96
00:48:43.380 Right.
00:48:43.620 As he as he made clear.
00:48:44.840 So, you know, again, acknowledging that this movie is for nine year olds, but that's what he led with, because, you know, why in that sense, Little Mermaid is more of a moral redress than a work of true inspiration.
00:48:59.060 Again, yeah, it's just an after school special about how diversity is more important than entertainment or plot, which isn't to say that there's nothing inspiring about it.
00:49:08.520 Oh, no, we're still all for the diversity.
00:49:10.600 That's the most important thing.
00:49:12.280 In fact, the best sequence is a movie combines these ambitions, so-called inclusion with thornier American musical traditions.
00:49:19.160 Here we go.
00:49:19.880 This is where he complains about the theft of black music.
00:49:23.080 The son that breaks this news to Ariel and Sebastian is a rap called The Scuttlebutt with lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
00:49:30.840 That's the guy from Hamilton, the rap race popped Hamilton, if you're not familiar.
00:49:36.420 Um, and his problem here is, uh, there's an Asian American performer whose shtick is kind of black impersonation. 0.69
00:49:45.540 So, sorry, Asian bro. 1.00
00:49:47.720 Uh, you, you, you might be more diverse than previous cast, but you're not diverse enough. 0.55
00:49:53.400 And you certainly don't get to rap or have any kind of affectation that could be seen as black impersonation.
00:50:00.320 So, uh, sorry, Asian guy, uh, you're, you're, you might be a little too white for this. 1.00
00:50:05.080 We're not sure, uh, but you will be canceled.
00:50:07.440 Uh, so sorry about that.
00:50:08.840 Uh, rhythm rapping with a black man pretending to be a Caribbean crab. 1.00
00:50:13.860 Uh, uh, again, this is the absurdity of this whole thing, right?
00:50:18.600 Like, uh, you kind of look at the absurdity of this whole thing.
00:50:21.700 Uh, he spends the whole time, he spends the whole time making fun of people for noticing
00:50:29.120 that they intentionally swapped out the race of the main character, saying the people who
00:50:34.900 do this are racist.
00:50:36.300 They're, you know, that she's heroic for being swapped in here like this, that this is a necessary
00:50:41.000 racial redress of grievances.
00:50:42.820 And what's the first thing, or what's the last thing he does right before the end of
00:50:46.240 this?
00:50:46.700 He complains about the ethnicities of people involved in a rap.
00:50:51.980 So he complains that the, the people rapping here aren't black enough.
00:50:55.880 The, the people playing a crab and a seagull are not of the appropriate races to the accents
00:51:04.020 that they have.
00:51:04.900 That's his complaint here.
00:51:06.640 So he spends the whole time mocking people who noticed this replacement for calling
00:51:12.760 them trolls, for praising the film, for being brave, for doing this.
00:51:17.200 And then what does he do?
00:51:18.760 He complains about it doing this with any other race.
00:51:23.000 If any other race is impersonated, if any other race is swapped out, that's a problem.
00:51:29.000 That's a violation.
00:51:30.340 That's cringy.
00:51:32.900 But he spends the whole time praising when they do it with the main character who is white
00:51:38.240 in the original with red hair.
00:51:39.660 So again, it's very clear what the agenda here is.
00:51:42.620 He has got no problem with making sure that these people are of the original ethnicity that 0.62
00:51:49.980 he thinks is supposed to be ascribed to them.
00:51:51.380 Even if they're playing a crab or a seagull, he pushes for that.
00:51:57.200 It's only people who noticed the thing that the movie specifically set out to swap so that
00:52:02.680 there would be a controversy.
00:52:04.560 Those are the bad people.
00:52:05.680 Those are the people who are a problem, right?
00:52:10.280 Watching it, you realize why the rest of the movie plays it so safe, because the fun is
00:52:15.220 in some risky business.
00:52:18.360 Because fun is some risky business.
00:52:20.160 This is a witty, complex, exuberant, deeply American number that is also movie's one moment
00:52:26.300 of unbridled, unbashed delight.
00:52:27.740 But you're also complaining about it, right?
00:52:29.360 And then he says, but they'll end up apologizing it for 34 years.
00:52:34.200 So is this a good thing?
00:52:35.700 Is this a bad thing?
00:52:36.700 He doesn't know, right?
00:52:37.740 It's entirely dependent, I guess, on the races being swapped out.
00:52:43.840 That said, all right, guys.
00:52:45.580 So we're going to go ahead and grab the questions of the people here in just a minute.
00:52:52.340 But I hope that, you know, just kind of breaking that down.
00:52:54.700 Like I said, he only mentioned the kink there at that one point.
00:52:57.840 And then, you know, a little later on when he's talking about salacious nature of kind
00:53:01.880 of other entertainment.
00:53:03.220 But I think it was more included because it kind of automatically fell into this pattern
00:53:09.980 of intersectionality, this constellation of woke causes.
00:53:14.900 And so even though it wasn't the primary thing in there, it got incorporated into this grab
00:53:20.740 bag of things that, for him, tended to focus around racial identity and the importance of
00:53:26.460 him that these things get made, that these racial redresses exist, that no nine-year-old
00:53:34.100 ever sees the original Little Mermaid, and that this is kind of what is set going forward,
00:53:39.400 that all these movies have been updated with the right diversity quotient and the right
00:53:44.080 woke palatability.
00:53:46.700 And of course, if they aren't sufficiently woke, if they aren't radically racial, as he
00:53:50.460 desires in his piece, then he has a problem with them.
00:53:55.640 But they're still good, because at least they tried to kind of replace what was once there.
00:54:00.520 All right, guys.
00:54:01.020 So let's go to your super chats real quick.
00:54:03.400 We've got a few of them here.
00:54:04.380 Uh, Formus, uh, Formus Sol, I hope I said that correctly, my bad if I didn't, for $5.
00:54:13.020 I wonder if this is a form of anchoring, as you've talked about, by inserting the egregious
00:54:17.400 kink commentary they distract from the blackwashing. 0.93
00:54:20.980 Um, that's a, that's a good point.
00:54:22.780 Um, I could see that in, uh, why that would get done, why that would be a tactic.
00:54:29.620 I really do think in this case, it's probably more of the writer thinking that this was something
00:54:37.120 that was automatically included.
00:54:39.240 Like I said, I think it would be something that occurs to him as just, of course, if you're
00:54:43.860 going to be putting in all of this diversity, then of course you also include like gender
00:54:49.020 ideology.
00:54:49.540 Of course, you also force kink into the movie. 0.99
00:54:51.760 Like, of course you do all that stuff.
00:54:52.860 Cause as he noted, it's for nine-year-olds, right?
00:54:55.020 And why wouldn't he put that in a movie for nine-year-olds?
00:54:57.560 Um, so I, I think I could see that as a tactic.
00:55:01.340 I see what you're saying.
00:55:02.420 Um, a lot of times I think that I would say that's a good, um, that's a good spot there.
00:55:07.060 But I do think in this particular case, it is more of a, uh, sequence of just him putting
00:55:12.820 this constellation of things together that he thinks, uh, kind of all falls under this
00:55:18.020 progressive morality, this wokeness.
00:55:20.680 Uh, and he doesn't really see how kink would be indistinguishable from the racial replacement
00:55:26.140 of characters in order to meet some kind of diversity quotient, right?
00:55:29.120 I think he kind of, uh, binds those two things together, uh, pretty naturally for him.
00:55:34.640 Um, let's see.
00:55:36.440 Cooper Weirder for $5.
00:55:37.860 Uh, that's what Hans Christian Anderson forgot bondage and high impact violence.
00:55:42.220 Yeah.
00:55:42.700 Right.
00:55:42.960 If only the, those more wholesome, uh, fairy tales had, uh, had worked in, uh, the, those
00:55:48.360 modern standards, uh, for children.
00:55:50.280 Uh, they really, they really, it's very clear what the left wants children to, yeah, they
00:55:55.220 have to get that stuff involved.
00:55:56.700 Yeah.
00:55:56.960 That's, that's funny.
00:55:57.900 That's a good, yeah.
00:55:58.800 Good call out there.
00:56:00.100 Um, Queens white man, uh, plays, uh, yeah, yeah, no, it's, you know, interesting that they
00:56:08.800 didn't swap that out.
00:56:09.700 Didn't they?
00:56:10.000 I think they did that recently with, um, like a Cinderella remake that they did.
00:56:14.500 They did like a live action Cinderella remake and they brought in a black comedian as the
00:56:19.560 fairy godmother.
00:56:20.520 Right.
00:56:20.880 So they, so they, it's like a trans, uh, so it's not only a trans racial, it's like, uh,
00:56:26.140 you know, a trans trans, uh, like fairy godmother, uh, was the newest thing.
00:56:31.040 So again, no one should be surprised.
00:56:32.480 This is what Disney movies are going to be going forward.
00:56:35.500 Uh, you, you just shouldn't be surprised, uh, with this at all.
00:56:39.640 Um, Adam E for $5 instead of King.
00:56:44.580 Trident, uh, Trident riding in a seahorse drawn chariot.
00:56:47.740 Uh, they should swap it out with a Toyota Corolla and see if anyone minds the shameless, 0.99
00:56:51.840 uh, car shell.
00:56:53.340 Yeah.
00:56:53.760 Right.
00:56:54.060 So again, that's a good point going back to, to what I was saying about, uh, bringing in
00:56:58.800 those different elements, uh, fantasy, you know, you know, people say, Oh, well, why
00:57:02.620 would you notice this?
00:57:03.380 It's already suspension of belief.
00:57:05.080 It's, it's already ridiculous.
00:57:06.660 You're already under the sea, uh, with, with, uh, you know, mermaids swimming around and,
00:57:11.580 and fantastic, uh, you know, stuff like this.
00:57:14.500 Why would you notice this?
00:57:15.780 Well, you would notice if a Toyota Corolla was pulling the chariot, right?
00:57:19.900 That would be egregious.
00:57:21.900 Right.
00:57:22.380 And it's no less ridiculous.
00:57:24.780 It's still fantasy.
00:57:26.460 It's still something that would never happen, but the fantasy world still has a continuity
00:57:30.860 to it.
00:57:31.380 It still has, you know, why do seahorses pull this chariot?
00:57:34.900 Well, because seahorses exist under the sea and in real life and real human life, chariots
00:57:40.380 are pulled by horses.
00:57:41.260 Obviously seahorses are too small for this. 0.71
00:57:43.180 This isn't a real thing.
00:57:44.060 It's still very fantasy ask, but there's a, there's this internal logic to it that connects
00:57:49.360 it to our world, but still makes it its own thing.
00:57:52.520 Right.
00:57:52.820 And this is why people enjoy fantasy.
00:57:54.840 So yeah, if you're, if you're, if you're just throwing all the rules out the window,
00:57:58.520 oh, okay.
00:57:59.260 We just insert things in and you shouldn't notice it because it's a fantasy thing.
00:58:02.580 Well, yeah.
00:58:02.880 Why not just drop a Toyota Corolla in the middle of it?
00:58:05.000 That makes perfect sense.
00:58:06.280 Uh, why not just do that?
00:58:07.540 That has the same level of kind of narrative continuity as anything else in there.
00:58:12.240 All right, guys.
00:58:12.980 So we're going to go ahead and wrap this up real quick.
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