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?
00:00:39.800A ridiculous article came out here a few days ago from the New York Times.
00:00:45.240It's a review of the new Little Mermaid movie.
00:00:47.880Now, I'm sure a lot of you guys are familiar with the fact that Disney has been remaking a lot of its classic properties.
00:00:53.500We're really at the end of that civilizational cycle.
00:00:56.280We're really at the end of that cultural death knell.
00:00:59.500People don't know how to come up with these things anymore.
00:01:02.020I mean, the funny thing about Disney movies is that they were generally drawn from these properties that were kind of common culture, right?
00:01:10.540Things that didn't have a copyright on them, didn't have intellectual property on them.
00:01:14.660They 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.
00:01:25.000All of this stuff was kind of in the public domain.
00:01:28.880And 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.
00:01:37.380But now, of course, all this creativity is gone.
00:01:40.320They can't even find kind of these common shared folk stories anymore.
00:01:44.420Or 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.
00:01:53.760And 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.
00:02:03.600But 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,
00:02:09.780Okay, 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.
00:02:28.760And we'll just kind of repackage this stuff, sell it to kids again and make money.
00:02:33.080But 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.
00:02:39.780They've been inserting diversity into them, they've been inserting LGBTQ politics into them, all this kind of stuff.
00:02:46.920And they've had some pretty mixed receptions.
00:02:49.280At the beginning of this remake stuff, some of them did pretty well.
00:02:52.140But it's kind of clear that even this remake train is starting to kind of wear off for Disney and its studios.
00:02:59.240But today we're specifically talking about the Little Mermaid remake for a couple reasons.
00:03:04.720And the big one here is, of course, this review.
00:03:07.680Our main focus here is not going to just be on the movie itself, but on the attitude of the reviewer.
00:03:13.220The 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.
00:03:23.320And yeah, I'm not joking about that, that they were lamenting the fact that there was no kink in this children's movie.
00:03:30.080Now, 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.
00:03:42.000But 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.
00:03:52.560And we're going to dive into all that here in a second.
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00:05:42.040I'm going to be focusing on kind of the woke language.
00:05:44.700The 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.
00:05:52.560And 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.
00:06:04.700And that's why he expects many things in here, including kink.
00:06:08.400So let's go ahead and look at why those things are tied together.
00:06:12.700So the title here, you know, the Disney's Little Mermaid review, the renovations are only skin deep.
00:06:20.200Disney's live action remake with, I guess, Hall Bailey is the right way to say that.
00:06:32.020You know, Little Mermaid is highly known for its songs.
00:06:34.160I don't know about you guys, but I'm old enough to have been around when this movie came out.
00:06:38.980I 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.
00:06:52.160So unfortunately, as with many big brothers at this time, I am very familiar with Little Mermaid, whether I want it to be or not.
00:07:00.700But this is something that obviously has a lot of singing involved.
00:07:05.020So I guess that's probably why this actress was selected.
00:07:10.600But she stars as Ariel in a diverse cast.
00:07:12.820It's a dutifully corrective with the noble intentions and little fun.
00:07:17.080So right off the bat, we can see he's not.
00:07:19.520Oh, and the guy here is Wesley Morris.
00:07:21.200We should should note that the reviewer's name here is Wesley Morris.
00:07:23.920So right off the bat, it's clear that Wesley is not a fan of this movie, which is interesting.
00:07:28.240I 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.
00:07:36.420I don't know how many audiences have actually seen the movie at this point, so that might be artificial.
00:07:41.060I 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.
00:07:52.240I think it'll be obvious why he thinks it didn't go far enough.
00:07:55.240So you can tell right from the beginning, he says this needs to be dutifully corrective.
00:07:59.840So the purpose of the movie movie right out of the gate is to correct something.
00:08:05.680Well, I think it's pretty obvious that they swapped out the white character for a black character.
00:08:11.080And there's a lot of controversy from this, right?
00:08:13.540Ariel is kind of an iconic Disney character.
00:08:16.720She's known for pale white skin and red hair.
00:08:19.280Those are traits that are pretty tightly tied to the identity of the character.
00:08:26.880And so when this kind of swap came in, a lot of people were shocked.
00:08:31.560A 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.
00:09:49.300And so they create the movies like this on purpose.
00:09:52.860They'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.
00:10:02.440Well, at least we did something politically worthwhile.
00:15:48.380I haven't seen that one yet, but I've heard good things.
00:15:51.040The 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.
00:16:04.640You didn't have, you know, Mario's trans friend explaining why he needs to understand pronouns.
00:16:10.500It's just a movie that kids can enjoy.
00:16:13.860It doesn't even have to be good anymore.
00:16:15.360People are so tired of wokeness that they'll take a mildly entertaining, vapid movie that just doesn't shove this stuff down their throats.
00:16:25.180We should be able to ask for more, but again, it's a kid's movie.
00:17:25.260You can't make fun children's products this way.
00:17:27.800You can't make fun children's entertainment this way.
00:17:30.820From the very beginning, it's as serious and sober as a Sunday morning sermon.
00:17:36.180Except, of course, the religion it's delivering is not Christianity.
00:17:40.160It'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.
00:17:52.140It's simply, you know, how to be a good progressive soldier.
00:17:56.200This is just progressive soldier indoctrination.
00:17:59.300And 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.
00:18:12.380The story comes from the Hans Christian Andersen tale.
00:18:18.320Obviously, like I said, so many of these movies were built after these folk tales or these fairy stories.
00:18:23.700And 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.
00:18:39.700So, 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.
00:18:48.440Instead, walking on those feet that she ends up getting are like shards of glass.
00:18:53.660If I remember, it's been a long time since I've listened to the original Little Mermaid.
00:18:57.700But if I remember correctly, it's like she's walking on shards of glass the whole time.
00:19:29.880But, you know, the Disney completely reworked it.
00:19:33.660So 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.
00:19:42.680You know, like we said that, you know, these stories used to come with some kind of moral to them.
00:19:49.100They used to come with some kind of instruction with them.
00:19:53.060Disney kind of hollowed that out and just made it very generic.
00:19:55.960But obviously, it was at least very entertaining.
00:19:58.320Again, you know, my little sister singing those songs endlessly, you know, as a child, it's very catchy.
00:20:04.940And it's something that did stick with children.
00:20:07.980So 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.
00:20:19.120Then it just kind of gives you some background on the story.
00:20:22.280You guys have probably seen The Little Mermaid at this point of, you know, spoilers on a 30 year old movie.
00:20:27.080If 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.
00:20:36.340He hits on the fact that originally she kind of had this red hair, but obviously, you know, can't have it here.
00:21:09.140That's a whole plot point of the movie.
00:21:10.720And so the expressiveness of the animation kind of takes over for for the actress.
00:21:17.720Her personality can't be can't be conveyed through the the speaking, though.
00:21:24.200Again, he talks about the voiceless woman and how politically incorrect that is now.
00:21:29.760But 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.
00:21:44.940But 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.
00:21:52.580And 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.
00:22:02.520And 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.
00:22:10.140So credit where it's due to to Wesley there.
00:22:12.780I think that's probably a good point, though.
00:22:20.020But the point being, you know, they probably a valid point there.
00:22:23.760But here we get back into kind of the social politics here.
00:22:26.960This is kind of where we want to jump back in what we were talking about today.
00:22:32.580So Bailey is black with long copper hair that twists waves and locks racially.
00:22:38.900The whole movie's been, what, opened up, diversified.
00:22:42.620Now 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.
00:22:53.120Instead of the Broadway corns of the original, her mermaid siblings are a multi-ethnic, runway-ready general assembly.
00:23:02.020So already here we can kind of see that, we can already see that he's noting that this is a little disassociative, right?
00:23:11.200Like this is, so he sees this as a good thing, I guess, that they've changed this.
00:23:17.120That now Ariel's sisters are a multi-ethnic pack of different women and that the father is Spanish and she is black.
00:23:26.800And I guess this is supposed to be an advancement, he'll kind of praise it later on.
00:23:32.240But of course, this is just the kind of thing that takes people out of this stuff.
00:23:37.880It doesn't make sense for a guy to have, you know, I guess unless you're maybe Genghis Khan working your way across Asia.
00:23:44.820It doesn't make sense for this guy to have that many different races among his daughters.
00:23:50.540And when you like artificially insert all these different races in there, it just breaks it.
00:23:55.800Now I get it, like, right, they're under the sea.
00:23:57.800She's got the, she's got a fin for feet, right?
00:23:59.880This is where your reality breaks down.
00:24:02.840Well, no, but this is the point, you know, that this is always brought up.
00:24:06.700Like the reason that fantasy works, the reason that fantasy means something is that it has some tropes that are different.
00:24:14.640It is set in a world that is different, but that certain parts of human nature, certain parts of human organizations stay the same.
00:24:22.480And because those things are universal, we can then relate to mermaids under the sea, right?
00:24:27.820Like you don't have anything in common with someone who breathes water and lives in a sea kingdom.
00:24:33.380But 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.
00:24:43.100You can still understand what's happening, whether it's here or in the Lord of the Rings or in space.
00:24:49.340Like 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.
00:24:57.800I 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?
00:25:07.620Like that ability to understand those things is based on kind of certain aspects of human nature that continue in all these situations.
00:25:17.260And one of those is just family and the fact that families generally kind of look the same.
00:25:23.120You know, the old, I can see, oh, I can see the face of your baby.
00:25:26.520You know, I can see, you know, your baby has your chin and her eyes and it's got your grandpa's, you know, eyebrows.
00:25:34.200And 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.
00:25:44.680And 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?
00:25:57.920It takes everybody out of the story and it starts to make things really un, you're not able to empathize with them.
00:26:04.900You'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.
00:26:21.600Now you can see here, there's a little highlight box.
00:26:24.240And 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.
00:26:33.120So again, you can see that this is, they already have the controversy seeded into the article.
00:26:39.020Ooh, click here to read more about the controversy after you read the review.
00:27:01.000The Prince Eric is white English and now seems to have a more plot than Ariel.
00:27:07.580Again, that's probably because he's allowed to talk, right?
00:27:11.140So that's, again, probably a good observation from the reviewer at the beginning here.
00:27:14.820He'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,
00:27:23.780which is probably something that Disney should have thought of when they tried to remake these movies,
00:27:27.280especially since literally they're the company who animated them.
00:27:30.380You 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,
00:27:37.420that 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.
00:27:46.380But, of course, they didn't because it's all about just getting the politics in there.
00:27:51.140It's all about just getting the movie remade.
00:27:53.520It's all about making everything live action.
00:27:55.480It doesn't matter how it actually transfers on the film or actually transfers onto the screen.
00:28:00.560That's all just kind of secondary because they can't come up with anything new.
00:28:03.720And so this is really all they've got.
00:28:05.380More includes meals with her mother, with his mother, Queen Selina, who is black.
00:28:13.100So the white English prince has a black mother.
00:28:32.260Not really, except it was meant to be noticed.
00:28:34.400Not only is it meant to be noticed, the reviewer who is pro this movie or at least pro the idea of this movie.
00:28:41.600He supports all the politics and motivations behind the movie.
00:28:44.440He doesn't like the result because it's low quality, though.
00:28:47.900Again, 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.
00:28:57.700He has a hard time connecting, you know, those things.
00:29:01.240But but he is behind all of these things and he notices them.
00:29:07.200So it's not, you know, but again, this is the framing.
00:29:09.240It's meant it's meant to be there for people to get offended.
00:29:11.920And it's meant to be there for people to react to it.
00:29:16.300That that's and the review itself is aware of this from the very beginning.
00:29:20.000All of this is really tiresome, really, really staged from from the outset.
00:29:25.640And 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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00:30:50.520The dry land was entertainment wise a lot drier, but that was all right with Ariel.
00:30:55.680This 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.
00:31:03.140So, again, any any white people in the story are a problem.
00:31:21.600That that is that is not sufficiently woke.
00:31:24.640It'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.
00:31:38.080And get married to a white prince that that's a problem.
00:31:42.480So so again, the fact that like one character in the movie who of significance is white basically is already a problem.
00:32:09.780And that's kind of his continued problem with the movie.
00:32:14.000So what really opened up here for years now?
00:32:16.320Disney has been atoning for the racism and chauvinism and de facto whiteness of its expanded catalog.
00:32:22.600So once again, we see that whiteness is in and of itself a problem.
00:32:27.720The country was a majority white when, you know, he was this movie was made.
00:32:33.820It still is, though, though, that is shifting.
00:32:38.160But 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.
00:33:48.140That's they weren't the they weren't the default.
00:33:51.160And 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.
00:34:03.920So 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.
00:34:34.720They're not there for a child's amusement.
00:34:37.420They 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
00:34:48.100and kind of other background of these folk tales that often get turned into Disney movies.
00:35:37.900It's an important project, culturally reparative work from a corporation that lately has more steadily inched humanity away from the bottom line priorities.
00:35:49.480So 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.
00:35:58.660And you'll see right here he gets into DeSantis in Florida.
00:36:01.880Consequently, it has found itself at war with a governor of Florida where Disney lives.
00:36:06.180So 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.
00:36:16.900But of course, that's not true at all.
00:36:18.560We're still pretending that this stuff is rebellious.
00:36:21.260We're still pretending that this stuff is fighting against the mainstream.
00:36:23.940We'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.
00:36:33.880But of course, that's not true at all.
00:37:29.660Hopefully, we're seeing some of that change now.
00:37:31.720But up until this point, very recently, that was not the case.
00:37:35.000And 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.
00:37:48.520They do this because of the bottom line.
00:37:50.480They do this because they think it's going to make them more money, because they think it's going to make them more acceptability.
00:37:55.480They 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.
00:38:08.920That's why they create these movies in the first place.
00:38:11.900It's all a cold, cynical, calculated marketing decision at some level, though they are also true believers.
00:38:18.760So don't let me confuse you in thinking that this is just about the money.
00:38:22.300But 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.
00:38:30.980For 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.
00:38:44.240There's something timid and reactive about this.
00:38:46.120So he's noticing a pattern here, which is kind of funny.
00:38:49.680When 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.
00:39:12.600But 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.
00:39:24.000And it does not reflect that because it is artificial through and through.
00:39:29.000So 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.
00:39:45.860And 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.
00:39:55.040I mean, how many, you know, it's been a while since I mean Moana, but what was every Hawaiian or Polynesian?
00:40:02.280I'm trying to remember the exact culture there.
00:40:04.000The Pacific Islander family was every one of them.
00:40:06.880Did every one of them have 12 different ethnicities in their family?
00:40:14.200And 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.
00:40:38.100So 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.
00:40:48.000So, yeah, that's the whole thing, right?
00:40:51.600Is 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.
00:41:00.860And it simply tries to make it the leftist version of utopia.
00:41:20.760Why was there a problem with the original Little Mermaid?
00:41:23.860Why was that a problem at all, that there were white characters in that?
00:41:27.960I 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.
00:41:46.960Why don't you just make these movies that are specifically already put into other cultures and populate them with the characters that you want?
00:41:56.860It's not utopic unless you can go back and replace characters with a new diverse cast.
00:42:04.260Now, 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.
00:42:15.080Interesting that we're, again, injecting that here.
00:42:28.240She did like Grey's Anatomy and a lot of that stuff that's very popular on TV.
00:42:32.980But 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.
00:42:47.820So, 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.
00:42:56.180Very kind of out of context, historical context insertions of this.
00:43:02.220So 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.
00:43:13.340But it but you have to swap in these characters because that's not allowed anymore.
00:43:18.140And 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.
00:43:29.600The colorization hasn't led to radicalized, racialized adventure.
00:43:35.180OK, so you were looking for a radicalized, racialized adventure again in the children's movie.
00:43:43.340That's what the children's movie has to be in order for it to be of quality.
00:43:48.160It'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.
00:43:55.000But it needs to be radicalized and racialized.
00:43:58.860That's the that's what movies need to be for children to consume them.
00:44:03.760Again, I think the agenda is pretty clear.
00:44:05.740It's not not particularly, you know, coy about about the desire.
00:44:11.020And this is probably why kink got slipped in there.
00:44:20.140Why wouldn't you just list that as another radicalization, even though it has no place in a kids movie?
00:44:25.060But then neither does radicalized racialization.
00:44:27.880But that's exactly what he's demanding.
00:44:29.260It's not a black adaptation, an interpretation that imbues white material with black culture until it's something completely new.
00:44:37.820So, again, it's really important to, in his own words, imbue what was white material with black adaptation until it's something entirely different.
00:44:50.880But, OK, that's that's kind of telling, isn't it?
00:45:11.700Even 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.
00:46:13.480Obviously, you're explicitly saying that wokeness made this movie worse.
00:46:17.420You're saying that throughout the review.
00:46:19.600But you just agree with it because it's your political legend.
00:46:21.960You're admitting throughout the entire piece that the action action of making this movie woke was no good.
00:46:30.580But 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.
00:46:38.580It's still a success because it it angered the trolls, which was its purpose in the first place.
00:46:44.000The 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.
00:46:56.640Sorry, because it does still feel dangerous to have her cast.
00:47:02.800Sadly, the haters don't have much to worry about.
00:47:05.320So, yeah, again, like she's cast here simply because they want to push an agenda.
00:47:09.640It's acknowledged by him from the beginning.
00:47:13.040And he simply says, well, that's fine.
00:47:14.920You know, that's that's what we should be doing.
00:47:17.340And so it's not an issue or it's supposed to be an issue.
00:47:21.160And that's why we did it in the first place.
00:47:50.140Like 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.
00:47:57.100And he says that exact thing here in the next sentence.
00:47:59.360But 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.
00:48:10.440So, again, like we need to re re-imagine kind of what nine year olds will absorb.
00:48:17.320We we need to set this frame early for kids.
00:48:21.660And so it's important that we remake all of these classic movies.
00:48:24.460Make 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.
00:48:33.180Instead, we have to completely remake all of them.
00:48:44.840So, 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.
00:48:59.060Again, 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.
00:49:08.520Oh, no, we're still all for the diversity.