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| re: Disney admits to resorting to 'brownface' for live-action 'Aladdin' | |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 01:21 pm EST 01/10/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Disney admits to resorting to 'brownface' for live-action 'Aladdin' - HadriansMall 01:09 pm EST 01/10/18 | |
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| On my last trip to Disneyland, the "newsboys" who perform at Disney's California Adventure -- roughly modeled on the NEWSIES -- were basically a Benetton ad. They were singing live and dancing their asses off, and they were good. I think Orlando's global market might bring a more diverse audience than you expect. Either way, Disney KNOWS HOW TO DO THIS STUFF. From theme parks casting to Broadway casting to film casting, it's just ridiculous to see them tripping over their toes like this. I know that Disney is a massssssive multi-national conglomerate, so it might be unfair to imagine that some benevolent fairy godmother is overseeing all the global casting operations and guaranteeing diversity, but the optics make for such needless PR problems. Disney leads the way when it chooses to. I think we're right to call them out. - GMB |
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| re: Disney admits to resorting to 'brownface' for live-action 'Aladdin' | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 02:07 pm EST 01/10/18 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 02:07 pm EST 01/10/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Disney admits to resorting to 'brownface' for live-action 'Aladdin' - GrumpyMorningBoy 01:21 pm EST 01/10/18 | |
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| GrumpyMorningBoy is right. In 2018, the excuse that the talent doesn't exist just doesn't wash. To its credit, Disney has been pushing for more diversity, notably in its voice-casting of its animated movies. See ''Moana'' and its Asian Pacific Islander cast, which discovered Auli'i Cravalho, a Hawaiian teen who'll soon be in NBC's ''Rise.'' But it hasn't always been like this. The original ''Aladdin'' (1992) movie was largely all-white (tho' Lea Salonga sang for Jasmine). And Roger Ebert criticized what he saw as the film's use of ethnic stereotypes, writing: "Most of the Arab characters have exaggerated facial characteristics - hooked noses, glowering brows, thick lips - but Aladdin and the princess look like white American teenagers." |
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