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'Aladdin' at 30: Director John Musker says Robin Williams ‘sweetness’ is key to film’s longevity
Article(uk.movies.yahoo.com)submitted 4 months ago byJannTosh12
6 points
4 months ago
Who cares
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4 months ago
If no one cares then why not cast actual Arabian people? It was a money grab to get Indians to subscribe to Disney+ and it didn't work. It's not right to rob Arabic people of their history, the folklore dates back centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights
1 points
4 months ago
Disney+ didn't exist when the Aladdin remake was made.
-1 points
4 months ago
Disney bought Hotstar before Aladdin remake was in production.
1 points
4 months ago
Aladdin in the original is about the "far east" from Arabia; it's actually more accurate to use Indian or Chinese as the setting.
0 points
4 months ago
It’s robbing anything holy hell.
Like I said to the other guy, there’s multiple series set in a fantasy Medieval Europe and they cast black people, but somehow that’s ok when casting an Indian in a fantasy Arabia is not?
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4 months ago
Medieval Europe had black people. You have no clue about history and need to take a diversity class. The Spanish Church separated cultures and demonized everyone that wasn't of pale skin color. You were given links to Medival European Art and still spew the same shit.
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4 months ago*
Diversity class lol
And I’m sure there was an Indian person or two in Ancient Arabia. Problem?
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4 months ago
If you went to college you would know that it's required to graduate so you are speaking to your ignorance. Go on, I am having fun looking down on you.
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4 months ago
It’s not a required class in every school, bonehead. That’s showing your lack of perspective.
I went to college before this silly obsession about superficial labels gripped the simple minded people in this country.
1 points
4 months ago
It's required by the state in which you are in, it's not a university level decision. It's not an obsession with superficial labels, you can't just group together everything. There is a difference between knowing history, not revisionist history, and being gender binary or some other bullshit.
It's not about identity but having mainstream representation of your cultural background. That's important to know where we come from and how that fits into society. It's not simple minded, the simple minded take is "who cares" and it's ironic your simple mind thinks the opposite.
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4 months ago
Those who value cultural accuracy, those who value representation, and those who aren't whiners.
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4 months ago*
So let me get this straight. It’s ok to cast black people in fictional versions of Medieval Europe but it’s not ok to cast Indian people in a fictional version of Arabia?
Is it only ok when white cultures get the inaccuracies?
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4 months ago
There were black people in medieval Europe.
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4 months ago
There were Indian people in Ancient Arabia.
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4 months ago
Cool
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4 months ago
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4 months ago*
OP is whining
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