16 Jul 2019, 1:16 am
PurpleReject wrote:
ASS-P wrote:
PurpleReject wrote:
So, did we all just...like, forget about that time Disney made a live-action adaptation of "Cinderella" in the '90s with Brandy and Whitney Houston? The one that was a huge ratings smash and earned seven Emmy nominations? Anybody...? Anybody...?
And who says race relations are worse now?
And who says race relations are worse now?
...That was a remake of the Rogers & Hammerstein Cinderella, which had had previous versions with Julie Andrews and Lesley Anne Warren, I believe. Was it made by Disney?
Yep, it was made for ABC's "The Wonderful World of Disney". I'm aware that the story of Cinderella has existed long before the Mouse; in that case, I could also name the 1978 movie 'Cindy', which was a modern-day re-telling of Cinderella with an all-black cast. Color-blind casting is nothing new.
...Wete you aware before of the Andrews and Warren versions? It's also been done as a stage musical, but I've never seen any production of it.
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16 Jul 2019, 1:55 am
ASS-P wrote:
PurpleReject wrote:
ASS-P wrote:
PurpleReject wrote:
So, did we all just...like, forget about that time Disney made a live-action adaptation of "Cinderella" in the '90s with Brandy and Whitney Houston? The one that was a huge ratings smash and earned seven Emmy nominations? Anybody...? Anybody...?
And who says race relations are worse now?
And who says race relations are worse now?
...That was a remake of the Rogers & Hammerstein Cinderella, which had had previous versions with Julie Andrews and Lesley Anne Warren, I believe. Was it made by Disney?
Yep, it was made for ABC's "The Wonderful World of Disney". I'm aware that the story of Cinderella has existed long before the Mouse; in that case, I could also name the 1978 movie 'Cindy', which was a modern-day re-telling of Cinderella with an all-black cast. Color-blind casting is nothing new.
...Wete you aware before of the Andrews and Warren versions? It's also been done as a stage musical, but I've never seen any production of it.
I was aware it was an adaptation of a musical - I see now the actual title was "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" - but I haven't seen any of the previous versions or the show itself.
I only remember watching the 1997 version when I was eight years old because it was a huge deal when it came out...and I vividly recall that was because Brandy was a big star and it was heavily promoted. I don't remember anyone making a point about race (kids don't usually think that way), I just remember the big divide being that it was a "girl thing".
The only point I was making is that Disney had already "remade" one of their most iconic properties - (even if it was technically an adaptation of the musical instead of the animated film, it was still 100% a Disney movie) - with a POC lead over 20 years ago, and to great success at that, so the people complaining over the new Ariel casting - and especially those whose complaints are centered around "today's PC culture" - are simply ridiculous.
16 Jul 2019, 2:57 am
KT67 wrote:
Also if they want to be PC and not annoy me all they need to do is hire more Romani actors in non-stereotypical roles. Or if it's 19th century, more Indian ones, even black African ones. But I don't think 19th century London was full of black people with Cockney accents.
As a history buff that's where I draw the line...Netflix series "Troy" was just not believable
16 Jul 2019, 5:24 am
PurpleReject wrote:
ASS-P wrote:
PurpleReject wrote:
ASS-P wrote:
PurpleReject wrote:
So, did we all just...like, forget about that time Disney made a live-action adaptation of "Cinderella" in the '90s with Brandy and Whitney Houston? The one that was a huge ratings smash and earned seven Emmy nominations? Anybody...? Anybody...?
And who says race relations are worse now?
And who says race relations are worse now?
...That was a remake of the Rogers & Hammerstein Cinderella, which had had previous versions with Julie Andrews and Lesley Anne Warren, I believe. Was it made by Disney?
Yep, it was made for ABC's "The Wonderful World of Disney". I'm aware that the story of Cinderella has existed long before the Mouse; in that case, I could also name the 1978 movie 'Cindy', which was a modern-day re-telling of Cinderella with an all-black cast. Color-blind casting is nothing new.
...Wete you aware before of the Andrews and Warren versions? It's also been done as a stage musical, but I've never seen any production of it.
I was aware it was an adaptation of a musical - I see now the actual title was "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" - but I haven't seen any of the previous versions or the show itself.
I only remember watching the 1997 version when I was eight years old because it was a huge deal when it came out...and I vividly recall that was because Brandy was a big star and it was heavily promoted. I don't remember anyone making a point about race (kids don't usually think that way), I just remember the big divide being that it was a "girl thing".
The only point I was making is that Disney had already "remade" one of their most iconic properties - (even if it was technically an adaptation of the musical instead of the animated film, it was still 100% a Disney movie) - with a POC lead over 20 years ago, and to great success at that, so the people complaining over the new Ariel casting
- and especially those whose complaints are centered around "today's PC culture" - are simply ridiculous....Disney has, traditionally, built itself on all these versions of 29th Century?? children's classics and because of the Disney brand and megs-reach people tend to think of them only as Disney properties even when there's other filmed versions that were successful, not obscurities - for instance, that R&H's Cinderella, which in it's Warren filmed version was shown frequently on TV when I was a kid and an adaptation of Peter Pan that, in a filming starting Mary Martin (Larry Hagman's mother) was also shown on TV when I was a kid - and I think this Peter Pan, which was a stage musical first, still gets produced - Cathy Rigby played in it for years, IIRC, though I guess she's aged out of it now.
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" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
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16 Jul 2019, 5:28 am
:...I meant ' 19th Century children's classics ", of course...Barring reincarnation, we'll never know but it's interesting to think what 29th Century children's classics would be 
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
