Lmfao Little Mermaid flopped in Asia and Reddit is wondering "why racism"

eh

Didn't Mulan also flopped really bad in East Asia?

Aladdin did well bc princess Jasmin actress is beautiful and her custom designs were also top notch despite not being so accurate.

They were more Indian inspired than Arab.

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Despite having a good 100mln opening in US, it flopped all across Asia. And by that I mean flop flop, literally pennies.

For comparison Aladdin did 1 billion worldwide and around 250 million of it came from China, Japan and Korea alone.

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Aladdin did fantastic thanks to Naomi Scott in China. And Naomi Scott only. Speechless was a massive hit and turned people's minds around. The rest of the movie was kind of mismatched to the original vibe and while cnetz/knetz were okay with Will Scott he's no Robin Williams. Also one thing - Aladdin is a Disney Classic, which means it did far better in the BO originally than movies like TLM, who actually didn't gross as much in comparison overseas. TLM is going to do far better in America than originally expected, which is a tradeoff the investors were likely okay with.

East Asian cultures are open about their colorism and will just outright say to each other that it's a shame the protagonist is darker skinned. Once again it comes to Lookism. The appeal to them of Western culture is WHITENESS, so if they don't see it they will be disappointed or sometimes even angry, especially the Chinese netizens, as they are more brazen with it.

Disney just keeps getting L's left and right.

They spend so much money in all those projects that people just don't care about it.

this is not racism it about faithful to the original adaptation
because we( they) want an aesthetical pleasing disney princess
or at least closer to the original Ariel 90s Little Mermaid

and that good it flop all over asia
Hollywood push too much other agenda making a movie
they better make a new disney princess or make an exact copy of them if they like to remake

also look at the

sailor moon

rouroni kenshin

gintama
ranma

prison school
death note
Kakegurui
and other japanese live action

the fans worried about the likeness to the anime
but thankfully it close to the original adaptation
and some of them exceed the anime

like Kakeguri and 1st three movie of Death Note

then compared to the

cowboy bepop netflix
the dragon ball evolution

doa live action - from video game dead or alive

it flop because it not look alike ..

the west is not faithful to the original

that why they flop

I wonder what they're gonna do once they've remade everything... Start the next round of remakes? And they aren't even particularly good remakes at that. They're neither faithful to the source material nor do they add anything new or interesting to those well known stories.

I was also far from impressed by the trailer. I saw it in 3d when I went to watch Guardians of the Galaxy and all the characters looked like a bunch of floating cardboard cutouts.

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I wonder what they're gonna do once they've remade everything... Start the next round of remakes? And they aren't even particularly good remakes at that. They're neither faithful to the source material nor do they add anything new or interesting to those well known stories.

I was also far from impressed by the trailer. I saw it in 3d when I went to watch Guardians of the Galaxy and all the characters looked like a bunch of floating cardboard cutouts.

Hollywood makes a new Cinderella movie every other year

I dont understand how it is still profitable

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It is not that remakes and sequels are necessarily bad, it is just that they are making stupid changes to update them to "modern audiences". Like for example with this particular film from what I am hearing they removed all the agency from prince Eric, he is unimportant in this.

They are also about to drop a new Indiana Johns movies where a younger female counterpart is better than him in every way and lectures him about stealing from indegenous people. Like who's gonna want to watch a movie where your favorite hero is being brought down constantly.

Sounds suspiciously like the Star Wars sequels.

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East Asian cultures are open about their colorism and will just outright say to each other that it's a shame the protagonist is darker skinned. Once again it comes to Lookism. The appeal to them of Western culture is WHITENESS, so if they don't see it they will be disappointed or sometimes even angry, especially the Chinese netizens, as they are more brazen with it.

To an extent - Black Panther did fantastic abroad.

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To an extent - Black Panther did fantastic abroad.

The expectation was a white produced IP with black protagonists, which is what they got. Very different from their idea of the mermaid as a white young girl. And Black men tend to be more accepted in East Asian media than black women in general, like Hyunmin, Sam Okyere, Jonathan, Jerry in Korea, but fewer recognizable black women.

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To an extent - Black Panther did fantastic abroad.

its bc they were never white to begin with who korea,china and japan are obsessed with

it did good well where its should bc asia recieve little to not knowledge to begin with