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

  • 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.

    The female protagonist in Black Panther was the most popular character after the main character buddy....also TLM knew that China/Korea would not enjoy it mainly because the special effects are not up to Avatar's par and the animatronic characters have been changed.


    Korea only took to Aladdin because of Speechless and it became the biggest #1 hit. Beauty in the Beast underperformed in Korea, forget TLM. If anything China being unresponsive is the bigger loss because they had no hope for Korea, but China has far better movies going on right now so BO comparison is touch. Suzume absolutely washed kids markets recently.


    TLM will do great in America, decent in the Phillipines/SEA and not great everywhere else.

  • The female protagonist in Black Panther was the most popular character after the main character buddy....also TLM knew that China/Korea would not enjoy it mainly because the special effects are not up to Avatar's par and the animatronic characters have been changed.


    Korea only took to Aladdin because of Speechless and it became the biggest #1 hit. Beauty in the Beast underperformed in Korea, forget TLM. If anything China being unresponsive is the bigger loss because they had no hope for Korea, but China has far better movies going on right now so BO comparison is touch. Suzume absolutely washed kids markets recently.


    TLM will do great in America, decent in the Phillipines/SEA and not great everywhere else.

    That's the whole point, they were always meant to be black characters according to their eyes. While their notion for the little mermaid was in terms of the white aesthetics.

  • This is were diversity is done wrong. Changing a characters whole look, even though people got used to it, will be met with dislike.


    This is why I prefer them creating original stories representing minorities. This is why Aladdin, Vaiana and Encanto worked, but The Little Mermaid not so much.

  • I saw it yesterday and Halle was the best part of the movie, she really did captured all the essence of the original. The prince did a good job too in my opinion. The changes everyone is talking about don't really stand out (kiss the girl was a great version too IMO) but the one thing that really was underwhelming was under the sea, I know they tried but clearly they didn't have the budget to recreate that part in full. Overall I think it was a good adaptation but I still think Aladdin was the best of so far.

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