Live-Action The Little Mermaid Movie 2023

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  1. Lil Mike

    Lil Mike Well-Known Member

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    OK here me out, a movie version only Drizzt is silver haired and white...and anyone who complains is a racist.
     
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  2. Lil Mike

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    Based on your comment, I must conclude that you fully support Hollywood casting white actors for non white roles, race doesn't matter after all, would that be correct?
     
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    . . . because it was one of the sources Tolkien used . . . did you think he invented elves? He was drawing on Germanic folklore, the chief written sources of which are the Eddas.

    First of all, even the name "Middle Earth" comes from Midgard . . . mentioned at length in the Eddas. Midgard literally stood for earth, not just Europe. Do I need to explain Yggdrasil and the nine realms? Tolkien definitely wouldn't have needed an intro. I'll ask you now what I asked you then: when did Tolkien claim that ALL of his elves were white? Also, quick history lesson for you: there were plenty of non-white people in Europe in the Middle Ages.

    I most certainly did not. I'll ask you now what I asked you then: when did Tolkien claim that ALL of his elves were white?

    Lol, buddy, if you think I was the one who brought up elves, you haven't read the thread (not a big surprise). I RESPONDED to statements about elves.

    Pot/kettle hilarity.
     
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  4. Lil Mike

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    Again, if the topic isn't Tolkien, what black elves are you talking about that you are supporting? And have I complained about black elves in any non Tolkien works?
     
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    I wasn't the one who brought up Tolkien, and I've already told you what black elves I'm talking about. And to remind you of the question that you keep running away and hiding from: when did Tolkien say that all of his elves were white?
     
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    Honestly, it’s fun to watch grown ass white men lose their **** because a character created as a love letter to a man Anderson was crushing on is now being played by an adorable black actress.
     
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  7. Lil Mike

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    To quote myself from the thread you bailed out of, I said that every elf Tolkien described was described as "fair." Now if you have some Tolkien knowledge that tops that, please show it, but since you ran away the last time I asked that, I'm not expecting an actual response.
     
  8. Daniel Light

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    No dude - sailors on trading vessels from many countries were mixed race. Ships of the line - no. But trading vessels, the kind that traveled seas all over the world, had sailors from nearly every Mediterranean country, including North Africa, on board.
     
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    Eol - The Dark Elf - now that could be a description of many things, but it does not exclude skin color.

    By the way - I just got to say - that grown assed men arguing about the skin colors of actors in a completely fictional movie is the hight of absurdity.
     
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    Oh yeah it was a multicultural paradise with experienced sailors of Africa leading the way.
     
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    LoL so taking a movie where the character is white and turning it black is ok.

    Taking a white character that leftists turned black and then turning it white again is not ok.

    Can't make this **** up.
     
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    The only thing I complain about is the hypocrisy and stupidity of leftists.

    What else do your feelings tell you about my post? Maybe I can help.
     
  13. Daniel Light

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    Moronic response since I didn't claim that.
     
  14. Daniel Light

    Daniel Light Well-Known Member

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    You're complaining because Trump has turned the right wing into the giant Band of Karens.

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    lol yes you did. You probably looked to the east wistfully as you typed it and turned the fan on to blow your cape in the wind.

    Oh no a bad meme. Congrats.
     
  16. Daniel Light

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    So when you read Moby Dick, do you envision ALL the characters as white? Are you still going to argue that sailors were all white? Give it up, dude.
     
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    You are only in this thread to complain about fictional characters that 50 yrs ago were portrayed as white, are no longer being portrayed as white.
    But if you want to claim you're a leftist, so be it.
     
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    You've mistaken me laughing at people like you for "complaining" I think.

    I mean you're welcome to keep projecting your feelings on me if it helps you though. Go ahead. Get it all out.
     
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    LoL. I don't even think about race reading it, unless it's in context somehow.

    When you read Moby Dick I'm sure there are racial quotas and you have an investigative graph for each character on your wall.
     
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    Dude - the characters in Moby Dick are described in detail. There is quite the jumbled mass of cultures.
     
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    If only I had mentioned it being in context. Oh well.

    What does the Chart o' Racial Equality reveal about the ship out of Nantucket in 1819?

    Are you saying they weren't racists back then? Surely that can't be right.
     
  22. Daniel Light

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    Just give up, due - you tried to claim that all sailors were white and yet you know nothing of history when it comes to the trading vessels of the last 500 years.
    Too bad MAGA want's to burn all the history books, you could use one about now.
     
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    Yeah except I never said all sailors were white.

    That's just something you made up in your own mind then decided to get mad about your own thoughts, as leftists are known to do.

    But sure, we're the history revisionists. lol.
     
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    To be clear. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a fictional character, who can be played by anyone on the planet.

    Carry on with your fear of white people being out of acting Jobs.
     
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    ~ I do hope the non-binary version is coming soon ... :aww:
     
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