I genuinely believe that the only thing that saved the Lion King from being just as racist if not more, is that there were no humans for them to make “jokes” about. And there were only a few humans in the Jungle Book, so same boat. Also they didn’t try to “”“adapt”“” a real folktale or other cultural thing from over there.
I mean, they still used mostly white voice actors for a story set in Africa and India respectively. Animal characters or not, don’t ya think there’s a problem with that?
I absolutely do. They made a big deal about casting all the voice actors for the remake of the lion King as black actors which was a rare bit of consideration by Disney but it felt performative (to me at least) and too little too late but as a filthy anglo I’m always hesitant to shout my takes too loudly regarding the above considering its not my culture that is getting fucked about.
Like the Raya example, I listened to a podcast by East and South East Asian Internet peeps regarding how it handled their culture before shitting on Disney because frankly what do I fucking know.
I genuinely believe that the only thing that saved the Lion King from being just as racist if not more, is that there were no humans for them to make “jokes” about. And there were only a few humans in the Jungle Book, so same boat. Also they didn’t try to “”“adapt”“” a real folktale or other cultural thing from over there.
I mean, they still used mostly white voice actors for a story set in Africa and India respectively. Animal characters or not, don’t ya think there’s a problem with that?
I absolutely do. They made a big deal about casting all the voice actors for the remake of the lion King as black actors which was a rare bit of consideration by Disney but it felt performative (to me at least) and too little too late but as a filthy anglo I’m always hesitant to shout my takes too loudly regarding the above considering its not my culture that is getting fucked about.
Like the Raya example, I listened to a podcast by East and South East Asian Internet peeps regarding how it handled their culture before shitting on Disney because frankly what do I fucking know.