 Disney has an amazing ability to constantly be trending on Twitter and Facebook and whatever other social media apps They want to be trending on and it's always for some stupid reason a reason that gets people talking Arguing debating amongst each other about why so-and-so was cast and how their skin doesn't match the character Or they changed the sex of the character and why are they doing this? Well, there's an old expression. There's an old adage All press is good press. Let's talk about it I don't know if you're aware of this or not But Disney for the most part is creatively bankrupt from the TV shows on Disney plus that are usually nothing more than spin-off series or sequels or prequels or sidequels or recalls or any sort of a qual I Have a qualm with it To the movies that are the same exact thing over and over again And we have the live-action stuff. That isn't really live-action for the most part. It's live-action. It's it's animated characters now Just 3d modeled 2d animations now turned into 3d experiences Beauty and the Beast the Lion King Jungle Book Every single Golden Age Disney movie has basically been done or will be done in a few years Aristocats yeah, that's coming The one person that's looking forward to that remake is going to be very excited Aristocats is right around the corner and another one that's right around the corner is Lilo and Stitch. I Don't know who is asking for this Lilo and Stitch is a great movie. It's a great 2d animated classic I don't know why I mean, I do know why Disney looks at this stuff They look at their properties and they say you know We can just redo all of our own shit and just double dip on the money And we already have scripts so we don't have to really pay anyone We can get a script doctor to kind of tweak stuff Modernize it a little bit change some of the lyrics to songs that don't quite fit today's standards And the one thing we have to do that's paramount is Do some sort of a gender swap or a race swap? Pretty much every time because that's free marketing now. This is something I don't like to jump into a lot Because it's a little bit of a conspiracy conspiracy theory sort of lingo I don't have insider knowledge. So when I say this stuff, it's completely speculation It's just me looking in as an outsider and scratching my head why this keeps happening But here we are again with Lilo and Stitch. What's happening? According to the notes I took on this is native Hawaiian fans say Disney has a track record of whitewashing characters And they're not happy with the reimagining of Nani the older sister of Lilo in the original classic She's now played by a lighter skinned Biracial actor in the classic movies upcoming adaptation. She's not she's not pure enough for the Hawaiian fans I guess is the problem this um whitewashing thing Yeah, there's a history for sure Johnny Depp played Tonto at one point in time Tilda Swinton played the ancient one who I'm pretty sure was an Asian dude in the comics Scarlett Johansson's played like a black guy and a small little Chinese man. No, I'm joking That's just a meme thing Scarlett Johansson's played some funny roles in the past like she was ghost in the shell Whatever the name of that chick is I only watched ghost in the shell for the nudity back when I was a teenager I'm just gonna throw that out there and again the Scarlett Johansson version We have a history here though. They had a non-Arab played jasmine that Made people mad. We had a black tinkerbell. We had a black fairy godmother. We have Ariel coming up who's played by Chloe Bailey, I believe she was a r&b singer now turned mermaid So these are the kind of choices that disney makes to get people riled up Get people talking because that in turn keeps it trending on social media And any news about the movie is still news about the movie So it drums up interest even if it's bad interest People are talking about it headlines are made now Because i'm not a total ass Just a little bit of one I still am cool with the diversity And all that they're this is not a secret Hollywood was very white for a very long time Still have plenty of white male lead movies. I know Some people get upset when I say that for some reason They think that it's not a thing anymore and hollywood just straight up hates white men There are probably people that work in hollywood that do maybe that's the flavor of the month or the year But they're still making movies about them Like they can say whatever they want But the proof is in the pudding and on screen we get white lead male movies every single week still It's it's you you can't you can't deny it. It's there. I just saw one called renfield. So a black little mermaid I don't care I don't I have the original what I care about is the quality of the film And disney has a track record of making terrible choices. Emma Watson is bell Beautiful on paper. She can't sing So she's autotuned beauty of the beast is like one of my favorite animated classics It's one of my favorites that movie was schlock. It was garbage Lion king don't get me started on the lifeless husk that lion king was there's a scene in the lion king Where an ant or some sort of an insect rolls a literal ball of shit Down the hill because in the original movie mufasa talks to simba about the circle of life And when you die your body decomposes and becomes the the the soil and then it feeds other animals So of course because we're in 2023 The last few years everything is just banged over your head. So they have to show us So we have to see the creature roll the ball of shit down the hill and it convert into the soil the top soil To to grow a new plant that an animal will eat off of that's exactly the problem is the pandering Is so over the top now. There's always been commentary Hollywood's always been liberal believe it or not. It just wasn't so annoying about it. The writing was smarter It was less obnoxious. They would they would just kind of Massage some of the lines people had in films now. It's you should think this way You should act this way or you're a bad person. That's not good writing. It's not enjoyable to watch Even if I agree with a lot of the things they say I don't think it's good writing. It's stupid And it doesn't it doesn't withstand the test of time because people grow as individuals We shift we change socially the society doesn't just say stagnant But these movies are playing themselves. They're not going to hold up in 10 years not going to hold up in five years So all the all this kind of crap of swapping out characters and and changing identities and the person's not brown enough Or they're not white enough or they're not whatever enough. I it's so Dumb it's them taking the eye off the prize and it's them misleading you. They're like, hey Here's another crappy live action movie. But oh look The character doesn't look like the one from the cartoon Start getting mad about that and not the fact that we took a classic and we and we made trash with it That's what I hate now. There's people that will say adam Don't watch it simple as that. Well, I mean as a movie critic. I like to watch things and review them So but yeah for mainstream people or for audiences, don't go see it vote with your wallet, right? Yeah, that's great advice. That's not the problem. I have the problem I have is every time disney allocates resources to this it's talent being taken away from a different movie that could be made They're putting hundreds of million dollars into this while some good scripts lay dormant on the table And telling people not to see something is kind of pointless Because regular joe schmoes aren't watching my channel on youtube or listening to you Spout off on, you know, whatever facebook or something. They're they're not there They're just going out because they see two movies a year and they're going to base it entirely off of what's familiar with them There's a reason why old people Watch black and white movies. They got zoro on they got some romantic thing from the 1940s They listen to music from that time period because those are the years those are the glory days for them And people working in the hollywood know that and they bank off of that They will keep making this shit until our generation grows up and then they can change the game for the new ones People get upset because there's there's there's trans characters and things or gay characters and things and guess what? The new generation That's their thing hollywood's marketing to the new generation It's not that they're like converting them into Trans zombies or something Like you see some of the comments like this is part of the agenda. Well, what's the agenda? Please tell me what it is and how they're profiting from that agenda. It's just Simple business. It's the same reason budweiser has pride cans. They see that there's value there They don't give a shit about the social construct. They care about the money Whether it's a good play on their part or bad that remains to be seen But I guarantee you they have people doing these numbers They have counters in the back looking at this stuff and they're like, yep, this will net us 10 more profit because kid rock is gonna buy 50 cases of budweiser and shoot them up in his backyard And think he's making a point, but he bought all of that beer for us That's like already in there kind of like we got the we got the kid rock money. We're good there And so yeah, this is more of a conspiracy thought on my part I don't like to do them often because I don't know anything. I'm no different than any other regular joe schmo I just love talking about movies It sucks when all the all the politics and social stuff has to get mixed in so badly now And there's tons of channels all over the place that are phony about it too People they get like super upset about it because it does well in the algorithm People like to watch those videos because they're fun to see guys get pissed off. Believe me. I get that It's enticing to do. There's also the other side where they love everything I had a character that made fun of that crap Khaleesi Grimes 82 It was called the cringe people actually thought it was real because there's so much phony shit out there that I had to stop doing it Like It's everywhere. It's hard to keep track of everything. There's conflicting sources everywhere. You don't know who to believe Well, just believe what you see See the pandering going on Is that in good faith? That they cast a different representation? Probably not Does it hurt anything? No It doesn't It just gets people talking. It makes one faction happy another faction mad But at the end of the day, it's all about money for them All right, though, that's my that's my hot take um I don't have like a hill to die on any of this at the end of the day I just like seeing good movies what disney isn't putting out the last five six years not very good We got some decent mcu stuff once in a while. We still get some good animated stuff once in a while but overall between the star wars and the new mcu and every movie that goes out in disney plus That's just a rehash or a freaking sequel like home alone 55 or hocus pocus two or disenchanted It's all just garbage, but they know there's an audience there that they can pull in and they'll get a couple more subscribers on disney plus They have the ip they have to use it Or they lose it All right, that was I think maybe a long-winded Conversation, but it was one that I had to do I think I had to get that off of my breast I want to hear from you in the comments though. Keep it classy. Keep it civilized if possible Let me know your thoughts on all of this what I consider kind of stunt casting I just feel like you could find someone that can sing and looks like the original if you really wanted to But they go a different direction and and house it under the diversity thing or the you know, whatever they want to say, right? 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