'What’s more, The Little Mermaid is a healthy depiction of what it’s like to have a crush, and presents being “boy crazy” as something that is not shameful or shallow at all.'
gives Ariel legitimate, nuanced reasons to fall in love with Prince Eric — giving both characters nuance missing in previous iterations., Prince Eric was little more than a haircut.haircut. But an animated hunk with a floofy dog and even floofier fringe who’s notconcerned with a girl’s conversational skills can only go so far. Rob Marshall’s live-action adaptation of Disney’s, starring Halle Bailey as Ariel, gives Prince Eric a personality.
The live-action film even gives Eric a room for trinkets he’s collected on his travels, equivalent to Ariel’s grotto of whosits and whatsits galore. They’re even lit similarly, if you look closely. Ariel’s grotto has a clearing through which a single beam of light escapes. Eric’s has a skylight. Then, in Eric’s “grotto,” they teach each other things. Eric shows her his maps, and Ariel wordlessly teaches him about geodes and conch shells.
I’m very proud of the creative team here, to be frank. Since mansplaining became trendy to talk about, adapting a story in which a female character is 1) genuinely ignorant about the world around her and 2) unable to speak could be intimidating. It would be easy, and in my opinion lazy, to back away entirely from Eric explainingto Ariel in the name of feminism.
There are some quotes floating around about how Marshall’s film updates previously problematic aspects of the story, namely that Ariel leaves the ocean and gives up her voice for a man. Bailey told. But you don’t need to work hard to convince me that Ariel wants to experience the human world for reasons beyond a single hottie. She’s obsessed with the human world! She has a whole collection of human things! The songlays all of that out before she even meets Eric.
Some previous attempts to update Disney romance tropes in live action remakes, in my observation, focus on "improving" the female characters by giving them agency and what I think’s Jasmine is active in politics. In the live-actionBelle is not only a voracious reader, but an engineer who invented a washing machine. (This is one of many examples of
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