Disney's Live-Action Thread

Bear in mind, the Jungle Book remake had physical sets, real cameras, and other humans besides the lead, while the Lion King remake didn't have any, hence why the former is considered closer to live-action.

For me, it felt like that, for the live-action movies at least, Jungle Book was in the top for me. Followed by Pete's Dragon, then Cinderella tied with Maleficent, then The Lion King then at the bottom of the barrel are Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. While Aladdin wasn't nearly as excruciating as Beauty and the Beast, there were several, in my own opinion, laughably dumb moments, the sets felt too claustrophobic, the ending was clearly telegraph, Jasmine's song number felt completely unnecessary, and the tacked-on dance scene at the end felt something straight out of the mid-Nineties. What kept it afloat was the performances from the entire cast.

If Jasmine's song wasn't this big literal showstopper, it'd have been better.

If I'm ranking the (recent) rush of remakes, I'd probably go Jungle Book -> Aladdin -> Cinderella -> Pete's Dragon -> The Rest. In terms of adapting their storybook style both visually and plotwise to live action film, Aladdin is probably the best, but in terms of overall film Jungle Book is still tops.

"It's not animation, because if they had put live action people in it it could have been live action" doesn't make an awful lot of sense as a reason to ignore the fact that it's literally an animated film. Neither - for that matter - does "Disney never specifically said it wasn't a live action film, so it's a live action film."

It's like claiming being made in a Realism style discounts a painting from being a work of art, and instead makes it a photograph.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Aug 13th 2019 at 12:40:21 PM

Yeah, the Jasmine song felt completely tacked on and out of place. I was actually wondering why it was even in. Yes, I get the intent, but it literally killed the pacing of the final sequence to a grinding halt for very little payoff that in the end, mattered not even an ounce of plot gravity. Pointless.

Well they had to find somewhere to put their Oscar Bait song.

My issue with Jasmine's song (as I think I already mentioned) is it was too pop music-y. It sounded too much like today's music, the sort of song you;d hear on the radio right after a Taylor Swift song, and doesn't gel with the rest of Aladdin's songs.

Maybe if they had taken the deleted song "Call Me A Princess" from the 1992 film, re-wrote it, and re-purposed it, then it might have worked better.

I think Jasmine's song would have made more sense closer to the beginning, as her reasoning to sneak into town.

The primary issue with Jasmine is not that it’s tacked on, its that it and the sequence following it are practically identical, and by all accounts should have been given combined into a single scene

We get a show stopping musical scene where Jasmine confronts the system that kept her down and refuses to bend to Jafar, followed by a non-musical sequence where she confronts the system that kept her down and refuses to bend to Jafar. Ideally, the bit where she converts not-Razoul should have been part of the song, not a separate sequence.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Aug 13th 2019 at 3:06:14 AM

Harry Styles has turned down the role of Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid remake.

Aw. Oh well.

Some people might be grateful.

I think that would've been Unfortunate Implications in the making if he had accepted.

Apparently the Princess of Glowerhaven from the Little Mermaid was a giant.

Think we'll see her in the remake? XD

As far as reasons to boycott a movie go, this seems kinda petty.

"An actor supported a side of a very multi-layered political conflict. How dare he, I'm not gonna watch whatever movie he's involved with."- Some section of Twitter, apparently.

Considering the fact she expressed support for the mainland Chinese government, an authoritarian regime that is currently trying to crush the protests in Hong Kong I think it's decidedly not a petty reason to boycott. Especially for people from Hong Kong or who have family there.

Consider that every Chinese celeb on Weibo have posted the exact same thing because they cannot go against their government. Unless you have the means to protect Liu Yufei & her family should she voice AGAINST the Chinese government....

Is she the only person in her family who is a US citizen? I have seen it mentioned in one of the forum threads that she herself is.

Also, I agree with those that said that as an actress, she probably had the option of not saying anything on the matter.

Edited by akanesarumara on Aug 16th 2019 at 6:44:03 PM

I find it kind of doubtful that the Chinese government actually forced her to make a statement on it. Surely she would be in danger for voicing support for the protests, but I doubt she would be in any trouble for just not saying anything about it.

(*sees #BoycottMulan is trending on Twitter)

Oh man, it's probably the internet overreacting like—

(*sees that she supported Hong Kong police, which is infamous for its authoritarian shtick and beating up protestors*)

Oh. Well...that's bad.

(*reads that Chinese actors HAVE to show support towards Chinese government stuff or else bad things happen*)

All right, now I'm conflicted.

Isn't the actress godfather is one of the richest men in China?

Twitter bans around 1,000 acounts (that were troll ones) that existed just "to sow political discord in Hong Kong". And that was yesterday. Sorry again, folks, that I couldn't deliver news in time this time.

Specifically, that meant banning a lot of pro-Beijing accounts that were responding to the Mulan remake. So, that says a lot about the Chinese government's view on matters.

In less horrifying news, we have our first poster for that Lady and the Tramp remake.