“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
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So erm..... what exactly is wrong with the original? I find them quite entertaining.... One of the few things I liked about the film.
I always saw them as mischievous, sneaky, yet clever.
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Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed, it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
In the film they're thieving, mischievous cats that antagonize the protagonists for fun and are depicted with slanted eyes and a stereotypical asian accent.
In 1955, the "mischievous chinaman" (interchangeable for any east-asian at the time, and almost always played or depicted by white people, even in live action) stereotype was very much a Hollywood trope. It's basically one small step removed from blackface.
Disney has apparently decided that such depictions probably wouldn't sit too well with people in 2019.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
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its because rather then actually being racist, the current generation reads into it as being so, because the cats have 'asian' shaped eyes and accents, and 'cultural appropriation' wants it to be so.
I grew up having watched the animated movie many times, never once did I put talking cats as being racist stereotypes
And if it didn't register as being racist in the past with most people, why then does that only become an issue today?
Maybe because generation snowflake needs to find offense in anything they can?
#boycottchina
Why can't people just grasp the idea that things were a product of its time? This backtrack pandering is just downright pathetic. Learn from history, and carry on from there!
While that's not what cultural appropriation means, I know you like slinging buzzwords around more than you care about their actual meaning hoping they'll make your point for you.
Suffice to say, "slanty-eyed, yellow characters that talk with stereotypical asian accent and cause mischief" is pretty well in line with the "yellow scare" trope.
Arguing that people weren't casually racist in 1955 probably isn't the best hill to die on.I grew up having watched the animated movie many times, never once did I put talking cats as being racist stereotypes
And if it didn't register as being racist in the past with most people, why then does that only become an issue today?
You're getting offended at changing two singing cats in a kid's film.Maybe because generation snowflake needs to find offense in anything they can?
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
I see them as an entertaining part of the film; seriously. They're mischievous cats; which is a trope/characteristic known to this breed of cats. I find it more racist you just see them as "slant eyes with buck teeth"...
But hey; let's just see racist tropes and stereotypes in everything right?
Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed, it's time. We have all laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!
I thought the point of the song was that cats are assholes, everything else feels incredibly forced.
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Who said has anything to do with identity politics? The song is outdated so it doesn't fit in a modern adaption - the language is antiquated. Why people look deeper into these things than what they baffle me.
Like I said earlier. I make logical sense to make a modern adaption of something if you're not going to present it in terms of contemporary culture.
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