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"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

I don't know if you went to see the popular "The Little Mermaid"?

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

"The Little Mermaid" has been controversial since the announcement of the casting, and the first weekend after the official announcement at the end of last year, the number of views worldwide exceeded 104 million. After the official release, word of mouth was also polarized.

"The Little Mermaid" was officially released on the mainland on May 26, but in the past 6 days, as of press time, the total box office was less than 21 million.

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

The Douban score has also dropped again and again, and has now dropped to 5.2 points.

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

This achievement, in the mainland market, can be said to be a lose-lose in word of mouth and box office.

The matter quickly aroused heated discussions on the Internet, and many netizens in Western countries pointed the finger at Chinese audiences on the Internet social platform, saying that the poor box office was based on "racial discrimination".

And their testimony turned out to be a movie poster! They pointed out that the original poster of the movie can clearly see the dark skin tone of the protagonist, and there is no intention to hide it, but when it comes to the mainland version, the poster uses the picture of the bottom of the sea, making the skin color blue and blue, and lightening the skin color element.

In addition, since the public casting, many mainland netizens have minded that black people will play the protagonists, and it is because other factors are involved that Hollywood movies are boycotted.

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?
"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

The accusations of these foreign netizens soon became hot searches on the Internet and were reported by the media.

After the incident spread to the mainland, it caused crazy complaints from mainland netizens, and many netizens said that we have not been sorry for blacks in our history and there is no "racial discrimination". For the poster problem, these accusations are picking bones in the egg, avoiding the important and light, and the real reason for the box office is casting.

Speaking of which, the controversy of "The Little Mermaid" does not exist only in the mainland, but has been divided since its launch.

"The Little Mermaid" means a lot to Disney, and in 1989, the long-depressed Disney returned to the A-class ranks, and the little mermaid Ariel, who had red hair and snow-white skin, became a classic in the Disney princess series.

Unexpectedly, when the live-action version was casting, the 19-year-old black female singer and actor Harley Bailey was finally selected.

Harley Bailey, born in 2000, is a singer who became a small Internet celebrity because she covered on YouTube with her sister.

Because they were flopped by Beyoncé, they became more popular. Beyoncé not only flopped and praised them as "extraordinarily talented", but also threw millions of dollars to sign them and spared no effort to praise them.

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

Harley Bailey also tweeted for the first time to express her excitement, she accompanied the classic scene in "The Little Mermaid", with the text "Dreams Come True", but changed Ariel's skin to black.

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

Although Harley Bailey is very happy, this result makes most netizens not satisfied.

Opposition to Harley Bailey playing The Little Mermaid has absolutely nothing to do with racism. The biggest reason is that Harley Bailey and Ariel are too different in appearance.

In Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ariel is described very clearly: "Her skin is light and tender, like rose petals, and her eyes are azure blue, like the deepest sea water." ”

"At this time, the little mermaid raised her beautiful, white and tender hands, stood on tiptoe, and danced lightly on the floor."

Such an image will not be associated with black girls.

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

Disney Princesses are not without dark-skinned princesses, netizens feel that Harley Bailey can star in "The Princess and the Frog", or Moana in "Moana", instead of ZZZQ to play "The Little Mermaid".

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

In addition, Harley Bailey is not very good-looking, and the Reuters photos have not achieved amazing results, so the opposition has not stopped.

Foreign netizens started the topic of #NotMyAriel, which also caused a discussion about whether the movie should also be ZZZQ.

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

Even so, the filming of "The Little Mermaid" proceeded steadily. After the trailer came out, it still did not achieve the eye-catching effect, but the little mermaid's thick dirty braid caused a greater spit out.

After "The Little Mermaid" was officially released in the mainland, its reputation was also polar.

In terms of the picture, it is still quite beautiful.

The ocean hurricane that made the heroine's heart for the prince was also thrilling.

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

The movie has also made some changes, the prince was adopted by a good-looking black queen, the mermaid princess her father is white skin, mother black skin, the daughter of Caspian Sea in the original novel has similar skin color, and the live-action adaptation has any skin color.

Her father also had an emotional entanglement with the octopus and gave birth to an octopus essence, which was mentally unhealthy so he became a villain...

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

But the biggest problem is still in the casting of the female lead. The mermaid played by Harley Bailey is still not beautiful after being carefully dressed up, and his demeanor is not very good.

Her romantic shots with the prince, not everyone can empathize with beautiful fantasies.

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

The audience can choose to watch the movie, and it is expected that they don't like not to watch it. But I didn't expect that foreign netizens would blame the box office and word of mouth on the "racial discrimination" of mainland audiences.

In the face of controversy, the Global Times also fought back.

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

The Global Times bluntly said that Westerners cannot kidnap other audiences on "Mermaid", and the vast majority of Chinese audiences have no prejudice against a Little Mermaid starring a black man, preferring to evaluate the film according to the merits of the film itself. Chinese there is no such ZZZQ sex because the country's modern history is more about being invaded by Westerners than colonizing or oppressing blacks. On the contrary, China has always maintained fraternal relations with Africa and has never needed the "atonement" mentality prevailing in Hollywood.

"The Little Mermaid" has a box office of less than 21 million in 6 days of release, and Douban has 5.2 points, which is wrong with mainland audiences?

In recent years, Hollywood ZZZQ has sometimes reached a level of magic, and not everyone is willing to pay for it. "The Little Mermaid" has advantages and disadvantages, and whether mainland audiences are willing to pay for it is completely a personal matter.

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