This sad dudebro was whining about the casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel in Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid and he accidently came up with a wonderful idea for an Indian Cinderella! I mean hells yea we want and Indian Cinderella!! Can you imagine the dresses!?! Move over season 2 of Bridgerton. Although I’m not sure anyone could ever beat the greatest Cinderella of all time, Brandy in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Anyway, the idea is discussed with examples in the twitter thread responses:
Source: blackqueerblog
(via: Geek Girls)
Every culture in the world has a Cinderella story of some kind. So technically, there is an Indian Cinderella, a Chinese one, and a couple of African ones. What in the entitled Disney princess lost my glass slipper so I can endlessly whine crap are YOU endorsing? I suppose you believe in the Hansel and Gretle that pushed that mean witch in the oven and ran away version of Grimm Brothers as well? Talk about demented dudes who created a very tidy little universe that was just a reflection of Dante’s concentric rings of hell but with morality tales woven in.
But hell yeah, give me a Bollywood Cinderella every day of the week. I’m imagining the magpies swooping in to drape found baubles all over her and little monkeys draping her in the finest silks.
One of my theatre professors in college used to say, “In specificity there is universeality.” Or, as Scott Adams said, “Most of the themes in my comic strip Dilbert involve workplace situations. I routinely include bizarre and unworldly elements such as sadistic talking animals, troll-like accountants and employees turning into dishrags after the life-force has been drained from their bodies. And yet the comment I hear most often is “That’s just like my company.””
The details in every story are what enable people to see themselves and their situation in it. So, an Indian or Chinese or Aztec Cinderella story will have specific details that people seeing it will relate to – even if they grew up in very different cultures.
That’s why the morality plays in Star Trek were so successful. They told very specific stories about alien cultures, but taught lessons that apply to everyone who watched them.
Hmm seems we are too late – https://youtu.be/i6VzKiuJh1E?si=op4OmGyxtCpEk1P0