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My Thoughts On The Little Mermaid Live Action — The Scuttlebutt
It’s not so bad.
The Scuttlebutt didn’t feel so out of place. Out of context it feels weird but with the context not so much. Because Scuttles mostly blabbers in the movie.
The rap wasn’t bad in my opinion.
Also, I found Daveed Diggs’ (he voices Sebastian in the live action) rap at the end of the song to hype up Ariel to get ready to be kinda similar to Daveed Diggs role in Hamilton as Lafayette when he was telling Washington to get his right hand man back for the war. If this was intentional, it felt like a nice reference.
My Thoughts On The Little Mermaid Live Action
I personally loved the movie.
The visual affects were stunning. It made it seem like it was actually taking place underwater, which was the point and they achieved that pretty well.
I personally don’t mind Flounder and Sebastian looking realistic because every other fish is also realistic in the movie, so they fit in and don’t look out of place.
I especially loved the music. I’m a huge fan of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s work in general, and he did not disappoint and amazed me with his work once again. In my opinion the songs were the most entertaining and enjoyable part of the movie and kept it from being boring.
The songs feel like musical theater songs, I’m not surprised by that because Lin-Manuel Miranda worked on them and he has worked for Broadway musicals before. They sounded fantastic.
The Scuttlebutt didn’t feel so out of place. Out of context it feels weird but with the context not so much. Because Scuttles mostly blabbers in the movie.
The rap wasn’t bad in my opinion.
Also, I found Daveed Diggs’ (he voices Sebastian in the live action) rap at the end of the song to hype up Ariel to get ready to be kinda similar to Daveed Diggs role in Hamilton as Lafayette when he was telling Washington to get his right hand man back for the war. If this was intentional, it felt like a nice reference.
I love how different Halle Bailey is to the original Ariel.
The original Ariel’s Part of Your World song seemed a bit melancholic and Ariel seemed resigned to her fate. Halle Bailey’s Ariel’s Part of Your World song was a combination of frustration and determination. This made the two reprises of the song later on in the film even more powerful. With one being hopeful and the other being sorrowful. I commend Halle Bailey on conveying all those different emotions, she’s an excellent singer and actress.
Unlike the animated film, Ariel doesn't actually go up to the surface until after her fight with her father which is a small but smart change that I liked. Instead of being rebellious because she's a teenager this version of Ariel is frustrated at the fact that she's constantly ignored and controlled and I like that Triton's unreasonable behavior effectively becomes the catalyst for her to go to the surface, I like that irony.
The storm in the beginning of the movie felt almost identical to the animated movie. The effects felt realistic and climactic.
I love how Ariel got a song when she first became a human. It made us see her perspective and understand her better.
Compared to to the animated Ariel, this version of Ariel was less Love Struck. Instead she seems to be more intrigued by Eric in the human world which does feel more realistic. It shows her curiosity for the human world a lot more. Which is a change I liked.
I’m glad they didn’t go for the love at first sight thing for the remake and gave Ariel and Eric time to bond. I loved the chemistry between them.
I personally prefer their bonding time in the live action over the dinner they had in the original, and we still got a “dinglehopper” scene.
Also, I found the way Eric learned Ariel’s name to be adorable.
In the animated film it's kind of a love at first sight moment with Ariel falling for Eric after he talks about looking for his dream girl but in the live action it's more like their kindred spirits both feeling pressured to live up to their family's expectations of them and sharing a desire to explore the world. They understood each other and related to one another without the use of words, which I find adorable.
I loved the market Eric and Ariel went to. The production team made a fantastic job, it really seemed like it could be a marketplace in the kingdom. I also love the choreography, the music and the dance for the place, it seemed very fitting and not out of place.
I also love how we got to see Prince Eric’s side of the story, he even had his own song.
In my opinion him being adopted gives him more character depth, him loosing his parents in a shipwreck gives him more reason to be so drawn to the sea.
When Eric recovered he sends people to look for the girl who saved him and I like that he takes a more active role in finding her in the live action, unlike in the animated movie where he’s just wandering around on a beach. Because of the incident his mother forbids him from sailing again which leads to our first new song of the film wild Uncharted Waters. The lyrics are filled with Maritime references which are a bit obvious which is good in my opinion because it makes the viewer understand them easier. It works for the new direction they've taken with Eric's character. It feels like a heartfelt song, I think Jonah Hauer-King made a great delivery of it.
I also liked how Ariel instantly forgot she had to kiss Eric. It made it seem like their love was even more “impossible” because if she couldn’t kiss Eric she’d turn back into a mermaid and be under Ursula’s control. It also made Ursula even more evil.
Ursula and Triton were actually siblings during the early development of the 1989 film but this dynamic was scrapped, I’m glad we got to see it in the live action.
I think Trident and Ursula being related helps with Ariel’s deal with Ursula.
Because Ariel had never met Ursula, she had just heard what her father said about her. She doesn’t fully believe her father because he also told her people are evil and she saw that to be false with her own eyes when she saw Eric. She was already doubting about what her father thought of “evil”.
She had also just gotten into a big fight with him and her trust for him had decreased.
She was also scared of her and thought about leaving but Ursula successfully manipulated her.
I also think the live action Ursula is pretty good. She’s manipulative and evil, she also has a great voice.
Overall, I think the changes were good changes and fit into the story.
sotr is my favorite book because it's so fun/interesting to see how everything connects together. like snow being highkey offended at lenore dove's name, katniss's parents making a cameo, etc. "oh he knows that because of lucy gray!" "oh everdeen?" "oh my god katniss's mom actually has a personality." plus there are so many lore drops, haymitch yaps so much, we get a lot more information about d12 in the first three chapters than in the main trilogy.
oh also did i mention the lgbtq rep, and that maysilee, louella, wyatt, and lenore dove are all icons? i need to get geese now.
Go My Dragon
This melody ringing in my ears,
I would have hated you with my heart,
If I wasn't so entranced.
I would have chosen to go deaf,
I would have rather buried myself deep in Earth,
If you haven't stolen my heart from my hand.
Oh my dragon, when you fall from grace
Or when you ascend to heaven,
Will you erase my memories?
When the night calls your name,
And when the chains break to set you free,
With you, will you not take me?
Go my dragon, I'll let you leave,
With my heart intertwined with yours,
I'll wait until I'm nothing,
But bones buried deep in greens.
corpo plastilina
Oggi ho fatto l’errore di guardarmi fin troppo tempo allo specchio. Osservavo i miei occhi. Nel riflesso all’interno di questi mi cercavo. Mi chiedo troppe volte se io stia mentendo a me stesso, se sia l’adolescenza. Cerco caratteristiche nel mio volto, perché non lo sento mio. Mi metto a caccia di aspetti maschili nel mio corpo, e puntualmente vedo il mio aspetto ancora più femminile. Fianchi troppo larghi, vita troppo stretta, cosce grandi, collo troppo sottile, spalle strette, corpo minuto. Sarebbe il fisico ideale di qualunque ragazza, e i ragazzi vorrebbero tutto il contrario. A volte vorrei essere composto di plastilina e modellarmi, però ormai la plastilina si è asciugata del tutto e non importa quanta acqua io usi, non riuscirò mai a far tornare il composto morbido come prima e creare una nuova forma. Mi osservo sempre di più e la vista inizia ad ingannarmi, quelle parti del mio corpo che disprezzo diventano molto più evidenti. Vorrei solo rompere quello specchio.
"I hate that I can't remember what she feels like anymore. I can barely imagine her at all anymore. And it feels like the love is just gone. But there's still the pain. Death is a cruel thing."
- Journal #3, page 52 (the final words)
Starting a new journal today.
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