https://old.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/188kytv/disneys_wish_grossed_570k_on_thursday_from_3900
Disney somehow managed to frick up their bread and butter, a princess movie.
Domestic collection has nearly flattened already https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Wish-(2023)#tab=box-office
They spent 200 mil on this and they'd be lucky if they make 85.
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Is the main character in it supposed to be black or Latinx?
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Ethnically ambiguous. The story is set on an island in the Mediterranean.
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Princess and the Wog
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Wait really? I thought they were going with Northwestern European/generic fantasy kingdom
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That's probably "too white" for the current activist creatives at Disney.
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It didn't seem Mediterranean in the trailers, or at least to me
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Do you really think either twitter spergs or disney wokes know or care about the difference between mediterranean and frankish/germanic culture beyond "darker skin"?
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Not really no
Just thought if it was Mediterranean there would have been some fetch Italian or Iberian style castles or churches
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The Kingdom appeared loosely based on Moorish Spain, but actual Moors and Spaniards aren't dark enough so she's some kind of sub-Saharan African and North African mix I suppose
It's not impossible for a darker Moor to exist, but the irony is there's never been a Moorish or North African princess, and the time they have the chance they race swap
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Did you mean there has been but they chose race swap for a black one?
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No I mean the current princess would have been the ideal chance for the first Moorish/North African/Berber princess, but they race swapped for a more sub Saharan princess for cynical DEI reasons instead.
Picking North African and moorish Spanish influenced design and then grabbing a princess who resembles people many miles to the south just to appease twitter, basically. But these types think everyone in Africa is sub-Saharan so I shouldn't be shocked.
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tbf Aladdin was some weird Arab/Indian hybrid
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Oh I thought you meant irl that there never has been a North African Moorish princess
There is Jasmine if your definition of Moorish includes the entire Arab world
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