Little Mermaid Actresss Eyes Shock Viewers

Eric's looking cute though. Kind of Irish.

He should be chasing boys on the beach, not this fish-looking prairie girl.

Like that freaky PlayStation ad from 1999.

They CGI'd out two of her four eyes.

Is she related to flounder-faced Mac repairman and tam o'shanter aficionado John Paul Mac Isaac?

She’s from under the sea, and needs widely spaced eyes to spot predators before they eat her. An evolutionary advantage for a girl whose hobby is trawling shipwrecks for fun trinkets, while avoiding sharks.

I thought they picked her because of that.

Stop making fun of her eyes!

she is a mermaid, maybe that's how it is under the sea?

From OP’s own twitter account

ultra wideset eyes are a sign of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

So now there's drinking fish.

And what’s WRONG with the positioning of her eyes!???

She’s like the creature from the Splice movie.

How soon before this is quickly moved to Disney Plus?

You MONSTERS, you MANIACS!

What have you done to its EYES!?

Y'all realize that someone just did a photoshop and shrunk her eyes, right? Like Charlie Kirk-Style:

Her eyes so far apart I could parallel park between them

No, r20. Her eyes have been a topic of discussion for over a year now.

I don’t see the problem.

Thanks OP, for exposing your right wing Twitter troll account for us.

She and Anya Taylor Joy look like fucking hammerhead sharks. I get that far-apart eyes look like infants that one is supposedly wired to want to take care of, but they need to fuck off with that shit when they’re also presenting them as strong women who don’t need no man. 🙄

I’ll watch it for Jonah Hauer-King.

Anya Taylor Joy is fugly!

This girl by contrast is goodlooking.

R25. I actually like Anya TJ's look.

She looks infinitely better than the escaped fish lab experiment in OP's picture.

I won't be watching this film. I don't think I could stand looking at that weird face for two hours.

Why is Eric this short little twink when he’s supposed to be this big burly man?

Why did they do Ariel so dirty like that? She’s one of the most iconic princesses and the casting should have been done right. Save the experimental casting for your lesser known movies like Pocahontas.

I dare them to blind cast Pocahontas.

Ariel is a big deal. She resurrected Disney after 50 years of not making princess movies with this whole renaissance era. She was the first princess for Gen X, Millennials, and even Gen X. She was their first introduction to Disney. She’s part of Disney’s holy trinity like how Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are to DC. How did they go so wrong on this casting? The execs should have had strict mandates on casting such an important character.

Oh man, think of mermaid stories re-imagined as featuring H.P. Lovecraft's Deep Ones!

Do you think The Little Mermaid will be a huge hit or a huge bomb?

A bomb because they’re fucking with it.

[quote]Why is Eric this short little twink when he’s supposed to be this big burly man?

Eric is basically an 80s pretty boy archetype, he isn't burly at all. If anything he's the only coherent casting choice.

Took one look at OP’s Twitter and he/it is a blatant Republican troll. FF off.

R32 R33 Disney will never make a Pocahontas live-action. They got away with it in the 1990s, but now they'd be accused of romanticizing colonization. Alan Menken already talked about that:

[quote]I don't know if we'll ever be able to do Pocahontas, I think that story is going to be difficult. With modern sensibilities, it'd be hard - you're going to offend somebody.

I don't see any problem here.

[quote]I won't be watching this film. I don't think I could stand looking at that weird face for two hours.

I won't be watching it because I'm over the age of 12, male, and with no small children whose entertainment I have to oversee. But I am interested to see how it does financially. There's been so much written about the negative prerelease reaction, and then Bailey and McCarthy were trotted out for that obnoxious promotion of it during the Oscar ceremony.

I have no issue with the race of the main actress, I just think her acting looked pretty bad in the trailer. In fact, the whole thing looked odd, but then that often happens when you turn an animated movie into a live action film.

I'll watch it, just to see what it's really like, but not till it's on Disney Plus. It's not the sort of thing I'd go to the cinema for.

I expect its name will mean it does semi decently.

[quote] Her eyes so far apart I could parallel park between them

Honey, no you couldn’t

[quote] She was the first princess for Gen X, Millennials, and even Gen X.

But what about Gen X?

Most fish's eyes are on opposite sides of their heads. It makes sense.

[quote] Took one look at OP’s Twitter and he/it is a blatant Republican troll. FF off.

Wouldn’t be shocked if it were a Matt-fatso account. Her cioccolato bianco Twitter (before it was unveiled here and she closed it) had literally exactly the same sort of alt-right memes all over it.

[quote] Most fish's eyes are on opposite sides of their heads. It makes sense.

But how do they see? How does it merge into one field of vision? Or is it like looking at two monitors at the same time and each eye is a monitor?

Every time I see Halle Bailey I read Halle Berry.

They don't have mermaids in Africa.

They have hippopotami.

Every time I see Halle Bailey I read "stunt casting pretending to be color-blind" but really is as calculated as any casting choice - for $$."

^ Me too. I messes with my brain.

*It messes with my brain (I wasn’t lying!)

R52 actually, they do have water spirits. Like Mami Wata.

If we're being physically real, shouldn't her skin be translucent? Exactly, knock it off with the eyes.

I've noticed an increased trend in celebrities with widely-spaced eyes. I suspect it's part of the transhumanist agenda and subverting the uncanny valley.

[quote]She’s from under the sea, and needs widely spaced eyes to spot predators before they eat her. An evolutionary advantage for a girl whose hobby is trawling shipwrecks for fun trinkets, while avoiding sharks.

Tell that to SpongeBob, his eyes are perfectly normal.

Isn't Halle Berry a little too old to be playing Ariel.

R60 His eyes are freakish considering sponges have no eyes.

Halle Bailey is gorgeous, the CGI is not. I still don't understand the big deal about this movie. No one complained this much about Aladdin.

She’s got such a Disney face. She’s like the epitome of girl next door cuteness.

[quote]She’s got such a Disney face. She’s like the epitome of girl next door cuteness.

Until she fucks up. It happens to all Disney kids.

I see no problem - and believe me I can see around corners!

The music of Chloe & Halle is actually pretty good. (The solo Chloe stuff, not so much.)

She's a fish, fish have eyes like that.

[Quote] It happens to all Disney kids.

She's a protege of Beyonce and Jay-Z. But that's likely no better.

[quote]Every time I see Halle Bailey I read "stunt casting pretending to be color-blind" but really is as calculated as any casting choice - for $$."

Not for money, for woke brownie points.

This movie is going to lose money.

[quote]She’s got such a Disney face. She’s like the epitome of girl next door cuteness.

You just that if Blue Whatever was older, mom and dad would have bought her that role.

Halle and Chloe Bailey are both very pretty girls with beautiful singing days and I've been following them since their R&B mixtape days. Halle looks more like a Bratz doll to me though than a Disney princess. I don't care about the casting as most Disney live-action movies suck and no changing races of the heroes make them work. Who cares anyway? They make money and kids enjoy them.

Emma Watson was no Belle and I'm confused by that casting choice, way too British and pinched features for a voluptuous French beauty. Naomi Scott wasn't a bad-looking Jasmine since Jasmine actually looked Indian or Persian and dressed that way than Arab in the original.

Blue Ivy must marry a man whose last name is League.

R70 Nope. It's going to make a lot of money in The US and in Western countries. It will lose money in Asia, Middle East and India because they're very racist and colorist though.

Did someone say marmalade?

R74, I haven't heard any clamor to see this from anywhere. I don't think it is going to get any good word of mouth, either, judging from the reception of the trailer so far. Why do you think it's going to make so much money?

[quote][R70] Nope. It's going to make a lot of money in The US and in Western countries.

How? Even if it did make money, they left a LOT of money on the table with this casting. If it makes $100 million, it would have made $300 million with an Ariel that looks exactly like the cartoon. Disney can spin it any way they want but they’re losing potential money on this.

She's ugly. If they wanted to cast a black actress, there are dozens more attractive than her.

I know it’s a fantastical creature who lives under the sea but still, why would a mermaid need melanin? 🤔

The way I see it, Disney has spent millions on branding Ariel as a red-head with pale skin. Then they went against their own extremely effective branding and can't figure out why they got a negative reaction.

To me, the obvious thing would be to come up with fresh characters and a fresh storyline. It ain't that impossible. They did it with Moana and no one has a problem with Moana. No one has a problem with the multi-racial Encanto. What people don't like is the color-washing because, whether intentional or not, it's telling people that there was something wrong with the original character design and it needs to be updated. That's not really a good message. Better to expand than replace. People resent it when a character to whom they've grown attached is altered for non-creative reasons--in this case, it's Disney looking at demographic trends and holding on to copyrights.

As for the actress' eyes--she's cute, but she's not photogenic. She looks odd on film. Makes me think of how the girl playing Maria in the West Side Story remake was pretty, but looks odd on camera. It's funny how some people's faces work on camera and other's don't.

R81 That Maria chick is next up as Disney’s Snow White because that makes sense.

It’s a fantasy. It doesn’t have to make sense. She can be Snow Brown and the ability to fly if she wants.

R83 Um, it’s right there IN THE TITLE.

God the Bailey bitches are ugly. They belong in HIV commercials.

So what? Titles change. Get with the times. It’s not Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs anymore.

So Snow White with skin as white as snow as per the original story actually matters not a jot. So why even bother making Snow White?

r2 It took me nearly a week to figure out what that photo reminded me of. It finally came to me today.

I don't know what's more offensive, a mermaid with dreadlocks or Snow Brown.

[quote] So Snow White with skin as white as snow as per the original story actually matters not a jot. So why even bother making Snow White?

Wow, way to be a TERF. Her skin color has nothing to do with the story just like Areola’s skin color has nothing to do with her story.

[quote] I don't know what's more offensive, a mermaid with dreadlocks or Snow Brown.

Wow, way to put down natural hair. Racist much? You think they have access to relaxers under the sea?

R90 a TERF? Is Snow White trans now?

Naturally fat people look weird when they don't have the weight on.

Just look at Star Jones.

Yes, R92. She identifies as the fairest one of all, and anyone who disagrees is committing literal violence and denying her lived experience.

[quote] [R90] a TERF? Is Snow White trans now?

Yes, transracial.

R93, Halle looks that weird because she used to be fat?

Snow White??!! Shouldn't they rename the movie "Sand Brown"?

She's just meant to be fat, T96.

My biggest gripe is the muted color palette and the shit-looking CGI.

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