Disney stteping wrong on inclusion (by Christian Ramírez and Larry Sotelo)
In recent years, inclusion has been anything but natural in the film entertainment environment, with a series of clear stumbles at the time of wanting to become so for some time now, taking as an example the reboots of Disney's animated classics, taking a character we knew with a certain distinctive appearance and changing it radically to have an inclusive trend and thus attract a more modern audience with new values learned from this generation, and therefore, attract more profits even for its morbidity.
Examples of these cases are seen within a large company like disney, with several movies where, as I mentioned, creative liberties have been taken for a more diverse and inclusive environment within this space of visual recreation, but in itself has never been achieved, either by passive or active racism, the simple fact of taking a character and change it from how they already knew it to something totally new and shocking, is very strange for the audience that prefers the traditional rather than something new, as happened in the Aladin movie, with the casting of Will smith as the genie, with VFX somewhat low in quality for a final product and more spaces where this actor is seen with his skin in natural without being blue as it was in the original movie of the 90s, or more recently the change of Pinocchio's fairy for an actress with brown skin or the Little Mermaid and its controversial casting of Halle Bailey, this last one being one of the most controversial because its impact has even led to the alleged cancellation of the movie itself.
The truth is that issues such as diversity and inclusion will always be controversial, will give much to talk about on both sides of the coin and for now will not be achieved at all well for social reasons that are not worth unraveling more since they were made known in the previous paragraph, it has its advantages to try to implement them, such as the identification of new generations with characters that are related to them through their ethnicities, but the truth is that prejudices and people's points of view will always weigh equally or more in a discussion and decisions to be taken for the future of these cases, disney may continue on this path of forced inclusions or try to bring up ideas that pretend to be new, the best for the company and these issues will be seen in the not too distant future where all these events will be steps that should have been climbed to reach a good end.
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