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Mouseketeer
- Joined
- May 1, 2015
I don’t have an issue with it being turned into Princess and the Frog, I think it fits great into the area (and I hope this triggers an expansion of New Orleans Square in Disneyland, one of my favorite areas). I like Disney took the opportunity to implement african-american characters into a major attraction. I do have good memories of the Brer Rabbit cartoon, and I am sad to see it go, but Princess and the Frog really does fit in many ways. My only issues are:
1. If they ditch Zip-a-di-do-dah, which is as classic Disney as you can get. It’s like dumping “When you wish upon a star” to me. I hope Disney has the Princess and the Frog characters make the song their own, maybe in a follow up animation short they could show in the ride line. I think it’s the perfect opportunity to take something linked to something offensive of black history, and change and adapt it into something positive. It would be a huge missed opportunity to toss a song away that is strongly linked to classic disney, and not utilize it into something to benefit the black community.
2. James Baskett (the man who played Uncle Remus) was a wonderful actor, and he recieved an Acadamy award for his performance in Song of the South in the 1940’s, a huge accomplishment when racisim was even more pronounced. The fact that the film has been “locked away forever” and everything to do with it banned, means so has his performance and his accomplishment for that performance, which is a bummer. If Disney went the route I mentioned before of adding a P&F animation in the Splash ride-line uptaking the Zip-a-de song, I hope they also find a way to honor his performance in it somehow.
1. If they ditch Zip-a-di-do-dah, which is as classic Disney as you can get. It’s like dumping “When you wish upon a star” to me. I hope Disney has the Princess and the Frog characters make the song their own, maybe in a follow up animation short they could show in the ride line. I think it’s the perfect opportunity to take something linked to something offensive of black history, and change and adapt it into something positive. It would be a huge missed opportunity to toss a song away that is strongly linked to classic disney, and not utilize it into something to benefit the black community.
2. James Baskett (the man who played Uncle Remus) was a wonderful actor, and he recieved an Acadamy award for his performance in Song of the South in the 1940’s, a huge accomplishment when racisim was even more pronounced. The fact that the film has been “locked away forever” and everything to do with it banned, means so has his performance and his accomplishment for that performance, which is a bummer. If Disney went the route I mentioned before of adding a P&F animation in the Splash ride-line uptaking the Zip-a-de song, I hope they also find a way to honor his performance in it somehow.