| > The only part of the depiction he’s complaining about is race Am I? Are you sure? Can you quote me on that please? The blue fairy is an important part of my culture, at least for me. If someones rewrites it using all the power of a conglomerate like Disney, that puts at risk our shared culture and heritage. For me she's gonna be a woman with blue air, for someone younger it will be a bald black woman, that has no direct representation in the society where I live. I don't care who the actress is or what the color of her skin is, it's just not the "Fata Turchina", it's another character. Simple as that. Try doing that with Sherlock Holmes and see what happens. What would happen if a Chinese company made a movie where Martin Luther King is an Albanian immigrant who came to Italy with the Vlora ship in 1991 to become a supporter of immigrants rights and got killed by a mobster in a fight over a pool game? |
Look, if having the blue fairy's character being reinterpreted in such a way is simply something you'd prefer not to watch, that's cool. Maybe it bothers you that a generation of new viewers will absorb a different version of a story for which the orginal has a particular place in your heart, but that's just how culture works - for most of human existence stories weren't written down and changed on each retelling anyway. It doesn't lessen their importance or impact.
Having said all that - I've yet to hear many examples of modern adaptations of music in classical tradition written 100s of years ago that I can accept as any sort of improvement. I can't quite put my finger on why there's such a difference.