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by tzs 1385 days ago
>> If you made him Dutch and portrayed by Chris Hemsworth you'd have to include in your movie all kinds of extra exposition and world building to set the background for the story.

> That's exactly my point.

> A black fairy is not an issue because she is black, but because it's a plot hole that the original story don't have.

I just watched a couple trailers for the new Pinocchio movie and they included a scene with the fairy.

She's dressed in glowing white sparkly clothes, has translucent sparkly wings, a wand with a star on the end that is clearly a magic wand, is surrounded by sparkles, transfigured Pinocchio, and it looks like she travels in some sort of amorphous flowing light blob.

The amount of extra exposition and world building needed to let the audience know that the character is a fairy is zero.

Here's a photo [1].

[1] https://www.instyle.com/news/cynthia-erivo-blue-fairy-live-a...