*On an article about complaints that fantasy movies are "too white"*
Bloody inappropriate. Fairy tales are a Nordic tradition, I’ll be damned if the fairy tales I read to children are tainted with negro blood.
I’m less resistant, however, if a black person plays:
The Big Bad Wolf
You get what I mean.
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Maybe we should just stick to the actual Nordic fairy tales, where most, if not everyone, dies a horrible brutal death. Oh, wait, that's a fucking terrible idea. We'll tell whatever stories we like the best, regardless of origin.
"Fairy tales are a Nordic tradition."
Uh. No. Even many of the European fairytales you read your kids aren't "Nordic" - they stem from other parts of Europe, too.
And then,fairy tales come from all over the world - see The 1001 Nights, the Pachatantra, Aesop's stories, and the countless others that from various parts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, etc. but definitely by all rights qualify as fairy tales.
Most fairy tales of European origin are French. Even those collected by the Grimm Bros. contain many that originated from France. The most notable original 'Nordic' writer in Anderson. And you could probably count the hundreds of Roman and Greek stories as fairy tales.
I will concede though that most of them contained villains based on the popular perception of Jews at the time. Since they're open to interpretation though, we luckily don't draw those comparisons anymore.
Seriously?
The evil queen from Snow White?
Who's obsessed with being the "fairest"(i.e. whitest)?
That's who you'd cast as black?
You're going to have sooooooooo much fun at the new Annie film, sir. also, fairytales are NOT confined to Nordic lands:
“Bloody inappropriate. Fairy tales are a Nordic tradition,”
“I’ll be damned if the fairy tales I read to children are tainted with negro blood.”
“I’m less resistant, however, if a black person plays:”
Hey, though, did you ever see the 3 Musketeers?
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