They made the fairy in the new Pinocchio bald

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨masterofballs@wolfballs.com⁩ to ⁨freeforum@wolfballs.com⁩

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She's black too, which while not true to the source material is fine if they just gave her some hair. Who wants a bald fairy god mother?

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masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
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Sal@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
The original fairy had turquoise hair and black eyes, and Disney made her blonde with blue eyes likely because they considered this to make her more marketable. I think that it is fair to make her black and bald now. These movies are watched by children all over the world, and the more diversity that can be shown among the cast of main characters, the better. Representation really does have a positive impact on the mental health of children, and there are no negatives. I understand that an adult who grew up with Pinocchio might be uncomfortable by seeing one of their childhood movies replaced with something so different - but this movie is not for those adults, it is a children's movie, so why not be happy that the newer generations will grow up exposed to more diversity in film than us?

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- masterofballs@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  
  Representation really does have a positive impact on the mental health of children, and there are no negatives.
  
  I would say having a bald fairy is a negative. You can find a diverse group of attractive women with hair.
  
  The negative for diversity points is that the little Italian kids are going to feel like they are being replaced. We need New stories to represent the current world sure but replacing someone's culture can have downsides. The feeling like we are all being socially engineered is uncomfortable too.
  
  If this was a African story with the characters replaced with women from Italy people would riot.
  
  Main complaint is she is bald though. I usually wouldn't let my kids watch Disney movies anyway its a terrible company.
  
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  - Sal@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    
    I would say having a bald fairy is a negative. You can find a diverse group of attractive women with hair.
    
    Sure, and they do find a fair share of conventionally attractive women with hair to put in movies. I don't see why putting an attractive bald woman instead is a negative.
    
    The negative for diversity points is that the little Italian kids are going to feel like they are being replaced.
    
    The Fairy is a mytical creature from the forest capable of morphing into whatever look she wants, and she does morph in the original story, so probably she will do so too in the film. I don't really see Italian kids feeling replaced by this one instance. Many of those Italian kids have characters in movies to relate themselves and their family members - but those kids with mothers that lost their hair due to illness do not often see a character that resembles their mom. It really does have a positive impact to see someone like your mom being represented.
    
    If this was a African story with the characters replaced with women from Italy people would riot.
    
    I suspect that if this was an African story and one of the mytical characters was replaced by a white Italian actor the Africans would not complain at all. Maybe even if the main character was replaced with a white actor, most people in Africa would be perfectly okay with that. I think this probably has already happened many times... In Mexico it used to happen all the time! It used to be very prestigious to get a famous foreign actor in one's film.
    
    I usually wouldn’t let my kids watch Disney movies anyway its a terrible company.
    
    I agree. I don't think I will have many rules when I have kids, so they'll watch Disney if they want, but I agree that it is a terrible company.
    
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