I have absolutely nothing to do with Disney's The Princess and the Frog; I don't work for the company and had nothing to do with the making of it or the marketing and promotion, and yet
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Heh. Amusing to read everyone taking the opportunity to piss-&-moan about how awful the movie experience in a theater is these days. I've been crabbing about that since the 80s. I'm like a magnet for obnoxious movie-goers who wear too much perfume, chat with one another, kick the back of the seat in front of them repeated and rhythmically, talk on the phone, etc. and who always seem to sit in front of, next to, or behind me, and have been for decades.
Someone wrote that Disney obviously had a problem connecting deeply with the rich cultural African-American heritage of that era's New Orleans, so they stuck to the surface and called it a day. It's like they used all the same old hoary cliches and figured they would get away with it because they also threw a few bones to the modern-day audience -- which their actors could lean on heavily in interviews. Don't look at the ebil Voo-Doo Man jumping around, look at the empowered heroine who wants to open up her own restaurant instead!
According to some interviews I've read, the Clueless White People wrote and filmed it with the best of intentions (heaven help us), then showed bits of it to A Few "Nice" Black People Who Are Friends Of Ours (See? We're NOT Racist!) and they didn't get mad, so everyone figured they were okay with it.
Not just a Witchdoctor, there's also the same Voo-Doo priestess who was in the final episode of Seven Days (Live: From Death Row), as played by Nell Carter, who did it with a bad accent for the paycheck.
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Someone wrote that Disney obviously had a problem connecting deeply with the rich cultural African-American heritage of that era's New Orleans, so they stuck to the surface and called it a day. It's like they used all the same old hoary cliches and figured they would get away with it because they also threw a few bones to the modern-day audience -- which their actors could lean on heavily in interviews. Don't look at the ebil Voo-Doo Man jumping around, look at the empowered heroine who wants to open up her own restaurant instead!
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Not just a Witchdoctor, there's also the same Voo-Doo priestess who was in the final episode of Seven Days (Live: From Death Row), as played by Nell Carter, who did it with a bad accent for the paycheck.
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::headdesk::
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