Would you be upset if a Snow White movie cast a red haired actress?

Given how most portrayals show a black/dark haired snow white? Why would that upset you?

If this would not upset you, but black Ariel does - why? If hair color doesn't matter why does skin color?

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InOtterWords · F

The original story is by Grimm is :

[c=008099] ...a queen sits sewing at an open window during a winter snowfall when she pricks her finger with her needle, causing three drops of red blood to drip onto the freshly fallen white snow on the black windowsill. Then, she says to herself, "How I wish that I had a daughter that had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair as black asebony." Sometime later, the queen gives birth to a baby daughter whom she names Snow White, but the queen dies in childbirth
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So if you are staying true to the story i can understand people being upset....but we also should move on from type casting.

The thing about the Little Mermaid is that she is not physically described in the original story

And ....my own personal thing....is she is a mythical creature ..... so she can be any colour

Pinkstarburst

@InOtterWords Did the brothers even give the little mermaid a name? I don’t remember?

InOtterWords · F

@Pinkstarburst the little mermaid was. Written by Hand Christian Andersen....none of the characters had a name. She was the little mermaid, her father was the MerKing, there was the Prince and the SeaWitch and a princess who the prince marries

Pinkstarburst

@InOtterWords I remember she suffered terribly to become human and killed herself when the prince rejected her.

InOtterWords · F

@Pinkstarburst she could have regained her tail if she staked him through the heart but she chose not to