{"id":72019,"date":"2023-06-07T17:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T00:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=72019"},"modified":"2023-06-07T17:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T00:23:54","slug":"south-korea-and-china-barely-approved-the-little-mermaids-live-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/south-korea-and-china-barely-approved-the-little-mermaids-live-action\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea and China barely approved The Little Mermaid\u2019s live action"},"content":{"rendered":"

The two countries with the highest movie consumption in Asia, South Korea<\/strong> and China,<\/strong> ultimately demonstrated with the statistics shown regarding the box office performance of “The Little Mermaid”<\/strong><\/em> live-action film, that they do not fully approve of this new movie.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The poor acceptance<\/strong> is based on the reception that the public gave to the main actress, Halle Bailey<\/strong>, who portrayed Ariel, as they cannot conceive the new portrayal of the famous Disney princess<\/strong>, since she was originally a white-skinned princess, not a black-skinned one as the new actress.<\/p>\n

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In South Korea, the movie managed to attract around 472,000 viewers<\/strong> to the theaters, which is not much in comparison to the 643,000 viewers that the new delivery of the “Fast & Furious” franchise managed to gather.<\/p>\n

According to Box Office Mojo, the Disney film was able to gross $2.7 million in China during its first five days since its release, while another highly anticipated movie, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”, grossed an amusing $20 million, demonstrating that South Korea and China ultimately do not approve of this new production of “The Little Mermaid”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The main reasons for the lack of acceptance of the film are the significant changes made. According to the film review website Douban, “The Little Mermaid” has a rating of 5 out of 10 points, and the main comments about this rating admit that “the famous Disney fairy tale that we grew up with is unrecognizable,”<\/strong> while others derogatorily<\/strong> point out the racial differences between the original animated version and the live action.<\/p>\n

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Additionally, according to Comscore, the film has grossed $327 million worldwide<\/strong>, out of which China has not contributed with a significant percentage, instead, it\u2019s quite underwhelming<\/strong> in comparison to what the mouse house expected.<\/p>\n

In response to these criticisms, the film director Rob Marshall defended the actress<\/strong>, stating, “She didn’t outshine anyone; we had no intention of hiring someone based on their skin color. We simply sought the best Ariel, and she got the role.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two countries with the highest movie consumption in Asia, South Korea and China, ultimately demonstrated with the statistics shown regarding the box office performance of “The Little Mermaid” live-action film, that they do not fully approve of this new movie. The poor acceptance is based on the reception that the public gave to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2988,"featured_media":72022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1399,7,1316],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"category-news","9":"category-world"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72019"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=72019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}