"RAPUNZEL SHOULD NOT BE INDIAN" ok, says who?

[@miles_quartz]

wait all of this was based off of a fan casting?? be REALL 😭

[@glenRockfuntimefoxy]

YES!

[@ThePrincessCH]

It's not that surprising. In China, an actor named Xiao Zhan got flamed over a fanfiction depiction on Archive of Our Own. Xiao Zhan lost some sponsorships, and China banned Archive of Our Own.

[@LivingBreathingPoet]

Romani people are an Indian diaspora group with people across the globe. People saying "there are no Indians in Germany!" are ignoring the Sinti and Rom who do live there. Or did.

[@falconeshield]

Justice for the Roma!

[@groggydoggy]

In sweden romani people have a long history so ignoring that part is just absurd, same with germany as you said

[@ciggyfreud]

That is such a good point, I know it’s just kids movies but imagine a Romani Rapunzel, it could be so beautiful and also introduce/educate a whole generation of kids about the history of Romani people. Too bad Disney would almost definitely never do that 😪

[@lauramathews3151]

Preach!!!!

[@JustMe-no8el]

yo!!!!!!

[@connor_patrick]

it's even more gross since avantika is 19. she's still barely an adult and adults online are attacking her for something she had absolutely no part in and no control over. they are bullying a teenager over a disney movie.

[@Pencilfiend241]

I think if they race swap the character, they should do the same with the story. Im not Indian but I feel like it should be the Indian version of Rapunzel. There's a book named Punckkin that is an Indian version of the story. i feel like it would be better than only race swapping the character

[@redherringoffshoot2341]

this I agree w/

[@jackiekenobi3359]

Why change the story if the base message and story itself isn't based in their race or culture. It's about a fictional girl in the woods why does she need to be white? The original story is German should tangled have taken place in Germany?

[@redherringoffshoot2341]

@@jackiekenobi3359 it’s presumed that it did take place in Germany

[@jackiekenobi3359]

@redherringoffshoot2341 how does this affect the characters, plot, or setting of the movie?

[@PrKo]

@@jackiekenobi3359 Well I personally feel like (in this hypothetical situation where they cast a brown actress) the movie having more ties to south asian culture would justify the actress being played by an Indian as opposed to them just retelling the same exact story. Regardless I'm indifferent either way, I don't care that much who plays Rapunzel because I'm not heavily invested in live action disney movies much less a live action rapunzel movie lol

[@candicoated2001]

What gets me about the 'German representation' argument is that I have not seen one German complain about this or even care about this. (Almost like they have more important things to worry about than some fictional princess.) If anything, they would probably have their own version of the fairytale that would be way more accurate and authentic to the story in the first place tbh. The only people I have seen cry about this is white Americans and Disney adults that probably can't even point to Germany on a map or name a German city that isn't Berlin. But they care so much about German representation, believe me.

[@pink-roses-and-scarlet-skies]

They do this with every European country I swear. People were whining that the Little Mermaid wasn't Danish, but I didn't hear one single person complain that Belle was being played by an English actress instead of a French one, and unlike Ariel her nationality was *actually* relevant. (No hate towards Emma, I'm sure she did a great job, I'm just using her as an example to point out the hypocrisy.)

[@smokeandshadows]

I bet something absolutely fuckin horrendous happens in the original German tale lol

[@pink-roses-and-scarlet-skies]

"wHaT iF tHeY cAsT a wHiTe aCtReSs tO pLaY A nOn-wHiTE pRiNceSS " bro they already did. Multiple times. Even ignoring all of the voice actresses and just focusing on live action, Princess Jasmine was played by a half white (and half Indian, and therefore 0% Arab) actress, and no one batted an eye.

[@BruhBruh-wo7me]

There was actually controversy over Naomi Scott playing Jasmine...

[@Peacebewithu34]

​@@BruhBruh-wo7me Not as big as Halle playing Ariel and Rachel playing snow white. Let's be real

[@arcie3716]

The amount of hate that got sent to that Avantika and Maitreyi over a fan cast was wild 😭

[@imtheonewhobroughtthebeans915]

This comment is gonna be so overly long, but damn I love this vid. This thing has rly been upsetting me. Seeing ppl put up a picture of Avantika, say they’d be outraged if she played Rapunzel, then show collages of blonde, light eyed women they’ve deemed suitable to be a princess in this story. Ugh. Ew. So unsettling. Often straight up gross. And the lack of creativity in these ppl is just ridiculous, too!! These overly faithful live action remakes literally serve no purpose. They’re just watered down versions of cartoons that acc brought smth original and singular to audiences. The only way for these dumb, cash grab remakes to justify their own existence is to change the story or it’s context. I wish Disney would set a Rapunzel remake in a sort of amorphous, generalized, fantasy Indian subcontinent just like they’ve historically done w Europe. I wish they’d cast an up and coming south Asian actress. I wish they’d write new songs for it with orchestrations inspired by Indian classical music. And- oh my God- I would literally burn cities to the ground to have Rekha play Mother Gothel. Slinking around in a red silk sari looking all sexy and evil. When?? Well, never, cause that would require Disney to be original for once and take a creative risk. Can’t wait for live action Rapunzel with worse versions of the songs from the original movie, one awful original song to nominate for the Oscar, and an actress who was born with brown hair and who’s not of German descent, who all these internet crazies will adore anyways. Yayyy! 🎉 🫠

[@KarraMeansSpicy]

hold on, gotta look for your mic, since you DROPPED IT

[@babysleepysheepyrainbow]

Yes, Rapunzel is a German story however none of the elements of Rapunzel in Tangled is Germanic (except the some of the names, like Rapunzel and Gothel) The kingdom's name is "Corona" which is spanish??? Pascal sounds french, Flynn is an Irish name, and Eugene is of greek origin apparently?? Therefore if anyone tries to claim it's "Important German Representation" they don't actually care.

[@TheMadTurtle]

But they all WHAAAAAAAIIIIITE

[@Kristal-Gamer]

its still meant to be white

[@LenaFerrari]

Pretty sure Pascal is Italian

[@deusex9731]

as a certified german, i couldnt give less of a fuck. Like i already have a white rapunzel to represent me (im not blond btw xD), so go ahead and make some more rapunzels. There is an argument made, if raceswapping hurts the internal logic of a story and that i would rather see new stories, than disneys money loundering scheme that are the remakes, but in the end, if it makes people happy what do i care.

[@lauramathews3151]

The colors and flowers and folk music of India would be amazing on screen. The don't know what they're missing.... a feast for the eyes and a good time. Case and point Bollywood dance numbers.

[@sublimesquiggly]

ALSO!!! They act like they’re sooo concerned about “German ancestry being represented” and when asked who they would like to play rupunzel instead, all they can come up with is Amanda Seyfried and Florence Pugh, neither of whom are German, btw!

[@candicoated2001]

Honestly, the fact all this outrage is over a fancasting says a lot

[@SpaceMonkey15]

A thing that I don't think a lot of people get is that there are other versions of fairy tales. Like, yeah, the movie is based predominently on the German version, which is the best known. But Rapunzel is more or less an adaptation of an Italian version, and the story belongs to an international fairy tale type called The Maiden in the Tower. I haven't specifically found a documented Indian eqiivalent, but that doesn't necessarily mean that there isn't one. There are Greek and Egyptian and Middle Eastern versions, even. It's a very old oral tradition. The story belongs to everyone.

[@kiarasessyoin-xo8vf]

I think it makes so much sense for her to be Indian. Indian women have some of the longest, most beautiful hair in the world! ❤

[@ashen_rainbows]

i didnt know this whole shitstorm was bc of a FANCAST .WHAT.WHYY😭😭😭😭

[@sleepyemployee92]

Ok but Pantene called. They want you in their next shampoo commercial.

[@KarraMeansSpicy]

Karra Means Sponsorship?

[@MysticDojo]

the crazy thing is where were these people when disney made princess and the frog? No one complaining that they reimagined the european fairy tail as a black south american story? And people reimagine and reinterpret folktales and stories all the time, literally Alladin should actually be chinese in the story and 0 people even if they were middle eastern or chinese bat an eye. It's really disparaging for people even to say they should make their own films because on average people of color get so little opportunity or support in this industry and all the more oppressed when just a handful of them are pushed towards success

[@ThePrincessCH]

"The Princess and The Frog" introduces the original folktale as a separate narrative. In the first scene, we already see Tiana's mother reading the story from the book. As for "Aladdin," from my understanding, the original came from "One Thousand and One Nights," an Arabic story, despite taking place in China (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

[@LakinMae5]

@@ThePrincessCHthe western part of China had a lot of middle eastern influence, so it isn’t out the ordinary for that region of China.

[@gabrielleduplessis7388]

My only complaint is god, not another remake. Please just make an original film. I am all for more representation, but in an original work. That sounded bad. I feel their acting chops will shine more when they are not competing with the original iteration of the character, at least when it comes to all of these remakes. Broadway and theater are know for doing famous plays over and over again and bringing their own spin on them. What am I saying? Oh yeah. Let the originals breathe a little bit and bring these actors in on more original roles that will let them shine more. I am done. Sorry for the badly worded rant.

[@dinosaysrawr]

Uh, who has prettier hair than South-Asian women, and who knows how best to maintain it? Did German Rapunzel use Argan oil? Did she even know what Argan oil is? I rest my case.

[@tragicallyhoney]

What do you even mean

[@jjstarA113]

All I ask is that Flynn/Eugene/the love interest also be Indian or BIPOC. Hollywood is always pairing these young women of color with White boys and it's getting old.

[@BruhBruh-wo7me]

Never gets old for me

[@vel5785]

@BruhBruh-wo7me yesss give us nothing. 😪

[@sumlem]

I'm not Indian so I'm going to comment on a situation I vaguely heard about with personal vengeance and audacity.

[@sumlem]

In all seriousness, the fact that people have made the argument about race swapping Disney characters that are already POC and that POC alter their appearance, too.... The race of characters like Tiana is very much a part of her story. It wouldn't thematically make sense for a white woman to struggle with issues of misogynoir and class in New Orleans during the Jazz Age. I hate hate hate the argument that no one should ever call out appropriation ever because POC do their hair and makeup a certain way. It's as if there is a historical, cultural, systemic precedent as to why POC participate in altering their appearance. It's as if certain physical traits and modes of dress attributed to POC were illegal/prosecuted. But I don't expect anyone who makes that argument to think of anything past their bubble.

[@alegria1813]

THE RESTARTED JOKE LMAO

[@Pooky1991]

If shows like HBO's Happily Ever After came out today, these people's head would explode.

[@princembat]

and you just KNOW these people dont care about the issues in the original movie either. by that i mean mother gothel... shes antisemitic. like, she has dark curly hair and a severe face and her entire story plays into the blood libel stereotype, one where jewish people were said to kidnap Nice Pure Children and use their blood for baking or dark magic. im jewish, i see antisemitic stereotypes all the time, me and my fellow jews try and tell people about these things, but its so pervasive that people dont usually listen. would mother gothel still need to have that dark curly hair? that severe face? would they throw a fit about that? my only ask for a live action repunzel is that she somehow keeps that hint of how the sun flower was used to keep her alive, but it doesnt even necessarily need to be her hair color, but i know theyd keep it as that. i feel like there could be a lot of ways to represent that, but whatever. all this said, i do love tangled. i love the movie and the show, even if they have their issues (seriously why do so many characters in the show have huge noses and why are they usually bad guys. hello.) i probably wouldnt watch the live action anyway since ive yet to see any live actions since they all sound horrible. i just keep hoping one comes out that sounds like its worth a shit, but disney doesnt seem to care enough for that. i keep up with their animated movies, not the live action ones.

[@ka.BLAMM0]

incredibly common and non-shocking Karra Means Spicy W

[@miles_quartz]

hiii! I'm 18 and I do think about Rapunzel a lot lol I watched the series and the movie like a dozen times, I love the original songs and the world building of the series. I am a big fan of a lot of Disney films, and always will appreciate the artistry and hard work that goes into creating a film or animated series, I really just despise Disney as a company. from polluting the environment with their cruise ships, factories producing Disney merchandise at such a massive scale that most of it will end up in a landfill in less than 2 years!!!, exploiting their workers, etc just screw Disney, but yk nothing new capitalism is gonna capitalism lol Disney isn't unique in sucking and being awful, not to mention like a major lack of genuine queer representation. I'm just not a fan of Disney live action remakes, if it were up to me they wouldn't exist at all lol if it was made out of genuine love and appreciation for the story by people who were actually passionate about the project then that would be fine by me, but it's always they make a live action movie to sell tickets, sell toys, sell shirts/bags/books/ etc etc! it's all about consuming and that sucks imo I would love to see a south Asian woman play rapunzel, i think she would be beautiful 🥹 in fact I've seen lots of fanart of her as Indian years before this was ever a controversy and loved it, but I feel like so many people just don't respect the animation industry and see it as "lesser" or childish and less worthy of appreciation ig? idk how to describe it. like voice actors never get the same respect as big Hollywood stars. :/ personally I just don't like live action remakes like at all idk maybe im just a hater but it always feel like a "GIVE US MONEYYY!!!" there are so many BIPOC indie creators who DO actually want to make their own media representing POC but their projects never get funded or taken seriously because we all have to pay attention to another 600 million dollar Disney live action remake 😭 FUND INDIE ANIMATION 👏 👏 👏 idk I'm just rambling man lol

[@miles_quartz]

NEW KARRA MEANS SPICY UPLOAD EVERYONE CLAPPED ❤❤❤❤❤

[@falconeshield]

CLAP CLAP CLAP

[@snekdood]

honestly a south asian repunzel sounds awesome. also, why is everyone saying shes german?? they never said she was in the movie :| edit: WAIT, THERES GONNA BE A HINDU DISNEY PRINCESS??!?!?!??! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@nalurodriigues]

Internet always sensitive about us being disrespectful to princesses who LITERALLY DO NOT EXIST AND ARE THE MATERIALIZATION OF A WORK OF FICTION MADE FOR KIDS. Always a big ass full grown person complaining as if the biggest problem of their lives weren't money or job or time, but A FREAKING SKIN AND HAIR COLOUR-whyyyy My boyfriend is literally the FACE of Flynn Rider with that goatee and perfect wavy hair and he's pakistani. Y'all have no idea how much I annoy this man to do the rizz smirk.

[@nalurodriigues]

4:05 NOT EVEN CINDERELLA? I'm sad. I'm dyin

[@itsd3br33]

Its a good day when Karra posts (also you ate today)

[@angelinamathew2289]

This reminds me so much of the time when they casted Halle for the Little Mermaid Live action, also totally agree with the live action remakes of og movies like it legit lacks sustenance and no layers to the characters

[@MonkeyDanceAlongs]

I laughed more than i almost ever do during a youtube video. Great job at keeping it positive, too. Good luck with everything

[@juliacheneyillustration3928]

One of my main thoughts about this discourse is that: the animated movie already changed a lot from the original fairytale, why is the live action not allowed to deviate from the animated version?? Like, in the Little Mermaid fairytale, she turns into foam at the end while the Disney animated version she gets happily married to the prince. The Tangled movie is very different from the original Rapunzel fairytale! It's all about translating a story into a different medium for a different audience. Why do people only care about the color of a character's skin, and not the various other things that are different from the original fairytale?

[@pompitousoflove]

Omg I would only see a live action Rapunzel if Reka was mother Gothel.

[@lauramathews3151]

I was inspired by the WWII eugenics reference, I want to see a spoof where Rapunzel is Mexican but her name is Lechuga, and her captor can be La Bruja, and her love interest can be a vaquero. Perhaps during the Zimmermann Note Scandal rather than the Middle Ages to tie in the Mexico- Germany foreign relations...

[@Rangers-Win7CC]

I would love a brown version of repunzel

[@pajamaramayt]

Can’t someone of Indian decent also be German? Like there’s Ethnicity, and then there’s race. LET HER BE INDIAN. COME ON. I’m white but I want her to be Indian so badly. Im so worked up I’m currently writing a whole story about an Indian woman with crazy long hair and gorgeous braids. (I’m doing my own research, but if anyone has ideas to make the story more relatable, gimme)

[@krishnaanand7597]

Yeah I loved this movie as an Indian American preteen and didn’t feel super strongly about either avantika or maitreyi playing rapunzel but at this point I want her to be south Asian out of spite

[@carolkoski4875]

In the age of disney trying to own everything, it's easy to forget their movies are based off public domain stories (that date back to folk tales present in multiple cultures through time). Rapunzel is one of them, so it's totally possible to make an indian production of a Rapunzel movie that's everything south asian women deserve irt representation. We (people, artists) need to go back and take ownership of the stuff these big corporations want to make it solely theirs

[@Shiva-nx1tn]

what about Southasian Man It Also Deserve To Play BY Man

[@zahrabjinu]

Indians keep long hair. Have the best hair quality. And we can have Rapunzel with dark brown or black hair based on that.

[@lewa3910]

I want Indian rapunzel but animated. Disney needs to start trying with their animated movies again. Wish was such a disappointment as I really wanted Asha to be the lead in an amazing movie, not another mediocre animated disney film

[@wa-bu3ke]

I'd rather an Indian disney story. Feel like it's also white supremacy to have to be put in white people stories

[@m.gorssa]

First off - we do not, I repeat, WE DO NOT NEED another Disney live action remake. Secondly, casting a South (S-E) Asian actress makes sense culturally - to put it simply, hair is a big deal in that part of the world, where in The West - it's fashion, it's trend for most people. Stripping the whole hair discours barely to it's colour is just ignorant.

[@SimberPlays]

I support the rants

[@alwaysright9099]

❤❤❤❤❤ I love your content!! I’m an African American woman that has always thought what you just said in this video !!!

[@FlamingDiva]

People really need to learn to fact check and stop hating on others for dumb reasons. Rapunzel isn't even a natural blonde in Tangled, it was the flower that turned her hair blonde! At the end of the movie she is brunette and I never got why she's blonde (and long haired?) in the show but like whatever, you know? Anyway I am so here for your rant videos and I died at the windows restart sound.

[@belosneshkaaaa]

ive seen beautiful fanart of rapunzel in a indian themed design and i find it even more interesting looking than the original, i dont get the fuss lmao

[@Ambi1021]

I think majority of the outrage is from people who aren't Disney fans. They just want to be outraged for the sake of being outraged.

[@GalaxyfullofStars]

No but as a white girl, I kinda want a movie *about* different East-Asian mythologies? you guys could make your own fairytales! I bet you guys could make better movies than Disney themselves!

[@joyeetaghosh2209]

They are lot of amazing story of story and mythology we even have real life girl boss queen who fought britishers although she lost bu t damn it was amazing

[@VC-cx8gf]

people get waaay too pressed over disney movies. like if you dont like the cast of any live action adaptation, the orginal is still there?? no one is burning all the files of tangled and forcing you to watch the new one that isn't even being made. like come on get a grip. my fav version of these comments are the ones that are like "why are you racebending these characters just make your own!" and then when a movie comes out that isnt about white people they cry about disney/pixar/dreamworks etc pandering to the woke crowd, so honestly i dont care what they do with the characters.

[@magickconchshell]

"Rapunzel is German" is such a loud dog whistle like fr just say what you mean. I honestly forgot the story is German because German heritage has nothing at all to do with the plot or her character beyond her name. Rapunzel could be played by anyone and we already have a blonde version in CG. Disney has plenty of aryan protagonists

[@topcatfan]

Hey i noticed how you changed your pfp personality i liked the old one because it reminds me of the red mist/ love town from LOR and in the new one you look like a soy jack but your opinion on it maters x10000⁸ times more then mine tho

[@KarraMeansSpicy]

NOT THE SOYJAK LMAOOOOOOOOOO

[@jellypupdreams]

I wanted to make a request on analyzing nonhuman characters who are south asian or headcanoning nonhuman characters as south asian! I would love to hear your opinions on characters like the Caterpillar from the Disney cartoon movie Alice in Wonderland, or even Twilight Sparkle and how a lot of people headcanon her as south asian !

[@Solinesn3p]

The bloody bindi makes me giggle every time wtf

[@Urmumlel7025]

If Rapunzel's race changes, then so would the world. There is one thing to note that the Rapunzel story is one very rooted in Germanic myths. But, she isn't *THE* Germanic fairytale story. Same reason why I don't think Merida(Scotland) or Hercules(Greece) should be changed, but not Cinderella or Ariel.

[@pink-roses-and-scarlet-skies]

Okay, but they already *changed* her world when they released the animation. They set it in a fictional place called Corona that has few to no actual Germanic influences and they gave most of the characters non-Germanic names. I agree on Merida and Hercules, because those movies were *actually* set in their countries of origin, but I think that if people were going to get upset about Rapunzel not being German, they should have done it 14 years ago when the animated movie came out.

[@wa-bu3ke]

@@pink-roses-and-scarlet-skies The architecture, clothing, and dances were german

[@thedarknessunderneathpodca6366]

The mermaid one was odd. It's based off a story, where the character isn't necessarily red head or white since it is a mermaid.

[@sohanarahaman8070]

I don’t get why doesn’t really matter that much with the live action Rapunzel movie 🍿 being south asian woman.

[@evileyelash8094]

I would love an Indian Rapunzel! She's cute AF ❤

[@tragicallyhoney]

So make an Indian version and don’t copy the original

[@lucymolockian1849]

My favorite is when they switch out historical figures and redheads. Confuse them when they are young.

[@gabrielleduplessis7388]

Now that my rant is over, a new one. Halle, rachel, this actress. No one in the industry defends them. You hired them to be in your film and just feed them to the wolves. Help them. Give them good PR. Edit: wrote before hearing that it was a fan casting. Apologies. But my point still stands. Sorry for bringing up Bridgerton. But considering all the hype that show has gotten, especially for its diversity including putting people of color as the romantic leads, I am surprised at all the hate for people of color playing the Disney characters. Race did not make up the core component of the story. I hate that the actresses have to suffer all of this back lash over such a (in my opinion) small thing. I think those are my two rants. Sorry.

[@lalaland2107]

Before I continue watching, you’re so beautiful. ❤

[@Chowderchef]

Id go crazy for an indian rapunzel tbh, like PLEASE i loved halle as ariel

[@teurba-chiredfurrball787]

also nice intro, vintage

[@LupitaLaChona]

Until you said it, I did not know that the traditional Rapunzel story was German. I have not read it so I don’t know if there is a lot of German culture and history part of that story. Tangled has probably to my knowledge, no German culture in it or noticeably German culture in it. I did not think of what culture she was from in that fictional world. So if we just go off the story that Rapunzel is a girl locked up by an evil stepmother, and she finds herself and her freedom. Any girl of any race could play her. People are just happy to show their racism online at a drop of a penny as quick as they can do it.

[@teurba-chiredfurrball787]

YOO WHATS UP NEW VID LETS GOO

[@weabug]

i love you so much! so many of your videos are so helpful. before watching, i already have the same opinions and mindsets as you, but i struggle to put my thoughts into coherent sentences. i live in an european country where around 99,5% are white. often times when discussions even remotely related to different races and ethnicities come up, the majority has very harmful opinions they take for facts. in my day to day life, i give my best to try to speak to people in my circles with similar bad takes and educate them. because our education system has not much changed after the soviet times, it is not very strong. i do not have the best resources to help my arguments. that is why i started reading books and watching more videos such as yours. forever grateful for your high quality content! much love!

[@jadelovelife]

my question for all the people complaining have you watched the second Rapunzel movie or TV show

[@MsYakYak94]

I think the funniest part of the insistence that Rapunzel Has to be a Natural Blonde or whatever is that.... she's canonically not. In the movie, her hair is only blonde because of the flower and when it's cut, it turns brown. She's literally unnaturally blonde. Obviously that's not why the racists are complaining about the idea of Rapunzel being Indian--they don't Actually care about hair color--but it's still funny to me.

[@mykitteniskillingmebaby]

LOVE U KARRA 💖💐💝

[@lynne1280]

My take, it doesn’t matter who plays her because they are going to wear a wig anyways. I don’t care and probably won’t watch anyways. And I also think we need to start making new stories. I need more stories to hear I don’t care about live action movies.

[@doywinchester]

what I also don't get is people acting like the live action remakes are gonna wipe the original movies off the face of the earth 😭😭 like you mentioned, it's literally just going to be a different version of the story, like- no one's deleting the one that's special to you (though I really doubt any of the people complaining really care about the actual movie)... Plus, she could also just have lighter/more saturated brown hair, that could still be cgid to glow when she sings, that gets turns black when it's cut and loses its power... it's not that serious

[@llj8612]

Tbh I feel it's kinda embarrassing getting mad as an adult Everytime you see that they changed the race of a character, like why do you care

[@bedsidearts]

My partner is sleeping beside me and I keep waking them laughing at the national socialist party clips. You are a clips goddess. If you want a free researcher hit me up.

[@s_s7833]

Do you have a patreon?

[@sildarmillion]

On the topic of a South Asian actor playing Rapunzel ... the discourse, sadly, focuses too much on what Rapunzel is "supposed to" look like and also on race, because it's ultimately all about racism and colorism and so on. BUT I think the much bigger issue is that I would hate to see an Indian cast portraying a story, that in its essence is _white_ . I want an Indian cast in a story that captures an Indian essence. An Indian story. (Also let's not pretend that Disney's Rapunzel has a German essence, that story has been Americanized AF.) There could be an interesting case to be made for making an Indian adaptation of the Rapunzel story (like Indian adaptation of Jane Austen novels), but you can't do an adaptation like that justice if you're also trying to pander to Disney fans and trying to stay true to the Disney movie.

[@ultimate6295]

Cool (new?) intro!

[@marveler8994]

Hollywood's been doing race swaps for decades, and people complained about it back then too. Obviously the amount of racists coming out of the woodwork to whine about people that don't look like them "ruining their movies" has increased with the internet and 2016 as a whole, but this song and dance is just gonna keep happening for whatever reason.

[@BertabeeKM]

I have such a good time watching your video, I laugh so much❤❤❤

[@lauramathews3151]

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE an Indian Rapunzel or a Black Rapunzel with Vacation Braids on Steroids... Avantika Vandanapu [or Charithra Chandran] was a brilliant fan choice. I wish they'd run with it and cast her tomorrow. I can't unsee it. If they insist on sticking to the image in the first film It would have to be Amanda Seyfried, but that's so predictable... but also they were both Karen from Mean Girls...

[@llj8612]

I want Hollywood to change an originally nonwhite character white just to get these people to shut cause it's starting to get old hearing people complain about the race of a character which is arguably one of the least important things about them

[@Eloraurora]

They've done that already, decades ago, with real-world historical figures: Genghis Khan played by John Wayne.

[@llj8612]

@@Eloraurora lol that's like the worst guy they could've picked too 🤣

[@fandommenace9575]

Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra .

[@NanakwameMensah-ct7is]

The way y'all care and argue about your Disney princesses/characters/children's movies as adults is very funny and wild to me 😂😂"Rapunzel's German"but her ethnicity is thrown out when y'all choose non-German girls(most of them aren't real blondes) including Taylor Swift(singer not an actress)😂😂and those of y'all saying Disney should create new stories of diverse people are the same people who will say Disney's WOKE/DEI so what should Disney do for y'all now there are horrible things happening in the world y'all should worry about and last i have a solution to your problem;seek your therapists cause the hate/racism is now becoming a disease and get jobs😂😂😂

[@JustMe-no8el]

isn't this story a third or fourth remake of a persian story? So can we go back to the real race lol!

[@gamecitysavior2910]

In a movie about hair Indian hair is the best hair hands down, thier stuff shine like CGI in real life, in a good unreal way. ❤

[@BobbyMoore2-mp8wb]

🤞

[@teurba-chiredfurrball787]

glad u know bill burr, hes funny

[@thedragon12]

Rapunzel itself is a german fable AND name. So yeah no Rapunzel cannot be race swapped. HOWEVER, you could adapt the story to the indian culture which would change the name and some part of the story. The general structure of the story could remain the same but have minimal changes so it becomes its own thing.

[@saffyesperas2278]

Naomi Scott is half white, half Indian. You are right though.

[@LenaFerrari]

Honesty it's pretty annoying, bc this people are racist, but not everyone who cares for characters staying accurate to their originals is doing it out of being racist. For example, Idk if you kept up with it, but in the original Percy Jackson movie adaptation there was A LOT of backlash for annabeth being a brunet (still white), way more than ginger grover being played by a black actor (they actually made him funny, and the least hated part of the film for most of the Fandom). Heck, Percy's eyes being blue instead of green got more backlash than black grover. At least from deep in the Fandom where I was Recently, I've been called racist for not being a fan of the new casting for the series, wich made me super mad, bc while I wasn't thrilled with black annabeth I tought it was kinda justified, bc the original had almost only white characters, and I get wanting to add representation, but I was actually really upset with blond Percy, bc you could just dye his hair or add a wig, or whatever, there's no reason why they wouldn't stay accurate to the books (black hair). So I was actually, at that comment that I got called racist as a reply, complaining about how they weren't even trying to get the characters right, thinking of Percy, but left it vague, but ofc, if I was complaining about the casting of the new series, I had to be a racist complaining about black annabeth, I guess, for racist reasons Nerds care about the characters from the franchises they like and from their childhood not being messed with, that's a whole thing. Particularly I think a character of color being portrayed as white is double bad, bc it messes with the character + erases representation A separate thing from this racist people having issues with people of color. And unfortunately those became kinda intertwined with the terrible nerd to alt right pipeline, but some of us still just care about the integrity of our characters, that we care way too much about, bc we are nerds and that's what nerds do It feels like violating something sacred, to alter what was already perfect, etc. Nerds being nerds and taking pop culture too serious, but it's our thing In this case, most of this people are too old to have grown with tangled and even more to be current fans, so it's mostly racism anyway, but please don't let it taint your idea of everyone who cares about accurate casting. We are annoying as hell, but not all of us are racist

[@LenaFerrari]

The paragraph before the last kinda disregarded Disney adults and some of the animation fans, wich is ironic, as a huge fan of some Disney-pixar movies myself. It was just misconstructed. I meant that bc of their age most of those people wouldn't be fans of tangled, but not that that there couldn't be such fans in the middle of them

[@GattlingCombo]

Firstly I say this as a black person. This is reminding me of the black Superman movie discussion my brother told me about. People got up in arms about it of course. There was even a black youtuber who said "KEEP SUPERMAN WHITE. SUPERMAN NEEDS TO BE WHITE." There was a rumor of a Superman movie where superman would be black, but there would be no consequences to him being black in the story. I do think those consequences should exist in that story, and it would give an awesome and interesting perspective. But yeah it wasn't just the usual right winged white supremacy DC bigots getting mad about this. Black people with internalized white supremacy were angry as well 🙄. How exhausting.

[@Pooky1991]

Shoot, I am reminded of the black 007 discussion as well. Its exhausting dealing with several the outrage from these anti-woke types and these are the same people who will call you a snowflake for calling out racism or accuse you of pulling a "race card" while they foam at the mouth over fictional characters.

[@adiroxlife]

Black supreman would be cool but than he should go through similar life and struggles black people go through.

[@mallorynicholas7574]

first

[@KarraMeansSpicy]

Gold star for you!⭐

[@angelagokool9514]

Well, first of all, the movie isn't actually being made; it's just a rumor. Second of all, fairy tales aren't just for children, they're for EVERYONE. Third, people don't like change, or to see their nostalgia being RUINED. Finally, yes, Rapunzel was in fact a European fairy tale, written by a WHITE person! But I understand that we're all entitled to our opinions. And people who mentioned that Rapunzel is a European story, including myself, are just stating the facts. And yes, I do agree with those who think that Disney needs more originality. Well, not just Disney, but Hollywood, in general.

[@peitskie2939]

Okay but in my opinion it is disrespectfull to the original writer of the story. I will put myself in the writer of tangled's shoes (ik it is fairytale from Germany yet doesnt have a spesific writer) and i will be recreating the same scenerio happening to me. Someone just changed the all physical traits that i personally insisted in my story. I honestly would be hella mad cuz it was my imagination yet my characters. If i wanted them Asian i will say they are Asian with dark colored hair. If i wantedd them to be Indian i will also mentioned them as it is. Just changing someone's story just because making awareness is just an excuse and let me tell you its an awfull excuse. If you are still saying that it is okay since it doesnt effect the story then lets make all the princes genderbent and make Disney a gay hole ? Still the same pilot , still the same story but i wanna make my own Tiana , just big white light colored hair and makemy own Naveen Asian :)) Do you have a problem with that considering you are okay since its the same plot you shouldnt

[@Peacebewithu34]

It seems to me you clearly didn't even listen to the video and come up with a conclusion (as always) by saying, "what if Tiana is white"? Yet, princess and the frog originally is German and Disney changed it to a black princess with New Orleans culture.😑

[@r.i.t.i.k.a]

11:54 wait is this real? WE ARE ACTUALLY GETTING A DISNEY MOVIE? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@Future_cat_lady]

this whole "Rapunzel have to be WHITE and BLONDE and GERMAN 🤬🤬🤬" makes me so uncomfortable.

[@PabloHernandez-yo9qd]

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