Dictation: The Little Mermaid Flops Actress Blames Racism

[hyunsik-yoon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdln8YORKY8

expression

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put down

• write or record something
• "write" 은 일반적 표현인데, "put down" 은 좀더 행동에 표현을 둔것이라 하고, 'in a way that is not favorable, accurate, or meaningful' 이라는 뉘앙스를 가진다 함.
• ex) "The journalist put down the interviewee's quotes in the article."
• ex) "She put down her thoughts about the book in a detailed review."

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put out

• release information to the public
• ex) "A lot of Hollywood publications had put out that there's bunch of racist trolls out there."
• ex) "The company plans to put out a new product line next month."
• ex) "The author has put out several best-selling novels in the past year."

troll

• 악플러. 악플을 달다.
• ex) "She decided to block the troll who was constantly leaving negative comments on her social media posts."
• ex) "He enjoys trolling online gaming communities by purposely disrupting gameplay."

racially

• ex) "She was racially attacked."

feud

• prolonged and often bitter conflict or dispute between two or more parties
• ex) "Disney is using this to further fuel online Feud."
• ex) "The two teams have been engaged in a public feud for months, constantly exchanging heated remarks on social media."

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money grab

• 가치도 없는 일로 돈을 얻어가는 것. cash grab 이라고도 가끔 쓰임.
• ex) "Some critics argue that the sequel to the popular film is just a money grab without any real creative vision."
• ex) "They thought that doctors were lazy money grabbers with time on their hands."

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come up with

• produce, create, or invent something, typically an idea, plan, or solution
• ex) "Disney is used to come up with so many original films."
• ex) "She always manages to come up with creative solutions "

critique vs criticize

• critique: 긍정적 뉘앙스. 비판하다 for constructive feedback, insight, improvement with balanced perspective
• criticize: 다소 부정적 뉘앙스. disapproval, fault, flaw, shortcoming
• ex) "Some fans and critics are only critiquing the film."

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conjure up

• create or bring forth something, often in a figurative sense.
• ex) "The artist's abstract paintings have the power to conjure up a range of emotions in the viewers."
• ex) "The magician was able to conjure up a rabbit from an empty hat, leaving the audience amazed."

provoke

• (특정반응을) 유발하다. 도발하다. 화나게 하다 ( incite, instigate, or stimulate a reaction or response from someone, often by deliberately causing annoyance, anger, or agitation)
• ex) "The political cartoon aimed to provoke public discussion on a sensitive issue."
• ex) "The aim of this project really is to provoke a paradigm shift."
• ex) "Bees only sting us when we provoke them."
• ex) "His provocative remarks during the debate were intended to provoke his opponents and generate controversy."

[hyunsik-yoon]

1

so the reviews for the little mermaid have come out and upon first glance, they look pretty good. however, when you do a little bit of digging, they seem to not actually make any sense at all.

so, as you can see, here upon this review, which is actually labeled as a good review, when you actually rate it, it's anything but as David Polen says, I wouldn't tell anyone not to see this movie, it is all about fan service, and if you are a fan who wants this, you should try it. But it's not a good movie.

what? what are you talking about, man?

yet , that's put down as a good review so that it doesn't make any sense at all. and when you dig a little dipper, you can see many reviews saying that this film is actually quite bad and quite boring.

but on top of these bad reviews, the actress Haley Baley has come out and said that a lot of online critics are just racist trolls and that the movies actually getting negative reviews online before people have event seen it, just because they are racists.

And look. I have no problem with Haley Baley saying that because I don't doubt that she's actually getting racially attacked online through direct messages or people tagging her in the tweet,

However, when you do read the actually reviews online, you can clearly see that they are not race base and they are actually attacking the film for what it is rather than who they cast.

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put down

• write or record something
• "write" 은 일반적 표현인데, "put down" 은 좀더 행동에 표현을 둔것이라 하고, 'in a way that is not favorable, accurate, or meaningful' 이라는 뉘앙스를 가진다 함.
• ex) "The journalist put down the interviewee's quotes in the article."
• ex) "She put down her thoughts about the book in a detailed review."

next: https://youtu.be/fdln8YORKY8?t=77

[hyunsik-yoon]

2

However, even though this is the case, a lot of Hollywood publications had put out that there's bunch of racist trolls out there attacking the little mermaid attacking Hailey Bailey.

And I think that a lot of Hollywood publications are probably influenced by Disney and I only saying this because this is the message Disney wants to put out.

However, in my opinion, all I have seen about this film has been negative reviews about the movie.

And I haven't seen much this actually racially attacking Haily Baily however the message being put out by these Hollywood publications is anything but that as it saying, so many toxic racisist fans their attacking Disney and attacking the little mermaid and this racists fans must be stopped. However, in my opinion, I haven't seen much of that at all.

So I think that this is a distracting technique done by Disney to distract people what the movie actually is which apparently is not a good film.

So I think that Disney is using this to further fuel online Feud and distract people from what the movie is actually is. So, all they talk about is racial abuse going towards Haily Baily which in my opinion through what I've seen on YouTube or online isn't much in the public feed

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put out

• release information to the public
• ex) "A lot of Hollywood publications had put out that there's bunch of racist trolls out there."
• ex) "The company plans to put out a new product line next month."
• ex) "The author has put out several best-selling novels in the past year."

troll

• 악플러. 악플을 달다.
• ex) "She decided to block the troll who was constantly leaving negative comments on her social media posts."
• ex) "He enjoys trolling online gaming communities by purposely disrupting gameplay."

racially

• ex) "She was racially attacked."

feud

• prolonged and often bitter conflict or dispute between two or more parties
• ex) "Disney is using this to further fuel online Feud."
• ex) "The two teams have been engaged in a public feud for months, constantly exchanging heated remarks on social media."

next: https://youtu.be/fdln8YORKY8?t=144

[hyunsik-yoon]

3

however, i still don't doubt that Haily Baily is receiving direct messages but when you do look at the reviews they are not racially attacking the film or Haily Baily at all.

Because when you look at the major critics of the film they are all saying that the movie is pointless and is exactly the same as the original film just live action and they are also saying a lot of live actions and CGI is really distracting and really poorly done and it takes away from the magic and the greatness of the story that they are telling

So after rating those reviews there is only one question in my mind is which is what's the point, what's the point of another remake of the film that they did back in the 90's.

to me, it doesn't make sense because they continue to do this and tell the exact same story again and again. just live action, everyone's annoyed by that. because who wants to go out and spend their hard earned money on cinema to watch the exact same film that they couldn't have watched at home on their tv.

it just doesn't make sense to me and it so clearly just money grab. which is clearly sad to me because Disney is used to be at the forefront of telling original stories.

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money grab

• 가치도 없는 일로 돈을 얻어가는 것. cash grab 이라고도 가끔 쓰임.
• ex) "Some critics argue that the sequel to the popular film is just a money grab without any real creative vision."
• ex) "They thought that doctors were lazy money grabbers with time on their hands."

next: https://youtu.be/fdln8YORKY8?t=211

[hyunsik-yoon]

4

Disney is used to come up with so many original films and original stories that everyone could love and enjoy. and part of the reason that everyone go and watch little mermaid is because the original movie with little mermaid was so good back in the 90 and early 2000, a lot of movies Disney was putting out are original. and they were really fun and really captivating. they had certain amount of magic about them. when you watch the original Peter Pan, when you watch the original Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, there's this Disney magic and everyone was captivated by that.

But now, all they seem to do is remakes which lack all the magic and all the elements that we enjoined Disney back in 90s and early 2000.

So, all this is clearly about the money and I think another way to drive money to this film is to then fuel the debate online over racism. and trying bring attention about the movie and distract from bad reviews by coming out and attacking some toxic fans and toxic critics who in my opinion are only critiquing the film.

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come up with

• produce, create, or invent something, typically an idea, plan, or solution
• ex) "Disney is used to come up with so many original films."
• ex) "She always manages to come up with creative solutions to complex problems."

critique vs criticize

• critique: 긍정적 뉘앙스. 비판하다 for constructive feedback, insight, improvement with balanced perspective
• criticize: 다소 부정적 뉘앙스. disapproval, fault, flaw, shortcoming
• ex) "Some fans and critics are only critiquing the film."

next: https://youtu.be/fdln8YORKY8?t=277

[hyunsik-yoon]

5

however, by them coming out and saying, all these people are racists and they attacking the movie and they must be stopped, they're able to just ---conjure up -- a lot of attentions and get a lot of people to go to the cinema and actually watch the movie for themselves.

so this is an attention seeking technique but in my opinion, it's actually quite dangerous. because by them coming out unprovoke and that's hacking a lot of people online that only causing them even more angry and that only adding fuel to the fire for them to come back and actually be racists. because they're gonna be come out and attack people without really being provoked at all. and attack a lot of people and call them racists then they're gonna come back really angry and react out of the motion.

and what this does actually make Halley Baily's life a lot worse and life of a lot of their actors a lot worse and they're one the only getting attacked online purely because Disney just wanna use this whole racism debate to bring attention to just make money.

it's honestly disgusting in my opinion i think the media has a lot to answer for here because they are the ones who're actually making the life of these actors and these actresses worse. and they're actually making the reviews for this film even worse as well. bacause so many people were just annoyed because they wish that you could just do it diverse casting film without coming out and lecturing people without coming out and provoking people and attacking people

just cast diverse people and don't even mention it. put the film out and not many people would attack the movie.

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conjure up

• create or bring forth something, often in a figurative sense.
• ex) "The artist's abstract paintings have the power to conjure up a range of emotions in the viewers."
• ex) "The magician was able to conjure up a rabbit from an empty hat, leaving the audience amazed."

provoke

• (특정반응을) 유발하다. 도발하다. 화나게 하다 ( incite, instigate, or stimulate a reaction or response from someone, often by deliberately causing annoyance, anger, or agitation)
• ex) "The political cartoon aimed to provoke public discussion on a sensitive issue."
• ex) "The aim of this project really is to provoke a paradigm shift."
• ex) "Bees only sting us when we provoke them."
• ex) "His provocative remarks during the debate were intended to provoke his opponents and generate controversy."

next: https://youtu.be/fdln8YORKY8?t=363

[hyunsik-yoon]

1. Do you like recent version of little mermaid?

2. you opinion about casting people with different color.

3. Do you think that Disney is making meney by raising racism issue?

4. I read lots comments like 'Hally Baily' did wrong because she accepted this casting. Do you think this is her fault?

5. What image do you have with Disney movie?

6. When you hear that Disney release some new movie, do you want to watch?

7. nowadays, Disney trys diverse casting. For example, woman, super heres with diverse skin colors, LGBTQ super here, etc. Do you think this is a good approach?

8. What's your opinion about Oscar's new diversity rule?

   • The new guidelines include requirements like at least one actor from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group being in a significant role or the story must center on women, LGBTQ people, a racial group or disabled people. (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3993056-richard-dreyfuss-says-new-diversity-rules-for-oscars-make-me-vomit/)