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Disney's Little Mermaid Remake Should Honor the Tale's Queer Legacy
With another Disney live-action remake of an animated classic coming up soon, many fans are buzzing around the new Little Mermaid. There are many aspects of the story that have been talked over, critiqued, and rethought over the 33 years since the iconic Disney animated film hit theaters. There is, however, one popular aspect that could help the new clip succeed if it is addressed. Ever since the original story was penned by Hans Christian Anderson in 1837, The Minute Mermaid has been a symbol of the LGBTQIA experience, with both the story and the production being widely accepted by the community and often read as an allegory thereof.
It's been theorized that Hans Christian Anderson wrote The Little Mermaidwhile struggling with unrequited love for another man, Edvard Collin. In this case, his relationship with Collin somewhat resembled the relationship between the Mermaid and the Prince in the story. With that context in mind, The Little Mermaid can be read as an allegory for various LGBTQIA experiences, including organism transgender, with the Mermaid's tail becoming legs. Most directly, the Mermaid'
Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid Is Really About Homosexual Love
Disney's live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, starring Halle Bailey, created a lot of buzz from the moment the first trailer dropped. Many seemed focused on the differences between the live-action and cartoon versions. However, Disney's animated movie is itself an adaptation and actually has several differences when compared to the imaginative story, which scholarly interpretations have analyzed may actually be a metaphor for unrequited gay love.
"The Short-lived Mermaid" was originally written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen in the 1830s. While it shares similarities to Disney's cartoon, the original story was much darker and had a different ending. Let's take a look at Andersen's fairy tale and the symbolism embedded in the story, and observe how it could very well reflect a queer author feeling out of place in a heterosexual world.
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Unrequited Queer Love and Rejection Inspired The Little Mermaid
In Andersen's original fairy tale, the mermaid still falls in love with a human prince and bar
The True Story Behind ’The Little Mermaid’s Queer Origins
With the upcoming live-action adaptation of Disney’s authentic animated film The Little Mermaid, much has been said about its casting, from the require for positive inclusion to downright racist criticism. When the talented singer Halle Bailey was announced as the steer character,Ariel, on July 3, 2019, many had much to say about how the iconic “little mermaid” role, including how she did not “look” appreciate the white redheaded depiction in the original 1989 motion picture, a casting conclusion that many claimed was too “woke.” However, this critique against diversity is laughably ironic given the fact that the story that the film was based on was written by a historically known gay writer, Hans Christian Andersen.
Who Was Hans Christian Andersen?
Born in Odense, Denmark on April 2, 1805, Hans Christian Andersen was born into a poor working-class family, with a washerwoman as his mother. However, fueled by an active imagination and aspirations of social elevation, Andersen left his dwelling at the age of 14 to travel to Copenhagen in the hopes of finding triumph as a dancer on sta
Tyco's The Little Mermaid Ariel Doll
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I recognize as a Latinx, Gender Queer person living with a disability. Those are only some of my intersections, among many others. While it may look untraditional, my journey toward self-actualization started in 1989 with Tyco’s The Tiny Mermaid Ariel doll based on Disney’s adaptation. At 4 years old, I knew the ability to transform her fins for feet felt familiar and yet also dissonant. My queer persona was far from a point of reference and cognition, yet in this tale, there was a sense of wholeness for me.
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Minute Mermaid has captivated readers for generations with its themes of love, sacrifice, and identity. Cis-hetero spaces have understood the story through a lens of romance and sacrifice. While that is also true for a queer audience, the narrative reveals intersections and parallels with the framework of queer self that may be interpreted differently.
Transformation: A Queer Experience
Anderson’s "The Little Mermaid" guides us on a quest by a mermaid princess who tragically falls in love with a human prince and dreams of becoming human herself to be wit
Hans Christian Andersen: The Little Mermaid and its Homosexual Subtext
Hans Christian Andersen is one of the most celebrated fairy tale writers of all time, still enchanting children worldwide with his stories to this day. Among these is “The Small Mermaid,” a fairy tale that hides a sturdy subtext related to homosexuality and the author’s unrequited love. Today, we’re going to analyze one of the meanings attributed to this poignant fairy tale, which was later transformed into a Disney masterpiece with a happy ending.
Who was Hans Christian Andersen?
Born on April 2, 1805, in Odense, Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen is one of the world’s greatest fairy tale writers, established for titles such as “The Little Mermaid“, “The Ugly Duckling“, “The Small Match Girl“, and “The Princess and the Pea.”
His writing contributed to bringing to life a world of magic, but Andersen’s life was not straightforward and was fraught with challenges and difficulties. He spent his childhood in poverty, often imagining fantastical worlds to escape reality. Through the daily challenges he had to encounter, he fou