Non Racist 'Princess and the Frog' Visual Development Pics
Whew, at least these can't stir up controversy... can they?
Photo: Disney Animation
One thing I never brought up was the argument over the teaser trailer for The Princess and the Frog claiming the toothless firefly featured at the end of the trailer is a racist caricature of southern blacks. Personally, I had think it is more a caricature of southern poor folk from the 1920s, but that is just me. Look at the pic above, does he look black? If you haven't seen the teaser yet give it a watch at the end of this article and see what you think. Personally it seems people are getting a bit too worked up recently, but I could be wrong.
However, it has been reported that the script did have to undergo a complete rewrite when the main character, Maddy, a young African American was initially a chambermaid working for a spoilt, white Southern debutante who was helped by a voodoo priestess fairy godmother to win the heart of a white prince. I can see where that may cause a problem when Disney was boasting Maddy as the studio's first African American princess. Doesn't help to make her someone who makes the beds of some rich white folk.
But I don't want to talk anymore about race or controversy, I have had enough of that. So, before checking out the trailer and your racist alarms start blaring check out seven new pieces of concept art from Disney's animation site. The film is set in New Orleans and tells the story of Maddy, a young African-American girl living amid the charming elegance and grandeur of the fabled French Quarter.
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He's not supposed to be black. He has spiky red hair, for goodness sake. He's Cajun, but is going to be a much more developed character than the trailer gives him credit for.
I saw a billboard here in Los angeles and it shows a croc and a frog, why not show a BLACK princess which this is about? Are they (disney) not proud? false advertising. I will NOT see this lame movie
This upcoming movie is disgusting, why is Disney responding to the White House ’s pressure to brainwash people with multi cultural relationships? What if most Americans are tired to hear about it, especially with all the propaganda on TV since 2008 in commercials, shjows and movies? Isn’t there already the message everywhere we need to indoctrinate our little kids about this? Why do we need now to show a black prince going with a White princess or vice versa when we never did this? it will definietly irritate most of America which is conservative (not necessarily racist btw). Remember America voted Obama to fix the recession (where we see no result) not to promote his interracial agenda. Disney’s producers and artists are not even black it looks all too condescendent. Disney wont even call it ‘the black princess’. They have to hide the black theme under a frog. How misleading and hypocrit
Ray the firefly is a cajun, not depicting a southern black. I'm from new orleans and none of us here take any offense because we know that in the movie he himself says he's cajun. Cajuns are majority white and it's just a southern thing.