Meet the black, transgender Cinderella’s godmother you’ve all been waiting for (or so the woke media tells us)

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Meet the black, transgender Cinderella’s godmother you’ve all been waiting for (or so the woke media tells us)

Who’s really clamoring to see a black, transgender fairy godmother on cinema screens? Certainly the liberal media. But do audiences really care for woke remakes of childhood classics?

Is there any phrase more guaranteed to ruin a sweet childhood memory than “a modern re-imagining of…”? Especially when ‘modern’ means ‘sanitized’ and ‘injected with pointless social-justice twaddle.’

Enter the black, transgender fairy godmother. According to Hollywood Reporter, Emmy-award winning actor Billy Porter will play the role in Sony Pictures’ upcoming remake of the 1950 Disney classic, alongside Cuban-American actress Camila Cabello as the titular princess. Billy Porter, for the uninitiated, is a gay man.

So commonplace is the woke makeover these days that the news was greeted with nothing but syrupy enthusiasm from the media. “Billy Porter Should Absolutely Be Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother,” gushed Vanity Fair, to the deafening squeals of a hundred “Yass Kween”s in the comments section.

“If ‘Fairy Godmother Billy Porter’ doesn’t have an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor written all over it, we don’t know what does,” sassed gay magazine PinkNews. “It’s safe to say,” chirped women’s magazine site Refinery29, Cinderella “will be nothing short of fabulous.”

To be clear, this author has no attachment to the 1950s Cinderella story. Whether producer James Corden butchers the story or crafts an era-defining fairy tale from it is of no concern to yours truly. But audiences might disagree.

You see, while the ‘woke makeover’ – replacing women with men, injecting transgender roles where there were none, and sprinkling formerly white casts with other colors for diversity’s sake – delights magazine writers and cultural commenters, audiences are sick to the teeth of it.

Remember Ghostbusters? The 2016 remake of the beloved Bill Murray/Dan Aykroyd comedy flopped at the box office, losing Sony Pictures an estimated $70 million. Cinemagoers didn’t warm to the movie’s all-female cast and watered-down jokes, and review aggregation site RottenTomatoes was flooded with negative comments.

Ditto for ‘Ocean’s 8,’ the all-female remake of ‘Ocean’s 11,’ which itself was a remake of the 1960s Rat Pack movie. The movie’s cast preemptively deflected negative reviews, with Cate Blanchett claiming men would view it through a “prism of misunderstanding,” and Mindy Kaling declaring that white men simply “don’t understand it.” 

Though ‘Ocean’s 8’ fared well at the box office, audience reviewers on RottenTomatoes pelted the flick with a 45 percent rating, compared to the critics’ 69.

When the female-led Captain Marvel hit theaters earlier this year, RottenTomatoes simply changed their ratings system in preparation. Its audience score now reflects the number of people who rated the movie 3.5 stars or higher, which means in all likelihood, the 45 percent awarded to ‘Ocean’s 8’ is actually inflated.

Still, Hollywood hasn’t learned. How about a black, female 007 in the next James Bond flick? Or a female Thor? None of these tickle your fancy? Okay, well how about a live action remake of ‘The Little Mermaid,’ only with a black Ariel? Who says the movie industry is out of ideas!

As for the quality of the movies themselves, who cares! The recent live-action ‘Lion King’ remake was panned, even without any nods to social justice or diversity. Yet by the looks of things, studios won’t stop until every childhood classic has been updated to include a requisite number of disabled transgender multiracial characters more fitting with the times we live in.

Except by then, there’ll be nobody watching them.

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Bob The Retard

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit

……….line from the poem, Desiderata.

Glock-N-Load

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Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Next, you’ll be telling me that Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly were gay. Maybe it’s just me, but Richard Simmons always seemed a little “off”, if you know what I mean.

Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

My take is that it’s fine in proportion to their actual occurrence in the population (1%? 3% max, probably).

I just opened my bank’s home page online. There were about 12 pictures. Nine of them had black people in them.

Bob P
Bob P

I look forward to missing this movie.

I never used to care if I saw a mixed-race couple on screen or in life, but with Hollywood shoving this in our face full-time in TV, movies, and commercials, it merely serves to aggravate me now. If my reaction is typical among conservative types, Hollywood’s virtue signalling is achieving the opposite of what it intends (unless, of course, the intention is to divide the country more).

Pequiste

Mixed race couples? Not really too many permutations are being shown instead…

invariably, 80-90% ( I have not engaged in a quantitative analysis of the media for accuracy but one would need to be fucking blind not to notice ) there IS a Negro male with a White woman.

At this juncture I believe such depictions are actually being used as agitprop and meant to cause a mostly unspoken but deep seated hatred that shall eventually be unleashed.

M G
M G

This performance by Chris Tucker was/is genius.

Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

No, it’s not.
It’s horrible.
The whole thing is horrible—I could only bear to watch a minute of it. I don’t even know what the name of this movie is, and I don’t want to know.

If Chris Tucker is the black guy.. he’s just doing some kind of bug-eyed gay jive Stepin Fetchit shtick. Zero subtlety. Playing to the coarsest of reactions.

It’s appalling.

Willis, too, is beating us over the head with every gesture WINK WINK NUDGE NUDGE.

Clearly a film for retards and the sub-normal.

M G
M G

I semi agree but the movie was so long ago it was funny

No one took it serious then.

Max Cherry
Max Cherry

How ‘bout sum chicken n waffles?

KeyserSusie
KeyserSusie

Yeah it twas. And the Diva Dance Blue lady sure had some pipes and stones when she sang La danza della Diva. Here is a version sans the fight scene choreography of the orange headed siouxsie sioux banshee looking for love battling the powers of destructionism.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vjss1nbJ2U&w=560&h=315%5D

KeyserSusie
KeyserSusie

If you respond to the operatic scene above, this video is interesting to watch. It is an interview with a beautiful French actor who performed the dance. The scene and costume were kept secret from the cast and the movie captures their reactions upon seeing the performance for the first time. The actress possesses wonderful French lips and insouciant mannerisms I find very attractive.

M G
M G

You said “insouciant’!

M G
M G

I did watch this, btw. She’s interesting and gorgeous (i get the insouciant!)… how absolutely fascinating that she had to learn to sing… it was awesome!

However… “French” lips? What exactly, without too much detail Whosie Susie? are French Lips?

M G
M G

Fascinating

MTD
MTD

I find myself periodically watching John Carpenter’s “Escape from L.A.” and really enjoying the ending where Snake Pliskin turns off the power to everything and says “Welcome to the human race.” Western society has become so decadent that we need a total reset to get rid of this kind of bullshit.

James
James

I thought that was escape from NYC,well,now a excuse to watch them old classics again!I thought Carpenters best work was a tie between “They Live” and “The Thing”,loved how he used a little original footage from the original movie “The Thing”,that was a great remake of a film,one of the few good ones.

EC
EC

Motion to Dismiss, Escape from NY was better.

subwo
subwo

Sunday Morning show had a 5 year catchup with transgender kids. The kids are presented as mainstream now. I think their lives per the latest research will show them to be just as mixed up in their new selves as they were before they changed.

musket
musket

Mixed up just may be a generous characterization as well…..

KaD
KaD
James
James

Kad,this was latest comment when I read story,”3 bullets in the back of 3 heads. End of story.”

Seems a reasonable response to me.

Bob The Retard

The inherent savagery continues to accelerate.

nkit

Amen, Lady

Toolman
Toolman

Perfect example of Frankfurt School Marxism. Take a piece of culture, rape it, mutilate it, turn it inside out, and proclaim it’s better. And if YOU don’t agree, you’re the bad man.

SlickWilly
SlickWilly

I say it’s high time to have a black cross dresser as Cinderalla’s godmother. He/she/it already is a ferry after all. It turns out homophobia runs deep in this country.

Reluctant Warrior
Reluctant Warrior

Why are we waiting for her? What is this ‘Woke’ BS? I have awakened and I can tell you that anyone who is ‘woke’ is asleep.

Outwithlibs
Outwithlibs

Just one more reason I haven’t been to a movie theater in probably 12 yrs

Persnickety
Persnickety

Is it possible for shareholders of Disney to sue the company/board over this crap? Seems like they are burning shareholder assets in a raging dumpster fire of wokeness.

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