I remember the outrage over there being a black Disney princess, and I remember the outrage over the fact that the first black Disney princess spent most of the movie as a frog. The movie was simultaneously too progressive and not progressive enough.
Interesting, Soul got the same criticism over the main character, a black man, spending most of the film as a soul (a small, blue anthropomorphic blob with no discernible race)
I guess someone should try to compile a list of movies where white characters turn into things with indiscernible race. Just to see how common of a trope it is overall because thatd be an important thing to recognize.
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u/fly_over_32 4d ago
Was it? I must’ve completely missed it. Then again, concerning OPs point, I was younger