Disney’s live-action The Little Mermaid is set to release in May of 2023. They just released its first teaser and it already raised a lot of opinions and views. Currently, social media is already abuzz regarding the movie’s color tone and the use of extensive cold colors and blue scale rather than warmer tones.
Fans say that the movie seems to look gloomy because of the increased cold tones giving it a very saddening outlook, rather than the lively story that we have always known it to be.
Disney Wants The Little Mermaid To Fail
Fans claim that the intentional use of a depressing color scale is because Disney wants to sabotage its own film and wants the people to hate it instead. The colors have been largely muted and for a kid’s film, it does not look as chirpy as it should.
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Some fans even mocked it to be a Zack Snyder film because of the aura it gives out. The music too doesn’t seem to fit the tone of the movie. Their focus on realism over artistic direction may be messing with some Disney classics with The Little Mermaid not being the only one to go through this.
Other Movies That Changed Their Tone
Another example of the same would be the live-action version of The Lion King. Their ideal focus on realism seems to get in the way of their color palettes. A movie about the jungle and the lions seemed bland and lifeless.
The Little Mermaid too, a movie about mermaids and the underwater world, a world full of colors and vibrant discoveries lacks this aspect and instead gives the movie a more depressing tone to it. Some people compared it to the color schemes of horror movies and even said that it felt like one.
The only reason this would be acceptable is if they are doing the color theory thing where the place she feels trapped (ocean) is lit dimly and gloomily for mood reasons and then the surface is technicolor. Otherwise it may just be "realism" which would suck
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The Little Mermaid Turning The Opposite Of Vibrant
Focusing on the colors of Ariel herself, a mermaid with fiery red hair and a sparkling green tail, the mermaid princess stands out in her own way with all the colors she can pull off. However, with the tones set in the movie, none of those seem as special as they actually are.
Ariel’s unique design as well as her home in the ocean seems dull and lifeless in the cold colors they are presented in. Halle Bailey‘s portrayal of Ariel is in a kid’s movie with so much life and rhythm in it, but with the color schemes used within the movie and the cameras, this sense of liveliness gets extracted, and with it the essence of the movie itself.
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