#live action Lilo and stitch

[artist-issues]

And furthermore. The whole idea of remaking Lilo & Stitch—I repeat, for emphasis—LILO & STITCH, out of ALL the Disney movies, is a horrible, no good, very bad idea. Because of THIS:

Do you know what this is? This is a picture from a story book that Chris Sanders made to show to other storytellers at a Disney employee retreat. He already worked with Disney, which was coming back into success after The Little Mermaid and developing more ideas like  But he felt that Disney, in the 1980s, was

Spending too much time on big, formulaic ideas, rehashing the same thing over and over.

Scared to take risks. Scared to work hard on small, unique ideas. So guess what Chris Sanders did?

He created Lilo & Stitch. Unique. Watercolor backgrounds. New art direction instead of the Glen-Keane princess look. Aliens instead of animals. Modern Hawaii instead of fairy tales. They even produced it on an incredibly low budget in the Florida Studio, the second-rate studio in comparison to the one in California. 

Do you guys understand? Live action remakes, or any remake at all, are already a boring idea that we’re all tired of. We already recognize it as a cash-grab—not even a success-grab, but a cash-grab. 

But Lilo & Stitch was created with a belief in trying something new, totally original, and it payed off. It’s one of the only animated films from the “Experimental Age” to do so with lasting impact. 

And they’re taking a movie that was foundationally created to get away from safe, formulaic storytelling, and they’re recycling it. They’re repeating the formula. What’s more repetitive and formulaic than just…telling the story again? 

#Lilo and stitch #live action Lilo and stitch #lilo #stitch #chris sanders #disney #live action #live action remake #lilo and stitch remake #remake #live action hate

[stitchandani]

Have you heard they’ve casted the new live action Lilo?

Doverstar

We have heard! She’s a cutie!

We can’t get too excited about it, I’m afraid. We’re not big fans of live-action Disney or the idea of remaking the old, good classics. But I hope the little girl chosen to play Lilo has tons of fun!

#lilo #doverstar answers #live action lilo and stitch #asked #answered

[delcat177]

You know, there are a lot of people talking about how criminal the live action Lilo and Stitch casting is, and I agree

But it's REALLY weird to me that no one seems to be talking about how awks it is that one of the most popular food items in Disney kingdoms is Dole Whip

It is delicious, yes, I had it for the first time in 2019 with my sister, then we went on Jungle Cruise and I laughed at dad jokes too hard, beautiful and treasured day

But everything in Disney costs more than you think...

#Disney #Debbie downer #Representing #Dole whip #Hawaii #colonialization #I spent a semester over there and was horrified finding out about Dole #Little chinless man from Maine fucking BOUGHT AN ISLAND and turned it into a cannery #lilo and stitch #live action lilo and stitch #Someone get adam conover on this #History #I was born a ruiner and i'll die a ruiner

[famdomohana]

I am so excited for the Lilo & Stitch live action movie and I hope it brings more Stitch merchandise and makes Disneyland and/or Disney World make a roller coaster called Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride and I am gonna be first in line to watch as soon as it comes out with my Stitch hat.

#lilo and stitch #lilo & stitch #stitch #live action lilo and Stitch #I love stitch #Live action Lilo & stitch #Stitch is the best #Hawaiian roller coaster ride #Stitch is one of the best Disney characters #Lilo and stitch is amazing

[toaverse]

Upcoming Disney movies to expect:

Inside Out 2

Toy Story 5

Zootopia 2

Frozen 3

Frozen 4

Cars 4

Moana 2

Live action Lilo and Stitch

Live action Moana

Live action Snow White

Live action Mufasa prequel

Live action Bambi

Live action Hercules

What the fuck is this??!!

#disney #inside out 2 #toy story 5 #zootopia 2 #frozen 3 #frozen 4 #cars 4 #moana 2 #lilo and stitch #live action remake #snow white #mufasa prequel #bambi #hercules #disney movies #walt disney #moana #disney animation

[heymrsamerica]

This is different.

#lilo and stitch #live action remake #colorism #lilo and nani #nani pelekai #hawaiʻi

[madame-helen]

#meme #memes #shitpost #shitposting #humor #funny humor #dark humor #funny memes #funny #disney #hypocrisy #race swapping #live action remake #lilo and stitch #the little mermaid #snow white and the seven dwarfs #pinocchio #peter pan #satire #irony

[imperialstark]

thought about what cgi monstrosity disney is going to create for the live action lilo and stitch movie and almost threw up in my mouth

#lilo and stitch #disney live action #gabi shitposts #the writer's strike saves us every day

[flower1622]

Live actions I wanna watch

(SECOND SEASON)

#percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo series #heroes of olympus #percy jackson heroes of olympus #naruto #live action #lilo and stitch #moana #disney

[ben-the-hyena]

Twitter and Tumblr about completely changing Ariel's ethnia and race in the live action adaptation : "die mad, fiction is fiction, and her origins don't matter in the storyline anyway, who cares where Ariel is from as long as she sings ? Anyone arguing is a racist because life is literally black and white and so are opinions on adaptations, color washing doesn't exist you're just a bigot"

Twitter and Tumblr now that Disney casted an actress who is more native Hawaiian than they ever will be but is not "dark enough" for playing Nani therefore "not a real Hawaiian and white washing" despite she is not white

#personally I won't even watch this movie because I boycott live action remakes but the double standard is pathetic #'i wished Nani looked like Nani' oh I thought they were just cartoons and those who wanted Ariel to look like Ariel were racist ? #because for what I know the Hawaiian aspect of the story (dealing with tourism racism) will be respected with a native in the role then #but omg she DARES being lighter ! look at this point they never cast an actress who looks like the source material (look at Belle...) #so let us just be glad they took someone of the fitting race without checking a quotat list. so what #so lighter skinned POC/mixed POC are not 'native enough' to you ? pretty racist #like i hate Pepa in Encanto but I remember being frustrated people were mad they DARED depicting ONE light skinned latina #lol #tumblr #twitter #Disney #fandom #hypocrisy #them bastards ! #reaction image #race #the little mermaid #movie #lilo and stitch #ariel #nani #colors #black people #white people #racism #polynesian #it reminds me of people saying they were shocked a white guy was playing a pharaoh. it was Rami Malek who is Egyptian #or complaining they casted an Indian for Jasmine while Aladdin's place is ambiguous and it could be Indo-Persian for what we know

[artist-issues]

Once More For the People in the Back:

- Lilo & Stitch is NOT about the evils of colonization.

It’s about a literal alien monster with no home coming to a planet and town where he doesn’t belong and being adopted as one of their own. Even after he destroys everything they love and build. Spin that into a metaphor for how terrible colonization is, if you can.

- Lilo & Stitch is NOT about the hardships people with dark skin inherently face.

It is about the hardships of people who lose family members and have to adjust to loving someone new. Nani is struggling to keep Lilo because she’s an 18 year-old orphan trying to play mom to a little sister who just needs someone to be her friend. She’s losing job opportunities because Lilo is trying to accept a destructive monster into their family with destructive results, not because she has dark skin.

- Lilo & Stitch is NOT about the evils of racism.

Lilo & Stitch is about an alien learning the meaning of family. Lilo explicitly demonstrates a hatred of tourists (not white people, just tourists, because Cobra Bubbles is implied to be a tourist in the same scene.) in one scene and that scene was deleted because it took the focus away from other scenes which made the point of the film more clearly. If a bad light is put on tourism, it’s to emphasize that Lilo has a problem with people leaving—”I remember everyone that leaves; I need someone who won’t run away; You came back; nobody gets left behind.”

And finally, drumroll please: 

-Lilo and Stitch is NOT about celebrating diversity.

Celebrating diversity is a fine message. It’s just not the one Lilo & Stitch is delivering. You’re thinking of Ice Age 4, where all kinds of animals make up a family; or Zootopia, where all all kinds of people can perform different jobs in society.

No. Lilo & Stitch is about what family means, and that is: unconditional love. Loving you at your worst and helping you to be better.

 The fact that the social worker is black, or male, has nothing to do with that main point. The fact that the Grand Councilwoman is female has nothing to do with the main point. The fact that one alien is skinny and one is fat has nothing to do with the main point. The fact that Nani and Lilo have dark skin has nothing to do with the main point—just like the fact that Stitch is blue has nothing to do with the main point.

Those factors might help in a peripheral way—(blue is the color the human brain associates with supernatural creatures; dark skin = Hawaiian = believably being brought up on the philosophy of ‘Ohana) —but you could still change any one of those things and it would remain Lilo & Stitch. 

By contrast, with a film that is actually about celebrating diversity like Ice Age 4, if you change the hedgehog into another mammoth you lose the point of the story. Or in Zootopia, if you make Judy and Nick both bunnies you lose the point of the story. Diversity is a fine point. Whatever. But it’s not the point of Lilo & Stitch. 

FORGET what you are hearing on Twitter in relation to the Live Action Movie. You can say what you want about how much you wish a certain shade of skin were representing the characters you love.

But if, to make your point, you try to argue that the original had ANYTHING to do with specific shades of color, demonstrating colonization and racism evils, or representing the hardships of POCs trying to get a job, you are being disingenuous. Or worse, you’re just tossing the real point of the movie carelessly over one shoulder so you can wedge a cause that it was never championing in where it doesn’t fit.

Try and make your point about how skin color and representation matters all you want, but you can’t honestly do it using the example the original movie set. The point of the original movie is just bigger and better than “skin colors should be given more attention.”

#people criticizing the live action for all the wrong reasons #it deserves criticism just for existing #but not because of the colors of the actor’s skins #because that was never a crucial point in the first movie #lilo and stitch #live action #disney live action #disney live action remake #stitch #lilo #david #nani #pleakley #jumba #live action Lilo and stitch #lilo and stitch remake #colorism #racism #diversity #representation #Lilo and stitch fandom #L&S #Disney discourse #film analysis #writing #Lilo and stitch analysis

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Without fail, when Hollywood wants someone to play a darkskinned woman, they always choose a lightskin biracial. I’m sorry for the darkskinned indigenous Hawaiians who were expecting Nani to be darkskinned.

#colorism #lilo and stitch #lilo and stitch movie #sexism #Cus this really only happens to darkskinned women when it comes to representation in live action #like this isn’t giving me any hope for the the live action princess and the frog movie #Disney #movie isn’t even out yet and it already failed in the casting

[stitchandani]

"I don't have strong opinions of the movie" you say as you continue ignoring colorism and racism and play it off as bullying

Doverstar

calm down, edgelord

#go have a snack and get some sleep #it’s not worth your time here! #asked #answered #doverstar answers #david kawena #david controversy #live action lilo and stitch #lilo and stitch

[thejdblog]

First look at Stitch. For the Live Action of Disney's Lilo and Stitch.

sources:PaulinaPullara(tiktok)

#stitch #lilo and stitch #disney live action #disney live action remakes #disney remakes #lilo and stich live action #lilo and stitch remake #disney movies #disney 2024 #experiment 626 #disney plus #set photos #disney

[kandiibow]

I was gonna call out the Nani thing but my lord the fucking hypocrisy! I saw someone with a halle pfp complain about it. so if you’re a racial hypocrite just shut the fuck up when it comes to casting you don’t like because ppl don’t wanna fucking hear it unless you’re completely unbiased

Also apparently the girl playing Nani is Hawaiian she’s just mixed like jasmine was so… maybe just say y’all are racist have an issue with white/light skinned ppl and go instead of embarrassing yourselves, thx

It doesn’t change the fact that at the end of the day all Disney live action remakes exist for scummy capitalist reasons so maybe just dont support these things in general lmao

Update: as a mixed user who has been harassed by self proclaimed “sjw’s” ages ago and being called white over and over again I know damn well ppl on this site have an issue with light skinned ppl, jasmine, Nani and my harassment are proof of this. Y’all have gone beyond shitting on white ppl and are now moving on to white passing POC’s and we ain’t standing for it

Again just admit you have an anti white/lightskin bias and go 😂

more ppl are agreeing with me tho so there’s hope for this site after all

#lilo and stitch #live action #the little mermaid #racial bias #callout #people of tumblr #anti hypocrisy #anti sjw #we want real representation #princess asha is gonna kick ass while tlm is def gonna flop #Kandiibun #maddyspeaks

[gale-gentlepenguin]

The more I hear about live action remakes, the more I HATE them.

I wish I could do more than Not see them. I want to find a way to bankrupt the greedy executives that propose it.

#live action remake #I hate them #they suck #I have not seen a single one even close to the original #except Aladdin #but Aladdin animated was still way better #did you hear there is a lilo and stitch remake? #i know they will ruin it