• zed_proclaimer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Where are you getting this council of black African writers from? IMDb say it was written by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton all of which are white Americans.

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        So people who had nothing to do with the plot or themes, got it. It’s Disney monarchist propaganda regardless of what some minor musical writers thought

        • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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          I think it’s kinda short sighted to assume that minorities who got lesser credits had no impact on the story. We’re literally talking about a musical, where the music is key to the themes. Lyric writers are essential in musicals.

          So yes, they are authors who are able to have an opinion on what their collective work means. It’s art, there is no correct interpretation of it. Their opinions on their own work are worth considering, regardless of how much you want to write off lyricists in a musical. It is a clone of Macbeth, and has all the flaws that come with that, maybe Disney even intended those flaws. But that doesn’t take away from how essential lyrics are in a musical, and how those people can have specific intent for the story.