pugletto:animalpuff:pugletto:animalpuff:pugletto:A lot of people were like, “But this guy doesn’t lo
pugletto:animalpuff:pugletto:animalpuff:pugletto:A lot of people were like, “But this guy doesn’t look like Simba!” and I’m just -There are only so many ways you can interpret a lion, guys. I mean Bear!Kenai didn’t look like human!Kenai, did he?I rest my case. Also don’t remove my commentary, jeeze guys.Yeah, it never mattered to me what race someone chose to portray him as, if he were human. It doesn’t matter. Simba’s a lion, he doesn’t have a human’s race. And the whole “he’s in Africa so he must be black” thing seems as arbitrary as making him white because it fits his color scheme more. (No one ever seems to mention how not-light-skinned Pumbaa is in that pic)Also, he’s a friggin’ lion, geez.Actually it does matter. That’s why I drew it.I can’t actually see why it would. It doesn’t seem all that important, and it seems like it just comes down to the artist’s own personal style and preference.Maybe you could tell me how it does matter, or give me an idea, because I don’t know how to look at this.Because white people in Africa is a product of colonization. So making Simba white is completely and totally problematic. Especially when lions are native to Africa, and the fact that there are nine billion other perfectly white, Eurocentric Disney movies we can all gush over. Why wouldn’t he be black?Also because canonically speaking, Simba is portrayed by a black man in the broadway show, and I don’t see why that isn’tconsidered word of god already. -- source link
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