r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Morr4Seiya • 8d ago

Hated Tropes An adaptation completely botches the original theme and message

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Mulan(2020)-They give Mulan superpowers which is not only lame it goes against the message of the original about equality and struggle,plus they removes Shang because apparently having Mulan date her superior was "problematic" even though Shang genuienely respected Mulan and their rank was never brought up

I am Legend(2007)-You know why the story is called "I am legend"? SPOILER ALERT the protagonist is the actual monster,humanity is gone and the vampires have a actual society and the protagonist kills and terrorize them

Animal Farm(2026)-On the very slim chance that Andy Serkis ever sees this,here's the thing Andy,Animal Farm was not a children work it was not supposed to have a happy ending,you never heard of cautionary tales before?

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u/foxfire981 8d ago

Leaving a full ride scholarship for a partial scholarship because "Hawaiians don't know what Marine Biology is." That movie was so racist.

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u/DuelaDent52 8d ago

Huh? You’ve got it backwards. She HAS a full ride scholarship to UCSD. The gag of mispronouncing marine biology is across two characters, one of whom is elderly and the other is like six.

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u/foxfire981 8d ago

Native Hawaiians are provided full ride scholarships to University of Hawaii. In other words she's already given the option, since she lives on the same island as the university, to basically just go to school without losing her home or giving up her sister.

And the UC scholarship still will not cover travel costs and basically any other expenses than the Uni. So basically the movie is claiming the only way for her to get the education that are wants is to go to the mainland.

And other than the "college educated social worker" everyone else acts like they've never heard of it if a native Hawaiian.

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u/captainfalcon200523 8d ago

To be 100% fair, she does have a magic portal gun. But also this whole movie, the movie that was made to say “Tourists are a bunch of shit bags and should leave Hawaii alone”, was all an ad for Alani.