The Little Mermaid (2023) feat. Debbie Danielpour

The Little Mermaid (2023) (feat. Debbie Danielpour)

 

It’s our final dive under the sea this year, and we watched the Little Mermaid 2023 live-action remake. We’re joined by one of our professors from grad school, screenwriter Debbie Danielpour, to dissect this adaptation and bemoan the Disney live-action remake as a genre. We’re light on lore but heavy on the hot takes, like loving the “Scuttlebutt” song, hating that the fish in “Under the Sea” don’t play their bodies like instruments, and being very bored by Melissa McCarthy’s Ursula.

 

Thank you so much to Debbie for reminiscing about our grad school days and making us feel special anytime she said we made a good point.

 

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Research & Writing by Cullen Callaghan. 

This episode was edited by Hannah Sylvester.

 

Cover Art by William Callaghan

Intro Music: "The Quest" by Scott Little.