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Now showing on my 80's Fest Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽 marathon...The Little Mermaid (1989) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #animation #thelittlemermaid #jodibenson #samuelewright #patcarroll #BuddyHackett #christopherdanielsbarnes #jasonmarin #ReneAuberjonois #FrankWelker #EdieMcClurg #nancycartwright #annelockhart #kimmyrobertson #vintage #VHS #80s #80sfest #durandurantulsas7thannual80sfest

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The original Little Mermaid, written by Hans Christian Anderson, is a thinly veiled tale of homosexual repression. It is easy to see the parallels between Anderson's life, that of a depressed, closeted gay man in the 1800s, and the story of The Little Mermaid, who is in love with a man she can never have. In order to be near her love, she gives up her voice so that she can never express it, and as a result he falls for and marries someone else. Having given up her tail and thus her ocean family when she fell in love with the Prince, she has nothing left and kills herself, throwing herself into the ocean that used to be her home.

When Howard Ashman, also a gay man, started working for Disney on The Little Mermaid, he was clear on one thing - that to his mind, it was unconscionable to show gay children a world in which they were destined to unhappiness. He was determined to show gay love, however metaphorically veiled, was just as deserving of a happy ending. Queer culture slips into the Little Mermaid thinly disguised - the wicked sea monster Ursula is modelled on the drag legend Divine, for example.

Ashman went one step further with Beauty and the Beast. He died of AIDS in 1991, shortly before the film premiered, and so we will never know his intentions, but the metaphor of a man outcast by conservative society looking for love and companionship is very telling. It's vital to remember that this was written in the height of the AIDS crisis, and the rhetoric used by the pitchfork wielding crowd directly draws on the homophobic protests of the 1980s that Ashman himself would have faced. (See the song above.) But what is so telling about Ashman is that even whilst dying, he insisted on telling an allegory to children in which love always triumphs, no matter what. This dedication in the height of adversity always makes these films feel especially poignant to me.

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Under The Sea by Samuel E. Wright

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Samuel E. Wright, Voice of Sebastian the Crab in ‘The Little Mermaid,’ Dies at 74

Samuel E. Wright, the two-time Tony-nominated actor who provided the Trinidadian-accented voice of the fun-loving Sebastian the Crab in the 1989 film The Little Mermaid, has died. He was 74. Wright…

Samuel E. Wright, the two-time Tony-nominated actor who provided the Trinidadian-accented voice of the fun-loving Sebastian the Crab in the 1989 film The Little Mermaid, has died. He was 74.

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Samuel E. Wright has died at 74

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R.I.P. Samuel E. Wright

November 20th 1946 - May 24th 2021

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Voices that went silent in 2021...