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No. Surprisingly all the Trump tuckers refused to complain. Probably because most are only semi-literate and never read the original story: http://pinkmonkey.com/dl/library1/tale056.pdf
https://crosssection.gns.wisc.edu/2...nd-disney-the-tale-of-two-different-mermaids/
Disney’s recreation of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories, like “The Little Mermaid,” altered their meanings and changed Andersen’s portrayal of women, in particular. Disney’s versions—lighter and often with a happy ending—erase the original passion and anguish that are the backbone of Andersen’s stories. These films lead many people to believe they are watching the recreation of the real story when they actually present quite a different story from Andersen’s.
Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”—produced by Walt Disney Studio in 1989—tells the story of a rebellious teenager who wants to marry the handsome prince on land to fulfill her materialistic desires: marriage to a perfect man. In this sense, the Disney film suggests that women’s lives and desires revolve entirely around the intent of marrying the handsome prince and, in turn, taking away the agency of women and leaving their desires and choices in the hand of a man....
...Disney has “turned the Little Mermaid into a vehicle for the corporate American worldview which Disney studios themselves have helped to shape since the 1930s” (Bendix 289). As Bendix mentions, Pauline Kael argues that the Disney version is vapid and stale in comparison to Andersen’s much more meaningful and intricate look into real heartache, desire, and sacrifice of the little mermaid. The problem with Disney’s adaptation of Andersen’s story is that both stories sketch two completely different plots (Bendix 281).
