The current theme of the attraction Splash Mountain is based on a Disney movie very controversial, <em>Melody of the South</em>. Since its release in 1946, this film had aroused many critics who said he was disseminating racist clichés and paint in a idyllic the slave plantations of the old South of the United States.
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June 25, 2020 20h02
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Disney will alter an attraction based on a film from the connotations racist
Agence France-Presse
LOS ANGELES — Disney will change the attractions Splash Mountain its american parks, which evoke the past in a racist United States, to bring the colors of the first princess black, Tiana, he announced Thursday.
Very popular Attraction from Disneyland (in California) and Disney World (in Florida), Splash Mountain is an aquatic course in a trunk dummy ending on a big fall in the water.
The current theme of Splash Mountain is based on a Disney movie very controversial, Melody of the South. On its release in 1946, he had attracted many critics who said he was disseminating racist clichés and paint in a idyllic the slave plantations of the old South of the United States.
For these reasons, the film is not released at the cinema since the 1980s and has never been released on DVD. Melody of the South has also been deliberately kept away from the platform’s catalogue of on-demand video Disney+.
The two Splash Mountain are going to be “completely réimaginés” and will in the future scene in the story of the Princess and The Frog, in which the heroine Tiana is the first princess black Disney.
“The new concept will be inclusive, all our visitors will be able to find and be inspired by it, and he will speak to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year,” said the world number one in entertainment in a press release.
This decision comes at a time when many statues and monuments associated with slavery and racist oppression are removed or débaptisés across the United States, in the wake of protests against the death of George Floyd.
For Disney, the re-theming of Splash Mountain is of significance particularly important today”, but the company says that it had already started this process since last year and has used it to question its attractions, in conformity with their time.
In the aftermath of the movement #MoiAussi, a scene showing women sold for auction had been removed from the attraction Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland.
“It is important that our visitors can recognise themselves in the experiences that we create,” said Carmen Smith, responsible for the creation and inclusion strategies at Disney.
The group has not specified the date on which these changes would be completed in two parks of the u.s., who are for the moment closed due to the pandemic of sars coronavirus.
