Little Mermaid Part 1: The Golden Contract

Revisionist History

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Revisionist History takes on The Little Mermaid: a deep dive into a world where merpeople present us with a series of vexing moral conundrums. Part one of three.

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0:00.0	How many kids do you have?
0:18.6	I have two boys.
0:20.0	Okay.
0:21.0	So your kids are how old at this point?
0:23.0	Oh, they were young.
0:24.0	I mean, this is before, you know, you can call up anything on all of Disney Plus or whatever.
0:29.8	I'm speaking with Laura Beth Nielsen, law professor, social scientist, chair of the Northwestern
0:36.0	University Sociology Department.
0:38.2	You know, they were VHS tapes and they wanted to watch them and at some point, you know,
0:42.4	as the adult, you just didn't get mind numbingly bored and I started thinking about what else
0:48.3	they represented.
0:49.3	Were there particular movies that got you thinking along these lines?
0:53.6	It was the little mermaid.
0:55.0	It was the little mermaid.
0:56.6	I want to be where the people are.
1:00.3	I want to see, I want to see them dancing.
1:05.5	Walking on me.
1:08.7	The little mermaid came out in 1989.
1:11.5	It's based on the Hans Christian Anderson children's story of the same name, an animated musical
1:16.8	from Walt Disney Pictures, written and directed by the team of Ron Clements and John Musker.
1:23.1	About an adolescent mermaid named Ariel.
1:25.4	Who wants to leave the sea and trade in her fins for feet because she's fallen in love
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