Sortthey are very tied to Lilo & Stitchbecause it is the first film I showed to my daughter at the cinema (she was a year and a half, she was very good). Now they have made it a remakedistorting the message of the originalwho was linked to the concept of “Ohana”, family.
The most famous phrase of the original is “Ohana means family, and family means that no one is abandoned or forgotten”. The remake ends with Nani, the sister, who leaves little Lilo to go to study marine biology in Californiatherefore in fact by entrusting the little sister to others, and upsetting a concept very dear to the culture of Hawaiian natives: that of the family, of the community. The result is to paint the phenomenon of leaving children in the state in a positive way.
In the original Nani does everything to keep Lilo, and to be able to take care of her after the death of the parents, while the state always threatens to take it away. Which is part of the process to erode indigenous culture. The idea of a sister who struggles to keep his family united has important political connotations; Especially in Hawaii, where the theme of the cancellation of native culture is very important.
Aldo Cazzullo (photo by Carlo Vangi Gilbert).
Hawaii have become a little a playing parkthe beaches are full of resorts, while the premises no longer have access to you, and their culture, reduced to the stereotype of the dancer with the straw skirt and the coconut walnuts, becomes a show for the fun of tourists. And this also emerged in the first filmwith the recurring image of the fat tourist and a little dumb to which the ice cream continuously falls. All these themes disappear in the remake.
The “Lilo & Stitch” remake poster
At one point Lilo says, in the English original: «But how intelligent you are! You should be a marine! “. Not marine biologist, marine biologist; Just Marine. Now, in America the armed forces cannot be mentioned at random in the films, it is necessary to have a permit. I don’t say that the marines have captured Lilo & Stitch. I just say that, after the excesses of the politically correct, we now live in the most conformist and reactionary period that you remember.
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