How Poor Unfortunate Souls Got Butchered

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• LA

  @Lauren-yn9ze · 3 years ago

  The whole "Women shouldn't talk to get a man" segment is PERFECT coming from Ursula. It shows what little regard she has for both men and women, and relationships in general.

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• MV

  @mvg5767 · 3 years ago

  Her face being calm and snarky, while the voice was highly emotive and loud threw me off so badly. It pushed everything further into uncanny valley

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• RU

  @RURK_ · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m so glad you mentioned how Ursula just says &quot;Pathetic&quot; RIGHT TO ARIEL&apos;S FACE LIKE WHAT. It takes away like 85% of the deception from the first verse. Ursula&apos;s supposed to be this ungenuine trickster, not someone who&apos;d be dumb enough to just say how she genuinely feels out loud.<br><br><br>Great video! You earned a sub

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• MO

  @MothCatKitty · 2 years ago

  Ursula is a villain. If shes sexist, GOOD. It shows kids that its wrong to be like her

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• PR

  @ProfessorHeavy1 · 2 years ago

  You mentioned the unusual voice direction in the remake, and it&apos;s worth mentioning this: <br>The sultry yet sob-like singing of Ursula in the original is top notch because it contrasts so sharply to her normal voice. She has a wicked, maniacal voice during times of ecstasy, but when singing about these poor unfortunate souls, how they&apos;re &quot;miserable, lonely and depressed&quot; and &quot;in pain, in need&quot;, she uses a sobbing resonance, you can imagine what she sounds like when she&apos;s saying &quot;boo-hoo&quot; or whatever because she&apos;s literally singing like that- it&apos;s a simple stylistic choice but extremely effective. <br> <br>She&apos;s clearly trying to manipulate Ariel into thinking she understands these souls&apos; poor plight, with the harsher, more wicked singing only being used when she&apos;s giving Ariel an ultimatum: &quot;Give me your voice, or leave and never be with him&quot;. But the remake just sounds wicked and forceful throughout with zero variation.

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• HA

  @hazystatic · 3 years ago (edited)

  I get frustrated when Ursula&apos;s &quot;pathetic!&quot; is acted as just a normal part of the song, or even as something grandiose, instead of an aside that Ariel isn&apos;t supposed to hear. It&apos;s very clear she wouldn&apos;t actually say something like that directly to Ariel, since she&apos;s pretending to be kind and helpful, and calling the people she helps pathetic would contradict that narrative. Plus, even her body language in the original scene, like holding a hand close to her mouth, shows she doesn&apos;t want Ariel to hear it.

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• KA

  @kaylabrownell1268 · 2 years ago

  The original Ursula sounded sincere when she said she helped people, but also had air of untrustworthy around her.<br><br>The remake just sounds like, &quot;I&apos;m evil.&quot;

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• ME

  @meepmeep749 · 3 years ago

  I actually loved Ursula&apos;s line about woman being seen and not heard because throughout the movie it&apos;s proven to be wrong. As a kid it made me realize that some people don&apos;t have my best interests at heart. Some are going to say whatever they think is going to make me do what they want.<br><br>And later in the movie Ursula&apos;s sentiment is proven wrong because on their first date Eric just wants to know everything about her. He wants her to talk to him.<br><br>Cutting out that part was a hindrance to the villain. It&apos;s probably safe to say Ursala herself didn&apos;t even believe those lines because she was trying to overthrow her brother lol

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• XK

  @xkagamex1064 · 2 years ago

  god forbid the literal villain be &quot;sexist&quot; to further her goals, im sure thats not exactly what the story was implying to begin with!

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• SC

  @scientistservant · 3 years ago (edited)

  You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned that the characters shouldn&apos;t be so dramatic and loud during a musical, because the songs they&apos;re singing aren&apos;t for the audience, but for themselves. Ariel&apos;s Part Of Your World isn&apos;t being sung to a huge school of fish, it&apos;s being sung to herself; quietly wishing she could be in that land above she adores so much.<br>Same with Poor Unfortunate Souls. Yeah, Ursula isn&apos;t singing it to herself, but she IS singing it to Ariel.

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• RE

  @RegalDawnLion · 3 years ago

  Why didn&apos;t Ariel just write to the prince?<br>Answer: somewhere in that contract there&apos;s small print saying that she is unable to discuss anything involving the contract. Meaning she can&apos;t just write on a piece of paper and tell the prince she made a deal with the sea devil. It&apos;s a NDA.

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• FR

  @freedompancakes301 · 3 years ago

  There are several things that bug me about the scrapped Body language verse:<br>1. The “body language” line is iconic.<br>2. A bad message coming from a villain makes total sense. Ursula is clearly trying to convince Ariel to give away her voice by telling her that she doesn’t need it to woo a man.<br>3. The verse also plays a big role in the mood/tempo of the song. It builds up the intensity before the climax where Ursula is more aggressively pressuring Ariel into making the deal.<br>4. If they did want to get rid of that verse, they could have replaced it with the original scrapped verse of the song that Howard Ashman planned to be in the middle of the song in 1989 to solve the temp problem rather than going straight into the chorus with the tempo immediately turned up to an 11.

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