Creator and co-director of "Lilo and Stitch" Chris Sanders accidentally chose Hawaii to set up the film after recently resting there, but ended up as the perfect place for his story of displacement and belonging. The filmmakers behind "Lilo and Stitch" really respected Hawaiian culture and took care to represent it pretty, making frequent research trips to study all aspects of living on the Pacific island.

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"There was very careful reconciliation with the people we met and tried to channel what the regular life in the film felt so that it did not come across people in the beach-standing skirts like Blue Hawai Vulture. Since the directors, after all, two white men, they had responsibility to show their home experience, which Sanders rightly recognizes:

"Dean and I don't have a business to tell Hawaiian story. You can tell stories like that, but then you'll find people who have business there. That's why we got as many people we could live there."

They carefully examined every graceful slide of Luau dancers and heard the difficulties of a young woman who inspired Nani's elastic attitude. Although it is still within Disney's family film, the animated "Lilo and Point" was not afraid to recognize it-however subtly complicated Hawaii's history.

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Despite being co-written by her native Hawaiian, Chris Kecaniocalani Bright (whose mother led the Children's Choir of the Soundtrack Camehameha schools), the new version completely deletes this cultural comment. The live adaptation "Lilo and Bod" is purely on the aesthetics of the beautiful beaches, dancing with hulls and surfing.

The remake completely erases one of Lilo's quirks, which was deeper for colonialism. Although much of the economy, Hawaii's tourism is a problem because it inflates housing prices and destroys holy land. The animated Lilo wants to take pictures with puddings, sunbathing tourists. She is imposed on them as they did as a little home girl.

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This interest would resonate more if A scene where Lilo came across several racist tourists were not deleted. One pronounces Mahalo incorrectly, another sharp shouts at Lilo, "Talk English?" And another shout, "Oh, look, real born!" When he walks. All of these white American tourists are trampling on the land they have stolen and not treated by people who actually live there with any courtesy. Their only concern is what they can do for their pleasure.

Lilo pierces the day of testing the tsunami siren. She launches a Macababer monologue for "Big, Hundreds of Waves" coming before the siren to get naked. "Tourists, get ready to die!" Lilo screams as they fight the beach. "If you lived here, you would understand," she concludes. This is a great scene that not only comments on the marginalization of the indigenous community, but also shows Lilo's morbid sense of humor that reflects Stich. Unfortunately, it was probably too inconvenient for Disney to keep it.

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If the live remake has already stretched the film for almost two hours, why not add this scene back? Instead, completely ignores something for tourists. The one who puts down the ice cream in the original is now changing to a born Hawaiian, turning the moment into a waste, not in cultural criticism. Lilo herself enjoys warm bathtubs in a fancy resort, framing tourism as fun and comfortable.

With huge costs of living and catering jobs that do not provide a living salary, many Hawaiians are struggling to meet the end end or face homelessness. These systemic problems intensify Nani's fighting to lift Lilo when she is still young. In the original film, Nani moves the sky and the earth is kept by Lilo, but it is revealed and incredibly frustrated in the live version.

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And then there is an end. Nani chooses to place Lilo in foster care with his neighbor Tati while attending the San Francisco College of Marine Biology. Some may find this a Welcome changeBecause it would be a temporary situation and nanny work in a better way to support long -term lilo. But it also makes little sense and is contrary to the message of the original Ohrid film. Hawaii is the perfect place to study marine biology and Nani's decision immortalizes the romanticized American dream, where the only way for indigenous people to have a better life is to leave the island. Also undermines the painful history of a lot of relative children the state has removed from their homes and often placed with white military families,

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Ohana means a family. Family means that no one leaves behind or forgotten-except if you are not non-traditional. Then the government should be included. Given the ongoing events, where ice continues to separate immigrant families, and families in Gaza are destroyed by military attacks, this may not be more than a ton of deaf. The new "Lilo & Stitch" is without teeth because Disney only takes care of selling reservations for Aulani's resort. These live remakes with action can boast of depicting diversity, but when it comes time to adapt faithfully to one of Disney's few films that really cares about being inclusive, the studio has splashed.