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FYI, In The New “The Little Mermaid” Scuttle Isn’t A Seagull Anymore, And Here’s Why
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FYI, In The New “The Little Mermaid” Scuttle Isn’t A Seagull Anymore, And Here’s Why

The Little Mermaid live-action movie is out, and it’s about time because I feel like we’ve been talking about this movie for 72 years.

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Well, not anymore.

Yo, that is NOT a seagull. What did they do to Scuttle??? #LittleMermaid pic.twitter.com/cpO5fHWa4T

— Jessica Hightower, PhD (@HightowerJn) March 13, 2023Disney/https://twitter.com/HightowerJn/status/1635139595070509057

Scuttle has been turned into a Gannet.

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So, why did they do it?

Why is scuttle not a seagull though https://t.co/fMbICPpizr

— Terrence (@Tdog2296) May 12, 2023Disney

The director Rob Marshall sat down with Indie Wire and explained why.

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“I wanted to make it that Ariel had never ever been to the surface ever. That was the goal for me. She’s never broken that rule, [so that helps] raise the stakes for that moment when she finally does it,” he said.

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“After she sings ‘Part of Your World’ and she goes [to the surface] for the first time, it’s so shocking and so thrilling. It’s better storytelling,” he continued.

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“But then I realized, well, Scuttle, how does she know everything that’s up there? We decided to make her a ping bird so that she could come down and Ariel could meet Scuttle in the water and get all that information there, not above.”

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Seagulls never go underwater, so that’s why they turned them into a Gannet.

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Marshall explained: “They [Gannets] stay underwater for many, many minutes and then go back up.”

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Makes sense! Now that that’s settled we can move on to more important things like Flounder.

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