Little Mermaid (Disney) - Part of Your World, but It Shouldn't Be
OK, go to the part where Arial is singing "Part of your world". In her collection of treasures, you'll find a painting, now would that be something that could survive under water?
This isnt a slip up! First of all its a movie about mermaids! Is it really going to be realistic?!? And another thing, yes a painting will survive underwater, but thats not the point. The point is its a film about mermaids, you could say how do they breath, how do they cook things, why doesnt everything in the palace float away, but no one asks these questions but you now do they?
Also, just to be really picky....when she's in the cave, she's singing "Part of THAT World". She doesn't sing "Part of YOUR World" until she sees Eric and falls in love with him.
I have to agree on this one...this slip-up is no slip-up. The painting was an emphasis in the song itself. She sings about what it would be like to see and feel the fire of a candle or whatever. And yeah, paintings can survive underwater. And again, the stupid thing is a kid movie, a five-year-old isn't going to cry cause the painting shouldn't be so beautiful and intact under the water...
This movie is obviously set in preindustrialized Europe. Many of the paintings of that time-period were done in oils, and as we all know, oil and water do not mix, though the salt and other minerals in the water might damage the painting over a long period of time, but the paintings in Ariel's colections would prolly be from recent shipwreaks.
Ok, acrylic paint is the paint easily mixed with water; in addition to being in the wrong period, acrylic would quickly disolve into pigment. Oil not mixing well with water would be what SAVES it, not destroy it...I've tried mixing oil paint with water for expirimenting, and you have to force them onto each other. Of course peing completely submersed in the ocean would cause some damage over time, but the real problem would be the wooden frame and the canvas the painting is on, which would both rot.
This is not a blooper, there's something wrong with criticizing a movie about mermaids and an underwater fantasy kingdom for forgoing reality once in a while.
This slip up was just stupid! Yes a painting can survive under water!!!! Not all paint is water color paint! Some paint is water proof! Haven't you ever seen Titanic? there are painting and other pictures that surivived the sinking for Lord knows how many years!
This slip up gets a zero!
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