Photos of Walt Disney‘Live action Lilo & Stitch Open during the Memorial Day weekend. While making massive figures for the studio, fans of the original film are shocked by the huge changes in the animated film in his adaptation.
There are minor stuff like The distance of Pleakley against the dragBut the human version of the character’s film is still very well carrying women. There is also the anger of the omission of Gantu, the strong man of the Galactic Federation, who could be able to say looked like a random villain of the third act in the end of the suchouted animated function (famous, the 2002 film has undergone major changes in mid-production, since his The original end took place on a diverted plane). In addition, culture has changed a lot in recent decades. It is therefore logical that the new film makes changes, in particular by offering a more anchored vision of history.
In particular, the end arouses an animated speech on the Internet concerning the guard of Nani (Sydney Agudong) of his little sister Lilo (Maia Kealoha). In the 2002 film, Nani surmounts his social worker, the former CIA Cobra Bubbles agent (twenty rhames in the original, Courtney B. Vance in the live action film), in his attempts to remove Lilo; He finally yielded after his family is placed under the protection of the interstellar galactic federation. This is not at all what’s going on in remake. Here, Nani gives the supervision to their neighboring grandmother Tutu (Amy Hill), who throughout the film looks at the sisters while they are trying to have a parent and a dynamic child, so that Nani can leave the house and go to university.
Nani, who is involved in getting out of high school, is really having trouble keeping her little family afloat in the new film, especially after couture accidents in their lives. Tutu, with the help of their worker from the Ms. Kekoa case (Tia Carrere, who expressed Nani in the animated film, playing a new character separated entirely from the Vance de Bubble version, who remains a CIA agent), facilitates a way for girls to remain sisters and yet both have a childhood. And in the case of Nani, it means the opportunity to leave her sister in safe hands while she follows her own objectives, and probably better to provide for Lilo and Stitch in the future.
This recontextualization of the themes of history stimulates this change, and everyone is not happy with it. The significant thread that connects everything together in the two films is the exploration of “Ohana”, the Hawaiian word for “family” and stresses that “nobody is left behind or forgotten”. The original Lilo & StitchPlace in a Broader Context of Hawaii’s Cultural Relationshipship With the United States and Colonial Underpinnings Between the Two Nations (Toured on in Both the Original and the remake when nani sings “Aloha Oe” to her sister, a traditional song often interpreted as lamentation of the loss of hawaii’s American annexation), has often been considering as criticism us interests in hawaii and the historical legacy of colonialism’s separation of families. And so, a large part of the criticism of the new end maintains that Nani apparently abandoned his sister from the system, in order to follow his own desires to go to university, betrays the idea of Ohana which is defended by the original film.
Instead, the live action film arrives at this struggle by centering Nani being forced to grow beyond his years in order to take care of Lilo. In the original film, Nani is presented as older than she is in the live film (the fact that she is the Guardian of Lilo suggests that she is at least 18 years old, although he is never explicitly declared), something that has always struck me as a comment on girls and preconceived roles, even in their young people. While Nani’s Story is more explicitly about her struggle to Balance Caring for Lilo with the Mania Compounded by Stitch’s Arrival, The Story of Young Women, Especially Women of Color, Being Forced by Corcumstance to Grow up Too Quick Like movie Lilo & Stitch has.
As a mother now, I can look back the 2002 film and see that Nani was still a child herself, and prioritizes His sister on her own dreams and potential aspirations. She leaves behind to be the tutor of her little sister after losing their parents, especially because this version of Nani and Lilo had no village to watch them.
Talk to Movie theaterProducer Jonathan Eirich shared that Chris Kekanioikalani Bright, who co-seized in the film in 2025, had an overview of the way in which the absence of a community of the animated version around Nani and Lilo was not satisfied. “Something (Chris) said very early, he said to himself:” I don’t think of Hawai’i, if these two sisters had just lost their parents, I don’t think they would be so isolated. “(Know) the community of Hawaii, there would be support for them. So we had somewhat this notion of this neighbor, Tutu, who is in fact there for them earlier in history.”
The functioning of the community as an extension of the family becomes a new reinterpretation of Ohana in the film live. Instead of the worker of the case is bubbles, trying to thwart Nani’s attempts to keep Lilo (and his former CIA background explicitly at the American-Hawaii relationship as a cultural context) in the animated characteristic, in the new film, the worker of the case is now another native Hawaiian character who encourages Nani to see if she can do transition work. It is really aPProache This idea in a broader sense of Hawaiian culture, where we repeatedly remember that the “Kuleana” of Nani or responsibility, is to give Lilo the best possible future.
In this context, you really feel Nani as a girl who has trouble keeping her family afloat while crying her parents. And it is before Stitch arrives in the photo, which really guides the sisters who need their childhood recovered because they have adventures with their new “dog”. But no matter how the original changes were to be managed, a reaction Lilo & Stitch Would have been inevitable despite everything, given the broad cynicism towards the live remakes of Disney in recent years, regardless of their box office successes. Nani does not give up her sister to foreigners in a reception system, like many of those who may not have seen the film affirm. Tutu and Mrs. Kekoa help them navigate to a solution where they are always together and with their family found. She sees that she can rely on her extended family who has always been there, while having the chance to discover the beginning of adulthood without sacrificing herself or her sister.
Hill herself recently exposed this idea of the Found family in the concept of Ohana, before the return of flame. “It’s not just the family, it is now the extended family. And I am part of this extended family. I am not linked to blood. She said in an interview published on Scene.
It is logical that Tutu plays the role of Guardian not only Lilo, but also Nani, to support his pursuit of higher education and rediscover her his love of surfing. The film even provides a more fantastic solution to Nani’s question, leaving his sister and Hawaii, which is created earlier in the film. Remember that the Jumba of the Portal pistol uses to go to various places where Stitch has been seen? In the end, he revealed that Nani now has it, which means that she can go home after school and always be very present in Lilo’s life. He certainly beats sleeping in a dormitory when you can easily carry in your room at home, and he always keeps the sisters together – a better of the two worlds which allows the remake to have his own vision of the themes similar to the animated original.
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