Many Mexicans wear them with pride every World Cup. Im Puerto Rican and dont mind at all. I think it was cute and accurate. Frederick Luis Aldama — a distinguished university professor at the Ohio State University who specializes in depictions of Latinx culture in film, television and other media — is also glad that Iglesias spoke up in defense of the character.
But does that mean that we obliterate him? No, what it means is that we educate and open discussions so that our kids can understand how stereotypes have existed and how they continue to exist so they can become a critically informed consumer. If we erase the past, how are we going to learn from the past and make it a better future? That helped them look past some of the aspects of the character and his larger world that were more crudely caricaturish at the time, and even more so today.
But there are some positives about the Speedy character we all saw growing up as Latinx kids with no representation out there. In the s, some of those grown kids were involved in a fan campaign to bring Speedy Gonzales back to the airwaves after Cartoon Network retired the cartoons.
Since then, Warner Bros. Meanwhile, Mexican superstar Eugenio Derbez is in the process of developing a Speedy Gonzales feature film that was originally announced in Aldama sees that kind of behind-the-mic change as a positive progression.
I've talked about brown-voice minstrelsy and what it means for Latinx's to be the ones chosen for these roles. We're making change, and I'm of the position it's better to educate than to obliterate.
Created in by legendary animator Chuck Jones, the skunk's animated antics primarily involved his relentless pursuit of a female black cat named Penelope Pussycat, who strenuously dodged his advances. The film's original director, Terence Nance, conceived and shot a sequence where Jane the Virgin star Greice Santo confronts the skunk after he comes onto her in a bar, pouring her drink over his head and slapping him silly.
That entire encounter was cut from the film after Lee took over the film over a year ago. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly , Jones's daughter, Linda, said that she understood the studio's decision to scrap the scene.
And I imagine it would have been very important for young Latinas to see in general. It's worth noting that the makers of A New Legacy have already taken the opportunity to transform at least one popular character: Bugs Bunny's teammate, and love interest, Lola Bunny.
Introduced in the original Space Jam , Lola has been given a makeover for the sequel that significantly tones down the exaggerated va-va-voom sexiness from her previous appearance. From being represented as a racist farce of the Mexican identity to becoming a defender and icon for Hispanics, this is a case where the perception of race has been inverted. Today, many Hispanics see Speedy Gonzales as a hero because of his intelligence, sense of justice, and sense of humor.
It will be interesting to see if, in the future, an image of Hispanics will be portrayed in the media without including racial stereotypes. Here are some of his beloved catchphrases: Hola Pussycat! Are you looking for a nice mouse dinner? He points out that Mexican American animators worked on nearly half of the 47 Speedy Gonzales shorts, at a time where they were a rarity in Hollywood.
In Latin America, audiences continue to love Speedy with little compunction because they accept him at face value — a Mexican mouse who makes a mockery out of Yankee pussygatos again and again. It needs to be acknowledged it was a really problematic bit of representation that Mexicans molded into an icon.
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